VOL. 9 NO. 1 THE BARN WALL WAS MOVED OUT to eliminate the old “forebay” on the Elvin Hershey farm. The sliding doors with the bars inside make it easy to ventilate the barn on sunny days. Replacement heifers can be handled easier and more efficiently in the remodeled barn. L. F. Photo Co-op Merger Vote Is Asked WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS., Members of Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange, Inc., will be asked early next year to vote on a proposed CbHSOlidation of operations and facilities with Coopera tive GLF Exchange, Inc. Eastern States and GLF are regional cooperatives which provide purchasing and mar keting services for farmers in a total of 12 states: Eastern States in the six New England Farm Calendar De’c. 9 S p m Fulton Grange Meeting m the grange hall, Oakryn. 8 p m. County Soil Con servation District Directors meet in the County Court 'House. Dec. 10 7 29 pm. New Holland Young Farmers meet at the high school Subject, Milk Promotion. Dee. 10 7 30 p.m. Pro ducers Cooperative Ex change annual meeting at the Plain and Fancy Res taurant, Bird-m-Hand. Dec. 11 12 noon Cor nerstone laying ceremony at new Agriculture Build ing, Harrisburg. Bpm Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb club final meeting at the East Peters burg Elementary School. Dec. 12 7 30 pm. County Swine Producers meeting at the Lancaster Poultry Center. 230 Bypass 7 30 pm County 4-H Holstein club Christmas paitv at the Production building, Roseville Road Bee 13 and 14 Annual meeting of County Agents at the Pennsylvania State I nn eisity Dec. 1 3 S p m Lanc aster County Jersey Cattle Club meets at Spanish Tav ern, Quarry vilde. r states, parts of Maryland and Ohio, and Penn sylvania excepting the north ern tier of counties; GLF in New York, New Jersey, and northern Pennsylvania. Announcement of the propo sal was made by Eastern Sta tes President Jonathan Davis ot Sterling Junction, Mass. and GbF Pf-fiSidhrit dames C. Corvvittf of Water Mill, N. Y. Davis said the boards of di rectors of both organizations have approved the plan, sub ject to member ratification Eastern States members will vote at their annual meeting in February, GLF members will vote at a special meeting to be held at the same time. In making the announce ment, Davis noted that “for moie than three years Eastern States and GLF have been ex plonng the practicability of joint operation of some pro duction and warehousing facil ities. “Because of the similarity of the types of agriculture served by the two cooperati ves, and' because our terrltor- (Continued on Page 14) Slatted Floors Is Subject Of Swine Meeting* A three man panel will dis cuss rearing swine on slatted floors at a meeting of the Lancaster Count} Swine Producers nett Thursda} at the Poultry Center Dwight Younkin, Extension Luestock Specialist from the Pennsyh ama State University will moderate the panel of three swine producers at the meeting scheduled to begin at 7 - 30 pm, December 12, at the Lancaster Poultry Center, 230 B>pass. On the panel will be Titus Beam, Elverson Rl, Herbert Schick, Kutztown R 2, Berks County, and Joseph Pettner, Doylestown, Bucks County All three men are raising hogs on Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 7, 1963 Income Tax Meeting Is Set A special Income Tax and Social Security meeting will be held Wed. Jan 8 from 9 a m. to 4 pm. in York at the Avalon Da iky. County Agent M. M Smith announces the meeting has been plannned by the Coopera tive Exitension Service, The ■Pennsylvania State University, in cooperation with the Inter nal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administra tion ■B Wayne Kelly, extension farm management specialist, who will be one of'the speak ers, says the session is designed primarily fo.r those who file their own, or assist farmers m preparing income tax re (Coutmued on Page 14) Fulton Grange Plans Meeting Pulton. Grange will hold their Tegular meeting Mon day, Dec. 3 at S p.m. in their hall at Oakryn, Pa. The 'program will feature a talk "■Something New In Farming” by W. Harold Gray toeal, A dance number toy Wai ren Rush, Instrumental music toy Robert Black; 'Poems by Mrs. 