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VOL 31 NO. 28
Draft Deferments Could Ease
Critical Shortage Of Farm Labor,
State Agr. Department Says
If it-ca production is to be,
mainteired at levels to meet
the nc r »’s of a steadily grow
ing pcf-ilation, it may be nec
essarj for some technical and
skilled rarm labor to be eligi
ble for deferment from the
draft, Pennsylvania Secretary
of Apri:.ilture Leland H. Bull
said week.
State farmers are faced
Egg “Breaking”
Plants Get New
N Rules July 1
HAEF-I'SBURG New rules
and ret. ilations applying to
Penns:-h ania’s rapidly grow
ing use-rf liquid eggs and egg
products have been adopted by
the Stcte Department of Agri
culture
The ■ • >s set new standards
of san.tr tion for plants where
eggs ere broken out of their
shells, rrcked in bulk and
frozen cording to-State Agri
culture Secretary Leland H.
Bull
“They aie designed to as
sure ir'tenance of high qua
lity and ' holesomeness in this
expanc "5 phase of the poultry
business ’ Bull said. He point
ed out ’hat only two years
ago P?'.isylvania broadened
its egg program to
include irozen eggs as well as
shell eirs
The . des and regulations
were < .sited to provide for
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Zartman Wins District
Farm Mechanics Contest;
Runnerup In Region
by Bon Timmons
FOl second consecutive
yeai a I ncastei County Pu
tin e Fa' rei has won the Lan
castei-\<' k distnct Farm Mech
anics Contest, and finished
second n the regional division
ol this ei ciit which is annually
sponsore I bv the Pennsylvania
Faun Electiification Council.
Farm Calendar
June 13 1 pm, FFA Agr
Mediae cs Woikshop at
Lampetei Stiasbuig F S
730 pm, Ayislure-Jer
sev 4-H Club, at James Es
benshac.es, Quairyville R 2.
8 pn, Lancaster County
SWCD dn ectors, at County
Courthouse
June _ 730 pm. 4-H
County Council leorgamza
tion meeting, at Farm Credit
Bldg Lancaster
830 pm, 4-H Officers
Training meeting at Farm
Credit Sldg.
June 15 10 am, 4 H Straw
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with two serious labor prob
lems, Bull said after confer
ring with farm leaders John
Scott, of the Pennsylvania
State Grange, and Gerald Biggs
of the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, 'hie shortage of
held labor at planting, culti
vation,' and harvest periods,
and the possible loss of train
ed personnel to the draft are
fast becoming major farm
problems.
More than half of-the state’s
farmers are over 50 years old,
the farm leaders observed in
consulting with Brig. Gen.
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7 County Youths
To Attend Co-op
Summer Conf.
Seven outstanding, young-
Lancaster Countians will attend
a four-day meeting at Shippens
burg State College July 10-14
They are winners of the Co
operative Business Education
program held locally by Lan
caster Council of Farmer Co
operatives They will represent
the area at the summer insti
tute sponsored by the state as
sociation of farmer coopera
tives.
Those selected on the basis
of their quiz scores, and on
activities reports and inter
views were Alfred M. Wanner,
Jr, Narvon R 2; Ridhard Thom-
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Tom Zartman, 17-year-old
son of Mr and Mrs Ira Zart
man of Ephrata Rl, won the
district contest with his por
table cattle stock, a device he
will use to lestram cattle while
trimming their hooves This
massive piece of equipment,
with its framework of 6x6 oak
timbers, would appear to be
quite capable of restraining a
life-sized elephant
Although Tom’s prize money,
$25 for being first in the dis
trict and $4O for second-place
icgionally, only covered about
one-half of his total construc
tion costs, he will get many
year’s use from this piece of
equipment both for his own
and for custom work His in
vestment will probably be re
turned several times over.
