VOL. 11 No. 11
NEW COUNTY CHAPTER FFA OFFICERS installed Monday at Warwick
High School. Left to right they are: (seated), Robert Weaver, president, Garden
Spot Chapter; Kenneth Rohrer, vice-president, Manor Chapter; Adam Zimmerman,
secretary-, -Grassland-Chapter; William Frey, treasurer, Solanco Chapter; (stand
ing), Gerald Hess, corresponding secre-tary, Warwick Chapter; Jay Fisher, sen
tinel, Manheim Chapter; Leon Rutt, chaplain, Elizabethtown Chapter; and Thomas
Zartman, reporter, Cloister Chapter. Absent from the picture is Roger Stoltzfus,
parliamentarian, Pequea Chapter. L F. Photo
Top County FFA
Degree Awarded
To 45 Youths
The highest county-level
degiee which can be awarded
to a Futuie Parmer of Amer
ica. the Red Rose Degree,-
was conferred upon 46 county
PFA boys Monday night at
the Warwick High School.
To be eligible for ithis
award candidates must invest
$lOO in their woik projects,
complete at least two years
of instruction, and demon
strate leadership abilities. De
grees at the county level are
limited to 12 percent of total
membership.
Another feature of this
twice-postponed meeting was
installation of county chap
ter officers for 19 6'6. They
were sworn in by last year’s
president Glenn Weber, and
the meeting was turned over
to the new president Robert
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Farm Calendar
February 14*— 7 - 30 pm ,
Epbrata Adult Farm Weld
ing ’class 'at Bphrata High
- School.
February 15 1 pm, Ches
ter County Extension fertil
izer meeting at Russelville
Orange Hall.
7 30, pm, Lancaster
County ISWCD directors’
meeting at County Court
house, Lancaster.
S p.m., Chester County
Extension fertilizer meet
ing at Pickering Valley
Sch’ool, Eagle.
February 16 10 a.m.,
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 12, 1966
Chester County Ext.
Meetings Are Planned
Chester County Extension
Service has scheduled some
mrpoitaut xarm meetings for
the week of Febiuary 14, in
cluding fertilize! talks and
county dairy day
The fertilizer sessions,
dealing with types and use
liquid versus dry, for example
will be held in three loca
tions On February 15, at 1
Pm , in* the Russelville
Grange Hall; and a.t 8 p.m.
at the Pickering Valley
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Speaker At Ext. Assn. Meeting
Reviews Critical Farm Problems
Boyd C Gartley, director
of member and public rela
tions with Interstate Milk
Producers’ Cooperative, led
off his talk to members of
the Lancaster County Exten
sion Association, Tuesday
night by posing two ques
tions One, “Is the American
government going to be the
bargaining agen'cy for agri
culture?”, and two, “Are we
in America going to feed a
hungry world?”.
The answer to these ques
tions will have to come from,
you, Gartley said.' But he
pointed out some of the prob
lems involved. First of all,
he said, “I can’t understand
why we in America, who be
lieve wholeheartedly in com
petition, won’t let the com
petitive svstem operate” He
briefly discussed the fallacies
of fedeial milk thinking,
and cited the recent milk
hearings in Philadelphia as
another needless cost of ad
7 Countians Are
Named to 20-Ton
Tomato Club
It was recently reported by
Arnold G Lueek, associate
aigncultuial agent, that sev
en Lancaster County vegeta
ble growers had been named
to membership in the 1965
Pennsylvania Master Tomato
Growers Club
The following Lancaster
County growers who qualified
for 19'6i5 membership by pro
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ministration which will have
to be paid for by the farm
ers
On the second question,
he told the members that we
are producing less food than
we are consuming, and that
there have been no food pro
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Weather Forecast
The mild temperatures pre
vailing Friday are expected
to hang on for the next few
days, according to the wea
therman. Temperatures will
average much above normal
with little day-to-day change.
A narrow temperature range
of 30 to 40 degrees is pre
dicted.
Precipitation may total Vs
inch. Assuming the mild
temperatures continue as ex
r pected, this will occur as
rain Sunday night and again
Wednesday.
"Money Talk” Feature Of Ist Farm
Meeting At Lincoln Indep. School
The Lincoln Independent
School, Martindale, opened
its current season of farm
and community meetings IVed
nesdaj night with a discus
sion of “Using money as a
tool” in farming On hand to
present various aspects of
the money and credit ques
tion were Raimond Baxter.
Blue Ball National Bank,
Paul Whipple, Miller & Bush
ong, and Richard Hooier.
Farmers Home Administra
tion.
Baxter told the audience of
approximately 50 area resi
dents about the different
types of loans a community
bank might make to tarmeis
He divided these into long
and short teim categories,
and explained the use and
purpose of each type
In discussing the bank’s
risk in the lending business,
Baxtei explained that some
loans are secured and some
are not A secured loan, he
said, generally protects the
lender with a note or a se
curity agreement which stipu
lates repayment once the
purpose ot the loan is com
pleted For example, he said,
TAKING PART IN FARM CREDIT talk at Lin
coln Independent School Wednesday Might were, left
to right, Ivan Stauffer, moderator; Risha'rd Hoover,
FHA Supervisor; Paul Whipple, Millpr & Bushong;
and Raymond Baxter, Blue Ball National Bank.
L. F. Photo
Tobacco Sales
Lag; Buyers Say
Quality Poor
An exceptionally late to
bacco buying season opened
slowly this week in Lancas
ter County. Although most
companies reportedly need
the tobacco, they report the
current crop contains a rela
tively sm'all percentage of
top quality tobacco
Although the 1965 crop
came out of the fields in good
shape as a result of late
rains, warm temperatures
and high moisture conditions
in late Pall and early Win
ter have apparently resulted
in widespread “shed burtf”
Buying finally started on
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$2 Per Year
one of the most common pur
poses of short term bank
loans is for steer feeding. A
farmei mav boirow money to
buy feeder cahes, feed them
to matunty, then repay the
loan in one lump sum when
the steeis are sold.
In contrast, Baxter said, a
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NEPPCO to Talk
Turkey At Conf.
TREXTOX, X.J. The
Executive Committee of the
NEPPCO Tin key Division has
announced the resumption o<
its Mid-Atlantic Conference
program. It mil be held oa
Mai eh 2nd at the Holiday
Inn in Gettysburg
The meeting will 'be devot
ed to the problems of turkey
health, sanitation and hous
ing Each of these areas is
of vital concern to turkey
growers today A special
‘common problems’ seminar,
featumig turkey servicemen,
and growers, will try to find t
the answers to some of She
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Freeman T* Speak At
The National Farmers
Union Convention
Among tl||i prominent fig
ures who will address the
National Farmers Union an
nual convention March 13-1 S
at Denver, Colorado, will be
Orville L. Freeman, Secre
tary of Agriculture, according
to a partial list released this
week by the farm organize,
tion
Freeman, one of the four
original cabinet officials ap
pointed by President Kennedy
in 1961 who still remains m
the Cabinet, will make the
major address to the conclud
ing convention banquet oa
March 16.
Also listed to speak at the
convention is .assistant secre
tary of Labor Esther Peter-
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