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| THIS TOBACCO IS SOLD and on its way to the American Tobacco Co.,
Bit Robert Weaver gave the camera a quick glimpse of the quality filler leaf
|hich came .from his one-acre, FFA tobacco project last year. L. F. Photo
pEPPGO Poll
Elbows Members
Suppose Controls
H TREXTOX, X.J. —ln testi-
Bhonv presented to the Com-
Snittee on Agriculture and
earlier this month,
Richard I. Ammon, executive
Ijctiiector of the Northeastern
poultry Producers Council,
fltated that NEIPPCO mem
fjbei s oppose proposed nation
lide eg g marketing order leg
la tion by an alm'ost 9 to 1
argm
The Committee was eonsid
■ing 5.283(2, introduced by
ew Jersey’s Senator Case. It
a form of enabling leglsla
on which will permit the
ivelopment of a Marketing
rder for the entire table
rg industry. S 2832 is es
ntially the same as HR.
:B'l the Resniek Bill
inch was introduced in the
ouse last year.
To substantiate his state
ment, Ammon, released the
results of a poll taken re
cently am'ong NiEP'PCO mem
bers showing that of those
who responded, over 85 per
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Farm Calendar
'ehruary 21 21-24th, Penn
State G-rassland and Forage
Short at Penn
State Univ.
7:30 p.m., Eph'rata
Adult Parmer Welding
Course at Bpiirata High
School.
February 2*2 7’30 p.m.,
f Penn Manor High School
i Quality Forage series be
gins. Subject, "How Rough
■■ Is Roughage?’’; meeting is
in agriculture room.
23 12 Noon, In-
ter-State District 7 annual
!> meeting at Hostetler's Ban
i; quet Hall, Mount Joy.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 19, 1966
Pesticide Research To
Expand At Penn State
Experiments involving pes
ticides will be expanded at
State University vvitb the es
tablishment of a combined.
(Pesticide Research Labora
tory and Graduate Study
(Center within the depart
ment of entomology
The hew facihtyr the first
of its kind at a land-grant
college, was approved recent
ly by the General State Au
thority of Pennsylvania and
is proposed for completion m
1968 at an estimated cost of
i 5400,000, including federal
funds
D'onald E. H. Frear, pro
fessor of chemical pesticides
and project coordinator, says
the facility .will be used spe
cifically for research on chem
i'cal pesticides, biological con
trol of pests, and analysis of
.pesticide samples from ex
periments by other depart
ments as well as samples
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FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA WEEK FEBRUARY 19-26
AGRICU LTU RE ■ Dynamic, ..Challenging
agricultural library
THE PENNSKU*aK STATE UNIVERSITY
Community Meeting To Probe The
Problems Of Watershed Pollution
Community interest, hopeful
ly followed by community ac
tion, in correcting existing
watershed pollution problems
and preventing such future
problems, will be the theme
of a meeting next week at the
Martindale Fire Hall, accord
ing to Miles W. Fry, Ephrata
R. 3.
The area under fire is the
“upper Conestoga watershed”,
from Martindale to Hinkletown
and north. The streams in
volved are the Big and Little
Muddy Creeks, Fry said. “This
has been a problem of vary
ing degree for twenty years,
and now we want some action
on It,” he added.
Area industries bordering the
streams include a rendering
plant, two hat factories, two
municipal sewage disposal
plants, and a steel plant, Fry
pointed out.
FUTURE FARMERS OF AMER!
County FFA President
Plans For Farm Future
Robert Weaver, the receiu-
Iv-msialled piesident ot the
Red Rose Futuie Fanners ot
Amenca Chapter is thinking
beiond his present junioi
year in high school He
hopes, at least at this time
to giaduate directly tiom
high school to farming
Bob is the sixteen-yeai-old
son ot Mi and Mis Ivan
Weaver of Strasbui g Rl,
the youngest ot their four
children The Weaver familv
presently operates a 30-head
Holste'in dairy on their 60-
acre farm, the operation ot
which will shortly be taken
over b> Bob’s brother.
In addition to his duties
in the county chapter, he is
also president of the Garden
Spot Chapter at Lam.peter-
Strasiburg High School. His
agriculture instructor, Gerald
Kiger, describes him as a
good student, and one who
Representatives of the in
dustries concerned will be in
vited to Wednesday’s meeting
at 7.30 pm. in the hope that
their cooperation may be en
listed to help the community
with its pollution problem
These industry spokesmen will
be offered the opportunity to
explain what steps their com
panies are taking to avoid
stream pollution in the dispos
al of their waste products.
In addition to the open dis
cussion, Pennsylvania Board of
Health representative Charles
H. Kuder, assistant regional
sanitary engineer at the West
Reading Field Station, will
speak on ways to prevent
stream pollution.
The meeting is sponsored by
the Lincoln Independent School
Board, and is open to all area
persons interested in the prob
lem of stream and watershed
pollution
is not airaid of a little hard
vvoik Besides agriculture,
Wea\er reports his best
school subjects as English
and Bookkeeping, and de
su"bes bis tavonte pastime
as deep sea Ashing
Bob has been extremely
bus> with his FFA-related
acftix ities In season these
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4-H Play Is Set
For March 4 & 5
The annual play presented,
oy county 4-H’ers has .been
scheduled for Maich 4 and
5, Friday and Saturday, at 8
p m It will be held at the
Manheim Township High.
School, Neffsville
With the title “Here We
Go .Again”, this comedy about
an ordinary family and the
things that happen When, the
teenage daughter gets in
volved with high society, and
the father gets involved with
politics, promises to be an
evening’s worth of entertain
ment
The cast includes Ronald
Long. Linda Ney, Pat and
Audi ey Yunginger, Ken Rutt,
Mike Smuckei, Janet Groff,
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SWCD Directors
Finish Annual
Meeting Plans
Arrangements for the March
Bth annual banquet meeting of
the Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation District
were in the final stages at
the directors’ meeting Tuesday
night at the Courthouse.
The speaker for the evening
will be Charles Hess, state
director of soil and water con
servation districts. Hess, a
former vocational agriculture
teacher at Manheim Central
High School, is well known
in the county.
The dinner meeting will be
held in the Blue Ball Fire Hall
and accomodations are plann
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Weather Forecast
Below normal tempera*
tures are forecast for the
next several days. The nor
mal range for this period
would be 43 to 24 degrees.
It Is expected to be colder
at the beginning and end,
and briefly milder during the
middle.
Some precipitation is pre
dicted, but the weather
bureau is non-committal on
the “snow or rain” question.
They look for V*-Vs inch of
moisture. If the temperature
is cooperative, this will occur
as rain about Tuesday or
Tuesday night. If not, we
may look forward to a
white Wednesday, ... '
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