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VOL. 11 NO.. 14
SIGN OF THE TIMES IN LANCASTER COUN TY FARMING ON THE URBAN FRINGE
The aerial photo at the left was taken by the Soil Con
servation Service in 1960. It showed the town of Neffsville and
Manheim Township High School slowly engulfing the Sanford
P. Miller farm. The recent photo on the right testifies that
capture of the farm by urban forces has been completed* The
sign in the -field that a 200-bed nursing home will
Two Area Farmers Named To Soil
& Water Conservation District Bd.
Aaron Z. Stauffer
Took Over Director
Post Early In 1965
When last year’s Outstanding J. Everett Kreider, a dairy-
Conservation Farmer, Elmer man from the Quarryville R 1
Sensenig, retired from the area, is the newest farmer
board of directors of the coun- member on the Lancaster
ty conservation district, Aaron County Soil & Water Conser-
Z. Stauffer of Ephrata R 1 was vation District board. His ap
named to fill the spot. pointment became effective
Stauffer was a dairyman un- January 1, 1966, at which time
til 1964. At that time he chang- he replaced retiring director
Elmer V. Good of Lititz R 3.
ed over to a steer-hog opera
tion which he felt would make
better use of his 67-acre Indian
Run Farm.
He now feeds out 50 steers,
buying them at 500-600 pounds
and fattening them to around
1100 pounds. He combines
this operation with finishing
about 60 head of feeder hogs.
The next step in his change
over from dairying was to
erect two controlled-environ
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state UMIWW
Soil & Water Conservation District Report Issue
J. Everett Kreider
Replaces Elmer Good
As District' Director
Kreider farms 142 acres at
home, and rents 10 acres for
silage corn. The farm has the
capacity to support a 50-head
dairy Although it is not quite
up to capacity at the moment,
the 24 heifers presently being
raised will soon change that.
Kreider sold off his old grade
herd in 1964, and has since con
verted entirely to registered
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5, 1966
J. Everett Kreider
be built there. In effect, it says much more; it says that another
Lancaster County farm has gone out of production. This farm
had been in the Miller family for 50 years, and a stone in the
barn wall indicates the barn was rebuilt in 1861, The farmhouse
itself dates to about 1800.
DHIA Elects
Breneman Pres.
'Directors ot£ the Red Rose
Herd Improvement Associa
tion reorganized at its regu
lar quarterly meeting Monday
night at the Farm Credit
Building, Lancaster
As piesfdenit for 1966, the
directors picked Robert A.
Breneman of Strashurg Rl;
Breneman had 'served as As
sociation vice-president last
year
Named as the new vice
president was _Tiotor Hoover
of Gap Rl; " Curtis Akers,
Quarryvi'lle Rl was re-eleot
ed secretary; Jacob Houser,
Jr, Lampeter, was returned
as treasurer.
Head Tester Wilbur Hous
er, whose three-year term ex
pired as of this week, was
unanimously reaffirmed for
another term, hy the direc
tors. It was also decided that
Houser’s rate of compensa
tion for his supervisory du-
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Soil & Water Conservation
Dist. Directors Report
Amos Funk, Chairman, Aaron servation Commission.
Stauffer, Elmer Good, Henry 6. Sixth annual plowing
Hackman, and County Commis- contest was held on the S.,
sioner Arthur Campbell, Jr, Gerald Darlington farm. 200
directors of the Lancaster persons attended Marvin Zim-
County Soil and Water Con- merman was the winner against
servation District have report-v. five other competitors,
ed the following activities ac- 7. Six watershed meetings
comphshed during 1965. (Continued on Page 7)
1. 107 new farmer coopera
tois applying practices on 3150
acres
2. A total of 237 persons at
tended the annual meeting at
Solanco High School.
3. Elmer M. Sensenig was
named the outstanding conser
vation farmer for Lancaster
County.
4 Soil Stewardship Week
was observed during May. El
mer Good and Rev. Rhoden,
Bergstrasse Lutheran Church
presented a TV program on
Soil Stewardship May 21.
5 Director Chairman Amos
Funk served as a member of
the State Soil and Water Con
Weother Forecast 1
Temperatures for the next
few days are expected to
average near normal with
daytime highs ranging into
the 40’s, and overnight lows
into the 20’s and 30’s. We
should enjoy a little mild
weather over the weekend,
but can look forward to cold
er temperatures about Tues
day.
Precipitation will occur as
rain Monday and part of
Tuesday, and is expected to
total approximately %-inch.
The weatherman reports that
February was the wettest
month since April, 1964.
$2 Per Year
4-H Beef & Lamb
Club Names Hess
The Red Rose 4-H Baby Beef
& Lamb Club elected Fied E.
Hess of Leola R 1 as its presi
dent for 1966 at the annual re
organization meeting held Wed
nesday night. Hess, a holder of
the FFA Keystone Farmer De
gree, is a recent graduate of
Warwick High School. In the
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Fred £. Hess