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VOL. 11 NO. 8
Conn. Farmers
Impressed By
County Farms
by Evoi-ctt Nowswajigoi'
St,a,ff Reporter
A group of ouit-of-state
farmers visited a leading
Lancaster County manufac
tunng firm a.nd a top local
dairy on their way to the
Pennsylvania Farm Show m
Harrisburg, last week.
After touring the New
Holland Machine Company, a
hu« load of Connecticut
tourists armed at the Gor
d'onville R 1 farm of John E.
Efe/h late Monday afternoon
to seie the big, lugged, full
uddered legistered Holsteins
that have iust completed the
DHIA herd aierage of 18.-
250 pounds of milk and G 45
pounds of hutterfat. This
makes the fifth heid average
over 60 0 lib completed by
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Crop Adjustment Rates
Announced For County
Adj-itnient payment rates
for croplands diverted undei
the Cropland Adjustment Pro
gram have been announced
for Lancaster County by
Fred G Seldo'mndge, chair
man, Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Con-sen atiton County
CloiniSnltree
Bachnent rates wall be re
lated to the value of crops
prevalently giown, and pio
du'etivity on acreages put into
the CAP progiam.
The adjustment rate for
•wheat, barley, corn and grain
sorghum is 40 percent of the
county price-support loan
rate, which an Lancster
County won Id be wheat .58
per bushel; barley .3 6, corn
.47, grain s'orghium .37.
The chairman also remmd
e'd tiifct other cropland on a
farm, to be iWol tided m a
CAfc agreement will he elig
ible for adjustment payment
rate*!, -varying, from $3 00 to
$7 Od an acre, depending on
the productivity of the crop
land Agreements wull cover
five to ten yea.rs
See Your Problems As Challenges,
Mgt. Specialist Tells Poultrymen
Pohalirymen, regardless of
location, have indniidual
problems — “but let’s call
them challenges” — poultry
management consultant Joe
Claybwsh for DeKalb Agn.
Assn, told more than 100
Farm Calendar
JantKUV 24 2i4th-2frth.
■Vegetable Growers Confer
' cute, Nittany JLion Inn,
Penn State .University.
7:30 p.m, Bphrata
-.Aitfullt .Farm -Welding Class,
«it .Ephrata (Hugh School,
©.in., Installation,
of Red Rose FFA officers
at lanupeiter-Strasiburg High
THE PRINCESS AND THE PRINCIPAL
Lancaster County Dairy Princess for 1965, Miss Linda
Welk, shown with Frederick P. Sample, supervising
principal of Manheim Township High School. Sample
delivered a stirring talk cn “Today’s Youth” to some
400 county farm people at the annual DHIA dinner
meeting at the Holiday Inn, Lancaster. L. F. Photo.
Extensionist To Discuss Success
Of Farm & Home Centers At F & H
Annual Meeting Here On Tuesday
The Lancaster County Farm made and the contribution
and Home Foundation ■Bill to the commaiin'ty of an ag
hold ilts annual meeting- on n'cultural and homeniakang
Tuesday, January 25. at Hos- centei
tetter's Banquet Hall in The progiam Will also fea
llount Joy The dinner meet- ture a brief business meet
ing wall begin at 6:45 pm , ltl g conducted by Foundation
and is open to anyone president B Suavely Garber,
throughont the county who (Continued on Page 12)
is interested in thus project
The program will feature
an illustrated" report by Har
old Sweet on -some of New
York State’s more than two
dozen ' Farm & ■ Home Cen
tei s Sweet, associate profes
sor in extension administra
tion at Cornell Uninersuty,
is in a positron to speak from
experience on the progress
area poultry meu Thursday
nrgihit at the Lafayette Ftfre
Hall, Lancaster.
“We sometimes get the im
pression that our competitors
are 10 feet tall," the special
ist said. He told the poultry
men that he had traveled all
over and seen all sizes and
shapes of poultry operations.
“Bekeve me, they’re not ten
feet tall,” he said “They just
have different challenges than
you have ” '
He illustrated his points
with a senes ot- slides, show
ing operations ’around the
country. Some of the maHion
hen plants have' their own
unique - "challenged.”' Over
population. Too tnlaay (Shack
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 22, 1966
County 4-H Council
Elects Directors
Six directors were elected
Wednesday at tlie annual ,
meeting of the Lancaster ,
County 4-H Leaders Council
meeting at the Production
Credit Office. ,
Named to two-year terms
on the home economics coun- i
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AG
Harold B. Sweet
DHIA Banquet Features Educator
Discussing Youth And Society;
Frey Herd Gets Top Co. Award
“I'.m for all education ”
Piederkk P Sample told an
audience of some 415 farm
folk at the annual Red Rose
Dairy "Herd Improvement As
sociation dinner meeting on
Thursday “But not to the ex
tent that it overshadows fair
play, decencv, patnotisra,
honesty and othei moial val
ues ”
Sample is supervising prin
cipal at lUanheim Township
High School 'and well quali
fied to discuss Ivis 'chosen top
ic — “Today’s Students ”
The most impoitant piob
lem we face with v outh tv
day ns not teaching them
leading, writing aiithmetic
and all the assorted foimal
tiaming thej will need in
latei lute, Sample said
“Somehow well get that iob
done But the hig pioblem
is helping each youngstei de
velop as a (complete peison
MR. AND MRS. J. MOWERY FREY, JR. at the
Red Rose DHIA annual dinner meeting at the Holi
day Inn, Lancaster. Frey received a plaque from the
association as owner of the high butterfat herd in the
county for 1965. L. F. Photo
Wheat Growers
Offered Options
The 196 G voluntary wheat
program offeis several op
ticas to. farmers so they can
best plan, their individual op
erations. according to the Ag
ricultural Stabilization and
Conservation (ASC) County
Comim'ittee.
The options include plant
ing wheat on all allotment
acres; 'diverting allotment
acres from production to con
serving uses for payment;
overplanting the allotment by
up to 50 percent and storing
the excess production for bad
crop years; substituting
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$2 Per Year
as an individual
“We say we don’t want
people adl the same, and yet
we continually cast them all
in the same mold.” the prin
cipal said
We put a child into school
and put a statistical number
on him He becomes one oC
the 32 million elementary
students in the U S . or one
of the 17 .million high school
students, and we spend 23
billion dollars to keep hfm
theie Seventy pei cent o£
them will woik in occupa
tions touiouovv that are not
even lasted today. “These are
statistics Childien don’t care
about numbers and such.
THiev caie about being a part
of the vvoild around them.
Thev caie about w'ho they
aie and vvheie thev fit m.
We must encouiage the di
veisity that as piesent and.
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Weother Forecast
Lancaster County will con
tinue' to shiver for the next
five days at least, as con
tinuing cold temperatures
are forecast with little day
to day change. Daytime highs
will average about 38 de
grees, with overnight lows
dipping into the upper teens.
We may be cold, but there
won’t be much of the white
stuff to bother with during
this period either. Snow is
forecast for coastal areas
about Sunday night, and flur>
ries over the mountains
about the same time. But the
weatherman sees little
chance for precipitation la
our area for the next fiwe
days.