VOX* 11 NO. 6
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY insignia for the 50th Pennsylvania Farm Show
denotes progress in Pennsylvania agriculture.
FunkvElected SWCD Chairman For
14th Term; Associate Directors
Cooperation Urged For 1966
Amos H. Funk
Farm Calendar
January 10-14, Pennsylvania
Farm Show
January 10—Jan 10-11, Farm
Women State Convention,
Education Bldg., Harrisburg.
—8 am, All Ayrshire Dairy
judging at Faim Show.
—7 30 p m., Ephrata Adult
Fanner Arc Welding Class
at Ephrata High School.
January 11—8 a m, All Hol
stein- Dairy Judging at Farm
Show
—7 30 pm, Penn Manor
Farm. Welding Class at P. M.
High School.
January 12—8 am., All Jersey
and Brown Swiss Dairy Judg
ing at Farm Show.
—9 am, Angus and Here
ford Judging at Farm Show
January 13 —8 a m., 4-H Breed
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Annual Farm Show Issue
The L/ancaster County Soil
& Water Conservation Dis
trict directors named Amos
H Funk, Mnllersville Rl, to
has Hith year as chairman,
Monday night Also reelect
ed ere Henry Hlackman,
■vce-v.han nvan, 'and Garland
GingenCh, seci etaiy-treasm
er
Tlhe meeting, held at the
Farm Credit BMg, Lancas
ter, was hugely devoted to
getting acquainted with the
associate directors, many of
whom weie newly appointed,
and to inlorm them on their
fu’ncition in the distnct
Dnector Hemy Hackman
oiut'lined the oigiamzation of
the soil and watei conserva
tion dustnct for , the two
dOzen associate dneotors at
tending the meeting H'ack
mian explained that the dis
tn.ct is a means whereby lo
cal people Cionuol the types
of 'conservation programs
they want, and utilize vari
ous federal funds and serv
ices to accomplish this goal.
He said that the associate di
rectors aie anvbassadois for
conservation, and that each
of them is an oasis in his
area, serving as an example
and a source of information
fOl his neighbors.
Chairman Funk reported
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The annual FARM SHOW section will be ;
found on pages 13 through 20 of this issue of ;
Lancaster Farming. The section includes feature <
stories about the show, a story on Lancaster ‘
County’s FFA Keystone Farmer Degree winners, j
and the complete Farm Show schedule. We sug- ■
gest you lift the section out and take it to the h
Farm Show with you. Other regular features of \
Lancaster Farming will be found in their regular h
spots in the paper. n
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 8, 1966
New Feeder Pig Grade
Standards Are Adopted
Tiie U. S. Department at
Agriculture 'has announced
this adoption oif official stand
ard's for 5 grades of feedei
pigs which became effective
Jan. 1, 19G6
The 5 grades established
by USDA’a Consumer and
Marketing Service aie U S
No 1,2, 3, Medium, and
Cull These grade names are
the same as these for slaugh
ter hogs and poi k carcasses.
The new standards provide
for the eva’uatwm of 2 gen
eial lahre-deteimining char
acteristics of feeder pigs
their logical slaughter poten
tial and their t'hi iftmesis For
evample, if a feeder png is
gtadied U S No 1, it has
the potential for developing
into a U S. No 1 slaaghtei
hqg that wilt produce a U S
No 1 carcass. Thrift mess is
the ability of a feeder pig
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Fisher Filler Entry Ist In Open
Tobacco Show; Thomas In FFA
MeVvun S. Fisher of Stras
burg Rl, a perennial tobacco
show winner, tapped a IGB
- field Thursday in the
Lancaster County Tobacco
Show with championships in
both the wrapper and filler
classes The champion entry
of the open show, held at the
Hayuk Cigar Co warehouse,
was Fishei’s long-filler leaf.
Golden Anniversary Farm
Show Salutes Progress In
Pennsylvania Agriculture
The theme of the 5-oth agriculture. A s'ho-w commit-
Pennsyl'vama Farm Show tee was formed, and plans
which opens its doors next were diawn up which led di-
Monday will be “A Salute to reqtly to that first Farm
Progress In Pennsylvania Ag- ShO|W.
rurultUre ” The show will run
from J'anuary 10-14, at the
Farm Show Building, Harris
burg
It will provide an amaz
ing contrast with the first
show held in 1917 in a down
towh farm machnnery deal
er's building, and attended
by about 5,000 people.
The idea ot having a state
wide farm show culminated
in a meeting of farm leaders
in Lancaster at the old Leo
pard Hotel with Various of
ficials ol the depaitment oif
Vo-Ag Teachers Plan
For Fair Fund Budget 1
The Lancaster County Vo
cational Agriculture Teachers
Association met Thursday at
Garden Spot High School,
New Holland Topping the
agenda was development of
a pioposed budget for distri
bution of this year’s fair
fund
The fair fund allocates $2,-
000 annually to use by tbe
county FFA chapters for
their various activities These
activities include the FFA
hog show, chapter parliamen
tary pioceduie contests, pub
lic speaking contests, Chap
ter Star Farmer awards, FPA
stcholaiships, and many on one
Committees were selected
for each of these major ac
tivities Each leather was
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Winner of the short filler
class was Roy M Rohrer,
Strasburg Rl Melvin L Long
of Lituz R 3 was first in long
wrappers, with the champion
binder awaid going to Rob
ert B. Leed, 2421 Friii,tville
Pike, Lancaster. Winner J.
Rohier of 'Strasburg Rl
placed first in the short bind
er category
In the vocational competi
tion, Richard Thomas of Mil
lerscille Rl, won his second
championship in a week Last
week Thomas won first place
honors in filler tobacco leaf
and second pnze in wrapper
leaf at the 4-*H corn and
tobacco exhibit. This week
his filler entry was rated the
best oierall tobacco in the
60-entry FFA show.
Judging the event was Ben
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$2 Per Year
As agriculture became more
■mechanized, and the role of
the farmer more complex,
'machinery exhibits and edu-
Icational meetings became the
highlights at the Fkrm Show.
In recent times, with the
gradual reduction in number
of farmers, the Farm Show
cent June's to, be a major at
traction for hundreds ot
thousands of consumer fam
ilies, many getting their
first cfliose contact with Inve
stec*: and farm products.
AIQ the exhibit space in.
the 13-acre State Farm Show
Bldg, had been assigned by
early Decembei for thts show.
Commercial exhibits, ranging
from silos tc seed corn, and
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Crop Reporting
Award Goes To
Levi Brubaker
I*evi H Brubaker, Tto-hrers
towta, has been singled out
as one of four distinguished
resellers by the PennsylTan
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Levi H. Brubaker
Weather Forecast
The outlook for the next
five days calls for tempera*
tures to average below the
normal range of 39-24 de
grees. It will be cold over
the weekend, with tempera
tures moderating somewhat
Monday,' then colder again
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The expected Farm Show
precipitation “will" occur as
rain Monday night, followed
by possible rain or snow on
Tuesday.