VOL. 10 NO. 8 "Weatherman" Shines On DHIA Annual Banquet The featured speaker at the Red Rose Dairy Herd Im provement Association annual banquet, U S meteorologist from the Harrisburg Station Mart G Baldwin, gave an en tertaining talk in his South Carolinian drawl to about 420 dairymen and wives at the Host Motel on Thursday. Baldwin described some of the tools of his trade that en abled his Bureau to predict the weather as accurately as they do. He also explained some of the variables they have to contend with that cause their predictions to sometimes be less accurate than might be desired Five new directors were) named to three-year terms. These were - Assn #6 Dan iel S. Stoltzfus, Mount Joy Rl; Assn #9 Leroy K. Stoltz fus, Narvon R 2; Assn #l2 Clyde W. Martin, Bast Earl (Continued on Page 12) Farmers-Assn. Endorsee Fight To Amend Reapportionment Ruling “Reapportionment will be the major issue tackled by the 1965 Pennsylvania General Assembly,” stated J. Roy Greider, chairman of the Lan caster Gounty Farmers’ Asso ciation’s legislative committee on state affairs Meeting at Lancaster, January 18, 1965, the legislative committee of the Lancaster, Chester and Lebanon County Farmers’ As sociations studied the effect on Pennsylvania of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “One man one 'vote” formula and initiat ed action for a U.S. Con stitutional amendment. At least 12 counties will lose their representative, Greider pointed out, if Penn sylvania’s House is appor tioned according to the U S Supreme Court’s decision that a county could be denied rep resentation if it did not have enough people to justify a rep resentative according to the appoi tionment formula. “The following counties,” said Greid er, “based upon a PFA analy sis, would be foiced to share Calendar Farm Jan_ 25 through the 27th Pa Veg Growers’ and Can neis’ Fieldmen Educational Co'if at Penn State Univer sity. 7 30, 4-H Tractor Club at Farmersville Equip. Co. Jan. 26 729 pm. Garden Spot Young Farmers Class, - “Law for Pa Farmers”’ Speaker, James Weaver, At torney, at Garden Spot HS. 730 p.m. 4-H Central Tractor Club at N. G. Her- shey & Son, Manheim. Jan. 27 7:30 pm. Manheim (Continued on Page 16) FURRY H. FREY, 1343 Gypsy Hill Road, shows FOUNTAIN HILL NINA (23,560 m l,llBf 4.7%). Frey’s Spring Belle Farm herd produced an all time high average of 711 lb. of butterfat during the county DHIA 1964 testing year. It was second of only three herds in Pennsylvania over the 700 lb. mark. a representation with another county Cameron, Forest, Ful ton, Juniata, Montour, Perry, Pike, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Union, and Wyoming An additional six counties would probably lose their (Continued on Page 11) ARCHITECTS SKETCH OF PROPOSED LANCASTER COUNTY FARM & HOME CENTER *; * , s s A if; v *< V V V >v ♦ * * ,w V >* v ' Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 23, 1965 Consv, District Directors Meet At their regular meeting this week the Lancaster Coun ty Soil and Water Conserva tion District Directors met with the program Committee for the Annual Meeting to dis cuss plans for that event. (Continued on Page 10) Furry Frey, Top DHIA Herd, Attributes Success To For the first time m the Fmry feeds grain twice a history of the Red Rose Daily day at the rate of one pound Herd Improvement Association, of grain to three pounds of a Lancaster County dairy herd milk produced He never feeds has exceeded 700 pounds of any one cow moie than "2 lb. butterfat Furry H Frey, the of gram a day. owner of the lecord-breaking The teed ration, based on a herd feels the secret of high mixtuie of home grown grain and a 16 percent supplement, is weighed for each cow every day Fiey also uses crimped oats and his own formulated “Tasty mix,” for variety. Hay is fed up to seven times a day to make sure these Hol steins have “all they can eat”. Tobaccomen Get Quota Info From USDA Officials About 35-40 tobacco grow ers and mdustrymen heard several USDA officials discuss the tobacco allotment-quota situation on Thursday at the Lancaster County Farm Bureau Co-op Assn auditorium. Claude Turner, USDA to bacco branch, told the group that the history of the quota program has shown it to be effective in maintaining sup plies at levels at which grow ers could make a profit. The tobacco quota program is one of agriculture’s best, Turner said, and operates at little cost to the taxpayer. L. F, Photo He presented charts which showed that since 1958 there had been a general increase by Everett Newswanger Staff Reporter (Continued on Page 12) > N '■> * J’S v County Feed Program production is locked in the feed. (Continued on Page 7) Eggs Need To Be “Sold”, Official Tells Poultrymen About 40 members of the Lancaster 'County (Poultry As sociation heard Edward Law less, Chief of Inspection, Egg & Poultry Division, Pa. Dept, of Agriculture, extoll the vir tues of their product and con demn the lethargy of indi viduals in their industry Thursday night at the Poultry 'Center. - Everyone talks about the (Continued on Page 9) '-T'' ; - £ V v ' > V v > * "; v $2 Per Yew
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