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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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$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
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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
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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<l) tailing as rain Satur
daj and again possibly about
Xuesdaj or Wednesday.