Im'^Suvmfs t ‘^ in VOL. 9 NO. 9 GRADING LANCASTER COUNTY TOBACCO for shipment to The Nether lands was the item of business at a County Farmers Association committee meet ing last week. Left to right are County Agent M. M. Smith,''Lewis Bixler, H. C. Meyers, Robert Hess, Harold Rohrer, Noah Wenger, and Clyde Wivell. L. F. Photo. Milk Co-op Official Says Farmers Must Share Costs Milk marketing cooperatives may some day have to assume part of the Philadelphia deal eis’ buying costs, an official of the Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative said Wednesday. P Bennett Carter, president of Interstate, speaking at the annual meeting of the Quarry viile and Southern locals o£ District 11 in Quarryville said, “Dealer buying costs in the Philadelphia market, which in cludes edst of farm inspection, laboratory and butterfat test ing, is becoming a more im portant factor in their over-all operations. Same day, from Farm Calendar Tel). 3 to 5 Pennsylvania. Horticulture Associa tion meets at the York town e Hotel, York. Peib. i 3 7 :'3O p.m. Adult 'dlaes in farm welding at the agriculture shop o£ Blphrata High School. 7 30 p.-m. Central 4-iH Tractor maintenance clutb meets at the Landis Broth ers shop on the Manheim Tike, Lancaster. Pe'b 4 7 30 pm. South ern Holstein cluib meets at the Solanco High School, Quarr>\ilie R 2 7 30 pm Northeast 4-H Tractor maintenance club 'nieets at the shop of Allen Matz, Denver. eb 5 4 30 pm. Lanc as^er County Teachers of vo cational agriculture meet at Hew Holland High School. (Continued on P t age 10) competition from other cooper atives outside the marketing area, paiticul'arly some of the New York cooperatives, Inter- State may be forced to render this service if we are to con tinue to sell our memlbers’ milk Your future market will de pend upon your ability and your cooperative’s ability to meet the competition of other groups of organized farmers whose primary economic inter est is the same as yours to improve their income with your market As your president, I urge -each one of you members to impress upon your non-mem (Continued on Page 12) Guernsey Club Reorganizes Robert Breneman, Strasburg JRI, chaired bis first meeting as president of tlhe Lancaster County Guernsey Breeders Ass’n at a meeting of the board of directors Monday night Brenemdn was elected at the reorganizational meeting m Noietmber. K D ’Linde, Oxford Rl, was elected secretary-treasurer of the 'association on Monday night Robert MoSparmn, Peach Bottom, is vice president. iState Guernsey Breeders Association secretary, Rohrer Winner, Willow Street Ri2, brought a report from the state association Breneman appointed the fol lowing committees. Tour, Ro (Continued on Page 5) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 1, 1964 Funk Reelected To 12th Term By Conservationists Directors of the Lancaster County Soil Conservation Dis trict reelected all officers for another term during a meet ing the Court House Wednes day night 'Reelected chairman for his 12tJh consecutive term ’was Amos Funk. Millersville R 2 Henry Hackman, Manheim R 2, was reelected vice chairman, and Henry Givler, Ronks Rd, is Secretary Treasurer All officers were reelected without opposition. Funk, a well known, vegetable farmer and conservationist was appoin ted to a four year term on the board by county commissioners in 1962. The directors approved con servation plans for eight coun ty farms. They are, iMelvm M Martin, Lititz Rl, 67 acres in Elizabeth Twp ; John G. Herr, (Continued on Page 4) More Interest In Heifer Feeding Called For By Livestock Specialist When beef heifers sell for fh e or six Cents 'below feeder steers, there ought to be more interest in feeding heifers, a Penn 'State extension livestock specialist told County steer feeders Thursday night Ben Morgan, speaking to nearly 200 feeders at the first of a series of thiee beef cat tle feeder clinics at the Rohr erstown School, said there are some problems with feeding heifers instead of steers, hut When the sipread in feeder cat tle is as great as it tv as last Local Tobacco Samples Are Sent To Netherlands European manufacturers may soon be making cigars from Lancaster County seedleaf it a program ot the Lancaster County ‘Farmers Association works out as planned. Twenty-four Samples ot Lancaster County cigar leaf left the Hamshurg-York air port Tuesday for Che Rotter dam. Netherlands, office of the Farm Bureau Trade Develop ment Oorpoiation, an affiliate of the American Farm Bureau Federation The program was conceived and earned out by a commit tee of the Lancaster Count} Farmers Association, also an affiliate of AIFBF. Purpose of the program is to find a market for local to Larry Corson Replaces Mart Muth; Acting Work Unit Conservationist ■Larry- Corson, former farm planner with the Lanoastei County office of the Soil Con servation Service, has been named acting Work Unit Con servationist LARRY OORSOX ■Corson has assumed the du- ties of Martin Mutb, Latltz, who is ill Corson a native of Hugha vllle, Lycoming County came to the Lancaster office in De cember 1962, after a tour as farm manager at the Allen fall, he belieies henters could be m'ore profitable. He told feeders they would probably not make as much money in 1964 as they have in some years, but steer feeding can be profitable if all phases of the program, are watched carefully “Some feeders last fall pro bably lost money on the day they bought cattle ” he said The state feeder Calf sales av eraged 27 cents for all grades “There 'were just too many (Continued on Page 9> $2 Per Year bacco. The local Farmers As sociation stresses Chat it is not going into the tobacco buying business. It has not had any assurances that a market is available, but the Rotterdam office has afficed for samples and suggested price for loaal cigar leaf. Tobacco committee bh air man, Harold G Rohrer, 163'3 Book Road, Lancaster, said both state and national trade officials feel that there aie po tential foreign outlets foi local cigar filler tobacco Rohrer, state Farmers Asso ciation director and former president of the county Farm ers Association, was on hand Tuesday to pack the samples aboard Trans World and KIM (Continued on Page 5) town state hospital He is a 19 58 graduate of the Pennsyl vania State University with a degree m Agricultural Econo mics. Corson resides at Cones toga Rl, with tos wife, the former Shirley Miller, and tlheir son D-ale Robert. Muth came to the county soil conservation office in 19®5 and tv as designated Work Unit Conservationist in 1937. He is veil known locally and throughout the state for his work and vmd soil conserva tion pictures. Fulton Grange Presents Award l llrs Charles Reed, ‘member of the Home Economics com mittee of the Fulton Grange presented an award of $25 OD to Mrs Delmar Spencer wh o won 2nd prize in the National Grange Needle Work Contest at Portland Oregon. Her entry was knitted sox. Mrs. Clifford Holloway gave an illustration “How to add a festive touch to your Holiday menu.” She had several talble settings denoting different 'holidays and made and served two of her favorite (Continued on page 5) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the next fixe days arc expected to average near the normal range of 33 at night to S{> in tlie afternoon. Mild wea ther Saturday xxill gixe xvay to < older on Sunday and moderate again about Mon dax. Precipitation may total a lialf inch or more (mel te