VOL. 9 NO. 50 Directors Plan 1965 Soil Consv. At their annual planning meeting, held at the Produc tion Credit Bldg in Lancaster, the district dnectors met with members of the cooperating state and federal agencies. Applications for five new coopei ators were accepted unanimously They were- Ira B Heistand, RD 3, Elizabeth town; Gerald L Snavely, R.D. 1, Lititz, Jacob N. Good, RD. 2, Denver; Robert G. Hostet ter, RD. 3. Elizabethtown; Samuel S Martin, RD. 1, Eph rate. The annual meeting and banquet will be held in the Quarryville area, probably at the Solanco High School. The date is still open, but will be in the latter part of February or early Marcth It was decided by the direc tors that their annual report would again be published in Lancaster Farming this year since this source seemed to give them better farm coverage than they could otherwise ob tain^ A proposed budget was dis cussed, and-it was felt that it would come within about $lOO of this year’s figure. The 1965 goals set for the soil conservation district by the directors included: hold ten watershed meetings; ob tain district clerical help; re vise associate directors list; have the cooperating agencies be required to attend only spedfic meetings with their reports; select an outstanding cooperator; have coordinating meetings with county plan ning commission; enter the Goodyear Contest; review the long-range plans of other dis tricts with the idea of design ing one for Lancaster County. 'lmprove and develop work ing relations with women’s clubs, farm youth organiza tions, and others; more pro motion of the merits of con servation; continue and pro mote the P. H Gladfelter tree distribution program; tour of ceoperators’ farms for the (Continued on Page 6) Farm Calendar Not. 16 8 p.m. Dairy Clinic, Solanco High School. Nov. 17 12 noon, Elizabeth town-Donegal 4-H Capon Roundup, Hostetler’s Ban quet Hall, Mount Joy. 8 pm. Dairy Clinic, John Neff School, Neffsville. Nov. 18 5 30 p.m., Lincoln 4-H Community Club Capon Roundup, AMVETS Building, Bphrata Now. 19-20 Annual Meet ing of Inter-State Milk Pro ducers Co-Op, Philadelphia. 19-20 11th Annual Con wention, Pa. Holstein Ass’n, Meadville, Pa. 19 7:30 P-xn. DeKalfrJPoul tty Meeting, Lancaster .Poul try Center." N<*;-20-2ft Farm-City Week JOHN FREY, TWIN OAKS FARM, QUARRY VILLE, shown with his prize Angus steer, “T. O. LAD DIE”, after winning the champion Angus and grand champion steer in the junior division, and reserve grand champion steer at the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition. L. F. Photo Holstein Ass’n Ellects Officers By Everett Newswanger Staff Reporter Roy Book, Honks R 1 was elected president of the Lan caster County Holstein As sociation at a recent reor ganization meeting. Roy was formally Vice president of the 511-memher breed organization. Filling the vacancy left by Book’s promotion is Clarence Stauffer, Ephrata. Reelected to another term of office are Donald Eby, Gor donville, Secretaiy, and Dan icl Martin, Manheim, Trea surer Receiving special assign ments from the 9-member board of directors are C. Rich ard Landis, Lane., DHIA Direc tor; Samuel Dum, East Peters burg, Milk Market Representa tive; J. Robert Hess, Strasbourg, (Continued on Page 10) HOLSTEIN MEN. 1 to r (standing), Daniel S. Stoltzfus, Mount Joy; Robert Kauffman, Elizabethtown; Clarence Stauffer, Ephrata, Vice President; Melvin Peifer, Lancaster and Clair Hershey, Willow Street, (seated) Elvin Hess Jr., Stras burg, State Director; Donald Eby, Gordonville,-Secretary; Roy Book, Ronks, Pre sident and Daniel ManHeim, Treasurer, These are the men who form the board of directors for. the Lancaster County Holstein Association. Missing from the picture-is Titus Hurst, Lititz. L. F. Photo Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 14, 1964 Soil Conservation To Be Farm-City Feature Ot Lone. Kiwonts Club The Lancaster Kiwanis Club will highlight Farm-City Week at its Nov. 24 meeting. Charles Slaton of the U.S. Soil Con servation Service, Harrisburg, will present an illustrated slide talk, stressing the importance of resource conservation for Farm-City Week. An exhibit on soil and water conservation will be displayed at the Hotel Brunswick by the New Hol land 4-H Soil and Water Con servation Club Slaton is a career conserva tionist and a firm believer that faim and city people alike share in the responsibility for conserving the resource with in the Commonwealth. He has spoken to many groups and prepared a number of articles (Continued on Page 6) Frey Shows Reserve Grand Champion Steer After Leading Junior Div. Sweep After taking the grand cham pionship m the junior division steer show with his junior yeaihng Angus on Monday, John Fiey, RD 2, Quanyville, competed in the open show on Tuesday and had the re-, serve champion Angus and finally the reserve giand champion steer at the Pennsyl vania Livestock Exposition Fiey’s only loss was to the chunky little Angus senior calf owned by Jay W Fought of Cumberland County. Judge Tom Merritt, Penn State Uni ersity, chose the senior calf over Frey’s animal in the Angus open class, but pulled the junior yearling back as reserve champion Angus. When they met again for the grand champion steer of the show the judge picked the same combination. Frey, a senior at Solanco High School, is the son of Mrs. Anna Frey. This is his fourth Guernsey Ass’n Annual Meeting By Everett Newswanger Staff Reporter The Lancaster County Guern sey Breeders’ Association held their annual banquet and busi ness meeting Friday evening at the Rhoad’s Spanish Tav ern, Quarryville. The following county breed ers received awards from the Association: Raymond and Louise Wit mer, Willow Street, for life time production on Meadow view Red Blossom with 174,674 lb. of milk and 7,775 lb. of fat; John N. Landis, 1804 Hemp stead Rd, Lancaster, for the (Continued on Page 10) $2 Per Year year in FFA and his seventh in 4-H work Following grad* nation in June, Frey plans to attend Penn State University, where he will probably major in Animal Science. It was expected that Frey would withdraw his 1,000 pound winner fiom the sale at the Exposition and that he would enter the reserve champion, named “T. O. Lad die”, in the Eastern National Livestock Show at Timonium, Maryland. This show starts on Monday, and Frey is the de* fending champion having won there a year ago with another Angus. Led by Frey and Wesley Mast, R.D 2, Elverson, Lancas ter County youths dominated the junior division show on Monday when they took 7 first, 4 second, and 5 third place ribbons. They captured all three breed championships an dalso took reserve itt th# Shorthorn breed. In addition to this Lancaster took lha group of five class, for the eighth year in a row, with as (Continued on Page 4) Survey Reveals Reasons Fanners Use Consv. Tools In a recent study of the Jasper Soil and Water Conser vation District, conducted by the lowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, it was found that soil erosion and depletion of soil continued even with the dia* tnct’s existence. Why aren’t more farmers participating in the district program? To what extent are those who are district co operators actually carrying out recommended land-use mea sures and practices? What might be done to increase the effectiveness of the district program? The answers to these ques tions as found by this study, may well be used in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the district programs here in Pennsylvania. In attempting to find the (Continued on Page 7) Weather Forecast Temperatures for the five* day period Saturday through Wednesday are expected to average 8 or more degrees above normal. It will be on the mild side for most of the period, except briefly cooler about Monday. Precipitation will total less than .4 inch, occurring most* ly as showers over the mountains- Saturday and again Tuesday. Stm dry and mild.
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