VOL. 8 NO. 20 FEEDLOT'I>ELIBER-ATION-BRr-NGS SERIOUS EXPRESSIONS to the faces man and farmer, but the joking lies just below the surface and breaks out every so' often. Bob Heilbron, left, tells Paul Herr, Quarryville R 2, he has a buyer interested in the steers. The steers are for sale, Herr says, bring him around to see them. L. F. Photo. Budget Is Bare Subsistance, ? ow 9 on * es * Secretary Bull Tells Feed Millers Committees Pennsylvania Secretary of and Feed Dealers in the Host Agriculture, Leland H. Bull, Motel, iLititz Pike, Lancsater, HARRISBURG - Charles W Wednesday night termed the Bull said, "Perhaps we should- p aismore> La noas ter, chairman budget for his depart- n’t have trimmed the budget the 1963 Pennsylvania State m§dt a "bare subsistance” al- so extensively, so when the cuts p lowm , g Contest, today an lowance. come we won tbe hit so hard. noun , ce( j committees for the ev teaking at a regional ban- Bull reported that the bud- Slte and date f or w hich of the Pennsylvania Millers £ g t committee expects to trim aro to ke gelled. about $240,000 from depart- p a ssmore said the contest 'III m | I ment spending before June 30. execu t lve committee, which he * Farm Calpndar wIU b f “ dltl °V° the heads. will meet later this rdf 111 Vaieiluai $lOO,OOO sliced from the pre- moath to declde on a time and Apr. 22-23 National Farm sent appropriation of $3 9 mil- j ocatlon , T3Sdiitors Association annual lion. This is 20 per cent below o ' omm ittees - Rules and invention an Washington the budget proposed by former reglistratlon . Jack R Grey , de - -I>.C. secretary of Agriculture, Will- p Uty . state Secretary- of Agri- Apr. 23 -7 am,- Annual lam L. Henning before leaving culture; Charles F.' Lebo and Holstein Breeders tour will office in January. D Rlc h ar d Wenner, all Har- Stve the Conestoga. Trans- The proposed cutbacks will risburg, Henry E Warner, rtation terminal, 825 East mean the elimination of all Chambersburg, and N Henry estnut Street, Lancaster, proposed new programs includ- Wooding, Jr , University Park, 7:15 p.m. New Holland mg proposed programs to in- chairman Youngs Farmers farm mech- spect all meat slaughtering and Finance and awards; Wood- class m the New Hoi- (Continued on Page 10) (Continued on Page 8) rand High School. Tl3o p.m. Manor comma- Cows 0n Spring Pastures r V?»J Need Different Feed Program Sn the Cocoa Inn, Herstoey By yj ct<)r piastow, is excellent, it will pi oi ide for 9 ~, ReS1 ° n ,, n F , FA Associate County A"cnt still more milk. rentery Pe procedure Contest It is often difficult to decide 'Cows of higli productue cap at Millersville State College how much gram mixture to acity that are fed no giam mix n m Donegal FFA feed cows on good pasture, or ture on pasture may continue parent and son banquet at the whether to feed no grain at 'to - vlel<i TOore “ Mlk than t hese parent and son banquet at t e Tihe answer denends on the amounts, but they must draw Donegal High School. all< nae answer oepenas on one h . for +he addi . 7.9(1 New Provi- amount and quality of the for- on then bodies tor tne addi denoe % community club age the pasture furnishes and t.onal nutrients needed. Conse meet, to the Mw Ptovldeoee “ “ t,lal Production » ! ‘ f tZI - ot Good pasture ulo.e will pro •the Lancaster County Swine vide cows with sufficient nutn- P feedin°' or gram Producers board of directors ents'for body maintenance and S various °grades of .Sn - the Exchange Room of the production of about 10 to . seoarate recommenda tbe- Lancaster- Union Stock- 20 bounds of milk, depending Pasture. Separate recommenda - varda.' - - ‘ 'i! on its riahness. If the pasture (Continued on Page 9) -■ rt -if iti Will 11 Plmi!T 1/ ‘ t I't-riWUlli.lrrfrtti'fj 1 ’H Ui>•■WMM f i U f i ‘' ri U Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 20, 1963 > y- , -x. ” I Ride With The Commission Man Commission Man Brings Buyer, Seller Together Kditor's Xoto - This is the si\th in a series of articles dealing with Lancaster Comity businesses jelated to agricul ture. The writer will spend a daj nding with persons who serve the fanner but do not actively engage in the