VOL. 9 NO. 18
WINNERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY Future Farmers Parliamen
tary Proceedure contest Wednesday night were from the Grassland Chapter at
New Holland. They are, seated, left to right, Nelson Wert, New Holland Rl;
Kenneth Martin, Denver Rl; Leon Weaver, New Holland Rl, and Fred Nolt, New
Holland. Standing, left to right, Roy Musser, East Earl Rl; Clyde Wissler, New
Holland Rl; John Campbell, New HoUand, and Walter Musser, Narvon Rl.
Grasslands F uture Farmers
Win Co. Chapter Contest
Grassland Chapter Future
Farmeis of Amenca deposed
last yeai’s state champions in
the county Parliamentary Pro
ceediue contest Wednesday
night at Garden Spot High
School, New Holland.
The Grasslanders of New
Holland beat out a strong So
lanco team for the top county
award However, both teams
will compete foi the York-Lan
castei area championship at
New Holland next Monday
n >ght against the top two
teams foi York County.
Solanco will be out to re
claim a chance at the state
championship which they won
last June at the Pennsylvania
State University when they
meet the smoothly efficient New
Farm Calendar
Apiii 6 6 45 pm. County
4 H Leaders council banquet
at Hostetlers’ banquet ball,
Mount Joy.
730 pm. York-Lancaster
Area FFA parliamentary pro
cedure and public speaking
contest at Garden Spot High
School, New Holland.
A 7 1:30 P- m - County
Faim Women Exe. board
™cets at the Coleraine Bap
bst Church', Kirkwood.
1 30 pm. . Farm Women 14
™ eet at the home of Mrs.
“■ Lloyd Harmsh, Willow
Sheet Ri.
030 pm. Manheim Young
aimeis Association banquet
at the Penryn fire hall.
4 P m - — ■ Southern county
H Holstein club reorganizes
at Solanco High School,
Warryvillg R 2.
Pul 7 - 8 Poultry sales
oil .. .
Holland team next week.
The Grasslands team moved
up fiom their thud place spot
in county eliminations last year
with a confident 24 minute
demonstration of parliamentary
abilities and FFA ceremonies
Last year’s runneiup team
from the Garden Spot Chapter,
Lampeter - Strasburg High
School, finished in third place
on Wednesday ahead of the
teams from Manheim Central
and Penn Manor.
Public Speaking
In the public speaking con
test, Glenn Weber, Mohnton
R 2, climaxed a two year march
on the county championship
He was runner-up last year
with a speech on the “Race
GLENN WEBER
Between Food and People ”
His subject Wednesday night,
along similar lines, was “Tra
gedy Looms Ahead.”
The 15 year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Weber, is a
10th grade student at Garden
Spot High School.
Last year’s third place winn
er also moved up a jiotch in
the placings. George Hanna
, mt (jC£pUpu'V* o ;, tll
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 4, 1964
L F. Photo
USDA Schedules
Hearing On
Pesticides
A public hearing to enable
all interested parties to present
evidence as to whether the
registration of the chemical
pesticides endnn, aldnn, and
dieldrin should be canceled or
modified Was announced today
by the U. S Department of
Agriculture
The healing will open at 9 30
a m. on April 9 in Washington
in the auditorium of the Freer
Gallery of Art and continue on
April 16 in Memphis—place to
be announced later.
The pesticides involved have
figured in recent press reports
regarding extensive damage to
fish m the lower Mississippi
River. The purpose of the hear
ing" is to enable the Department
to develop all pertinent infor
mation necessary to the pioper
exercise of its regulatory
responsibilities under the 'Fed
eral Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Eodenticide Act These include
registration of pesticides sold in
interstate commerce on the
basis of their safety and etffi-
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Livestock Co-op
Has New Mgr.
Produce! s Livestock Coopera
tive announced last Friday the
appointment of Glenn C. Hart,
2004 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, as
manager of the cooperative’s
Union Stockyards office.
Hart, formerly with the O.
A. Clark Co, commission firm
at the Yards, comes to the co
coperative with 20 years ex
perience in the livestock busi
ness. He succeeds Noah H.
Huber as manager.
