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VOL. 11 NO. 3
re y Herd Gets
lolstein Assn.
Lward 6th Time
3. Mdwery Frey & Son,
Lancaster, have qualified for
the Holstem-Friesian Associ
ation of America’s highest
recognition for dairy farmers,
he Progiessive Breeders
MVard The rigid require
ments of this award for ex
cellence in dairy cattle breed
mg and management piac
;ices have limited the honor
;o only 625 registered Hol
itein breeding establishments,
nchidmg 69 in Pennsylvania.
This is the sixth time that
he Freys have been so rec
ognized.
To qualify for the Progres
sive Bleeders Award, a Hol
stein breeder must meet
standards for milk and but
tertfat production, body type
improvement, herd health and
the development of home
bred animals.
‘ 'Rhe Frey herd completed
its latest HIR testing year
With. a lactation average of
JL7,S9e lbs. of milk and 697
this, 'of' butter-fat, calculated
bn’ : a two-millcings-per-day,
30‘5Wfcy, mature equivalent
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Congress Must Resume Its Role Of
Leadership, Fleming Tells AFBF
OBSICAGO, ILLINOIS A
Irm stand for “Constitution-
al government” as opposed
jto "Presidential government”
w'as-urged- this week by Rog
er Reming, secretary-treas
urer of the nation’s largest
farm.-organization, the Ameri
can EUrm Bureau Federation.
jThe- Issue is “one of the most
important of our time,” he
said.
JTeming pointed to the his
torical American principle of
separation of power among
the -legislative, executive and
judicial branches. Separation,
he emphasized, also means
the independent use of pow-
[GRANGERS OPPOSE LAND
fI&RAR HOUSE BULLS
t Fulton Grange #66 held
its regular- meeting Dee. 13
jiritb-. 6yles Brown, Master, in
charge of the business meet
ing. The members went on
■record opposing H.B. 1633 in
the State Legislature, a land
condemnation, open-space hill.
Also opposing H.B. 1723, a
|me‘at inspection bill and a
portion of H.B. 192 which
would grant the Department
of Highways the right to ac
quire land adjacent to or
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Farm Calendar
crease exceeds the national
average increase of 20 per
lecember 21 7 29 p m., cent for freshmen mi colleges
Gulden Spot Young Farmer of agriculture, Dr, Swope
Farm Mechanization class .points out.
at 05.H.8.; subject, “Se- Graduate students in agri
3js«Uiig electrical equip- culture number 25(5, up 10
■anant”; speaker, James percent from the 231 stu-
Mefyder, 'POP&I* farm spe- dents enrolled last year. Near
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-tialiSt.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 18, 1965
ROBERT HEILBRON, left, shown receiving cita
tion from Forney Longenecker in behalf of the Penn
sylvania Young Farmers at the Association’s recent
state convention. The Lancaster Livestock Exchange,
of" which, JHeilbron, is, president, helped to sponsor
and contributed a lot of time in editing a 66-page
Beef Marketing Handbook. This book will be used in
Vo-Ag and Young Farmer Classes.
er by each of the branchs.
“To keep their political lib
erty, the American people
must keep and cherish their
Congress keep, cherish and
strengthen it,” Fleming told
the 47th 'annual meeting of
the Farm Bureau Federation
at the Conrad Hilton Hotel.
“It is crystal clear,” he
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Agr. Enrollment
Up At Penn State
Enrollment among four-year
students in the College of
Agriculture at The Pennsyl
vania State University increas
ed nearly 7 percent this Fall
over a year ago, the College
reported this week.
Current enrollment of 981
undergraduate students isonly~
116 short of the 1097 en
rolled in 1962 when 372 men
and women in the biological
sciences were part of the Col
lege of Agriculture, says Rob
ert E. SWope of the resident
education division of the Col
lege. In 1963, the biological
sciences were transferred, to
the new College of Science,
he explains.
Largest increase in under
graduates, 28 percent, came
among the freshmen This m
ASCS Requests Social
Security Numbers Of
Participating Farmers
Farmers who are receiving
payments m connection with
participation in tarm pro
grams are being ashed to let
the ASCS County Office know
what their Social Security
numbers are.
According to Fred Beldom
ridge, chairman, Agncultuial
Stabilization and Conserva
tion County Committee, a
form requesting this informa
tion “Request for Identi
fying Number Farmer”
together with a postage-pre
paid envelope, has been mail
ed to each known producer
who receives program pay
ments, to be 'filled in and re
turned to the AISCS County
Office as soon as convenient.
