9 NO. 6 -J-I .. _ PACKING APPLES FOR THE FARM SHOW this week kept Daniel A, baker busy. Brubaker has exhibited at every Pennsylvania Farm Show since This week he packed 25 bushels, 15 trays, 15 plates and 15 diamonds "of js-in addition to exhibits of corn, wheat, barley, tobacco, honey, and five kinds edible nuts. L. F. Photo. . Teachers o Apply For te Funds acaster County Teachers ocational Agriculture voted lay to apply for $2,000 the state harness racing Os for county Future Farm 'ork in the county. - county 4-H clubs formed ■oup last November to for .te plans and apply for a amount from the fund Agn iculture Teachers’ mn came attei 2% month* debate within the associa (Continued on Page 12) arm Calendar 11 2 pm. Farm en #7 meets in the .dise Elementary School hers of society 11 to be 13 to 17 Pennsylvania te Parm Sho'w, Cameron MoClay Streets, Harns ■rg. Complete schedule on >gee 13 to 18. 1' 3 7:30 p.m. Coun cil Conservation District ;feors > meet in the com t ie, Lancaster. 11 Fulton. Grange meets m tie Grange Oakr\ n 6 —730 pm Man- Yioung Farmers nveet m the Manheim Central School Election of of a-nd .planning for the 8 12:30 pm. Lan -r County Pomona ige installation, oit offi at the .Farm Bureau Co -tive building, i>iu er - Ro»d, Lancaster. ' - | ’ —*>i ~l i ; $ I u. r The annual FARM SHOW section will ho found on pages 13 through 30 of this issue of Lancaster Farm ing. The section includes feature stones about the show, a story on Lancaster County’s FPA JCey stone Farmer Degree winners, and the complete Farm Show schedule. We suggest you lift the section out Jind take it to the Farm Show with you. Other (regular features of Lancaster Farming will he found in itheir regular spots in tlie paper. J * Fulton Grange To Ask State To Build Susquehanna Bridge Fulton Grange #G6 has petitioned the Governor and the State Highways Depart ment to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna Rner in the southern part of Lan castei and Yoik Counties At the last meeting of the Grange at Oakryn, the follow ing resolution was adopted WHEREAS, Thousands of dollars hate been spent mak ing a survey and preparing plans for a bridge across the Susquehanna River in the vi cinity of Holtwood. And WHEREAS, There is no bridge over the Susquehanna Rner closer than twenty miles in either direction. And WHEREAS, A bridge at this point is of vital mipoitance to our National Defense And WHEREAS. It is recognized that both southern Lancaster County and southern York County are del eloping very rapidly both industrially and economically and said bridge is vital to continuance of this rapid growth. And WHEREAS, It is only good business to build roads and bridges before development reaches a point that would seriously hinder such work. And. WHEREAS, . Said fridge ! t l '> ‘ • ■ L tit If i* 3lf/< ''""'ilLEfil Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 11, 1964 would shorten the route be tween Philadelphia and points west by some fitteen or twenty miles over an easy ten am And WHEREAS, The State is in the process ot building a State Park a few miles away from the sue of said bridge and (Continued on Page 12) Cattle Feeders Clinics Listed A Cooperative Extension Ser vice livestock chn'i'c for cattle feeders will be held Jan. 30, Feh 6 and 13 in the Rohrers town elementarv school, Rohr erstovvn, Pa according to an announcement made today by County Agent 3VI M Smith Each clinic tv ill -consist of three evening classes schedul ed to start piom'ptly at 7:30 p m , at weekly intervals. The 'clinic, 'Smith explains, is designed to cover all phases of modern-day Theef production, including housing, feeding, general management, market ing, health, investment, labor, agricultural engineering and veterinary medicine. on Page ; 12j> i’fitli ! ,51" i * ' * ' Perennial Farm Show V Winner Prepares Again What would you do with. 25, 15 diamonds of apples. 