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-
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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,
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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-
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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
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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-
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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-
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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-
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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
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$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.
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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
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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.