fH AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
VOL. 11 No. 5
AMOS FUNK shown in front of his modern roadside market. This was built
in 1963 and now handles one-third of farm’s total production L. F. Photo
Lancoster County Open
& FFA Tobacco Shows
Planned For Thursday
The Lancaster Counts Open
and FRA Toba co shoots will
be he’d simultaneously on
Thursday Januaiv 6, at the
Baysuk Ogai Co vv aiehouse
at &50 Noith IVatei St, Lan
castei, at 12 30 pm.
The classes oheied in both
shows will be ecacth as
those used loi Faim Show
competition.
In the adult show, theie
■will be two duisions in the
Wrapper Class ever 2G
inches and 26 inches and un
der, w;;h the same wo di
visions tor the Fillet B’s and
Binder Classes
The vocational school show
will teatuie only two classes
Wiapper and Filler
with ondy one division m
each class
Farm Calendar
January 3 7 30 pm, Lan
caster Count' SWCD direc
tors at Faim Ciedit Bldg,
Larcastei
January 4 7 30 p m Faim
Aic "Welding Class at Penn
Manor Hugh School; sub
je t, “Sinking aics and
running beads ’
Januaij , G 12 30 pm.
Com ty Tobacco Show, Open
and FFA luuniiig simul
taneously. at Bavuk Ciaai
Co warehouse 850 Xo.
Watei St , Lancaster.
—• 4 30 pm, Lancaster
County Vo-Ag teachers
meet at Garden Spot High
School.
—7:30 p.m., Ephra.ta Adult
Farmer Class, “In'coxne tax
—investment 'credit and
rdepreeiaitiiO-n schedules.”
Gov, Vetoes Out
Of State Milk
Resale BUI
HARRISBURG—Gov Scian
ton vetoed a bill this week
that would have disconiaged
Pennsylvania milk dealeis
Horn buving milk out-ot-state
toi ie=ale in the common-
wealth
The hill would have le
quned dealeis and handsels
who pm chase milk foi lesale
in Pennsylvania at puces
lower than those set by the
Milk Contiol Commission to
pay the ditteience to the com
mlission.
The governor said that in
soflai as the milk bill would
apply to milk bought out of
state, it would go against the
U S Constitution He said it
Would place a burden on m
teistate commeice
Scianton added that the
hill would inteifeie with
Congiess’ powei to legulate
inteistate commeice a power
leseivecl to Congiess in the
constitution ,
His conclusion is based on
US Supieme Couit decisions,
Scianton said
This bill nas one o£ a
package ot milk lefonn meas
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Penn Manor To Hold
Form Welding Course
A taini aic ueldnig couise
uill be otfeied In Penn Han
oi High School begum l ng
Januaiv 4 and running for
fi\e consecutive Tuesday
nights The classes will began
at 7 30 p m
The welding machines will
he furnished by Dressel "Weld
ing Company, and there will
be a $5 registration charge
to cover cost of the materials
used.
Although no limitation has
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 1, 1966-
Lancaster Farming To
Feature Special Form
Show Issue Next Week
Xe\t week Lanca = tei Fann
ing w.ll piesent its annual
Spec i! Faun Show issue This
will include such aighliglus
as j complete schedule ot
p-\ cuts and othei Faun Show
le Uni e-
It has aho become a tradi
tion that thin special issue
should spotlight the Lancas
ter Connie Futute Fanneis
ot Anienca who hate been
nominated to lecene the Ke\-
store Degiee at then annual
convention in Hanisburg,
which is held in conjunction
with then Fault Show ac
tn i,ties
Restrictions On
Interstate Hog
Shipments Eased
The U S Department of
Agucultme announced this
week that it had eased le
stnctions on the interstate
mot enient of feedei and
breedei pigs wlmch aie not
laecmated for hog choleia
Amendnie’nts to interstate
shipping utles published mi
the Fedeial Register make
laccmation for hog choleia
optional fOl hogs shipped
fiom states in Phase IV of
the 4-phase state-federal
eiadication campaign and
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Weather Forecast
The forecast for the next
several days is a warm one.
It will be fair and unseason
ably mild through New
Year’s Day, with cloudiness
increasing late Friday after
noon.
Little measurable precipi
tation is expected for the
rest of this year.
There’s Enough Work To
Last The Year Around On
The Funk Vegetable Farm
‘lf s - not all summeitime
field woik on the tegetable
and small fuut farm of Amos
Funk, located about one mile
southwest of Milletstille. He
and two ot lus sons hate been
busy building a business thht
would occupy their time the
jear aiound
Thev faun 2 5 t nineties of
■vegetables on 107 acies. be
ginning -with ihubaib in the
■very eail> spi mg and end
ing the season i£ there is
an end with celeiv. which
they aie now hat testing and
selling
So tthat’s to do all winter 9
Well of course the 1 e's celeit
to get leadt toi maiket tlnee
dats a week there s equip
ment to lepair. including 12-
iiOO feet of nugation pipe
which must be leadied tov
the ne\t grotvmg season
theie aie G acies of stiaw
bernes to mulch theies
sweet potato stoiage which
must be checked toi tempeia
tuie and hunndnt until the
ciop is sold at the late ol
13-20 bushels pei week and
seteial do?en othei legulai
choi es
But these actmties weie
not sufficient to fill the win
ter woik load, so last leai
the Funks 'bun It a plastic
coieied giecnhouse and this
jeai added two inoie These
houses measure 20 hi 100
feet They aie eoieied with
two laieis ot plastic and aie
heated and ventilated Amos
son, Andy, supervises all of
the gieenhouse pioduction,
ANDY FUNK shows some of the hothouse toma
toes grown in one of the farm’s three greenhouses
These vines are averaging a yield this year of six
pounds of tomatoes each. As the Funks learn more
about this kind of management, they hope to push the
yield figure several pounds higher. L. F. Photo
$2 Per Year,
and he said that using tneir
oil-fiied steam heiturnaca
it takes about $37 a week to
heat the three houses oyer
the tall and winter
These thiee houses are
opeiated on a bight produc
tion schedule: one crop no
sooner goes out than the next
takes o\er Two varieties ot
tomatoes are now being rais
ed in one house Michigan
13S and Michigau-Ohio; vari
eties especially adapted to
gieenh'ouse culture Last year,
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Agri. Research
To Move Ahead
With New Funds
HARRISBURG Scientific
studies on a scoie ot prob
lem aieas in the state’s farm
piogiam soon will get under
nai Ppiiiisi h ania Secretary
ot Aaiicu tm o Leland H.
Cull said lollowmg a tecent
meeting ol the new Ad\isory
Peseairh Fund Committee
The committee cieated te
cenil’ b\ act ot the Legisla
tm e and the signature of
Goiomoi Suanton ie\iewed
a total ot moi e than seienty
leseaich pioposals that had
been submitted by muons tu
teiested oi gamz'ations
In its selections, the com
mittee gate pieteience to
pioblems ot an in gent nature
and th'ose that, when solved,
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