VOL 21 NO. 26
NEFPCO Board Hits Railroads
For Action On New Freight Rates
WASHINGTON, D. C. At
its res eat semi-annual meet
ing, the Board of Directors of
the Northeastern Poultry Pro
ducers Council endorsed a
plan which will again at
tempt to obtain a reduction
ot fte.rht rates on feedstuffs
moving into the northeast.
The action was necessary due
to the recent withdrawal of
the Ne%v York Central Rail
i odd’s proposed rate sched
ule The new schedule had
been withdrawn because of
the ICC's approval of the
Pennsy-Central merger. The
Board \ filed to use every legal
means available to pressure
the new Penn-Central Ratl-
SWCD Directors
Hold Planning
Meeting
in a-continuing effort to de
velop ?b overall, workable
plan foi the future develop
ment of Lancaster County, the
Soil & Water Conservation
District directors held a dis
cussion meeting Wednesday
night with Ellis Harned, Lan
caster County Planning Com
mission Director
In the informal exchange of
ideas which followed, it was
emphasized by chairman Amos
Funk that the district was
anxious to find out how its ac
tivities could best be coordin
ated with those of the com
seive the interests of the
county, and at the same time
piotect the Class I and II
faim land
Harned briefly reviewed
county planning studies in re
lation to soils and physical
characteristics He further de
fined the role of the county
planning commission as an ad
visoiy agency “It has no reg
ulatory authority,” Harned
said, “except for sub-division
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Farm Calendar
May 30 12 noon to 2 p.m,
4-H Capon Club members
will pick up their birds at
the Mervin Peifer farm,
Manheim R 1
May 31 8 pm, Lancaster
County Pomona Grange at
White Horse Fire Hall
June 1 Deadline for Dairy
Pi incess Contest applica
tions.
8 pm, Red Rose 4-H
Baby Beef & Lamb Club at
John Neff School
June 2 7 pm, 'Twilight
taut giowers’ meeting in
Chester County at Hayman’s
Noithbrook Orchards, Route
872, fi\e miles west of West
Chester.
June 3 6-30 p.m, Lancaster
County Farm Equipment
Dealers Assn, spring meet
ing, at Meadow Hills Dining
Hall, New Danville Pike,
Lancaster.
road Jo, adopt the proposed
rates once the merger between
the two carriers becomes ef
fective.
Other business items dis
cussed by the Board included
mission to develop a long
range plan which would best
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Area Fall Fair
Schedule Set
Although there is still a
long, hot summer between
now and the Country Fair
circuit which in Sep
tember, the Pennsylvania De
partment of Agriculture re
cently posted schedules for the
105 fairs booked for 1966 in
the state.
The fairs will share in the
distribution of state funds as
partial reimbursement for
premiums paid out in 1965.
According to State Secretary
•of Agriculture Leland H.
Bull, ’whose department dis
tributes the- state fair funds,
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES' That’s all that separates the
tobacco plants shown here by Robert Mylin; those on the left are one day older.
Mylin covered half of his seedbeds this year with plastic, and the other half with
conventional muslin. The field-improvised “growth board” was set up to show
the extreme difference in size caused by the two growing methods. The plants on
the left, grown under plastic, range between six and ten inches in height, while
those grown under muslin average short of two inches. Mylin, a dairyman at
Willow Street R 2, grows about eight acres of tobacco each year. L. F. Photo
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 28, 1966
Beef Club To Vote
On Steer-Purchose
Plan Alternatives
Red Bose 4-H- Baby Beef
and Lamb Club members will
meet next Wednesday, June 1,
at the John Neff School at
Neffsville High on the agen
da will be a vote to decide
the future of the 130-member
club’s calf-buying program.
At the previous meeting, the
issue was debated by two,
member teams, and three al
ternative plans were present
ed for consideration: I—all
members would be responsible
for purchasing their own
steers, instead of the present
plan under which steers are
purchased in large lots by
county extension personnel
and the club’s leaders. 2
the present plan would be
continued, and no member
could buy individually; 3—a
compromise plan combining
both alternatives which would
allow any member who de
sired to buy his own animal.
Following the vote on that
important issue, Dr. Sam Guss,
extension veterinarian from
Penn State University, will
speak on the subject of “Baby
Beef Health”
Spring Comes On Schedule
For Tobacco Plants Under
Plastic, Grower Finds
by Don Timmons
Although Spring seemed to
bypass Lancaster County this
year, it must really have been
here all the while Half of
the tobacco seedlings on the
Robert Mylin farm at Willow
Street R 2 felt its warmth
right through the roof of
their plastic-enclosed world.
And they responded with a
mighty growing effort. The
other half of this year’s as
piring tobacco crop only shiv
ered as Spring slipped cold
ly by.
Mylin planted four seedbeds
this year. He covered two of
these with muslin and two
with plastic He also planted
two varieties Penn Bel 69
and Hill Island one of each
under plastic and the same
under muslin. The only dif
ference in treatment under
the two systems, he said, was
that the plastic-covered seed
beds were planted one day
$2 Per Year
earlier than the others.
plants under the plastic re
ceived some ammonium ni
trate fertilizer when they were
big enough The plants under
the muslin never got big
enough for that treatment.
By last weekend, the plants
grown under plastic were
ready for the field Those un
der muslin were doing their
darndest to “think tall,” but
their best efforts only pro
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Red Rose FFA
Slates Summer
Schedule
At a meeting Monday nigh*
at Ephrata High School, mem
bers of the Red Rose Futui’e
Farmers of America Chapter
initiated scheduling on most
of their summer show and
social activities
The Elizabethtown Chapter
was delegated to handle the
county FFA sport schedule,
which will feature inter-chap
ter baseball competition.
The annual FFA Swine
Show has been set for July
26, beginning at 8 am, at
Lancaster’s Union Stoclc
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DHIA Directors And
Testers Plan Meeting
Dnectors of the Red Rose
Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation voted Monday night,
at a meeting in the Lancas
ter Farm Credit Building, to
hold a social get-together with
the association's 17 testers so
that each could gain a better
understanding of the other’s
problems. While it was decid
ed discussion at the meeting
would be recorded by the sec
retary, the directors also
agreed that no action would
be taken at the social meet
ing
Directors Allen Risser and
Daniel S Stoltzfus were nam
ed as a committee by board
piesident Robert Breneman to
plan the event for late July
or early August
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Weather Forecast
The weatherman promises,
in his words, “near-perfect”
weather for the weekend.
The five-day outlook calls
for temperatures to average
near normal, or slightly be
low.
Some shower activity Is
expected Saturday as a cold
front moves into the area,
and scattered showers are
predicted again about Tues
day. No general rain pattern
Is in sight for the period.