VOL. 11 NO. 20
TOP COUNTY FFA PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE TEAM is from the
Grassland Chapter. The team will meet York County parliamentarians next week
for the area title. The members above are, left to right, seated: Mike Smucker,
Galen Yoder, Kenneth Weber, Larry Burkhart, standing: Larry Groff, Douglas
Houck, Clair Bowman, Richard Hersh, and Robert Esbenshade. L. F. Photo
Grassland FFA & Larry Herr Win
Co. Procedure & Speaking Meet
Champs Continue Co.
Parliamentarian Rule
The Giassland Chapter of
Futme Farmeis of America
continued its domination of
count} competition in parha
mentaiy piocedures Tuesday
night by topping teams fiom
foiu othei county schools The
meet held at Penn Manor High
School is preliminary to the
disti ict and state meets Grass
land was the state champion
m 1964 and uinnerup in 1965,
nnu ,u e now making a bid for
anothei distuct and state title
this veai
Giassland and the runnerup
countv chapter, Solanco, will
meet wmneis from York Coun
h next Thursday night at
Penn Manor High School to
decide the aiea title. The
winnei in that event will rep
resent the distuct in Region
h competition at Millersville
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Farm Calendar
Ap V ,' 9 30 am, 2nd an
nii-il Governor’s Agricultural
at Scottish Rites
atliedial. Harrisburg.
7-/30 and 7.30 pm., (dupli
7'/ meetings) First-year
n l le r Ec °nomics Clothing
,' ub Leaders at UGI meet
e!s(ef 0m ’ Conest °g a St., Lan-
A FP\ 2O TT ?■ 30 P m -’ County
a milk judging contest at
/I'h'ata High School.
1 30pm, Area FFA land
1 king contest at Isaac Geib
/‘"m, Manheim
Cnm 2 / T Ba m ’ Lancaster
jj 1 - v Holstein. Assn, tour
es leaves from Conestoga
in.? *P 0l ’ tatl °n Co., E. Chest-
’ Lancaster.
930 a.m, Animal Health
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Lorry Herr Rated Best
Individual Speaker
“A slow, deliberate, very
sincere delivery, and a good
stage voice” was the way
public speaking judge' John
Myers described Larry Heir’s
winning performance in the
county FFA public speaking
contest, held Tuesday night at
Penn Manor High School
Sixteen-year-old Hen - , a
sophomore at Lampeter-Stras
burg High School, spoke on
the farmer as a member of
“The Exploited Occupa
tion”. It was his fust perfor
mance as a public speaker.
Larry is the son of Mr. and
Mrs Carl B Herr who opeiate
a beef cattle, poultry and corn
farm on Penn Grant Road
The runnerup speaking title
went to Richard Thomas, Man
or Chapter who spoke on
“World Without Hungei”, a
topic dealing with the popula
tion explosion and the growing
need for food.
Third place went to Merlin
E Snader, Grassland Chapter
for his handling of the topic
“The Peace Corps In Action”.
Fourth was Donald Hershey,
Elizabethtown Chapter, who
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Weather Forecast
Continuing below-normal
temperatures can be expect
ed for the next several days.
Seasonal weather is promised
for the weekend with cooler
temperatures prevailing
thereafter. Normal for this
time of year would be tem
peratures averaging within
a range of 63 to 40 degrees.
Little precipitation is ex
pected with showers about
Monday night or Tuesday
yielding one-tenth inch, or
less.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 16, 1966
Beef Club Leaders To
Hold Planning Session
A meeting of district ex
tension workeis and 4-H
ibeet club leaders will be
held on April 26, at 8 pin,
to pl'an toi the 196 6 South
east District 4-H Baby Beef
Show and Sale, according to
M M Smith, Lancaster
iCounty Agent
The meeting, to be held
in the Livestock Exchange
Room at the Lancastei Stock
Yards, x\ ill include represen
tatives ot the Livestock Ex
change and the Union Stock
Yaids Co Lester Burdette
and Frank Bortz from Penn
.State will also be on hand to
help the Dauphin, Chester,
.Northampton and Lancaster
County leadeis and workers
plan lor the annual big
event, Smith said.
Soil Stewardship
Week Plans Set
At SWCD Meet.
The directors of the Lan
caster County Soil and Wa
ter Conservation Distract an
nounced plans at their regu
lar monthly meeting Monday
night at the Oouit House to
observe Soil .Stewardship
.Week, May 13-22
The directors said they
will have kits available for
any minister in the county
wanting church bulletins or
material applicable for use
in Rogation Sunday sermons
Anyone interested is advised
to contact one of the di
rectors.
A's an aid in deciding what
■course long range conserva
tion plans should follow in
Lancaster Countv, the plans
adapted by other counties
were reviewed by the direc
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Outstanding 4-H’er, Eric
Stoner, Plans Career In
Agricultural
For one teim next Fall
there will be three Stoner
brothers eni oiled at Penn
State Umveisity The oldest
will be approaching gradua
tion in the field of agricultural
engineering, the second oldest
will be a senior in electrical
engineering, and the youngest,
Eric, will be beginning the
long academic trail which he
Hopes will lead to a career in
some phase of agricultural re
search.
Presently, Enc is an eigh
teen-year-old senior at Man
heim Township High School.
He lives with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs Raymond Stoner, on
the 106-acre family farm on
Eden Road, Lancaster The
historic homestead dates from
about 1781, Enc said, adding
that a new highway may short
ly cut, through the Stoner
acres, which already are near
ly surrouned by new apart
ment and dwelling construc
tion
When Eric enrolls in the
College of Agriculture, he will
major in agronomy, feeling this
to be the area of agriculture
which holds the greatest in
terest for him He became in
trigued with the idea of a re
search career after visiting the
laboratories, and talking with
SURROUNDED BY HIS HANDIWORK Eric Stoner
poses in front of the huge colonial fireplace in the
family kitchen of the Stoner farmhouse. The gourds he
is holding were fashioned into bird houses. On the
mantle a small, stuffed woodchuck and a cock phea
sant regard each other warily beneath Eric’s home
made gun rack. L. F. Photo
$2 Per Year
Research
researchers, at the new Penn
sylvania Department of Agri
culture building m Harrisburg.
The torn- of those facilities
last year was part of the pro
gram involving outstanding 4-H
youngsters representing their
respective counties at the an
nual 4-H Capital Days
An active 4H member for
the past eight years, Eric has
held neaily every top office in
both the Lititz-Manheim Club
and the Wildlife Club He is
cuirently vice-president of the
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Two County 4-H
Members Will
Attend Conf.
Two Lancaster County 4-H
-’ers, Gloria Heishey of N-eTf
Holland, and Kenneth Rvtt
of Quarryv'tlle R 2, have been
selected to attend the two
day, State 4-H Capital Day»
program at Harrisburg on
Aipnl 18 and 19
Miss Hershey and Rutt. co
presidents ot the 4-H Coun
ty Council, will have the op
portunity to further their
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