VOL. 9 NO. 52
Know Your Rights And Hold
Your Tempers, Hatfield Advises
Middle Creek Area Farmers
At a meeting jointly sponsor
ed by the Lancaster and Leb
anon County Farmers Associa
tions last Monday night Hollis
A. Hatfield, Administrative
Secretaiy of the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association, told
about 100 farmeis and other
interested parties that when
dealing with government con
demnation procedures a cool
head and an infoimed mind
provide the farmer’s best de
fense.
Emotions and tempers have
been runmng high in this
Lebanon-Lancaster County
community ever since it be
came known that 2400 (now
increased to 2900) acres would
be taken by the state for
gamelands under Pioject 70
Hatfield’s realistic approach
seemed to ease the tension of
the meeting somewhat
He pointed out that farmers
had certain lights under the
new- eminent domain law of
which they should be aware
Tops 4-H Club
Consv. Roundup
The top exhibit at the Soil
and Water Conseivation 4-H
Club Roundup held Tuesday at
the Hotel Brunswick belonged
to Gary Musser, fourteen year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Titus
Musser, 518 W. Broad St.,
New Holland Musser, a ninth
grader, is in his third year of
4-H Club work, but this is his
first year with the Soil and
Water gioup.
Mussei’s outstanding table
top display was titled “Chang
ing To Conservation” Using
concrete in a fiame about
three by four feet, he depicted
a farm that was about 80 per-
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Farm Calendar
Nov. 30 7 a m Pennsylvania
deer season opens ■ — Good
Hunting'
All Week International
Livestock Show, Chicago
Dec. 3 7 30 pm Ephrata
Young Fanners Class
“Vitamin and Mineral Feed
ing”. Ephiata High School.
Foi example, within thiity days
after being served with the
notice that his land has been
condemned the pioperty owner
may file piehminaiy objections
challenging the light of the
condemnoi to condemn his pio
peity Piopeity to be condemn
ed must be appiaised by two
local lealtors, and a just com
pensation figuie i cached
Wheie a partial taking of a
property is involved, Hatfield
suggested that the farmeis not
make final settlement until
they know how the acquued
propel ty is to be developed.
Then if any damages occur to
the remaining land or build
ings damage claims can be
listed and action taken to cor
icct the situation. The proper
ty owner has recourse to the
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Red Rose FFA
Elects Officers
The Red Rose Future Farm
ers of America held their se
lection of officers on Mohday
night at the Lampeter-Stras
burg High School.
Glenn Weber, sixteen-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Weber of Mohnton R 2,
was chosen as president to
succeed John Frey of Quarry
ville R 2
Weber, a member of Grass
lands FFA Chapter, is a jun
ior at Garden Spot High
School. He and the other new
ly-elected officers will be in
stalled during the January
meeting.
Other officers elected Mon
day night weie.
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THE NEWLY-ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE RED ROSE FUTURE FARM
ERS OF AMERICA shown following their selection at Lampeter-Strasburg High
School on Monday night. From left to right they are: (sitting) Sanford Hostetler,
Pequea Valley H. S., Recording secretary; Ken Hess. Lampeter-Strasburg H S . Ist
Vice-president; Glenn Weber. Garden Spot H. S , President: William Ulrich, Solan
co H. S., 2nd Vice-president; Dale Greiner, Manheim Central H. S.. Reporter;
(standing) James Nolt, Donegal H. S., Chaplain; Clifford Bollinger, Ephrata H. S.
Corresponding secretary; David Erb, Penn Manor H. S., Sentinel; Donald Gruber,
Elizabethtown H. S., Treasurer; Robert Eby, Warwick H. S., Parlimentarian.
L. F. Photo
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 28, 1964
Slaton Featured At
Kiwanis Form-City
Week Celebration
The Lancaster Kiwanis Club
observed Farm-City Week at
their regular noon luncheon
meeting at the Hotel Bruns
wick this week, and the fea
tured speaker was Charles
Slaton of the U S Soil Con
servation Service, Harrisburg.
Slaton presented an illustrat
ed slide talk and stres»ed the
importance ot soil ana water
conservation practices to farm
and city people alike.
This is the first year that
the New Holland 4-H Soil and
Water Conservation Club ex
hibits have been held in con
junction with the cmc club’s
meeting The outstanding ex
hibit was shown by'Gary Mus
ser. New Holland The 4-H’ers
were the luncheon guests of
the Kiwanians
Winners of the conservation
essay contest sponsored by the
Lancaster Kiwanis Club were
announced at the luncheon,
they were H. Melvin Brene-
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Agr. Census Will Measure
Changes And Estimate The
Trends In County Farming
Piobably by this time you
have received the many sec
tioned Agncultural Census
foim thiough the mail Its ap
peal ance may have scared
many farmers half to death
But after studying it ovei, it
should have become quickly
apparent that its bark was
woise than its bite Most of
the questions can be answeied
with a check mark, a woid, 01
one number.
The Census of Agiicultuie
is a detailed suivey that is
taken by the U S Department
of Commeice eveiy five years,
and this is the year This sur
vey is designed to yield a
great amount of information
Trading In Beef
Futures Starts
It has been announced that
trading in live beef cattle fu
tures will commence on the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
on Monday, November 30 On
that day futures will be offer
ed on cattle for delivery in
April, June, August, and Octo
ber 1965.
Some authorities seem to
feel that this innovation will
result in an improvement in
the functioning of the cattle
industiy Others have express
ed the opinion that they ex
pect no help from this market
ing appioach.
Another authority takes a
wait-and-see attitude, saying
that whether it will help feed
ers will depend on how many
buyeis and sellers paiticipate
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$2 Per Year
which will be used to measure
the changes in agriculture in
the past five years, give some
indication of the trends, and
aid materially in evaluating
the effects of past government
farm piograms as well as help
plan needed new ones
Some of the old familiar
questions are missing this
yeai, and some new ones have
appeared. For example, you
may have noticed that no ques
tions on horses or mules are
included for the first time in
the 120-year history of the
Agricultural Census The 1959
census showed that horses and
mules on U.S farms numbered
fewer than 3 million, compare
ed with a peak of over 25 mil
lion in 1920 Although horses
especially seem to be staging
a comeback in Pennsylvania—
from 50,000 a few years ago
to about 100,000 today—they
are no longer judged greatly
important to the U.S. farm
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Pa. S & W Consv.
Directors Hold
Annual Meeting
The Pennsylvania soil and
water conservation district di
rectors held their annual
meeting last week at Mount
Pocono, Pennsylvania.
Lieutenant Governor Ray
mond Shafer, speaking to 300
conservationists from 62 dis
tricts, praised the work the
group was doing and said that
state government recognizes
the outstanding leadership dis
tricts are giving to the con
servation of the natural re
souices of the Commonwealth.
For over a quarter of a cen
tmy, Shafer said, districts have
played a leading role in mov
ing Pennsylvania’s conserva
tion woik ahead “You can ex
pect even greater assistance
fiom the Commonwealth in
yom dedicated work,” Shafer
said
The three-day meeting high
lighted the importance of
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period Saturday through
Wednesday aie expected to
average near, or slightly
above normal. Normal for
this time of year is a high of
46 degrees and a low of 29.
If will be cold during the
first half of the period, mod
erating toward the end.
Piecipitation is expected
to total less than x 4 inch.
This will occur as scattered
showers over the northern
mountains Saturday and Sun
day, with more general rain
toward the end of the period.