000 show ribbons ’ A consistant winner of ri‘ This is the problem facing boas with his apples, Bruhake Daniel A. 'Brubaker, Ephrata also shows corn, barley, whea Rl, who estimates he has won tobacco, honey, and five van< this many in his 24 years of ties of edible nuts, exhibiting at the Pennsylvania At the 1-963 Farm Shos Farm Show and Fairs around Brubaker's crop and fruit « the state. hibits won one purple nhboi The problem has more or 10 blues, 17 reds, 13 white less resolved itself with ribbons and a host olf lesser placmgs. going into a large box with Brubaker is not a large pn room enough on top for the ducer of apples by some me) new ones he hopes to win next sures, hut he does have a lavj week at the 1964 edition of the number Of flavors to choos big state show. from His 200 apple trees ii Brubaker spent most of this elude some 40 varieties week preparing and, pjickmg He say* he usually resem the 25 bushels of apples he about two bushels of apples fc plans to exhibit. In addition to each bushel he expects to <N 4 the bushel packs, he will have hibit. “It depends on whi about 15 plates, 15 trays and . jiff Fisher Wins Four Classc At County Tobacco Sho Melvin S, Fisher, Strasburg Fisher, who farms eight ak 81. won four of the six classes res of tobacco on the sharei on his march to the champion- used a strain of Improved Hi ship in the Lancaster County Island and had "pretty goc tobacco show Thursday at the rainfall” during the droug) Farm Bureau Cooperative year. •S building. Lancaster. Tobacco Ass’n Re-elects Three County tobacco growers meeting Thursday at the Faim Bureau Coopeiative, Lancaster returned three o£ their four offlceis to the posts for another year Re-elected at the meeting, held in connection with the annual county tobacco show', low, Marietta Rl, vice piesi were president, Harold Ends dent J C Stahnian, Lancaster R 6, and secretaiy, Marlin Cas sel, Manheim Rl Leroy Funk, Washington Boro Rl, was elected to succeed Willis Hack man Elizabethtown R 3, as treasurer Henry B Engle, USDA to bacco researcher at the Penn- sylvama State Field Research judges Raymond Enb, Man 1 : Laboratory farm near Landis- o er qij p. Lonllars Co., an Vincent Hurst, retired Manage of Bajulc Cigars, Inc , said tl qualitj of the 195 entries ; (Continued on Page 8} Ed Osborne Is Appointed To State ASC Edison W Osborne, opei ator of a 500-acre dairv faim in Fulton Tup , was appoint ed to the Pennsylvania Agn culture Stabilization and Con servation Committee Thuisdav The appointment was made by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L Freeman Osborne, a Jersey breeder, succeeds Charles M. Long, Manheim Rl, on the state ASC committee. (Continued on Page 4) 1 i. t ■ <- } • i! ~ ' (Continued on Page 4) Osborne's 131-head Jersey $2 Per Ye; (Continued on Page 4) Fisher lost out only to Bi gene M. ROhrer, also of Strai burg Rl, who had the chant] ion filler hand, and Glenn 1 Schultz, Pequea Rl, who nose out Fisher’s hinder entry i the “under 2G inches” class. Schults finished third in tt Future Farmers of Amen* filler class '"behind Kennel Martin, Denver HI, and Tilde Tavlor, New Holland HI. Champion of the PFA class* came from the wrapper clas and was shown by Donal Herr 2125 South View Hoa* Lancaster iHerr the 17 jear old son o Mr and Mi's Harry G. Herr, i a junior vocational agricultur student at bampeter-Strasbur High School He has FPA prc jects m corn and tobacco two acres of Pen-Bel 69, Whic' averaged 2,450 pounds to th acre FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the ue\t five days are expected to aveiage near tlie normal range of 34 at night to 39 in the afternoon. It will be cold Saturday and Tuesday and relatively mild at other times. Precipitation may to tal oxer a half inch (melted) falling as rain and snow about Sunday and part of Monday and again near the end of'rthe period. , ill ' * . t
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