The announcement was made
by Harry E. H&rshey, coopera
tijvej-presldeo^;
Stockyards Opens Auction
To Crowd Of Watchers
A ciowd of spectatois, some
2,000 of them, 'jammed the gal
lary of Lancastei Union Stock
Yard’s new auction pavilion to
“not even standing room” capa
city Wednesday for the grand
opening of the $75,000 facility
The overflow crowd jammed
the pavilion and the alleys
hampering efforts of stockyards
personnel to iron out the
wrinkles of a new system of
selling cattle after 69 years of
private tieaty dealing at the
yards
Some spectators, a r 11 v i n g
near the 10 am opening time,
could only listen to the outside
loudspeaker as Fredeuck M
Dairy Expert Says Feed Milling
Is Out Of Step With The Times
Extreme forage programs for
dairy cattle call for extreme
grain feeding programs, a Penn
State University dairy specia
list told local millers and feed
dealers Wednesday.
One or two gram mixes will
not fill the bill for all forage
rations, Dr Richard Adams, ex
tension dairyman said at a
meeting of feed company le
presentatives at the Holiday
Motel, Lititz Pike
He said, feed manufactuung
is “out of step with the needs
of today’s high producing dauy
cows ” Theie are too many
“rules of thumb” used in com
pounding rations, he said, and
added that the time may come
Imparts Are Up 26 Per Cent
U.S.D.A. Reports Scrap Tobacco
A 26 per cent increase in
U S imports of scrap tobacco
showed up last year over 1962
the U S. Department of Agri
culture reported last week.
Scrap tobacco impoits last
year totaled 32,990,000 pounds
compared with 26,253,366 lbs
during 1962, the government
agency announced.
The Philiipine Republic,
Colombia, Dominican Republic,
Brazil, Indonesia and Cuba
were the major suppliers of the
imported cigar tobaccos The
Cuban scrap was imported be
fore the February 1962 embar
go.
Total cost of the 1963 im
ports was $14,706,000, 31 per
cent higher than the $11,223,-
818 in the 1962 twelve month
period The average price per
pound in 1963 was 45 cents
compared to the average of
43 cents in 1962 and 63 cents
a pound paid for Cuban scrap
tobacco.
In a brief filed at U S Tariff
Commission, and Trade Infor
mation Committee hearings,
Pennsylvania tobacco growers
contended that domestic cigar
manufacturers can import ci
gar to replace Cuba!
$2 Per Year
Campbell Union Stock Yaids
Co president, cut the ribbon
dedicating the new building
Even buyers, caught in the last
minute pi ess of the crowd,
could not reach their seats foe
sevei al houis aftei the 'first fouli
went under the auctioneer’s
hammer
Many visitors leported being
unable to get a glmace of fee
inside of the windowless, air
conditioned, building until fee
middle of the afternoon when
the gallery began to thin out
slowly
Auctioneers Norman Hart,
Nottingham, and Tom Mat-
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when rations will be made for
individual cows
Citing research at the Uni
versity, he told feed men that
a forage ration of all corn sil
age may require a grain ration
with as much as 30 per cent
protein while the same cow
on a forage ration of corn sil
age, grass silage and hay may
need only 12 per cent piotein
in the grain
In rebuttal to a comment
that a higher producing cow
would receive an excess of pro
tein and not enough energy.
Dr Adams said, the basic rule
is “meet the energy needs of
the cow first and balance out
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gar tobaccos to replace Cuban
tion in present tariff levels.
The brief held that imports of
scrap to replace Cuban leaf
were being brought into the
U S at lower prices than those
paid for the Cuban tobacco.
The Cigar Manufacturers As
sociation of America, at the
hearings, requested that tariff
on both imported cigar filler
and scrap tobaccos be i educed
to zeio.
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
ne\t five days are expected
to average near the seasonal
normals of 59 in the after
noon to 37 at night. Colder
weather Saturday will be fol
lowed by milder Monday
turning somewhat cooler
Tuesday. Precipitation may
total more than 0.5 inch
(melted) falling mainly as
snow or light rain Saturday
and Wednesday and as rain
about Monday. ,