VOL. 8 NO. 15
NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS OF the county 4-H Guernsey club are, left
to right, Donald Ankrum, song leader; Mary Ellen Mumma, county 4-H Council
representative; Roy Breneman, president; Elaine Stoltzfus, junior leader; Melvin
Breneman, game leader and junior club leader; Nancy Stoltzfus, secretary; Rich
ard Ankrum, vice president. The officers were elected Wednesday night.
Fanners Plan To Increase
Dairy Cow Numbers 20%
HARRISBURG More than
20 per cent of Pennsylvania
dairy farmers plan to increase
their herd size in 1963 on the
basis of a March 1 statewide
survey of the state’s 32.000
commercial herds by the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Ser
vice of the State Department
of Agriculture.
Most, however, will retain
their present herd size, and a
few have indicated their herds
are up for sale and that they
plan, to quit the -dairy business
Dewey 6. Roster, PCRS chief
statistician, said changes' in
dairy plans were related to a
number of factors. Among
these were a steady 'decline in
wholesale milk blend price
since 1957, a- changeover from
Farm Calendar
Mar. 18 7:30 p m. Cus
tom spray operators meeting
in. the shop of Lester' Singer,
Ronks Rl.
Mar. 19 7.15 p.m. New
Holland loung Farmers
meeting m the Garden Spot
High School. Subject, safe
water supply.
7:30 p.m Corn Growers
meeting in the Landisville
lire hall, sponsored by the
Extension service.
7:30 p.m. Lincoln Com
munity 4-H club organiza
tion meeting in the Mount
Airy fire hall.
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„ xr rti r + „, • M , K ♦>,« crxi vveed Control . pm in the Farm Bureau Ooop
•H Holstein club in tne Sol- , 1 , ~ M .
anco Jumor High School, lam sure you are well aware erative building, Dillemlle
Quarryville that new and more effective Road, Lancaster.
Mar go 7 -’so pm Conn wa y s of Pest control are con- Guest speaker for the meet
. ty Wildlife club roundup sta f U - v comiQg The safe ing will be George Steele pre
at the Farm Bureau Cooper- and proper use of these mater- sident of the Chester-Deleware
ative building, Dillemlle is important. You will learn Farm Bureau Cooperative He
_ - of the recent developments in will present a slide illustrated
t ' . this important , area of your lecture on a recent trip he and
milk cans to bulk tanks, im
proved mechanization, better
management, and increased
production per cow.
Roster observed that, para
doxically, the drop in blend
price “apparently was spurr
ing increased milk production,
rather than curtailing it, as
a means for maintaining pre
sent levels of gross return ”
Plans to increase herd size
(contiaued on page 3)
Pest Control
Meet Is Set
'A meeting of .special interest
to custom spray op
erators and others who may
handle or use pest control mat
erials was announced this week
by assistant county agent Ar
me Lueck.
Scheduled to get under way
at 7.30 p.m on March 18 m
the Lester Singer shop in Ro
nks, the program will feature
three plant experts from the
Pennsylvania State University,
The program will be con
cerned with timely information
on farm crops fpr the growing
season just ahead, presented by
the following men: Mr John
Pepper, Extension Entomolo
gist “Insects and their Con
trol”; Mr. Carlton Taylor, Ev»
tension Plant Pathologist
“Control of Plant Diseases”;
Mr George Rerggren, Extens-
Lancaster Farming Saturday, March 16, 1963
Ray Breneman
Is Elected By
Guernsey 4-H
Roy Bieneman, Willow St.
Rl, was elected president ancij
County Council representative
of the county Guernsey 4-H
club Wednesday night at a re
organizational meeting on the
farm of B. Snavely Garber,
Willow Street R 2 He succeeds
Elaine Stoltzfus, Ronks Rl.
Miss Stoltzfus was elected a
junior leader by the 36 mem
bers present at the meeting.
Other officers elected were
vice president, Richard Ank
rum. Peach Bottom; secretary,
Nancy Stoltzfus. Ronks Rl,
treasurer, Donald Ankrum,
Peach Bottom, song leads '
Dons Breneman, Willow Street
Rl, and game leaders Susanne
Mununa, Manheim Rl, and Me
lvin Breneman, Strasburg Rl.
