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ALMOST READY FOR THE BULLS, the tie stalls in the new addition to the
at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeders Cooperative have been
with rubber mats and extra heavy tie chains Concrete dividers will dis
ge fighting among the bulls, and protect the workers Roger Gundlach, Pro-
Communications director for the Atlantic Breeders Cooperative, which will
operations on July 1, looks over the nearly-completed stalls L. F. Photo.
awberry Roundup Won
;ond Time By Stoner
: city people put sugai
•earn on then stiawber
luc Stonei put water on
d it paid off.
the second consecutive
Euc, 1051 Eden Road,
ie county 4-H strawbeny
m Calendar
ta Deadline' for Ki
's 4 H Scholarship appli
lns to be in the County
M's office.
hi ~ 7 30 p.m.—County
Council reorganization
hug m the Poultry Cen-
EoaeMile Road.
16 19 __ Extension Home
tls week at the Pennsyl
® State University.
bounty
—. Dru-
Com
>eet at
A Ac
ennsyl-
County
fan-
Junior
insoi ed
iciatxon
State
;ervice,
Ann-
Com-
roundup, Wednesday, with a
four box exhibit of laige, uni
form, Catskills
Apul rains soaked Enc’s
strawbeiry beds, but when the
patch began to dry out in May,
he hauled 3,600 gallons of wa
tei to imgate the plants
The results weie so pleasing
to judge Cail Bittner of the
Pennsylvania State Univeisity,
that he put a blue rosette on
the rich, red fruit, and a score
of 981 on the project.
The 16 year old son of Mr
and Mrs. Raymond Stoner has
been m the strawberry club
for six years, but it took him
until last year to find the win
ning combination
In addition to the 300 Cat
skill plants which produced
the winning berries, Stoner has
300-plant patches of Robinson,
Kan-
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Swine Ass’n
Sets Field Day
Dwight Younkin, extension
livestock specialist from the
Pennsylvania State Umveisity,
will be the official judge at
the annual Swine field day on
June 20
Live animal judging con
tests for adults, youth and
ladies, with prizes in each di
vision, will get under way at
10 a.m on the farm of Russel
Sauder, Manheim R 3.
The field day, sponsored by
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 13, 1964
Farmers Union
To Organize
In County
The National Farmers Un
ion, one of the “big three”
faim organizations, has sched
uled a Lancaster County 01
ganizational meeting next
Thursday night
Roy Allen, piesident of the
Laumer County, Colo , chaptei
of NFU has been in the county
for the past week sohciLng
membership in the national
organization
Allen said the response has
been good More than 50 farm
ers, mostly in the southern
half of the county have be
come members, but few farm
ers in the northern half of the
county have been contacted
Allen said he plans to contact
farmers in the northern part
of the county early next week
He emphasized that all coun
ty farmers are invited to the
organizational meeting at the
Spanish Tavern, Quarryville, at
730 p m on June 18.
Also at the meeting will be
Dwight Wilson. National Or
ganization Director, from the
Washington office
Lancaster County farmers do
not appear to be responding
to reports of increased cigar
consumption.
Tobacco producers have in- FIVE-DAY
dicated they plan to plant 4
per cent less acreage to cigar WEATHER
leaf this >ear than in 1963 . _
Planting intentions indicate FORECAST
some 26.000, acres this year as _ , .
compared to the 27,000 acies Temperatures during he
. , inert ypir and 80 600 acre avei- neU five days
Allen said the NFU which 1058-62 ' t 0 avera * e more than six de
is stiong in the coin belt and consecutive years of § rees above the normal range
the western plains states, js recoid in- of 60 at “gM to 83 in the
pnmaul> interested in build- f j Pennsvl- afternoon. Warm weather is
mg a batter farm ma.ketmg vent " I mbmed expected throughout the per
eel up and develop.-, a better “Jf “< ca S us “T,‘ ude i.d »ith litthf da, to da,
lelationship between produc- P in(lucers change. Precipitation is ei
ers and consumeis. a » p tobac ' <, roW ers in Pected to total 0.1 to 0.6 inch
per-cent St? £.u" t*
inss r g a“ p rs- ss “ d asai “ lbw “ **
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Breeding Co-op Expansion
To Be Finished By July 1
July 1 has been set as the
target date for completion of
the meiger of two Pennsyl
vania artificial breeding coop
eratives into the Atlantic
Breeders Cooperative
Work on new facilities at the
present location of the South
eastern Pennsylvania Artificial
Breeders Cooperative on the
230 bypass is expected to be
completed by the end of the
month
Several of the most popular
bulls flora Western Pennsyl
vania Artificial Breeders Co
opeiative at Clarion will be
moved to Lancaster County to
day, but most of the sires will
not arrive until the new fa
cilities aie completed
Work of converting 20 box
stalls in the eastern wing of
the present SPABC bam to 40
tie stalls was begun about
Apul 1, and is just slightly be
hind schedule, according to J
Floyd Weidler, plant managei
In addition to converting the
box stalls to tie stalls, an ex
tension to the wing will pro
vide space for 20 more tie
stalls bringing the total ca
pacity of the barns to 80 head
The box stalls in the west wing
of the barn will remain and
will be used for larger and old-
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Soil Conservation Board
Sets Date Of Field Day
Directois of the Lancastei
County Soil Conservation Dis
trict this week scheduled a
meeting with all -coopeiating
agencies to plan the annual
conservation field day and
plowing cbntest
The planning session will be
held in the county couit house
at 7 30 p m on July 13 Date
of the plowing contest and field
day is July 23 with July 27
reseived as rain date The con
Tobacco Acres
To Be Down
er bulls
Weidler said the expansion
program was initiated to pro
vide more space for the bulls
from WPABC and to cut down
on labor requirements for feed
mg and cleaning pens
Weidler said the trend is to
ward tie stalls at bull studs be
cause of the greater amount of
work needed to clean box stalls
and the longer distance feed
has to be carted for box stalls.
Exercise, which the bulls
now get in outdoor lots, will
be provided by a motor-driven
forced exercisei with a capa
city of 16 to 20 bulls which
will be built in the area now
occupied by the lots on the
east side of the building
Weidlei said he believes the
bulls will stay m good health
if exercised about twice a week.
At piesent the bulls are not
forced to exercise, but have
the fieedom of the lot or stall.
The cleaning choies which
are now done by a man with
a wheelbairow will be taken
over by a continuous chain
gutter cleaner emptying direct
ly into a manure spreader An
18 foot extension at the end of
the barn will serve as storage
shed for the tractor and
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test will be held again on the
Roy Gaiber farm, Lititz R 2.
Directois appioved free plans
foi three new eooperators.
Penn Dairies, Inc, 572 N.
Queen Street, Lancaster, be
came the first business to be
come a cooperator in the dis
trict The company signed up
a 30 acre tract in East Lam
peter Twp Martin and Amos
Nolt of Peach Bottom R 2, made
application for plans on 330 ac
res in East Drumore Township,
and Waterloo Farms, Gap Rl,
farmed by M Simon Zook,
signed up 190 acres in Salis
bury Township
Conservationist Moved
Larry Corson, acting work
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