9 NO. 36 tty Tobacco est Started 're about a week earlier last year,” said Harry Iz in discussing his well high quality field of ;c o he started to harvest Saturday, August 1. He two acres of early tobac >lolll leady to harvest. irry used chemicals to con the suckers. Last year he » comparison between treated for sucker con and untreated tobacco and that the treated stalk ifd l k pound more per Therefore Gantz feels the chemical is worth the iO per gallon at costs, st year his early cut leaf ght top price on the mai and he says it might not iiir.e as large this year it, it’s big enough,” he ted, as he strung an enor- stalk on the lathe, is tobacco was planted the of May and was topped weeks ago. Harry Gantz farm is ted south of Millersville the mam road to Safe < JjjW. >fcv V ' < v <«. IT’S BIG ENOUGH! Harry Gantz started the unty tobacco harvest season on his farm at Mill- Mile R, D. 1. He cut the first few loads last Satur !y. L. F. Photo. arm Calendar ? 8 5 30 p.m. The Gar “en Spot Young Farmers 'junmer picnic will be held die Garden Spot High 'wool Athletic Field. ? *0 7;45 p m- Manheim oung Farmers Association ceting on Soil Conserva °n > land judging and mo -11011 Pictures. 5 V -12 — state 4 ' H jud ° e and Demonstration Days, iity State ' Univer- — 9-30 am. Lancas ’-ounty ASC farm tour Hool PCnn Manor Hagh i PA dairy cattle [. -ification barn meeting at East a £ ni Clyde W. Martin, L ar ‘ R - D- I- Mr. Wil- Nichol, Sec. of Pa. s° ntln ued on Page 10) The winners of the Guernsey Field Day Judging Contest were (L to R) Nelson Landis, Mrs. Louise Wit mer and Roy Breneman. The event took place Tuesday at the Melvin Stoltzfus Farm, Ronks Rl. ASC Schedules Farm Tour In County Tues. The Lancaster County Agri cultural Stabilization and Con servation Committee has plan ned a farm tour in the county on Tuesday, Aug. 11. The tour will leave Penn Manor High School at 9:30 a.m. Bus service will be furnish ed at a cost of 50 cents a person Each person is asked to bring a picnic lunch. Weather Forecast Temperatures during the next five days are expected to average 2 to 6 degrees below the normal range of 85 in the afternoon and 65 at night. Cooler over the week end with moderate tempera tures Monday and Tuesday. Cooler again about Wednes day. Precipitation may total % inch or more as showers early Saturday morning and again late Tuesday. _ u AGRICULTUha' iii, i ME P£fm^^r»B% LEv Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8, 1964 I Poultrymen Free 1 “Economic Vice” By Management “The cheapest way to make money is to impiove manage ment, sanitation and practice isolation,” said Dr Robert F Gentry, Professor of Veterin arian Science, Poultry Disease Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, at the Lancaster County Farm Bureau Coopera tive Association Poultry meet ing Monday evening Doctor Gentry told local poultrymen that the genetic base for poultry strains is about as improved as is possi ble and the feed is of top quality and selling at a compe titive price. Therefore, we are going to have to get out of the “economic vice” with bet- (Continued on Pago 7) Farm Prices Up From Year Ago Prices received by Common wealth farmers in mid-July for all agricultural products rose 6 percent from a month ear lier and 3 percent from a year ago, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Ser vice. The usual seasonal in crease is 5 percent Contribut ing most to this increase was livestock products, particularly dairy products which advanced 7 percent and poultry and eggs which increased 2 per cent. Feed grains and hay re mained unchanged while food grains showed a 21 percent de cline. Egg prices began to show some strength and increased a penny over the previous mon th, but only equal to July a year ago. Broilers and roasters also increased one cent per (Continued on Page 7) Roy Breneman Is Winner At Guernsey Field Day Roy Breneman, Willow different feed and breedir Street, took home the top con- programs working for differei test award of a model Guern- people. *. sey cow with his winning Salisbury urged the primal score of 283 points in the use of one herd sire to get judging contest of the Lancas- group of uniform replace ter County Guernsey Breeders ments. He also encourage Field Day held Thursday at farmer breeders to work t( the farm of Melvin Stoltzfus, gether and with the artifici: Ronks R 1 breeding studs to prove goo Second in the men’s division y° bulls. Speaking of th was Don Ankram, Peach Bot- lo6al Guernsey Association a tom and third was Jacob 80l- f closely knit group he use linger Lititz R 4 4116111 as an exam P le of wha Z ’ r • ~71 , he meant by working togethei Mrs Louise Witmer, Wi low <. We need closer coop * ratio] Street topped the ladies class between breeders . lt > s hSn . Second was Mrs.l Jacob Bolling- together or hang separately er, Lititz R 4 and third was he gaid Mrs Herbert Royer. 2025 Ore- Vlctor PlagtoWi Associat( gon Pike County Agent, also on the pro Nelson Landis, 1804 Hemp- gram, suggested that farmer; stead Road, was the youth have their hay tested foi winner followed by Jody At- chemical residue There is £ kins, New Providence R 1 and laboratory in Philadelphia anc Henry DeLong, Peach Bottom anyone at the County Agents K 2 office would be glad to help “If your making progress you “Nothing could be worst you are doing it right,” said than being shut off by youi Elmer Salisbury, Manager of milk company,” he stated. Lauxmount Farms, and mam Plastow also stressed the in speakei of the afternoon pro- portance of the soil test i gram. In his travels around establishing fall seedings of a the country he has found many falfa Randall Stoltzfus and his Grand Champion York shire. This harrow was selected as the best of the 141 hogs in the FFA Hog Show and Sale held at the Green Dragon Market and Auction this week. Randall Stoltzfus Has Grand Champion FFA Hog “Smoother and quality Mrs John F. Stoltzfus, Gap Rl, through-out,” were the words will enter Pequea Valley as a Judge Lee Mohney, Vo-Ag senior this fall, teacher, Lakeview Joint High Jerry Snader, Ephrata, who School, Mercer County, used had the Grand Champion last to describe Randall Stoltzfus’s year won the Reserve Cham- Grand Champion Yorkshire at p lon with his Crossbreed hog the Future Farmers of Amen- John Eby and Barry Shirk, ca Hog Show and Sale held both of Pequea Valley, took Tuesday at the Green Dragon top honors in the Pen of Three Market and Auction. class respectively after taking Randall, the son of Mr. and ' (Continued on Page 7) $2 Per Ye;
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