VOL. 10 NO. 40 John Eby, Jr. Agr. Teachers Meet To Plan Fair Activities At their regular monthly meeting at Manheim Central High School, Lancaster Coun ty’s teachers of vocational ag uculfiu e this 'week discussed the va: ions community fair FFA activities in which their studer/s 'would he involved. As -chairman of the junior dairy show at the Ephrata Fair, Lewis Ayers stated the 4-H and FFA junior dairy show would be held on Sep temiber 24, at 7 pm. *with as sistant Dauphin County agn eultuiat agent John Harris serving as judge. The 4H and FFA Ibafay beef show will he held on September 23, also at 7 pm. iThe tractor driv ing contest will he held on the aiternoon of September 25 in the high school park ing lot. Jess Erway, Manheim teach er, told the group that the Manheim Fair will feature window displays as part of its school participation program, and that $250 had been ap propnated for agriculture and homo economics participation. it 'was announced that Sep- (Continued on Page 13) Nearly Two-Thirds Of Pennsylvania Cows Are Bred Artificially Otfoie than 40 percent of all UJ3 acjry cows were bred artificially last year, the cur rent report of the Dairy Herd Improvement Section of the U.S. Department' of Agricul ture shows. Pennsylvania headed rank ings ol .ndrvrdual states with 64.1 percent of the State’s dairy cows artificially bred. Wisecns.n the nation’s lead ing df-ry State was fourth with 5 percent Wisconsin, (Continued orf Page 11) Farm Calendar At press time the only ac tivities appearing on next (weeks horizon aie Labor Day and Eack-to-School Day In light oi the activities sched uled dor the 'following week, penhatps that is just as well 1 Two Countians Nominated For FFA American Farmer Degree The degree of American Farmer repiesents the highest giade of membership achieve ment in the Futuie Farmeis of Amenca organization It is designed to iccognize outstand ing leadership ability in faim youth, and to encourage and develop that leadership poten tial beyond the confines of county and state lines into one of truly national scope ASC Committeemen Elected For Sixteen County Communities Eighty committeemen were elected this week ot represent their lespective communities and serve in the local admin istration of programs under the county Agricultural Stabili zation and Conseivation office The chairman, vice-chairman, and regular member of each committee will be delegates to the ASC county election con vention on September 13, at 8 pm, at which time the county board will be selected. By areas, the following coun ty faxmeis were selected to icpresent their communities (for each area they are listed in the following order chair man, vice-chairman, regular member, Ist alternate, and 2nd. alternate.) Community No. 1 Conoy, West Donegal & Mt. Joy Town- (Continued on Page 11) Milk Hearing Rescheduled For October 4th According to tire USDA, this week, the public hearing on amending the Delaware Valley federal milk marketing order will be rescheduled for October 4, at 10 a.m., in the Sylvania Hotel, Philadelphia. This order sets minimum prices to be paid dairy fann ers supplying milk to the Philadelphia. Pa., and Wil mington, Del., metropolitan areas, and to most of southern New Jersey. USDA’s Consumer and Mar keting Service had announced earlier that any decision to terminate the order would be deferred because of the gen eral agreement at a public (Continued on page t>) Esbenshade Named For ReelecHon Agway Post Willis Z Esbenshade, Lan caster, Pa , has been nominat ed foi reelection to the board of direetois of Agway, Inc. He will stand for election at the first Agway stockhold ers annual meeting October 21-22 in Syracuse, N. Y. Esbenshade was elected a di- (Continued on Page 6) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 4, 1965 Since states may contribute only one-tenth of one percent of their FFA membership en rollment to the national level, the boys so honored lepiesent the veiy best that any state can offei Of such caliber are this year’s nominees, John Eby, Ji . Goidonville HI, and Melvin Bieneman, Stiasburg HI. They will leceive the degiee at the Controversial Farm Leader At NEPPCO Show A faun industry leader who has stined up a hornet’s nest of controversy from here to the nation’s eapitol in recent weeks will highlight a senes of information-packed talks slated