Tom, a June graduate of
Ephrata High School, has long
been active in FFA and 4-H
Club' work and is presently
news reporter for the County
FFA Chapter. Each year dur
ing his high school career he
has raised and shown a 4-H
steer and several FFA steers.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 11, 1966
Daniel Martin Named
Inter-State Director
Daniel L. Martin of Man
heim El has been elected di
rector of Inter-State Milk Pro
ducers’ Cooperative, District
7, it was announced this week.
He was elected on June 1 by
Inter-State’s board of directors
to fill the unexpired term of
director B. Snavely Garber,
Wihow Street, who has re
tired from dairying. Garber
served as director of District
7 Irom November 1956.
The Martins farm 168 acres
on which they maintain a herd
of 45 registered Holstein cows
and 45 heifers. They also feed
20 bulls each year. Their cash
cicps are wheat and tobacco;
all other crops are fed to the
cattle.
Martin joined Inler-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative in
1963. For two years he served
as delegate of the Laitz Lo
cal to Inter-State’s annual
meeting, and for the past year
as president of District 7.
In 1945, Martin married
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Strawberry Exhibit
By 4-H'ers Jane 15'
The annual 4-H Strawberry
Exhibit has been set for Wed
nesday, June at the Holi
day Inn, Lititz Pike, Lancas
ter, according to associate
county agent Arnold G. Lueck
Members were advised that
the exhibit would begin
promptly at 10 a m Following
the roundup, exhibitors will
be the guests of the Lancaster
Rotary Club at its noon lunch
eon. i
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TOM ZARTMAN shown with his award winning portable cattle stock. Tom
won the Lancaster-York district phase of the FFA Farm Mechanics Contest, and
went on to become runnerup in the regional competition in what was described
by one authority as “a very close finish”. Zartman will use this piece of equip
ment for trimming hooves on his own steers, and for custom work.
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■SSPNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Lancaster County Chosen
As Site For 1967 State
SWCD Annual Convention
In a hotly contested voting
session last weekend, requiring
four ballots to reach a final
decision, members of the Exec
utive Council of Pennsylvania
Soil & Water Conservation
District Directors, Inc., ap
proved Lancaster County as
Frey Cow Tops
All-Time State
Butterfat Record
A registered Holstein cow
owned by J. Mowery Frey &
Son, Fultonway Farm, 401
Beaver Valley Pike, Lancas
ter, has completed a lactation
exceeding 30,000 j)ounds of
milk which also sets a new
Pennsylvania butterfat record
in the official herd testing pro
grams of the Holstein-Friesian
Association of America.
Fultonway Ivanhoe Rae
(VG), actually produced a to
tal of 30,863 lbs. of milk and
1,388 lbs', of butterfat in 365
days.
This production breaks the
previous all-time state record
for butterfat for mature Hol
steins milked twice daily in
the 365-day division of the
Herd Improvement Registry
program
Her record started at the
age of 5 years, 6 months. On
a two-times-per-day milking
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$2 Per Year
the site for the state asocia
tion’s 1967 convention, accord
ing to Amos H. Funk, chair
man of the Lancaster County
SWCD board of directors. The
occasion was the regular quar
terly meeting of the Associa
tion’s Executive Council at
State College. The council i»
composed of one delegate froaa
each county, or district.
Funk, as chairman of the
Executive Council’s operations,
committee which had the re
sponsibility for choosing a
site, did not take part in the
voting. But he said that each
of the three counties bidding
for the site Lancaster, • Le
high, and Somerset had 1
sufficient supporters among
delegates from other Pennsyl
vania counties that it took
four ballots for one of the
-three to secure a majority.
“This was somewhat more
competition for the site than
is usually the case,” Funk said.
In 1965, the State SWCD
had voted to change its by
laws so that a procedure coftld
be established for selecting
the annual convention sites
further in advance, Funk said,
adding that “oftentimes it had
not been known until the year
of the convention where the
site would be.”
At a joint meeting of the
county SWCD directors and
County Commissioners Ben
jamin F Weaver and Arthur
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