VOL. 10 NO. 29
Two Countians Named To
State FFA Offices At
Convention At Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.
It was announced Friday
morning that Dale Hershey
of the Manheim Central FPA
Chapter, and Donald Herr of
the Lampeter-Strasburg Chap
ter had been elected to of
ficer positions for the year
1906-66.
Hershey, the 18-year-old son
of Bruce Hershey -of Man
beim R 3, and a 1965 gradu
ate of Manheim Central High
School, was elected treasurer.
Herr was named sentinel.
He is a 17-year-old member
of the
FIFA Chapter, and is the son
Area Dairymen
To Meet Thurs.
At Mount Joy
The Northeast Dairy Co
operative Federation-will hold
a special informational meet
ing for all area dairy farm
ers at 8 pm. Thursday, June
24, in Ho&tetter’s Banquet
Hall, Mount Joy.
Recent important develop
ments in the dairy industry
will he discussed and a re
port given on Northeast Fed
eration’s neV milk marketing
program.
Albner H Risser, president
of the Mount Joy Farmers
Cooperative and a director of
Northeast Federation, will
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Area Feed Firms
Plan Purchase Of
Processing Plant
©. E. Horn & 'Company,
York, and Miller & Bushong,
Bohrerstown, announce the
purchase of the Grimes Poul
try Processing Corp, Fred
ericksburg, Pa. The purchase
has been brought about by
the acquisition of all outstand
ing shares of stock of the
Grimes Company. Prelimin
ary agreements have been
executed and final settlement
is scheduled within 90 days.
The history of Grimes
Poilltry Company dates back
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Farm Calendar
June 21 12 30 p m Lan
caster County delegates to
Pennsylvania 4-H Club Con
gress leave by bus from
Willow Street.
6SO pm. Members and
former members of Lancas
ter County Poultry Associa
tion to clean up equipment
m preparation for auction
sale at Poultry Center.
June 24 10 a.m. State-wide
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of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G.
Herr of 2125 S. View Drive,
Lancaster.
The new state president is
Dennis Grembline of Myers
town.
The boys are selected each
year from among the officer
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N.J. First State
To Adopt "Model
Egg Law”
NeW Jersey is the first state
to adopt the “model egg law”
recently drafted by a nation
al committee of agricultural
officials and recommended by
them as a pattern for egg
marketing legislation in all
the 50 states
The NeW Jersey bill, signed
into law yesterday by Gov
ernor Richard J. Hughes,
gives the .State Board of Ag
riculture authority to estab
lish grades, standards and
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PREPARING TO TAKE A SOIL PROFILE SAMPLE are Richard Hacken
berger, left, Penn Manor Vo-Ag teacher, and Roger Pennock, agronomist from
Penn State University. Pennock instructed the county teachers of agriculture this
week in a one-day soil profile workshop. Above, he is shown cutting around the
4-foot long box with a knife while Hackenberger holds it in position. The next
step in the process is to carefully- cut away the soil around and in back of the
box, tying each section to the box with cloth as they go. When finished, the box
will contain a perfect profile of the soil to a depth of four feet. Other steps, and
final analysis, are then made in the laboratory. The site where the above sample
was taken was a new house foundation near Ronks. L. F. Photo
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 19, 1965
Ken Rutt and Gloria
Hershey To Head The
4-H County Council
Delegates to the annual 4-H
County Council convention,
held this week m Lancaster at
the Farm Credit Office, named
Kenneth Rutt to succeed Lar
ry Weaver as president of
the council’s agricultural unit.
Rutt is the eightcen-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos
Rutt of Quarryville R 2, afld
was a delegate from the Kirk
wood 4-H Community Club.
JMiss Gloria Hershey was
elected president of the home
economics unit, succeeding
Miss Virginia Wivell. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Parke Hershey of New Hol
land. Miss Hershey was a
delegate from the Garden
Spot 4-H Sewing Club, and is
employed toy the Mohr Fab
rics Co
Other agricultural council
officers elected were-
Sue Mumma, vice presi
dent; Patricia Yunginger, sec
retary; Larry Weaver, treas
urer, James Kettering, pub
licity; Eric Stoner, parliamen
tarian; Larry Antes, Dallas
Wolgemuth and Richard War
fel, members-at-large.
Home economics officers
elected
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County Vo-ag Boys Take
31 Medals At FFA Week,
More Than Half Are Gold
UNIVEtRISIIiTY PARK, Pa.
Paced by the Penn Manor
FIFA Chapter, which dominat
ed -the poultry judging event,
Lancaster County iFFA boys
captured a total of 3d awards
at- the two-day, Pennsylvania
'Future Farmers of America
annual state convention here.
Better than half of the to
tal 'wins were of the gold
variety, and of these three
"Average” Farm
In 1980 Will
Gross $45,000
- By 1980, there will be 1
million farms with average
annual gross incomes of $45,-
000, according to R B
Tootell, governor of the Farm
Credit Administration. Three
fourths of these will be fam
ily farms, he predicts.
This estimate compares
with only 1 million farms in
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were for first place. (First
place in poultry judging went
to Earl Myer, 17-year-oW son.
of Mr. and Mrs. 'Landis Myer
of Lancaster R 2. Earl is a
member of the junior class
a 1 Penn Manor High School.
Another first place, in land
judging, went to Larry Groff,
a 15-year-old freshman rep
resenting the Grassland EFA
Chapter. Larry is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Groff
of Blue Ball. The third top
win was in dairy judging by
Ken Hess, a 17-year-old sen
ior from Lampeter-Strasburg
High School. Ken is the son
of Mr. and Mrs Elvin Hess,
Jr, RI.
In the gold medal distri
bution, Penn Manor led with
six four of these being in
their traditionally strong suit,
poultry judging They were
followed by Grassland and
Cloister Chapters, each with
four gold medals. The other
gold medal-winning chapters
were Garden Spot with two,
and Solanco with one.
Some of the boys “who woe
gold medals also will win ex
pense-paid trips to various
events in their fields. Ken,
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Poultry Assn. To
Hold Auction Of
All Equipment
The Lancaster County Poul
try Association plans to hoM
one more auction sale not
chickens this time, but all ot
the office and barbecue equip
ment owned by the associa
tion.
The Poultry Center has
been sold, and the new own
er is scheduled to take pos
session by July Ist, so every
thing has to go.
Preceding the sale, which
will be held on Thursday,
June 24 at 630 p.m, there
will be a clean-up detail
needed to ready the equip
ment especially the barbe
cue grills for sale. This
will be held on Monday eve
ning, June 21 at 6.30 pm,
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average below normal. Nor
mal high and low for the
period would be 84 and «I
degrees. It will be on the
cool side at the beginning
of the period with a slight
warming trend toward the
end.
Precipitation will probably
average no more than V*
inch, and that will be toward
the end of the period.
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