'“■ ] VOL. 8 NO. 48 HEARING THE JUDGE’S REASONS for giving the sample of hay a blue ribbon are, left to right, Galen Crouse, Stevens Rl; Mahlon Shenk, Holtwood Rl, and Laban Z. Byers, Conestoga Rl. Judge, at far right, is George Berggren, Exten sion Agronomist from Penn State University. L. F. Photo. Four Hundred Farmers To Attend Business-Farm Day Next Thursday Over 400 farmers and their wives will visit 25 ■participating business firms next Thursday during the 5 th annual Lancas ter County -Busin es's-F'anm day. Farmer guests were invited by the Lancaster Chamber erf Commerce, sponsors of the pro gram, to visit their Lost busi nesses from 9:30 a.m. unit'll 12:30 p.m. on Novemlber 7. Last year, business leaders spent "the -day “down on the farm.’’ At 1:30 p.m. all participants will assemble at Armistrong Cork Company’s-Liberty Street auditorium to hear a talk by E. Clinton Stokes, assistant m the Agricultural and Natural Farm Calendar Nov. 5 1 pm County 4-H Beef club roundup. Sel ection of Farm Show cattle and fitting and showmanship 'Contests, at Lancaster Stock yards. 7.29 pm. New Holland Young Farmers meet in the Garden Spot High School Subject, feeding dairy cattle Nov. 6 8 ami Judging of District 4-H baiby beef ani mals at the Lancaster Stoclr yaids I’3o pm. Sale of 4-H District baiby beef steers at the Lancaster 'Stockyards. 4:30 pm. Lancaster (Continued on Page 14) Resources Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States Mr. Stokes has been a staff specialist on matters related to agriculture since 19'54. His work at the National Chamber brings him in frequent- associa tion with farmers, agricultural organization ‘representatives, i officials of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and with mem bers of Congress. He is Secretary of the-Na tional Association of Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Ex ecutives and. is President of the Washington Alumni Asso ciation of the Alpha Camma (Continued on Page 11, Interstate To Ask Additional Assessments From Dairy Members A spokesman for Inter-state Milk Producers Cooperative As sociation announced this week that the marketing co-op will ask its membership next month to approve a two-cents-a-hun drechv eight increase in assess ments The announcement was made Monday night during a meeting of the six locals in District number 7 at the Lafayette fire hall, Lincoln Highway east of Lancaster. Dr. James Honan, coopera tive manager, proposed the boost from six to eight cents for’ each hundred pounds Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 2, 1963 4-H Beef Club To Hold Show The Annual (Southeast Dis trict 4-H 'Baby Beef Club Roundup & Sale will be held. Wednesday, November 6th, at the Lancaster Union Stock Yards. Judging will be from 8:00 to 12:00 am. With the sale 1:30 ito 3:30 p.m Chester, Dauphin, Northampton and Dan caster Counties will compete 'with the -jshowmg of over 100 baby bee ves. This is the terminus of a year-long beef feeding project for participating 4-li youth. Steers will be groomed to per fection and halter broken to (Continued on Page 14) milk marketed by cooperative meni/bers. iHe said that half the increa sed assessment would be used to meet expected increases in opeiatmg expeases, while the other cent would go to the American Dairy Association for milk prom'otion and adver tising work Honan said if the coopera tive’s ADA assessment is ap proved, present voluntary con tributions of two cents a hun dredweight to ADA by county farmers would be discontinued. He assured members that ' iCoutinued on Page 14) Hay Show Championship Goes To Montgomery Co. Grand Champion hay sample in the Southeast District Hay show Tuesday at the Guernsey Sales Pavilion was shown by Ellis Anders, Landsdale R. 2, Montgomery County. It was a bale slice Of heat cured later cutting of alfalfa. The reserve champion slice was exhibited by Roy Coover, Mechanicshurg fR3, Cumber land County. Last year’s district cham pion, Galen Crouse, Stevens Rl, took six nblbons with seven samples last Tuesday. He had thtee blue ribbons, two red ribbons, and one third place. Neighbors Harvest Com For Paralyzed Farmer Aaron IS Hostetter, who farms at Lancaster R 2, had 65 acres of corn ready for har vest, but he contracted a rare disease which left him paraly zed It looked like much of the corn might rot m the field Daniel FL Rohrer Has Top Yield In Corn Club Daniel H Rohrer, Jr, Man heim Ril, posted the high yield m the Manheim Young Farm ers corn growing contest. In an extremely dry section of the county, Riohrer grew 99.29 bushels of shelled dried 'corn per acre on. two three acre strips. On one field he plowed down 600 pounds Of 5-10 U 5 fertili zer, while on the other strip, 600 pounds-of 8-8-8 was disced in after plowing. Rohrer, says he normally plows down all his fertilizer, but he could not get delivery last spring before he plowed the field. Both stripe were planted on May 8 and each was cultivated three times. Doth fields were in a clover-grass sod the previous year, and each received a coat of phosphated steer manure before plowing. There was only about four bu shels difference in the two fields. About 16,819 plants per acre grew on 36 inch rows, and 92 per cent of the stalks had ears. Rohrer explained that the rows are narrow because he grows quite a few potatoes and does not have to change the culti vators if he plants the corn on the same width rows. G-lenn S Brubaker, 34 5 Running Pump Road, Lancas ter, was second in the contest with 91 65. He gi'ew 18,160 plants per acre on 38 inch rows and had an average of 91 S per cent stalks with ears on them "Forney Longeneeker, Lit/itz (Continued on. Page 16-) $2 Per Year Crouse put up 48 acres trf hay this year He heat cured all the first cutting and most of the later cutltmgs. All his exhibits Tuesday were in the heat cured division. In addition to his district championships in 19'61 and ’£2, Crouse was reserve champion at the state Show last year and placed second in the class in 1961 JVlahlon Shenk, Holt Wood Rl, had a second place winner m field cured alfalfa and a fifth, place in alfalfa-grass mixture. Lalban Byers, Conestoga Rl, took third place in field cured (Continued on Page 14) since his father, A'aron C., is advanced in years, and his brother John Jacob Was not able to pick the corn alone. (But the corn did not rot in the field All 65 acres went into the cribs in one day. Elvin Hershey, a neighbor who lives at 2656 Columbia Ave, Lancaster, saw the plight of the Hostetter family and went right to work. He set a date, circulated the word, and directed the Work as 49 friends, neighbors and church members (some from as far aWay as Franklin County), brought (Continued on Page 6j County Boy Is Speaker At Area FFA Meet Kenneth Myer, Elizabeth town R 3, .presented a slide lec ture Thursday night at the Y ork-LanCaster Area Future Farmers of America Leader- ship Training- conference at Eastern High School, Wrights ville. Myer told of his “people-to people” tour of Europe last summer. The officers of all lo cal chapters in the two coun ties attended the conference to learn proper meeting proced ure and duties of their office. (Continued on Page 7) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the five daj period beginning Saturday are expected to av erage 3 to 8 degrees below the normal range of 58 in the 'afternoon to 40 at night. Temperatures will moderate somewhat oter the week end, but will remain cool through most of the period. Precipi tation will ho of little conse <,iience, but (there is a chance of light showers Saturday and again about Tuesday.
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