for the annual gather ing of poul'tiy producers from T 4 states in Harrisburg in October Frank J Lipman, president of the integrated broiler oper ations known as Lipman Broth ers, in Augusta, Maine, will take pait in the annual ex- (Continued on Page 5) Mark Campbell, New A§. T eacher At Manheim H.S. It was learned this week that Mark 'Campbell has been named to succeed Herbert Hoffntz as teacher of voca tional agriculture at the Man henn 'Central High School Campbell is a native of Herndon, Pa , an Northumber land County He Was raised on a daily and poultiy faim theie He is 23 years old. single, and graduated this 'past June tfiom Penn State University Wheie he majoied in agncul tuial education Campbell will assist Jess Ei'way in the vo-ag depart ment at the high school. FFA National Convention at Kansas City in October. JOHN EBY, JR. John is the 21-yeai-old son of Mr and Mrs John Eby, and is a 1982 giaduate of Pequea Valley High School Since giaduation, he has enteied into a CO4O partner ship with his father and they jointly operate the 52acie di- Continued on Page 9 Lancaster County VO-Ag Boys Take 12 Blue Ribbons And 3 Titles At FFA Show Twelve 'blue ribbons fell to eleven Lancaster County Fu ture Farmers at the FFA Southeastern District Dairy Show at Hershey this week, with Daryl L. Bollinger the only double-blue . winner Breed titles in Jersey and Brown 'Swiss breeds, a junior championship in the Holstein breed, and a second place win in the County Group class speak well Tor the local boys’ efforts All blue ribbon win ners 'will be eligible to par ticipate in the Junior Daiiy Show to be held at the Farm Show Bldg, on 'September 13 Daryl L. Bollinger, Cloister Chapter, repeated his last week’s 4-H district show per formance in capturing the junior championship in the Holstein breed with his sen ior yearling 'Star Segis Os borndale; Bollinger also re ceived a blue ribbon for fourth position in the intermediate calf class. A Solanco Chapter lad, Jay DHIA Directors Evaluate Effects Of Rate Raise In their quarterly meeting held at Agway, line , the direc tors of the Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Association were told by head tester Wil bur Houser that no herds had been lost because of the re cent rate hike of 5 cents per cow. That increase reflected a raise in pay to the testers that was voted at the last di lec'tors’ meeting, and which became effective July 1, 1965 This had been the first such laise the supervisors had been gianted in the past five years, and it laised the testing fee from 25 cents to 30 cents pel cow for hei ds under the DMA progi am The subject of insurance for association equipment was reported on by the committee (Continued on Page 4) $2 Per Year Melvin Breneman Marvin Herr, had the junior champion with his senior yearling and went on to take the grand championship for the Jersey (breed Dale Forwood of the Man heim Chaiptei had the junior and giand champion Brown Swiss in his Weeping Willow Magic Pansy, a senior calf. With Daryl Bollinger sup plying two of the animals, and Clifford Bollinger and Linford L Weaver one each. (Continued on Page 6) Watershed Projects On The Way In Northeast Eighty-seven towns having a population of 518,000 will ob tain municipal water supply from 88 multiple purpose res ervoirs completed or planned in 70 watershed projects, ac cording to the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. Twenty-five of the towns and cities are in the Northeast much of which is affected by drought and water shortages. Twenty-two of the reservoirs will provide water supply for 173,000 people in Maine, Mas sachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. The watershed projects are authorized by Public Law 565, the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954. They aie initiated and car ried out 'by local organiza tions, With technical and fi nancial help from USDA. They Combine conseivation (Continued on Page 6) Weother Forecast Temperatures for the five day period, Saturday through Wednesday, are expected to average near the normal high of 80 degrees and low of 59. It will be warm over the weekend, and cooler during the first half of next week. Precipitation will occur as rain on Tuesday and Wed nesday, and is expected to total Va to V-> inch.
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