Melvin was also elected a j’un
ior leader
The other club representat
ive on County 4-H Council is
Miss Mary Ellen Mumma, Man
heim Rl.
The club voted in the six fol
lowing adult leaders Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Witmer, Will-
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Livestock Co-op
Meets Today
Producers Livestock Cooper
ative will elect four directors,
including two from Lancaster
County, at the 20th annual
meeting today.
“Farm
Foreign Meat Imports
Did Not Hurt Local Price
The import of $1 22 billion
worth of meat into the United
States last year did more to
help than hinder the domestic
cattle market, cattle feeders
weie told Wednesday.
At a meeting of about 110
cattle feeders in the Lancaster
Poultry Center, Louis Moore,
extension agriculture econom
ist from the Pennsylvania State
University, said that most of
the imports were lower grade
cuts that went into manufact
ured meats such as hot dogs
and sausage.
If we had not had the im
ports, he said, the price of hot
dogs might have gone to. as
high as $2 00 per pound, and
we would have lost our market
for sqme of the specialty
meats Domestic feeders con
tinued to supply the steaks and
other choice cuts, and we held
our sausage market, he said
L. F. Photo
He told feeders to look for
some improvement in cattle
prices during the next few
months, but not to expect any
thing as favorable as the price
structure last fall
In answer ton question from
a cattle feeder, Moore said he
did not believe the livestock
holding action of the National
Co. Soil Conservation District
Backs President’s Budget Request
County Soil Conservation
District directors Monday ni
ght drafted a letter to Pennsyl
vania’s two Senators and the
county’s representative in the
House of Representatives call
ing for support of President
Kennedy’s request for an inci
eased budget for the Soil Con
servation Service.
Amos Funk, chairman, told
the district directors the mod
est increase requested was nec
essary to insure that the Soil
Conservation Service can carry
on the stepped up program
planned.
He said the increase, the fi
rst asked for in years, is likely
Corn Growers
To Hold Meet
A meeting of interest to cou
nty corn growers has been sell-;
eduled for next week by the ex
tension service, assistant coun
ty agent Arme Lueck said this
week.
Three Penn State specialists
will discuss corn hybrid vanet
ies, cultural practices and new?
er management programs, fei
tihzation practices, yields, and
insect, disease, and weed con
trol.
The specialists will be John
O Pepper, entomologist; Carl
ton Taylor, disease special
ist, and George Berggren, agio-
nomist.
Awards will be made to 17
county entrants in. the five-ac-
$2 Per Year
Farmers Organization last sum
mer had •very little, if any, ef
fect on the market price of cat
tle “I believe the president of
the NFO took advantage of a
situation he knew was coming,
but I don’t believe the action
had much effect.” he said.
Moore said that less than
half the cattle sold nationally
is now going directly to butch
ers, and “th| percentage is
still growing”. He said the sit
uation was first blamed on auc
tions. but in 1962 both stock
yard and.auction volume dech
ed Packers went out and built
new plants in areas of dense
cattle population and began
buying directly from the pro
ducer Over 90 per cent of all
catte fattened m California
now are sold directly from pro
ducer to packer, he said.
IT Thoaws Km j, e\i •usi>n
livestock specialist, told the
cattlemen that research shows
that 86 per cent of all variat
ions in income from cattle fee
ding come from cost of feed
and margins
Margins aie getting narrow
er each year, therefore, feed
eis have to depend more on
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to be cut from the budget in
the economy drive now on in
the Nation's capital.
Increased work load and cost
of operations lias “robbed the
Soil Conservation Service of an
average of 1 5 man years per
district” during the past 12
years. Funk pointed out. The
service operated during that
time both locally and in otheft
Pennsylvania counties without
any basic increase in funds.
He noted that the Service
personnel has also been asked
to assume such other work
monitoring radioactivity in the
atmosphere, developing water
shed plans, and assisting witfi
water programs for counties
and other municipalities.
Copies of the letter will bo
sent to Senators Joseph Clark
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
ne\t fixe are expected
to axerase near the normal
range ot 33 at night to 53
in the afternoon. Moderate
temperatures are expected
throughout the period but a
little colder weather is ex
pected Monday. Precipitation
may total 0.1 to 0.5 inch
(melted) occurring as show
ers late Sunday or early
Monday and again late Wed-
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