VOL. 10 NO. 2 . A THE SIXTY-PLUS COUNTIANS ATTENDING THE AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION’S 46th Annual Convention on “Pennsylvania Day” at'Philadelphia’s Convention and Trade Center were (left to. right): Harold Rohr er, RoadvXancaster. a state director of the- Pennsylvania Farmers As sociation; <3&as-,Grof£ RD 6 Lancaster; Roy Erb. 118 Kreider Ave., Lancaster; John Charles, RD 1 MiUersviUe; David Hess, and Marvin McMichael,' both jof RD 6 Lancaster. ' L. F. Photo A Contrast In Agriculture: Korea And America By Damn Boyd {Note: Damn Boyd, ED 1, Eplsrata, has recently returned from, a five-month tour of duty in Korea where he served as a member of the Internation al Farm Youth Exchange <IFYE) progiam. We asked him to contrast agriculture as he found it in Korea with that of Lancaster County. His letter follows.) ■lt certainly is a pleasure to observe the beautiful land scape of Lancaster County again. On my recent travels in six- countries I -haven’t seen any farmland that compares with. the beautiful landscape and topography of our unique homeland. Agriculture in Korea is quite, a contrast with that in America for several reasons About 75 per cent of-the land area there is mountain 'or for est land; 60 per cent of the cultivated land is “paddy” area, and'the test is ordinary — : : — : —:—' ■t m | - - I arm Calendar w Deeember 14 7.45 p m. Man heim Young Farmers, at Man heim Central High School, Subject, “Determining Farm value” December 17 6 30 p m L. C. Faim Equipment Dealers’ Ass’n Annual Christmas meeting; Hostetter’s Banquet Hal *’ J £ y V, + v 7.30 pm. Ephrata Young sSool: BibS, Production”. Barvin Boyd fields. Itie population density; per square mile in the' Republic of - Korea is 412 persons, as Compared to 32 in the United States! About 55 per cent of the Korean people are farra ers, all( j tlie avera g e house hold contains six and one-third persons. IThis means there is only an average of 411 pyong (about one-third acre) of out tivated land per farm person. This is why there are so many poor people in Korea using every inch of tillable land to exist The expansion of tillable f arm land is being encouraged M the Amerira - Korea " *»“>■ x Continued on Page 71 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12, 1964 Penno. Co-Op Asked To Consider Agway Merger It was announced this week by the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperative Associa tion that they had asked their 34 local associations to vote next month on a proposal to merge with Agway, Inc. Agway was formed last July through the merging of East ern States Farmers’ Exchange and Cooperative GLF Ex change. In a letter to Agway members it was announced that the Agway board of di rectors approved last week a proposal to include the Penn (Continued on Page 4) AFBF Will Study Plan To Acquire Nat. Food Chain In the closing session of the American Farm Bureau 'Fed eration’s annual convention on Thursday the Ohio F.B.’s pro posal that the Federation should consider acquiring a national food chain came up for discussion According to Robert Steele, (Research Director of the Penn sylvania Farmers Association— the State branch of the Fed eration—the Ohio proposal was as follows: “We recommend the AFBF Board of Dn-ectors make a comprehensive study of the feasibility of purchasing con trol in one or more food chains. If the Board of Di rectors determine that such an acquisition is feasible from an economic, fiscal, and legal (Continued on Page 4) “A Republic —If You Can Keep It” Was Theme Of AFBF 46th Annual Conv. The words of old Ben Frank lin tang again last Tuesday in that birthplace of freedom, Philadelphia The occasion was “■Pennsylvania Day” at the American Farm Bureau Fed eration’s 46th Annual Meet ing The speaker was Gover nor of Pennsylvania, William W Scranton, as he welcomed the AFBF to Pennsylvania The woids were a quotation icputedly spoken by Benjam in Franklin in response to a woman’s question at the con clusion of the Constitutional Convention “Well, Dr Fiank hn, what have we got, a re public or a monarchy’” “A lepubhc,” Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.” This phrase was the key note of'the convention. 3t was further exemplified in a pa geant that combined slides, ASCS Releases Early Tobacco Quotas For ’65 Preliminary acreage allot ments for Pennsylvania Seed leaf Tobacco were announced this week by the Lancaster County Agricultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation Service. ASCS allotment estimates to taled 27,251 acres for the county for 1965. The final allotment figure will be determined by the U. S Department of Agriculture sometime in January. Wheth er or not USD A will cut the preliminary figure will depend to a large extent on the De partment’s analysis of carry over stocks. Three years ago when mar keting quotas were issued for Type 41 cigar-filler the USDA cut the county preliminary al lotment by 15 per cent, al lowing only 21,982 acres to be planted in the county. Lancaster County grows about 90 per cent of the na tion’s cigar leaf tobacco, and can reasonably expect to re ceive about 90 per cent of the national quota that will be set by USDA. The Lancaster County AS CS office manager, Miss Doro thy Neel, said that the pre hminaiy allotment figures for county were determined from the actual acreage grown in the last three or five-year period; which ever was the higher figure for each farm was the figure used in estimat ing the 1965 allotment. After final allotments are established for individual farms, these will be mailed to the growers There will be informational meetings held in the county prior to the ref- (Continued on Page 6) $2 Per Year music and live performers to depict the struggle of the col onies for independence, the drafting of the Constitution, and the internal conflicts that threatened to tear the young Republic asundei. Senator Allen J Ellender, Chairman of the Senate Com mittee on Agriculture and For 'try, was the featured speak ei in the morning session. He used the cotton legislation as an example of the feostly ef fects of ‘ any legislation, ili conceived, scarcely studied, but ramrodded through Con gress ” He hit the apparent trend towaid direct payments in government-controlled agri culture as unsound “I be lieve,” Ellender said, “that farm income, just as the in come of the jobholder, ought to come from the market place.” ‘The real highlight of the day was 'the firey arinual report delivered by Roger Fleming,' secretary-treasurer of AFBF. He told the group of delegates from the 49 AFBF states (in cluding over 900 Pennsylvania members, of which over 60 were from Lancaster County) that AFBF membership for 1964 stood at an all-time high of 1,647,455 farm families, and that represents over six times as many members as the next (Continued on Page 6) Hess Represents Co. At Int. Dairy Show At Chicago Ken Hess, son of Mr and Mrs Elvm Hess, Jr., of Stras burg, was the only county rep resentative competing at the International 'Dairy Show in Chicago last week He won the trip by placing 4th high in the state individual dairy judging at Penn State Uni versity last August, The county team that won at Penn State was Blair. That team went to the show in Waterloo, lowa, where they represented Pennsylvania. The top four individual judges in state competition (Continued on Page 6) Weather Forecast Temperatures for the five day period, Saturday through Wednesday, are expected to average well above normal. Normal for this period would be a high of 40 degrees and a low of 25. It will be mild throughout the period, with the warmest temperatures at about the middle. Precipitation is expected to total 3 i inch, or more. This will occur as rain at the be ginning and again during the middle of the period.
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