VOL. 10 NO. 6
AN EXTREME ILLUSTRATION OF POOR AND GOOD TOBACCO taken at
the P.IS.U. Southeastern Field Research Laboratory. The hand on the left is made
up of small, discolored, frosted and poorly cured leaves while the hand on the
right consists of leaves of uniform length, quality and color (a rich, reddish-chest
nut), that has been properly cured and stored. The leaves on the right were from
the 1963 crop at the research station. L F Photo.
Farm & Home Campaign Builds
Steam As Launch Date Nears
With the Farm and Home statement, the General Co-
Foundation Campaign shaping Chairmen of the campaign
up rapidly, the past few Weeks, have announced that the en
particularly in the county hstment of volunteer canvas
areas where the drive for sers. countywide, is building
§375,000 will 'be conducted up favorably According to
first, Campaign officials have Levi H. Brubaker and Law
come up with an over-all sum- rence H Skromme, every dis
mary of how the proposed tnct in the county, with the
Farm and Home Center will exception of one small unit,
help farmers The statement, has been in process of organ
issued by the Campaign Steer- izing Several hundred names
ing Committee, of which Noah of canvasseis have already
W. Kreider, of Manheim R 2 been received at Campaign
is chairman, presents a pretty Headquarters, located in the
clear picture of how the Cen- Lancaster Poultry Association
ter can help farm families, building, just north of the
In addition to the special city
_ _ scheduled to launch the eam-
Eas*m I AiaiftnSkP paign with two “Kick-Off” Ral
railfil vaicmiai hes The first( for volunteer
January 11 Pennsylvania canvassers in the Northern
Farm Show, 11-15 end °f the county, is scheduled
Bpm Fulton Grange No. for Monday, January 25, at
66 meets. 730 p m in the Lititz Com-
January 12 6:30 p.m. Hy- mumty Center. The other
brid Seed Corn Banquet at <Continued on Page ID
Cafeteria of Nationwide In-
surance Co, Harrisburg b , „ ... -
- 8 pm. Manor Young p e" n State Holding 4
Farmers at Penn Manor Weekly Dairy Feeding
High Scho° l; subject: “Quai- clinics In Chester Co.
ity Milk.”
January 13 FFA Mid-Winter A series of dairy feeding
Convention in Forum of Edu- dimes, related meetings, spon
cation Bldg, Harrisburg. sored by Penn State Umver
— 6'30 pm. Pennsylvania sity, will be held at two loca-
Poultry Federation Banquet tions in Chester County
in Grand Ballroom of Penn- H oney Brook Fire Hall and
Harris Hotel, Harrisburg. Russellville Grange Hall.
gt , m . eeti «f «
rata High School. fu ™ ish raUaer c ®fP lete .
January 16 - Farm Women sanction and will go into
No. 3, Mt. Airy Fire Hall. greater-than-usual detail to ac
- 8 p.m. Lancaster County Quaint farmers with recent
- Pomona Grange at L. C. research data which has an
’ Farm Bureau Bldg,, leafless- application -to' their present
' ter,' - (Contmaed on'F*£e T 4)
The Farm Gifts Division is
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 9, 1965
F.B. Stockholders Will
Cost Votes On Merger
With Agway on Jan. 22 #
On January 22, stockhold- * l*llTlbl6
ers of the Lancaster County Tim A Uf /‘Vkiinfir
Farm Bureau Cooperative As- * *X“jn VAJUIItJr
sociation will vote on the p AV>M PU aTY tninn
question of merging the Penn- v -' uril
sylvania Farm Bureau with For nme straight years ,
Agway. since 1955, Paul D. Trimble
The special stockholders 0 f Quarryville Ril has won
meeting is scheduled for the champion or reserve champion
Pa. Guernsey Breeders Ass’n honors in the Lancaster Coun
sales pavilion was announced ty 4-H corn roundup,
by Willis Z. Esbenshade, pres- He made this year number
ident of the Lancaster Coun- io hy winning his sixth coun
ty co-op. during the annual ty grand championship with a
meeting this week at the Man- S i ng i e cross hybrid—Pioneer
heim Township High School. 3131—which yielded 149 bush-
About 4,300 common stock
holders will be eligible -to
vote on the proposed merger.
