POL. 9 No. 42
s wai Hold
all Watershed
tings In Co.
At the meeting of the Lan
i,lei County Soil Conserva
ion Eh strict Leaders, Monday
n>ht, it was decided that 101 l
ll watershed meetings would
; lieJd starting in October.
The purpose of the meet
ly will be to show farmers
n \a 'ous parts of the Coun
i the benefits of conserving
hen natural resources, not
nh for future generations
ut tor their own immediate
Se\ e'-al areas and meeting
were considered, and
laces
ii officer was assigned the
bk of scheduling a date and
lancing a meeting place for
ten suggested area
Se\e-al names were sug- No ] a te roasting ears this year! Miles Fry, R.D. 3,
,‘s'ed for nomination as the jjphrata looks at his field of late sweet corn that in
'itbt l '"c3mg farmer cooperatoi ears p as t p U t corn on the table till frost. The plants
JlnZ Sought be S live e n thls «« about knee-high. L. F. Photo
! this award and that nom-
latiors be kept open until a WT* A. t A TV
le ne.-t meeting . County W mners At 4-Day
It was decided that the an- »
ual Soil Conservation Serv- All A • TX • Ol
*a: r--tmg win be held m All-American Dauy bnow
ite February or early March,
nice Inis time of the year by Everett Newswanger ant j started things rolling
mid probably best suit the Staff Reporter for the county Monday, when
oik schedules of most farm- HARRISBURG This week, they brought home four Grand
Lancaster County Dairy Breed- Champion ribbons at the Junior
.. . ;y
Several possibilities foi a eis invaded this capitol city Dau’y Show
speaker for this meeting were Wl jjj t jjeir p rlze show cattle In the FFA Brown Swiss
discussed, and it was decided a i on g W ith the 2,200 other en- Class, Harold J Brubaker,
Aat these people would be (- nes from 16 states for the Mount Joy Rl, repeated his
(Continued on Page 9) Pennsylvania All - American achievement of the 1963 State
Dairy Show held September 14 Junior Daily Show by taking
to 17 at the Faim Show Build- both the Grand Champion and
mg When the dust of the tan- Senior Champion awards for
bark had settled, local show- Brown Swiss at the 1964 show
men had five grand champions, He won with the same animal,
four senior champions, 13 Welcome in Charming Gentle,
class wins and a first place a five-year-old cow Harold,
County Herd in their pockets, who is 17 and was graduated
Junior Dairy Show from Donegal High School in
The boys and girls in 4-H (Continued on Page 5)
Winners At
Soianco Fair
In the Baby Beef Judging
it the Soianco Fair on Thurs
da\ Donald Swinehart of Quar
ts ville Rl bad the Champion
4 H Steer and the Grand Cham
pion Steer, a Hereford.
The Reserve Champion was
*l*o a Hereford steer, and it
"as shown by Fred Linton, Jr.,
of Quarryville R 2.
The FFA Champion Steel
an- Angus shown by Wil
fiam Prey, Quarryville HD.
Farm Calendar
Sept 23 Lampeter Fair
3 pm. Hog Show, open
flats
7 p m. _ 4-H and FFA Babj
Efe: Show
~~ Ephrata Fair
! Pt - 2,4 Lampeter Fair
’ pm Swine Assn on
Foo* Evaluation
Ephrata Fair
1 Pm. Baby Beef Show
2s Lampeter Fair
" 1 nhrata Fair
Se Pt _5 __ strict 4-H Horse
Ludwigs Corner,
lh( v:er Co.
" S-'ine Assn. Carcass Eval-
Paticn at Kunzler & Co.
~~ P’arm Women ?f!8 meets
I Auto Auction
BLOSSOMELLE ZSA ZSA added six champion and first place ribbons to her
collection this week at the Pennsylvania All-American Dairy Show at the Farm
Show Bldg. The climax came Thursday when Judge John L. McKitrick pulled
ZSA ZSA into first place in the dry three and four-year old class to become Lan
caster County’s only first place win in national competition. Mrs. Rhelda Royer
,s is at the halter. , ,
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 19, 1964
AGRICUI.rUR/!L LirrjAßY
THE I- ( o!.i Frr
Special Drought Report
by Don Timmons
(Note: This is not meant to
be an exhaustive study of the
drought conditions in the coun
ty; nor is it meant to inform
you that it’s dry out there;
we’re certain you are aware
of that! I made a quick swing
into a few areas this week,
sampled some opinions of
fanners, and took a first hand
look at some of the damaged
crops. I was looking for two
things:' (1) did the damage
seem to vary by areas; (2)
did sound conservation prac
tices seem to effect the extent
of the damage.)
At the farm of John J Herr,
Mt Joy Rl, I looked at early
corn, late coin, sorghum and
alfalfa The eaily corn was
good Hen suggested that if
it were to be harvested as
giain. the yield would be com
paiable with coin in a good
County Wheat
Program Signup
Starts Slowly
According to the Lancaster
County ASCS office, 14 66 Man
heim Pike, there have been
only 88 farmers who have
signed up in the 1965 voluntary
wheat program since enroll
ment b«gan on August 24th.
The total enrollment in the
county last year was 361. That
means that less than 25% of
last year’s total participating
farmers have signed up during
the first two-thirds of the al
loted time period this year
The ASCS office reports that
this is not unusual and that
most of the farmers sign up
during the last two weeks
The deadline is October 2nd
(Continued on Page 5)
$2 Per Year
year. However, his hay had
been pretty well fed-out, so
he was ensiling the early corn,
and estimated the yield at
about 15 tons per acre The
late corn crop which had been
planted for silage was a dif
ferent story It was planted
about July 4th It now stands
between 2 to 3 feet tall with,
shriveled leaves, uneven
growth, and some of it is be
ginning to tassle
We next took a look at his
alfalfa Heir said he had made
a third cutting in early Au
gust, but he didn’t expect to
get a fourth cutting this year.
It looked very poor
The sorghum field had been
planted around the end of
June for silage According to
Heir it should be about 8 to
10 feet high by now with any
decent amount of lainfall It
stood only slightly better than
knee high, and less than that
in some places It, too, had
curled, biown and broken
leaves, and the giowth was
spotty
The early tobacco around
the county was put away in
pretty good shape, and most
of the late tobacco looks like
it might make a crop of some
kind with just a little help
from the weather But I saw
some late tobacco on the farm
of Roy Mumma, Mt Joy Rl,
that looked like it had stopped
growing shortly after it was
Other Photos Pages 8 & 9
(Continued on Page 8)
Take The Bus
To NEPPCO
A welcome innovation at
this year’s NEPPCO Exposi
tion here in Harrisburg will
be free bus service for dele
gates between downtown ho
tels and the Farm Show build
ing, providing a new conveni
ence for many of the 5,000
poultrymen and their families
expected to attend the 27th an
nual show
The big annual exposition
brings its three-day education
al program and more than an
acre of technical and commer
cial exhibits on the latest in
poultry products, equipment
and services to producers from
the 14 northeastern states oa
October 6-7 and 8.
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period Saturday through
Wednesday are expected to
average 2 to 7 degrees above
normal. The normal high
and low temperatures for
the period are 75 and 54
degrees. It will be warmer
over the weekend, becoming
more seasonal in the latter
half of the period.
Precipitation may total
greater than .5 inches, oc
curring mostly as rain on
Tuesday and Wednesday.