YOL. 10. NO. 18 Virginia Wivell Named Delegate To Nat. 4-HConf. by Everett Newswanger Staff Reporter One of Lancaster County’s outstanding 4-H club mem bers is scheduled to be a rep resentative at the 3'sth Na tional 4-H Confeience in Washington DC, April 25 to 30 Virginia Wivell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Clyde Wrvell, Coluirlbia El, is one of only five delegates fiom Pennsyl vania selected to attend on the Ibasis of achievement, leadership and community service. The conference theme is “Our Heritage Foundation •for the Future ” Those at tending will increase then Virginia Wivell understanding of democracy and the duties of citizenship. (Continued on Page 7) County Plowing Contests Start After July Ist County plowing contests that will serve as prelimin aries to the 1986 state plow ing championships will the conducted throughout the Commonwealth, according to Jack R. Grey, deputy state secretary of agriculture. He said county plowing organiza tions ’wall list their events with the state comimittee two weeks in advance, none later than July 1. Winners in level land and contour plowing at county meets will qualify for the State Plowing Contest August 23 at Hershey where Pennsyl tContmued on Page 9) Farm Calendar Apr 5 sth and 6th, 4-H Capitol Days, -Harrisburg. Apr 6 730 pun; New Hol land Young farmers Assn.; siiibj: nViteff to sell live stock” at Nvftl.lftS. 7:30 jPaHI SFahheim 1 Young FametS’ Assh;; •‘When to sell livestock;” at (Continued on Page 3)0)' SPEAKER AT THE ANNUAL LEADERS’ BAN QUET, Rev. Kent Smith, Chaplain, Lancaster General Hospital, is shown with 4-H County Council President, Larry Weaver. L. F. Photo 30-Odd Milk Bills Now “Bottled Up” In Pa. State Legislature, Hatfield Tells L. C. Farmers Assn. “Milk is one’of the hottest legislative issues in the State Capitol right now with some 30 bills pending in commit tees,” administrative secre tary of the Pennsylvania Farmers Assn CPF A.), Hollis A. Hatfield told approximately 100 county farmers Thursday night at the Leola Memorial Hall. These 'bills can be divided into two categories, the PFA lobbyist said: repeal of the milk control law, the amend ment of the law. PFA sup JIM ANDERSON, USDA MARKET REPORT ER, EXPLAINS A FEW OF THE FINER POINTS OF THE “BIG BOARD” at the Lancaster Union Stockyards to a group of Young Farmer Assn, members. The group shown above attended a county-wide YFA meeting at the Auction Bldg, as part of their study series on livestock marketing and buying. They received instructions’ on grad ing stocked and slaughter cattle on the' hoof, and' had' the' opportunity Of evaluating. live* cattle' under the supervision of- livestock- experts Boh Johnson, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 3, 1965 ports the Pennsylvania Milk Contiol Commission (PM!CiC), and supports the present in vestigation because it feels there aie needed changes that are long overdue But, Hat field emphasized, these chang es can be brought about ad ministratively under the pres ent law, and his organization therefore opposes unnecessary legislative changes. He said, however, that feeling is run ning high in favor of a law change because of the recent- (Continued on Page 6) “Don’t Smother Your Children; Let Them Mature”, Speaker Tells 4-H Leaders and Parents at Banquet “We seem compelled m our society to keep our chikhen fiom giowing up emotion ally We spend a gieat deal of time discouraging then ac tions from the moment they aie old enough to suck their thumbs by their own voli tion ” the Rev Kent Smith, Chaplain at Lancaster Gen eial Hospital, toW about 200 pei sons at the 4'h Leadeis’ Banquet at Hostettei’s Ban quet Hall this week “We teach them compio mise, and we discourage then being different fiom other children We teach by atti tudes, we tend to disparage A “Young” Farmer Is Any Farmer Willing To Learn, So Says YFA State Motto A local study has shown . that there are approximately 250 farmers either enrolled in the formal Young Farmer Classes in the county or par ticipating in the on-farm phase of the program These “young” farmers appear to range in age from 18 to 58 with an average somewhere near 35. Their average in vestment in farms, buildings, livestock and equipment is estimated between $30,000 and $50,000 per farm. Just assum ing the bottom of that range to equalize tenant and owner equity, and it seems these 250 farmers have a total in vestment of at least $75 mil . hon! Richard Hoober, and Jim Anderson. They were told, for example, that feeder cattle are USDA graded for their potential, not for their present appearance. This system is not uniformly used, how' ever; in Virginia they are graded only on their present value. They were told that a truly “Prime” animal is a rare thing. To get a Prime steer it is necessary to creep feed as a calf. It was further pointed 1 out that “a twisted tail indicates an animal has been receiving; grain' for some time.” $2 Per Yeai others, and we tiansmit this attitude to om young,” the speaker said “iSince each generation must learn ceitam truths a new we must permit our child! en to make some mis takes on then own Each child has his own potential foi gioving up, and we must let him giow at his own pace In dealing wuth teen ageis, and with otheis,” Rev. Smith said, ‘ the important thing is to listen, not just talk ” iScholarship awards were piesented by the Lancaster (Continued on Page 9) The Young Farmer Program was a natural development of the GI. -training program that followed World War 11, and many of the members ai e former GJl’s who didn’t go into fanning until after the war So the Young Farmer As sociation (YFA) is a relative ly young program, and 1 ap pears to (be still growing. There are presently six high schools in the county now of fering this service, and oth ers are considering it. YFA groups are now enrolled at Bphrata, Lairipeter-Straslburg, Garden .Spot, Penn Manor, Manheim Central, and Solan- (Continued on Page 8) L. F. PhtPfcff.
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