VOL. 8 NO. 23
N. H. Bdy Wins
FFA Tractor
Driving Contest
Wilmer R. Esbenshade, New
Holland R 2, from the Grass
land FFA Chapter of Garden
Spot High School last week
won the York- Lancaster area
PFA Safe Tractor Driving con
test. He is the son of Adam Es
benshade.
Placing second in the contest
was James R. Esbenshade, son
of Milton A. ESbenshade of
Quarryville R D. No 2. from
the Solanco FFA Chapter.
The event was held Satur
day, May 4, at Garden -Spot
High School in New Holland,
under the auspices of Mr. T.
M. Malm, area supervisor, of
Y-orknLancaster County area
Wilmer will now compete in
the Safe Tractor Operation and
Maintenance Contest during
PFA Activities Week held dur
ing June 12-13-14 There will
be ten contestants selected
from the area contests to com
pete in this event at the Penn
sylvania State University. Fol
lowing this contest, six PFA
boys will enter the State Farm.
Show .Tractor. Driving Contest
held: ii 'January, 19'64.
Farm Calendar
May 14 7 pm. Lancas
ter County Honey Producers
meeting at Bob Herr’s orch
ard, Central Manor.
7:30 p.m. Kirkwood 4-H
■club meets at the Bart-Col
eranx school.
7:30 p.m. Garden Spot
4-H club meets at the Smoke
town Elementary School.
8 pm. Manor Young
Fanners meet in the agricul
ture room of Penn Manor
High School. Subject, sum
mer feeding of dairy cattle
May 15 7;30 p m. Puerto
Rican 4-H clulb meets at the
Spanish Center, S. Duke St,
•Lancaster.
May 16 7:30 Manheim
Young Farmers meet in the
Manheim Central High Sch
ool Topic, hay silage.
7:30 p.m. New Holland
4 J H Home-Ee. club reorgani-
zation in the New Holland
Jr. High auditorium.
May 16 8 pm Wheat Re
ferendum meeting, m Farm
Bureau Cooperative building,
Dillerville Road, Lancaster
I>wyte Wilson, Bast coast or
ganizer for the National
Farmers Union will speak
May 17 8 pm. New Hol
land baby beef club meets at
' the home of Fred Nolt, New
Holland.
May 19 Rural Life Sunday.
Special services in Bergstr
asse Lutheran, Marticville
. and Clearfield Methodist.
Thousands of families pre
pare for that dream vacation
trip by making regular pur
chases of U.S. Savings Bonds
Join thise who SAVE NOW,
GO LATER with U.S. Sav
.ings Bonds.
WINNER OF THE AREA FFA tractor driving
contest is Wilmer Esbenshade, New Holland R 2. Es
benshade will represent York and Lancaster Counties
at the state contest in June. The area contest was held
last week at New Holland High School.
Feed Grain Bill
Goes To Senate
The-Senate Agriculture Com
mittee, by a vote of 11 to 6,
Thursday sent a feed grains
bill to the floor of the Senate."
Senator Allen Ellender,
Louisisapa, chairman of the
committee, said- he. is hopeful
that a vote on the bill will
come next week:
The bill is identical with the
feed gram legislation passed
recently by the House of Rep
resentatives.
Seven Delegates
From Here To
Holstein Parley
Seven breeders from this ar
ea have been designated as del-
egates to the 78th annual con-
vention of the Holstein Friesian
association in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Attending the convention
June 4 to 7 will be Clarence
Lyons, Lancaster; Earl L Gr
off, Strasburg; David J. Yod
er, Lancaster; J. Mowery Frey.
Lancaster; Robert C Groff,
Quarryville, J. Robert Hess,
Strasburg. and John M. Umble,
Atglen.
Attending the convention as
guest of honor will be Donald
Trimble, Quarryvdle Rl, the
National Junior Holstein
Champion for 1962,
The event will attract del- Explanatory booklets, special
egates, members and other dai- church program inserts and a
rj leaders from 48 states and film “The Faith is the Lord’s’
Puerto Rico. Well over 1 000 were announced for local use
total attendance is expected. by Amos H. Funk of R D 1,
As the representatives of Millersulle Chairman of the
over 40,900 members, the del- Lancaster County Soil Conser
egates will be charged with vation District
voting responsibility in shap
ing organizational policies
This year's allotment of 204 which is traditionally devoted
delegates is_ the highest ever, to prayerful recognition of
It compares with 202 last year, man’s dependence on God’s na-
Each state’s representation is tural gifts of land and nater.
based on active membership in The theme of the program
the Association. Pennsylvania this year is “We Turn Our
has a total of 28 delegates.. Eyes to the Future.’’ Vanously
Lancaster. Farming, Saturday, May 11, 1963
County Man
Is Delegate
At Dairy Meet
S. A. Horton,'a delegate to
the (Metropolitan Cooperative
Milk Producers Bargaining
Agency from the Mount - Joy
Farmers Coop. Association re
ported today that the Agency
has gone on record in favor of
the basic principles of supply
management and will work Up
ward establishment of a pro
gram drawn up by Agency
Manager Robert C. Forsythe.