'Mary Herr and games in charge of the Lecturer Christ mas gifts for the State Hos pitals will still be received at this meeting At the last meeting of Ful ton Grange the Master, Gyles Brown, appointed the follow ing to contact the State High way Dept to see if they could coirect some dangerous curves between Fairfield and Chest nut Level C G McSparran, Theodore Beck and Scott Ank rum. The charter was draped in memory of our late Presi dent John F Kennedy. A ?'5 00 donation to the Tuberculosis & Health Society ofi Lancaster Co. was approved. Old Fashioned Butchering Done On A Modern Farm Old-fashioned country but chering is not quite a lost ait in Lancaster County. Elvin R Hershey, 2655 Col umbia Pike, butchers about three hogs each week for his market trade, and he still cuts the pork much the way it has been cut on farms since col onial times. But there is one big differ ence Now each carcass is ex amined by a city inspector be fore it is divided into the re tail cuts ordered by city house wives Hershey and his sons Nel son, 27, and Wilson, 13, farm 198 acies on two places west of Lancaster in addition to standing maiket each week, but he has no intention of giving up the Arcade Market trade developed by his father in-law, John C. Hostetter, who farmed the place before him. Hershey says several of the customers who bought pork from Mr. Hostetter back be fore 1934 still come regularly Growers Trick Poinsettia Plants Into Blooming At The Right Time Pennsylvania is the biggest producer of poiilsfettias, b u t growers provide an. artificial environment to make, them bloom during Christmas sea son Growers term this trickery “controlling day length”, ac Producers Co-op Annual Meeting Is Next Week Three directors will be elect ed to three-year terms next week at the annual meeting’ of Producers Cooperative Ex change. Elections will take place at the Plain and Fancy Restau rant near Bird-m-Hand during the meeting scheduled to begin promptly at 7:30 p.m., Tues day, December 10. President William G. Carlin will preside, and report for the Board. Treasurer, Melvin R Stoltzfus, will present the financial statement for the Exchange. Directors whose terms ex pire in 1963 are Paul L. Coat es, Coatesville, Frank L Her shey, Willow Road, Lancaster, and John E Melhorn, Mount Joy, Penna. John H Herr, chairman of the nominating committee, will submit the following names Lester M Gehman, Manhenn R 2; Mehin E Hess, Hunseck er Road, Lancaster, Larry E Kegqrreis, Palmjra, Nathan W Martin, Terre Hill, John E Melhorn, and Harry P Metz, Belleville. Other nominations will be accepted from the floor Larry Kegerreis will show slides and describe his recent trip to Russia* $2 Per Year every Friday to get their fav orite cuts. Many of his customers want pork or large spare ribs. In most packing plants, the pork carcass is sawed right down the middle of the backbone and a section of the rib, as well as the tenderloin, is made into pork chops. But Hershey knows the secret of successful merchandising is giving the customer what she wants He splits the hog carcass down each side of the backbone and removes the tenderloin in one strip This makes larger spare ribs for his customers who know what they want and: where they can get it. Hershey began butchering on the farm in 1934 when he married one of Hostetter’s daughters and moved into the tenant house. He worked for Mr. Hostetter for four years before taking over thp busi ness himself. He slaughters about three hogs each week (Continued on Page 12) cording to X.ynn >B. -Smith, Ex tension 'Floriculturist, l , he Pennsylvania State University. “Poinsettias respond to light and dark and would normally flower in November. This is 'because September’s short days would give them the cue to iforni 'blooms too early. Green house operators, however, cor rect this situation with arti ficial light During September and until October 10 they light the plants for an hour in the middle Of the night. This prevents flower bud for mation until needed for Christ mas 'bloom ” Plants go to retail florists m the first two weeks of De cember, Lynn Smith says. To avoid temperature changes and 'freezing, groweifs ship each plant in a paper sleeve. Poin settias (after Poinsett, a Frenchman, who brought them to this country from Mexico in 1825) are a tropical plant and require warmth and hum idity similar to the climate in which they grow wild. Land (Contlnued on Page 14) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the next fh e daj s are expected to average near the normal range of 27 at night to 42 in the afternoon. Milder temperatures over the xieek end will give way to colder on Monday mid more mod-, orate for the rest of the per iod. Precipitation during the five days is expected to total about a half inch occurring as rain or snow' about Sundaj and again on Wednesday. , i ■ ■v jh ft -t*t£CrtU *4Pii» v-it!.;
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