VOL. 8 NO. 34
THIS LARGE TREE IS DEAD. Sunlight filtering down thrpugh this thick
forest area shows that many more trees are dead or dying in the same plot.
area south of Route 372, defoliated by cankerworms two
years iiv’d 'fdw;* became'weak'and low in vigor giving .bark beetles a chance to
"enter and finish the job of killing the trees. Service Forester, John Kitch, shows
• that this tree is 20 inches in diameter'at’ breast height. At least 11 more- large
trees within a hundrechfeet of this one were dead or dying. L. F. Photo.
Albert Fry Has Perfect Score
In Holstein Field'Day Judging
Albert. Frey, 'Manheim R 2,
won the second leg on the re-
volving trophy presented to
the high scoring judge at the
annual Lancaster County H6l-
stein-Priesian Held day.
Pry turned in a perfect 300
point score to outclass the
other 103 contestants in the
men’s division of the contest.
He won the trophy in 1959.
Close 'behind Fry in the scor
ing was £ue Kauffman, nine,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
Farm Calendar
July 29 10 a.m. Jud
ging .begins in the Brown
(Swiss Canton show at the
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Artificial Breeders Co-op
grounds on the 230 bypass.
7:30 p.m. Pulton Grange
swim party and doggie roast
at the Earle Gilbert Farm
near Port Deposit, Md.
7:30 p.m. Lincoln Corn
■munity 4-H club meets at
at the Mount Airy fire hall.
July 30 9 am. Judging
begins in the county FFA
market hog show at the
iGreen Dragon, two miles
north off Ephrata.
10 a.m. Judging ol the
colored breeds begins at the
iSPABC show at the cooper
ative’s grounds, 230 bypass.
1 p.m. County plowing
contest on the Roy Garber
farm, Lititz RS.
1 p,m. Sale of county
FFA market hogs at the
Green Dragon.
7:30 p.m. Manor com
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ert Kauffman, - Elisabethtown
Rl, with a score of 298. A
total of 78 children under IS
judged.
In the ladies’ division, Mrs.
Harry Ranch, Jr., Ronks Rl,
scored 28'5.4 points to Ifreat
out 50 other contestants. Run
ner up, with 284.3 points was
the wife of the men’s division
winner, Mrs. Kathryn Fry.
Mrs. Ranch, the wife of a Hol
stein breeder, had never been
in the top placmgs before.
In tight competition, Elvin
Shelly,. Manheim Rl, scored
299.5 points to take runnerup
position in the men’s division
with the 299.1 of Donald Trim-
ble, Quarryvilie Rl, coming in
a close third.
Robert Kauffman, father of
the children’s division winner,
placed fourth with 290, and
Clarence Lyons, 204 Hess
Bird., Lancaster, was fifth
with 286.6 points.
Finishing third in the la
dies’ division was Mrs. Wil
mer Hostetter, Oxford Rl with
283.3 points. Mrs. Herbert
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County 4-H
Demonstration
Teams Advance
Four out of five Lancaster
County 4-H demonstration
teams cleared district hurdles
this week in Allentown for a
shot at state competition Au
gust 13 at the .Pennsylvania
State University.
The four teams won top hon
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 27, 1963
Small World
Future Farmers of Amer
ica from Manheim Central
High School and Donegal
High School are touring
western United States by dif
ferent routes.
When the Donegal bojs
went into a laundromat In
Upland, California, who
should be there doing their
washing but the Mlanhetm
boys. The boys had a re
union right on the spot, did
their laundry together, and
continued their six weeks
tours by their separate rou
tes. t
It certainly is a small
world.
Solanco Hires
Two Teachers
Of Voc. AgrL
Two new teachers of voca
tional agriculture began their
duties at Solanco High School
on July 1.
Ralph Layman, a veteran o£
13 years teaching experience,
took over as head of the three
man department, and Richard
Wood, recently graduated from
the University of Delaware,
went on the job as the third
teacher. William M. Fredd will
continue in his position of tea
cher of vocational agriculture
and advisor of the Solanco :
Young Farmers Association. 1
Layman came to Solanco
from 13 years teaching in the
Brookville High School, Jeffer- '
son County, where he had a '•
Future Farmers of America i
Chapter of 40 to 50 boys. He ■
n.?; a£e |{.
