H—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 30, 1966
Reflections
(From the files of Lancaster Farming)
One Year Ago
April, 1965
Milk. Bills Pending
In Legislature
About 30-odd milk bills
are presently bottled-up in
the Pennsylvania State Leg
islature, according to Hollis
Hatfield, administrative secre
tary of the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association.
He told members of the
Lancaster County Farmers
Association at their Spring
meeting that the bills could
be divided into two major
Categories; repeal of the milk
control law; and amendment
of the law.
He said feeling is running
la favor of a law change be-
mean
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Lancaster
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Wilbur H. Graybill A. L. Herr & Bro,
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Chas. J. McComsey
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Allen H. Matz
Denver
In response to increasing
pressures of population
housing, factories, shopping
centers, roads, etc. the
Lancaster County Soil & Wa
ter Conservation District di
rectors voted to study the use
of natural resources in the
county. This will be a pre
liminary step to possible ex
pansion of the district’s
present conservation activi
ties.
The directors were told by-
Boyd Kinzley, field represen
tative of the State Soil Com
mission, that other districts
have embarked on such stud
ies, and that some have for
mulated long-range plans for
best use of district resources.
* * • *
Hubers Combine Flying
„ „ , and Farming
It a man feeds more than David and Charlotte Hu
-300 steers, he can afford an jjer their five children
auger and a fence-line feed combine the best of two
bunker, Burdette said. worlds farming and flying.
* * * * The family operates a dairy
Scranton Keynotes Challenge farm near Pea'eh Bottom,
At Agr, Conference which includes 32 registered.
Governor William W. Scran- Holstem cows and one , 1800 -
ton told 600 agriculturalists £ 00 (- Ending strip for their
at his conference on agricul- Pl , per air c ra ft.
ture this week that Pennsyl- * * # •
cause of recently disclosed
improprieties in the Pitts
burgh area, and he recom
mended that legislators re
train from action pending the
outcome of the Pittsburgh
hearings.
Use A Shovel If Feeding
Less Than 100 Steers
A shovel is about all the
mechanization justified for a
fartner feeding less than 100
steers, extension livestock
specialist Lester Burdette
told area cattlemen at a re
cent meeting.
He warned that money in
vested in mechanical equip
ment won’t pay the small
feeder as great a return as
the same amount invested in
corn land.
vama has the greatest po- ypA Active In County
tential of any state in the (gy definition, a young
eas *’ farmer is any farmer willing
He recommended a detail- t 0 i e arn, says the YFA state
ed study be made of the motto.
manpower needs for produc- jn Lancaster County area
ing food in the US. with there are approximately 250
the idea of determining , the farmers ranging in age
place of agriculture in the f rom about IS to 58 ei
nation, and Pennsylvania’s ther enrolled in formal
place m the agricultural pic- y o ung Farmer classes, or par
ture. ticipating in the on-farm
He proposed a committee phase of the program,
of agricultural leaders be Farn ier pro
formed to work with Secre- ine Youns * JL
tary of Agriculture Leland f am developed from the G.I
H. Bull in planning the * at ™ l<med
state’s future fn 2nd orld War ' Many of
* * , * the members are former serv-
_ icemen Who didn’t go into
POOgOBOCWOOOBac farming until after the war.
A. B. C. Groff, Inc.
New Holland
Longenecker
Farm Supply
Rheems
Chet Long
Akron
Mis* Wlvell Delegate Te
4-H Conference
Virgin!* Wlvell of Colum
bia R.l baa been named a
delegate to attend the Na
tional 4-H Conference in
Washington, D.C. at the end
of tbis month.
• * * *
SWCD To Study Land Uae
Young farmers in the six
formal programs in Lancas
ter County probably have a
.RESIDENTIAL
total farm irfvwstiwent ,ot ap'-. vlce-pr«tfdent; Joaii - Michael,
proxlMateiy $7-milHon. Lltita 112, secretary; " Roger
• - • • • * Thome, Mbunt Joy R 2, treat-
Five Years Ago
April, 1961
Farm Price Declines Third
Straight Month
Although the average lev
el of prices received by farm
ers was the Same as one
year ago, . March represented
the third 'consecutive month
that prices have dropped.
Mainly higher egg prices,
over year-ago levels, were re
sponsible for keeping the
farm price average up. Live
stock, milk and produce were
all under year-ago figures.
Hess Elected Sr,
Extension President
Jaimes A. Hess, Strasburg
Rl, was elected president of
the Lancaster County Senior
Extension Club Thursday
(April 6).
Hess is a former delegate
to Peru in the International
■Farm Youth Exchange ,(IP
YB) program.
Other pfficers elected were;
Warren Miller, Columbia R 2,
Corn Planting Time Is Here
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Fertilizer available-in bulk/ bog or liquid
Contact yoiir AGRlCO'djealer or
Lancaster Warehouse' - .
Roy Zimmerman - 569-2361
Churchtown Warehouse - '
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of Sales Representative -
B. G. Hoffman - 367-1650
urer.
• *
Farmer* Cautioned Against
Bank Plowing
Conservationist Amos Funk
pointed out that corn won’t
grow on asphalt, and urged
farmers to cease Working
their fields wo close to the
roads.
The Lancaster County Soil
& Water Conservation Dis
trict, of which Funk is chair
man, has united with the De
partment of Highways in a
campaign to cut down on this
dangerous farming practice.
‘‘The tractor
turning around on roadways
is % hazard to auto traffic,"
■he said.
John Detz, county superin
tendent of highways, said
that plowing too 'dose to
highways can hurt the farm
er financially, as well as
physically, by cutting oft
proper drainage.. When drain
age ditches are broken down
by plows it costs all the tax
payers 'money to have them
repaired.
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