Horton was one of 73 dele
gates attending the semi-annual
meeting of the House of Dele
gates of the Agency at the Ran
dolph House, Syracuse, N. Y.
The issue was incorporated
in two resolutions; The first,
defining the basic policy said:
“The delegate body appiov(|,
the principle of a program ap
proach to supply management ”
The second resolution, offer
ed by Henry Hughes of Hor
nell, said-
“In carrying out the intent
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Local Churches To Celebrate
Soil Stewardship Sunday
Church and conservation
leaders in Lancaster County
were called on today to use
special visual materials in pro
moting Soil Stewardship Week
from May 19 to May 26
He urged that all county
churches join in the obsenance
Farmers’ Ass’n Official
Pushes For “No” Vote
In a speech spiced -with
Pennsylvania Dutch and at
tacks on Secretary of Agricul
ture, Orville Freeman, a Penn
sylvania 'Farmers’ Association
official Tuesday night uiged a,
No, vote in the coming wheat
referendum.
Robert Coleman, Cratz field
man for a 17 county aiea of the
PFA said at a meeting in the
New Holland Sales Stables, the
actions of Secretary Freeman
are a “reasonable facimilie” of
the Stalinist March which is
taught to children m Russia
and Cuba The march, he said,
“Is thiee steps toward and two
steps back.”
“Last year the American
Farm Bureau Federation (par
ent organization of PFA) was
successiful in defeating the om
nibus farm bill.” he said, “We
thought we had knocked them
back three steps, but they took
two steps forward anyway.”
Coleman told farmers that
Pennsylvania is being discrim
inated aigainst in the proposed
wheat legislation. The state has
lost 116,000 acres of wheat al
lotments since 1939 and a tc
tal of 239,401 acres since in
ception of the wheat program
Solanco Future Farmers Win Four
Of Five Top Spots In Judging
Solanco Future Farmers took
four of the top five placmgs in
the area FFA dairy products
judging contest Thursday.
Jay Groff, a 10 th grade stu
dent from the Quarryrille high
school, took top spot in the
York-Lancaster contest in the
Lampetei-Strasburg High Sch
ool and won the right to rep
resent the area in the state
contest at Penn State next
month.
Herman Edwards, Peach Bot
tom R 2. He will also compete
in the state contest.
Pat Patterson, Strasburg, a
student at Lampeter-Strasburg
High School, prevented Solanco
from sweeping all the top pn
zzes by winning third place.
In fourth place was Bill Rho
ades. Christiana Rl, and fifth
place was won by Scott Shoe
maker, Kirkwood Rl William
M Fredd is the teacher of vo
cational agncultuie at Solanco
High School
In the three part contest, the
boys detected odors and flavors
and scored milk samples, rated
milk samples on sediment, and
detected problems su'ch as fau
lty rubber parts, milkstone,
dirt, and poor condition of a
milker head unit The contest
was arranged bj Gerald Kiger,
teacher of vocational agrioul
called Rogation Sundav. Rural ture at the host school.
Life .Sunday and Soil Steward-
Jay, the 15 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S Groff.
New Providence 81, won over
15 other contestants
In second place was Ted Ed
wards, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
ship Sunday, the event began p'TVF-DAV
fifteen centuries ago in France - 1 v X
and has become a church cus
tom.
The soil conservation dis
trict an agency providing tech
nical services to landowners m
country and tow n to aid in
establishing conservation prac
tices, sponsors the event as a
part of its educational pro
gram.
Funk called on each citizen
to consider his responsibilities
in conserving and improving
the resources which ha.e made
America a great nation.
Statewide, Soil Stewardship
Week is being celebrated in 61
county soil conservation dis
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$2 Per Year
in 1938, lie said
He said the wheat grown in
Pennsylvania, soft red winter,
is in greater demand than sup
ply. Hard red winter wheat wh
ich is grown in the western wh
eat belt is “causing all the
tiouihle to begin with” He add
ed. “Theie is a two months sup
ply of soft red winter wheat in
storage, hut a 4V 2 years supply
of hard red winter wheat.”
Coleman assailed the pro
gram as Ibeing costly “There
will he a terrific increase in.
taxes, if. the progiam goes into
effect It is going to take a tre
mendous police force to en
force it.” He said it would bo
unfair to city taxpayers to br
ing the added taxes upon them.
He said 78 points in the law
say “The Secretary of Agricul
ture shall, or at the disgression
of the Secretaiy.”
“I believe,” he said, "the pro
gram would give the Secretary
of Agriculture the power to
regulate a,ll handlers, proces
sors, and everybody else from
producer to consumer.”
Coleman called on all farm
ers to become ,eligible to
by signing and returning their
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WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
next five dajs are expected
to average 2 to 7 degrees ab
ove the normal range of 51
at night to 73 in the after
noon. Cooler Saturday, con-
tinuing cool Sunday, moder
ating Monday and becoming
wanner towards the end of
tlie period. Precipitation is
expected to total .4 to .6 inch
falling as scattered showers
and thundershowers early
Saturday and again near the
end of the period.