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Fanning By Computer Is Practical
And Profitable, Specialist Says
While the Penn State IBM
model computer can not
■drive a tractor or milk a cow,
it can sit in its air-condi
tioned, temperature-controlled
room and tell you what you
are doing wrong, and what
you should be doing if you’re
interested in making more
money on the 'farm.
At least, Dr. Reed Taylor,
farm management specialist
from Penn State University,
enthusiastically assured an
overflow crowd of interested
countians Monday night at
the Agway, Inc. meeting
room that farming by com
puter is now practical in
Pennsylvania, and early re
sults indicate it is also high-
District Conservation Directors
Meet With County Commissioners;
Reveal Bid To Host *67 Convention
At their regular monthly
meeting, held Monday night
at the County Court House,
the Lan'easter County Soil &
Water Conservation District
directors met with County
Comnnssioneis Benjamin P.
Weaver and Arthur R. Camp
bell, Jr.
It was announced by Di
rector Aaron Stauffer that
the district h‘ad submitted its
bid to host the 1967 con
vention of Pennsylvania Soil
& Water Conservation Dis
tncts If selected, this would
m’aik the flist time in the
history of the state associa
tion that Lancaster County
served as the site tor the an
nual meeting. Although the
final decision will not be an
nounced by the state associa
tion until next year, the di
rectors feel hopeful that
their bid will be accepted
dn reporting on the two
watershed meetings held re
cently by the district, Stauf
fer said they had been quite
satisfactory in terms ot farm
er interest One-hundred per
cent of those attending one
Lanchester F. U.
Elects Roland
New President
At its reorganization meet
ing Monday night at How
rey’s Restaurant, Oxford, the
Lanchester Farmers Union
local affiliate of the National
Farmers Union named
Dean Roland of Kirkwood R 1
president 'for 1966.
Also elected were Walter
Shepard, vice-president; and
Alice Roland, secretary-treas
urer.
Directors named from Ches
ter County were Ford MC-
Berty and -John Kimble; from
Lancaster County, Edison Os
borne, and immediate p'ast
president Fred Frey.
Other appointments includ-
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ly profitable, he said.
“Pennsylvania is the only
state in -the Union using lin
ear programming as a state
project on a service basis in
solving farming problems,”
Taylor told the audience.
The most important single
ingredient in programming is
the budget, he said. This is
the assortment of informa
tion which is fed into the
machine It includes such
factors as costs of labor and
materials. yields, market
prices of products, plus as
much more pertinent informa
tion as possible The machine
digests all of this material,
examines every possible com
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$2 Per Year
meeting, and about eighty
■percent of those at the oth
er, were enrolled as new co
operators, Stauffer said.
Two watershed meetings
were scheduled for January:
one on the 17th at Manheim,
which will primarily be a
joint meeting with authorities
of Manheim Borough and the
two surrounding townships
for discussion of flood con
trol measures on Cinques
Creek under the authority of
Public Law 655; the other,
on January 20th in the Eph
lata area.
It was announced that Di
rector Elmer Good, Lititz Rl,
would not stand for redac
tion at the completion of his
term this je'ar Good has
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Metz Reelected
Pres. Producers
Co-Op Exchange
The Board of Directors of
the Producers Cooperative Ex
change, Coatesville, at a.
meeting held last Friday, re
elected Harry P. Metz of
Belleville president of the Ex
change.
Also reelected were Mark
S Hess, Hershey, vice-presi
dent; and H Raymond Ston
er, Lancaster, secretary.
Jay R. Greider, Jr., Mount
Joy, was elected treasurer.
Ephrota Adult Welding
Course Starts Jan. 10
The 19'66 Adult Farmer
Program at Ephrata High
School will feature a farm
arc welding course for area*
farmers, beginning January
10 at 7-30 pm. in the agri
culture shop.
This course is designed to
teach the fundamentals of
arc welding which will save
farmers time and money in
construction, repair and
maintenance of their machin
ery (and equipment.
The eight-week session will
cover from basic techniques
of striking an arc and run
ning a bead in the flat posi
tion, through welding various
joints m flat, horizontal, ver
tical, and overhead positions.
Hardsurfacing, welding cast
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Weather Forecast
Weather predictions for
the next five days call for
temperatures to hoid near
normal with little significant
day-to-day changes. Daytime
highs will range into the 40’s
and overnight lows in the
30’s, It will be cooler over
the weekend with some
moderation Tuesday, and
cooler again Wednesday. '
Precipitation may total %•
inch, or less, occurring as
snow or rain showers about
Sunday.