VOL. 11 NO. 15
Maresch, County
Conservationist,
To Wash., D. C.
Before the door blows shut
on the month of March, Lan
caster County soil conserva
tionist Wayne F. Maresch will
be marching off to Washing
ton, D C. to accept a promo
tion with the USDA Soil Con
servation Service.
According to Ivan McKeever,
state conservationist, Maresch
will become assistant chief of
the management records
bianch of the SCS Washington,
D C office He' will be working
pinnanly with field program
lepoits from all over the na
tion
Maresch, the father of six
children ranging in age
fiom 9 months to 13 years
has been in charge of the
Lancaster SCS office since
July, 1964 He is a native of
Allegheny Count}', and a 1951
giaduate of Penn State Um
\eisity After serving as a jet
pilot for four yeais with the
U S Air Force. Maresch be
gan working as a soil scientist
(Continued on Pago 9)
L.C. Swine Assn. To
Hold Annual Banquet 1
The Lancaster County Swine
Piocluceis Association will hold
its annual banquet meeting on
Fuday March 18, 630 pm,
at the Blue Ball Fire Hall
Following a ham supper,
Wanen Leiningei will give an
illustiated talk on his recent
South American Livestock
Tour There will also be
awaids, entertainment, associa
tion leports and business, and
lepoits from Penn State
specialists
An amendment to the as
sociation by-laws will be acted
on by the membership. It is
designed to choose directois
on an at-large-basis, rather
than on the present purebred
breeder basis
Tickets for the- affair may
be obtained from secretary
(Continued on Page 7)
County Growers
Seek Solution
To Tobacco Woes
A small, but enthusiastic,
gioup of county farmers, call
ing themselves the Tii-County
Tobacco Growers, met Wednes
day night at the Moore Farms,
Inc hatchery building on Eden
Ed, Lancaster -
The aim of this new associa
tion is to try to do something
about the worsening tobacco
puce situation in the county.
Their program calls for a two
fold appioach to the problem
(l) Establish price-supported
quotas for Type 41 tobacco,
(2) Market all of the county
ci op through a central maiket
mg agency controlled by farm
eis, not buyers.
To achieve its goals,' which
basically is a better tobacco
(Continued ou Page 5)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 12, 1966
COUNTY CONSERVATIONIST Wayne F Maresch
discusses district business with a caller at the Soil
Conservation Service office in Lancaster The county
map bchiif ’ Maresch is an aerial photo.index map.
Lester M. Weaver Named
Outstanding Conservation
Farmer At SWCD Banquet
A New Holland area farm- sociate SWCD duector for ap
er, Lester M Weaver, reeeiv- pioximately ten years, he also
ed the Lancartei County Soil helped organize the New Hol
& Water Conservation District’s land 4-H Soil Conservation
top honor “Outstanding Con- Club Weaver has served as a
servation Farmer” Tuesday 4-H Club Leader for a number
night at the annual coopera- of years and was one of the
tors banquet at the Blue Ball original leaders who helped
Fire Hall form the New Holland 4-H
Long active in conservation Beef Club in 1953
work, Weaver has been an as- (Continued on Page 6'
CONSERVATION AT WORK on the Lester M. Weaver farm. The wheat
stubble and windrowed straw outline the contour curve followed on this land.
With the exception of one narrow field, the entire Weaver farm utilizes contour
stripping. . * <' d , \ L. F, Photo
Record Crowd At Annual SWCD
Banquet Hears Pa. Consv. Director
“The biggest turnout in at
least five yeais,” District Soil
and Water Conservation Chair
man Amos H Funk termed the
254 friends of conservation pre
sent for the District’s annual
banquet meeting held Tues
day night at the Blue Ball Fire
Hall
The district’s top award,
“Outstanding Conservation
Farmer for 1965”, was present
ed to Lester M Weaver of
New Holland HI by County
L F Photo
CHARLES F HESS, State Conservation District
director, left, admires the plaque awarded to Lester
M. Weaver as the County’s Outstanding Conservation
Farmer f or 1965. Hess was the featured speaker at
+ , T anoaster P miritv SWCD annual bannuet
the “““““ bounty bWLU annual banquet
0
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$2 Per Year
Commissioner Arthur R Camp
bell, Jr Campbell, a director
in the Lancaster County
SWCD, also presented awards
to Mrs. Robert Eshleman and
Mrs John Walters, on behal£
of the efforts toward conser
vation education in the public
schools sponsored by the coun
ty Federation of Women’s
Clubs He cited two area Boy
Scouts of America who rep
resented the County Council
(Continued on Page 6;
Poultry Assn. Annua!
Meeting Set For 17th
With the announcement by
committee co-chairman John E.
Copenhaver and Ben Burkhold
er that the Lancaster County
Poultry Association will hold
its annual meeting on March
17th, the final meeting victim
of the Blizzard has been ac
counted for
.j&t the St Patrick’s Day
''^qjg ! fin§, be held at the
‘ JMSw Wdit* Wding, 411 W.
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•(rtiutnUbsft-Qn Page 8)
Weather -
- Temperatures' are expect
' ed to average slightly above
normal for the next five
j|ays, but most of “the
Warm”-won’t arrive until af
tjr a cool weekend. The nor
mal temperature range for
this period is 49 to 30 de-
Jfpxc weekend is also ex
pected to bring a little rain
or snow along the coast, with
local showers following
about Wednesday. Total pre
cipitation may total *4-inch,
says the weatherman.