Iln an election of directors,
“stockholders elected Graybill
G'ibble, Manheim 83, and re
elected Samuel B. Heisey,
Sheridan Rl; Paul M Herr,
Quarryville Rl, and Melvin R.
Stoltzfus, Ronks Rl, to three
year board terms.
Speaker for the meeting Reserve champion in this
was Dr. Milford Heddleson, year’s county show was Ken-
Pennsylvama State University ® etll 17-year-°ld son of
„ , „ . , Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hess, Jr,
Extension Service agronomist. Qf Strasburg Rl .
His topic was land use plan- Hess exhibited a sample of
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* The annual FARM SHOW section will be ♦
? found on pages 5 through 12 of this issue of *
£ Lancaster Farming. The section includes feature J
* stories about the show, a story on Lancaster *
■* County’s FFA Keystone Farmer Degree winners, ?
* and the complete Farm Show schedule. We suggest $
i you lift the section out and take it to the Farm {
5 Show with you. Other regular features of Lan- *
* caster Farming will be found in their regular M
spots in the paper. J
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Improve Tobacco Returns
Through Better Handling
The grower of tobacco can
not control the weather or the
market, nor can he personal
ly develop a better-producing
plant However, some authori
ties seem to feel that he can
improve the methods in which
he handles his tobacco befoie
it is sold
Henry B Engle, Research
Agronomist at the Pennsyl
vania State University South
eastern Field Research Lab
oratory, said that two varie
ties developed by the Station
since 1954 —Pennbel-69 and
Pennleaf-1 have jumped
yields per acre over the old
standard varieties by 100-200
pounds or more These two
locally developed varieties al
so have a bred-in disease re
sistance, Engle said. Pennbel
-69 Is for all practical pur
poses immune to tobacco
mosaic, and highly resistant
to wildfire disease Pennleaf-1
is resistant to wildfire
One place in which growers
err in handling these two
varieties is topping too high
Instead of leaving .16 leaves,
as recommended, many will
leave 20, Engle said. The
plant will not do the same
producing job on 20 leaves
els per acre.
Trimble, a 1962 graduate of
Solanco High School, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Trimble of Chestnut Level.
His county championship as
sures his contention in the
state competition at the Farm
Show next week, where he
has won southeastern district
honors six times in the past.
$2 Per Year
that it will do on 16. Also,
since these varieties are slow
er maturing, they must be
planted early enough to fit
the growing season
Another place that Engle
felt the grower could improve
his handling was by sizing
and -onping his leaves after
tr ti oi e cured Most growers
no longer bother with this
job, feeling that it is too time
consuming And it is, Engle
said, unless the farmer can
expect a greater return for
the extra work. Some buyers
prefer tobacco that has been
grouped by size with off
color and damaged leaves re
moved, Engle said, but others
will not pay for this extra.
It all depends on what the
buyer wants. But, Engle point
ed out, it appeared that the
tendency toward free and easy
stripping has gone right along
with a general decline in
price So what the farmer has
saved on labor has been lost
in price. He felt that the
grower could benefit by estab
lishing a reputation for a
quality product, and thereby
draw more competitive buy
ing interest. However, he
added that he expected little
renewed emphasis on quality
until some sort of grading
standards were accepted by
the industry; he didn’t feel
that would come about until
farmers accepted acreage con
trols and price supports, and
he could not anticipate any
immediate change in the at
titudes of Lancaster County
farmers concerning price sup
ports on tobacco.
One tobacco buying firm in
the area that works on mar
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Veg Growers Assn. Plan
Form Show Activities
At the Pennsylvania Farm
Show next Wednesday the
Pennsylvania Vegetable Grow
ers Association plans a series
of talks on the general topics
of Marketing, and Bedding
Plants.
These meetings will take
place in the Main Show Build
ing Room F. Meetings will
begin at 10 am, the group
will break for lunch and then
reconvene at 1 pm.
Weather Forecast'
Temperatures for the five
day period Saturday through
Wednesday are expected to
average' above normal. Nor
mal for the period would
be a high of 39 and low of
24 degrees. It will be mild
Saturday, cooler Sunday and
Monday, mild Tuesday, then
cooler again Wednesday.
Precipitation for the period
is expected to amount to
14 • % inch. This will occur
as showers on Saturday, and
again on Tuesday or Wednes
day.