£ NO. 39 rfor Named Lancaster m Newspaper ne pleased to announce a! >j ointment of Donald P as the new editor tv astei Fanning He as ■b <his position on Mon- August 24. . v. ' JH, Cio « Llj* _ Bon P. ion may have met Don rand the county in the past et /cars During that time «as employed as Territory nater for southeastern imsyfi a nia by John W Esh nan L Sons, manufacturers Reel Rose Feeds Uthtjgh he is a native nns>i.,>nian, born in Dela ie cejnty, most of his life sp‘"t in New Jersey and » England Don has been nnected with agriculture m t. nued on Page 5) Ewett Nevvsvvanger jkff Reporter 0 Be Everett '^'swanger ,' e " Newswangei, foi ij \ ePiesident and now ; s ''“ r " ol the Lancaster ‘lolstem Association, be seen shoot !t“ a "’ca with a camera tlmes y° u will know *l* * on the job as Staff ''-tr-inued on Page 7) Ken Martin, Denver Rl, is in the drivers seat with his dad Aaron Martin Ken is the third son to Mr. and Mrs. Martin to hold a Future Farmers of America State Office. Local Effects Of The NFO Livestock Holding Action Has the holding action of livestock currently being en couraged by the National Farmers Organization (NFO), effected our local markets’ Here is a sample of a few lo cal opinions. Max Smith, County Agent, felt that it had not been the principal cause of recent live stock price rises This opin ion was confirmed by Robert Heilbron, Piesident, Lancaster Livestock Exchange Mi Heil bron felt that we were in the beginning of a new cattle cycle and that prices were about ready to move up normally County Sweeps Southeastern Pa. Dairy Show Led by J Mowery Frey, Jr of Lancaster, local Holsteins won 11 of the 28 classes Wed nesday at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Black and White Show at Hershey, Pa Frey exhibited the junior, senior, and grand champion females He also received nb (Continued ou Page 7) Weather Forecast The tempeiatme during the next five days is expect ed to average 2 to 5 degiees above normal. Temperatures will begin to cool Sunday and Monday, warm up about Tuesday, and then be cool er Wednesday. Rainfall may total .7 inch, and this will occur on Monday and Wed nesday. Normal temperature for this period is a high of 81 and a low of Gl. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 29, 1964 He also pointed out that dur mg the past ten years the number of livestock being handled through terminal mar kets in percentage of total livestock marketed has declin ed as a result of increased di rect shipment to packeis Be cause of this, livestock mai ketmg reports from terminal markets, may not give the true picture of the effectiveness of the holding action For ex ample, the daily average num bei of cattle in the Chicago market is about 12,000 Wed nesday’s leceipts weie 16,500 head Next we talked with Chi is Kunzler, Piesident of Kunzler &, Co , Inc. He expressed agree ment with a statement print ed in a Lancaster newspaper (Continued on Page 4) Martha Foulk (left), Lancaster Co. Dairy Princess, and her mother and father are in familiar surroundings in front of their 1000 gallon bulk milk tank. , H 6 State FFA Offices “Run’ In The Ken Martin Famil Would you like to become president of an organization’ “Do your best in whatever you are given to do and people will recognize your effort,” says our new State Future .Farmers of America President, Kenneth Martin For Ken, obtaining the Pies ident position was just a mat ter of keeping up with broth ers Jim (State Treasmer 1958) and Dave (State Seeietary 1961) In June when he was selected from the thirty-two candidates at the FFA Con vention at the Pennsylvania State University to head the organization for the coming year it was the climax of an ambition to “Do a little bet ter than my brothers,” said Ken good-natm edly It is evident that a lot of support for this State Office family affair comes from Mr and Mrs Aaron Martin who, as parents, show a great in terest in their children’s pi ej ects One reason for this con cern is because they didn’t have the chance to engage in this type of activity when they were in school A graduate of Garden Spot High School in June, the FFA State President now share crops five acres of tobacco on the forty-three acre farm at home and rents on the halves with his dad sixty-two acres on a neighboring farm Beside the twenty-three acres of corn, twelve acres of alfalfa and twenty acres of wheat on this icnted farm, Ken has half in terest in thirty steei s and one hundred fatting swine and he owns all the swine on the home farm He uses his fa ther’s farm machine! y This busy eighteen year old fellow has had, at one time oi anothei during his high school days, a total of fifty nine thousand broileis, seventy feedei pigs, two hives of bees, five acres of tobacco, several steers and two registered $2 Per Ye; Yorkshire sows (one was Sears Foundation Project). A former chapter and couj ty FFA president, Ken n ceived in Januaiy the Ke: stone Farmer Award he neei ed to be eligible for the to state post Another interest of youn Martin is auctioneering 'H just giaduated fiom the Rep peit School of Auctioneering in Decatur, Indiana He will seive his apprenticeship under a local auctioneer, Paul Z Mar tin, of Blue Ball, and make this a sideline to his many other activities The Martin family make their home at Denver R 1 jus>t north of Fivepomtville Martha Foulk Lancaster Co. Dairy Princess Martha Foulk, Quarryville R 3, our new Lancaster Coun ty Dairy Princess is as much at home with the S 3 milk cows and 70 replacement heif ers on the family farm as she is before microphones and spotlights, speaking up for the County Dairy Industry Since receiving the crown in June. Miss Foulk says, “I have met so many nice peo ple ” Presently, Martha’s schedule calls for speaking en gagements at farm organiza tion meetings to develop in terest in the Princess Pa geant and Contest next June among the County dairymen “I would like to see more girls tiy out for the contest,” she said '‘This would better piomote milk sales which would help all the dairymen” This fall she will begin the real task of selling milk to the people in the city Sewing is another project of this active girl And proof (Continued on Page 7)
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