business ot tanning. The articles aie an attempt to bring the farmer a report ot the job ol service personnel before they reach the farm. Other articles will toe printed in the following weeks. to go on grass and he had to e don t wake up on Mon- a (a,j.m er with steers lot dav morning and suddenly find 200 cattle m our pens We have to go out and bring them in ” T | ll& 13 t e 3° Bob Heilbron said as vve diove stock commission man He has south from Lancaster on our way to farm where we would tent,al buyer and seller togeth see 190 head of top quality, But the job is not quite so black, Stocker steers 3 ™P le « u s<>unds The commission man has to Heil'bron had a sale foi a j aloW ca ttle and he has to know string of high quality stockeis (Continued on Page 5) Zoning Is For Farmers, County Planner Explains Holding oft on nual zoning moving out of the urban ax will probably cost the farmer eas In some areas, he said, if more money in the long run, coopeiation is not developed, township supervisors were told the. urbanites ate just waiting Monday night until they can outvote the ru- .Bickley Foster, head of the People Lancaster County Planning- O ur problem in the county, Commission told 50 supervisois be explained, is a sudden mlx at a meeting sponsored b> the ture or rural and urban - rur- Lancaster Ooun'tv Soil Combi- bau 'Population, and this vation District 'that farmers mixing is often on a ‘leapifrog must begin to realize that uiral smg" of houses .into rural ar zoning applies to them. eas leavin « farmland between „ , housing developments. ■He said urban peop e Rural areas are (becoming moving into rural areas at a uged up throu g h housmg de . rapid rate and these residents velopmentS( industn al parks, want urban services If we rj and interstate highway sys to hold oh these services the t&ms He p£>]nte , d out that Am . total cost can be as muc as erl , can motorists needed more 50 per cent higher in the end. than 600 000 akjres just to park he said cars last y ear _ industries mov- All too often the decisions in in g out from cities normally the townships are rural decis- fmy four times as much laud, ions and made with very little la ie country as they had in consideration for the people the cities, and highway rights of way are being widened er- II i , • rip ery year Traffic is growing at JTlOlStGin 1 Olir the rate of three per cent -a kiyr , ijT | year, which is faslter than the IN ext WeCK population growth, he said. , , , . In colonial days there was The annual one da> tour approximatel 600 aoreB per sponsored by the Lancaster on m the United 9tates . To _ Countv Holstem-Fnesian As- dav there ag 13 acres per . sociabion has been set for next soa> and lt 1S estimated .that Ivee^- , _ there will be only S acres per A bus will leave the Cones- person m 25 vears toga Transportation Co. barns Last was the flrst fame in (Lancaster at 7 a m on Apnl 23 Three dairy farms, one creamery and a carpet factoiy will 1)6 visaed. At the farm of Jack and Don Fan-child, the county xisitois will see t'he herd that won the premier breeders and premier exhibitors award at the 1962 state show. The 12 daughteis Temperatures during the Of their bull. Mayers Majesty n( . yt me (la>s aie expected Duke Fobes, will be on exhibit av -eragc t«o to seven deg- The Berwick Creamery farm ~e es above normal range of will exhibit the highest testing 44 at niftht to 04 in the af . held in the state for its size, ternoon. Seasonable temper* about GO head Also on exhibit atures are expected over the will be a two year old purch- w ee j c eJM j with a wanning ased at last year s. National tji't'-iicl on Monday and cooler Contention sale and is now again ' Wednesday. Precipita makmg a state record. tion may total 0.3 to 0.6 inch More than 100 young cows occurring as scattered show* with over 600 pounds of butter crs or thundershowers early at last year will be seen at Pe- J Saturday and again about (Continued on Page 12) 1 Tuesday. " ,'iu 1 Utiti , : Jack Owen (Continued on Page 12) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST $2 Per Year
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