I Ride With The Forester
Chestnut Oaks In Trouble,
Forester Urges Utilization
Editor’s Note: This is the ninth in a series of articles
dealing; with Lancaster County businesses related to agricul
ture,. The writer nill spend a day riding with persons who
serve the, farmer but do not actively engage in the business of
farming. The articles are an attempt to bring the farmer a
report of the job of service personnel before they reach the
farm. Other articles will be printed in fhe following weeks.
Are the Chestnut Oak trees soon be talked about but sel
in our forests headed the way
of the old native Chestnut?
Of conrse everyone hopes
they are not, hut some of the
woodlands in the southern /part
of the county look pretty dis
mal.
I rode in this area recently
with John Kitch, service for
ester, working out of the Val
ley 'Forge office of the Penn
sylvania Department of Forests
and Waters. What we saw
would lead a person to believe
that the Chestnut Oaks will
Maximum Butterfat Limit
Imposed, Dairymen Told
' Dairymen may soon have to
skim some of the cream off
their milk before shipping it,
according to Ray Smith, spea
ker at the annual Lancaster
County Holstein-Priesian field
day Thursday at the farm of
Parry Frey, 1343 Gypsy Hill
Road.
Smith, manager of Mono
cay Meadow Farm, Frederick,
Md„ told the 500 dairymen at
the field day, “A dairy com
pany in New York has infor
med its shippers that no milk
will be received from any herd
with an average test over 3.8.”
He went on to say that the
company, which he could not
name, sent out a directive in
May of this year setting the
top limit for butterfat con
tent at 4.0, and followed with
FFA Swine Sale
Is Next Week
Approximately 150 head of
hogs have been consigned to
the first annual county FFA
market hog show and sale next
week.
Sponsored by the county as
sociation of Future Farmers
of America, the show will have
classes in lightweight, medium
weight and heavyweight by
breeds. Hampshires, Yorkshi
res, Durocs, Spots and cross
bred hogs have been consigned
by county FFA members.
Judging by assistant York
County Agent, Tony Dohrosky,
is scheduled to begin at 8
a.m Tuesday, July 30, at the
Green Dragon sale arena, two
miles north of Ephrata, just
off Route 222. The sale is set
to begin at 1 p.m.
Prize money has been dona
ted by agricultural merchants
and banks in the county, and
the Lancaster County Swine
Producers Association has do
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By: Jack Owen
dom seen.
Kitch was making' a. return
call to a woodland he had mar
ked for harvest m the spring.
All the live trees tug enough
for timber had been cut out,
but when we went back, many
of the trees in the woodland
had died, or were nearly dead.
We drove for several miles
through wooded areas south
east of Quarryville, and every
where we went, the story was
same. The Chestnut Oak
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a second direetire in June set
ting the top limit at 3.8 .per
cent. He told Lancaster' Farm
ing after the meeting that he
did not know of any shippers
that had been “cut off”, but,
he said, a Pennsylvania ship
per, whom he would not name,
told him that he had been
skimming oft some cream be
fore he shipped his milk.
In a speech entitled, “How
To Go Broke With Registered
(Continued on Page 5)
Co. Plow Test
Is Next Week
Plowmen will exhibit their
skill next week as?the annual
Lancaster County plowing con
test gets under way on the
Roy Garber R3,
near Erb’s stone quarry, at 1
p.m., July 30. *
As of Friday, a total of nine
contestants had indicated in
tentions of competing, accord
ing to Elmer V. Good, contest
chairman.
Winner of the county con
test will enter the state mat
ches on August 15. County
contestants will - plow level
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
next five da>s are expected,
to average five or more de
grees above the normal
range of 66 at night to 86
in the afternoon. Continued
hot weather with little day
to day change is expected.
Precipitation will probably
total H to Vz inch occur
ring as widely scattered
showers throughout the per
iod.
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