B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 28, 1966
Reflections
(From the files of Lancaster Farming)
One Year Ago
May, 1965
Gingerich Named SWCD
{Secretary At their regular
monthly meeting this week
(May 15), directors of the
Lancaster County Soil & Wa
ter Conservation District
named Garland Gingerich to
replace retiring district secre
tary Henry Givler. Gingerich
Is vocational agriculture teach
er at Penn Manor High
School.
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DHIA Observes Barn Re
modeling on County Tour
Approximately 40 county dairy
farmers and other interested
persons joined a four-farm
tour, sponsored by the Red
Rose Dairy Herd Improvement
Assn., to observe barn remod
eling jobs.
The group, under the lead
ership of DHIA adviser Vic
tor Plastow, associate county
agent, and Roger Grout, Penn
State extension engineer, vis
ited two farms using free stall
housing, and two with com
fort stalls.
They also saw such labor
eaving items in use as auger
fed bunk feeders, liquid ma
nure handling equipment, and
homemade manure scraping
devices.
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New Pa. Agriculture Build
ing Dedicated The new
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture building was of
ficially opened this week (May
8), when Governor Scranton
cut the ribbon from the seat
of a tractor in a dedication
ceremony.
According to agriculture
secretary Leland H. Bull, the
new building has been in use
since last December, and has
enabled his department to ex
pand its various services For
example, he said, an increas
ing number ot farm organiza
tions have shown interest in
Smoketown, Pa.
using the conference room fa
cilities. Meetings and confer
ences in the building have av
eraged nearly one a day, Bull
added.
Funds for the $2.9-million,
four-story structure were au
thorized by the 1959 State
Legislature.
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Tobacco Grown Under Plas
tic Planted May 12 A New
Holland area farmer, Ben F.
Martin, transplanted 2,000
plants on May 12 and 3,000
more plants three days later.
This would seem to be one of
the earliest tobacco plantings
in the county this year.
Martin, a steer, broiler, and
crop farmer, raises eight
acres of tobacco each year.
This year he planted the long
season Penn Bel-69 variety
under plastic, following rec
ommendations of the South
eastern Pennsylvania Field Re
search Station.
He planted his seedbeds on
March 16, and was no sooner
finished* than a 5-inch snow
blanketed the beds, providing
all the moisture he found he
needed for the next four or
five weeks.
Martin said the reason he
wanted to have his tobacco
crop ready early was for bet
ter utilization of available la
bor in the fall.
Shuman Hits Federal Farm
Legislation at PFA Meet
Speaking to 200 members of
the Pennsylvania Farmers
Assn, at a meeting near Har
risburg this week (May 29),
Charles B. Shuman, president
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, labeled current
farm programs the “same old
junk ”
“Another 25 years under
the sort of farm programs we
have now, and we won’t need
a million farmers, as Presi
dent Johnson suggests; 100,-
000 will be too many because
we’ll have priced most farm
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commodities. .right out of the
market,” Shuman said.
He said . that , current''Ad
ministration thihklng on farm
legislation seems designed? to
put a premium on inefficiency.
“The proposed graduated pay
ments to farmers will be used
as a wedge,” Shuman,,, ex- 1
plained. “The man prodjicinga
smaller amounts, as with ,'xic€
and wool, would receive high
er payments than the larger
producer. With this approach
it won’t take long to raise
food prices to consumers,” he
predicted.
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DHIA Vote Tester Pay
Raise; Support F & H Fund
Red Rose Dairy Herd Improve
ment Assn, directors voted to
raise the pay of association
testers by five cents per cow
at a regular meeting held this
week (May 29) at the Farm
Bureau Bldg.
The approved raise was the
first for the testers in five
years, and followed last yeai’s
move to allow one week’s va
cation time each year.
The board also voted a
pledge of $2OO for its 483-
member association to the
Lancaster County Farm &
Home Foundation Fund. It
was felt that even though
many association members
were supporting the Fund in
dividually, the association
would have many occasions to
use the facilities of the pro
posed Farm & Home Center,
and should, therefore, support
it as an organization.
In other business, the di
rectors elected Curtis Akers,
Quarryville Rl, as secretary,
replacing Clair Griffiths "who
recently resigned.
USD A To Terminate Milk
Order No. 4 The United
States Department of Agricul
ture this week (May 22) an
nounced it is considering ter
mination of >the Delaware Val
ley Federal milk marketing
order, which sets minimum
prices paid to farmers for
milk distributed in the Phila
delphia - Wilmington - south
ern New Jersey areas.
The reason given for this
action was the belief by
USDA that the present order
may no longer carry out the
original intent, as illustrated
by the recently revealed wide
spread action of undercutting
Dow weed and grass killers and this new leaf lifter
Control weeds and grass in corn for $1 an acre
Here's how Dowpon* grass killer controls foxtail or pigeon grass and also other annual
seedling grasses. Mix it with Esteron* 99 or Formula 40* weed killers to control pigweed,
lambsquarters, wild mustard and other broadleaf weeds. Then mount a leaf lifter on your
cultivator and spray away. Field tests showed weeds and grass controlled ... a 10%
increase in corn yields . . . and no carry-over of chemical in the soil to interfere with future
crops. We have everything you "need, Stop in today. • Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company
Rt. 422 East, Lebanon, Pa.
established minimum order Jefferson County, ;h*« - joined
prices.
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Five Year* Ago
1 Pequea FFA Elects' Eby
‘John 'W.°:EBy,:•‘Jr.‘J'i,Gcffdon
-sfViJfle 'ftl, 'wins n 'elected’ ,, ’ l£resi
'dent r 6f ri thV Valley
Chapter of Future ‘ Famfefrs of
America at a recent meeting
in the high school.
Glen E. Esbenshade, Para
dise 111, was chosen chapter
vice president. Other officers
were: Benjamin L. Clark, sec
retary; Dale B. Hostetter,
treasurer; Richard S. King,
reporter; Donald H. Ranck,
sentinel; Lester 0. Houck,
chaplain.
County Corn Demonstration
Plots Planted The Lancas
ter County corn demonstra
tion plots were planted this
week (May 20) on the Lime
Spring Farm, Running Pump
Ed., Lancaster Rl, and on the
farm of Glen Wissler, Eph
rata Rl.
The plots, called by Penn
State agronomists “the most
significant corn demonstration
plots in the state,” have been
planted each year since 1943
Resistance to disease, insect
damage, wind, drought, and
wet weather, as well as yield
on the 30 commercial and ex
perimental varieties, will be
compared.
Vo-Ag Teacher Joins East- ent, there are 80 poultrymen
ern High School Staff R cooperating in Maine, wheie
Gene Daugherty, formerly of (Continued on Page 12)
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present teacher, Robert D.
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four high school classes,' and
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time with the young farmui
program.
NEPPCO Presents Record
Plan to Local Poultryinen
The Northeastern Poultry’fro
ducers Council (NEPPCO)
told poultrymen this week
(May 27) at the Lancaster
County Poultry Center of A
new system of record -keep
ing being offered to egg pro
ducers by NEPPCO.
Alfred Van Wagenen, di
rector of research foi
NEPPCO, told county ponltn, -
men, feed dealers, and urn
versity extension personnel
the fundamental purpose of
the program is to establish a
uniform language which will
give, comparable data for
flocks in any area.
Under the proposed pro
gram, the poultryman would
keep pen records on forms
supplied by NEPPCO. At the
end of each four-week record
period, the data would he
mailed to NEPPCO for proc
essing on electronic equip
ment.
Van Wagenen reported the
program had been in develop
ment for 18 months. At pres-
Phone (AC) 717 - 273-1681