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VOL. 11 NO. 47
LANCASTER COUNTY FARMERS ASSOCIATION SPEAKER Gerald A.
BiggS, president of the Pennsylvania Farmers Association, is flanked by Noah W.
Wtenger, left, president of the county association, and Harold Rohrer, PFA State
director for Adams, York, and Lancaster Counties. L F Photo
“The Maxivln The Mirror” Holds
Key To Success, Dairymen Told
_ dairymen run into
held health problems they are
inclined _ to blame everyone
butt the right guy, Penn State
Vniversilty extension veterinar
ian! Samuel Guss told some 185
area fanners Tuesday an an all
day*- dairy seminar sponsored
foy Miller & Bushong, Inc, and
held at the - Guernsey Sales
Bam, Lancaster
‘'Look in the. minor,” Guss
“There's where you’ll
find* the answers when your
cows ' don’t" get bred right,
own’* freshen on schedule, or,
oon’t clean night Your own
Management is the principal
factor in your, herd’s health,”
he. Bard.
Guss outlined a number of
dairy herd problems that are
often solved with, drugs, when
good management in 'the first
place would have avoided the
emblem H&-drew an enthusi
astic response when he sug-
Farm Calendar
October 25~ —-.6 45 am, Coun
ty 'Livestock Tour-leaves by
bus from Lancaster Shop
ping Center
—l-0 a.m, County 4-H Ciaipon
Club Exhibit at Elks Club,
21-9 N. Duke-St,’ Lancaster. .
October 27- 2’4s‘pra, 22nd
annual 'FFA leadership train- -
ing conference; at Warwick
High School, Litxtz
—7.45 pm, 4-H County
Council at Farm Credit
Bldg, Lancaster, Theme
“Citizenship m Action’’.
Speaker and panel,
October 28—9-:30 ani., Wayne
Dairy Field Day,, at James
[Kreider. farm, Quairyville R 1
—8:45 p.m., Annual 441
Daily Club banquet alt Meth
-1 o&ist Churcli, Quarryville.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 22, 1966
gested there were too many
“Cadiillac cows managed by
Model A intellects” an the
dairy business “and even
some Model T intellects,” he
added
Another speaker during the
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Farmers Told To
Beware Inflated
Hay Prices
HARRISBURG Pennsyl
vania . dairy and livestock
farmers, fighting off the crip
pling effects of another
drought year, face a new eco
nomic ithreat an sharply rasing
hay prices, State Agriculture
Secretary Leliand H. Bull de
clared this week
“Some suppliers In New
York and Ohio late last week
raised hay prices an average
of $lO a ton, especially when
dealing with buyers from
drought-stricken areas,” Sec
retary Bull said. “This could
be disastrous for Pennsyl
vania dairymen and livestock
farmers who have been buy
ing emergency hay supplies
in those states.”
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HJ22SS
The weather outlook for
the next five days calls for'
temperatures to average
near, or slightly above, the
normal range of 64 to 42 de
grees. The coolest part of
the period will be early next
week.
More rain is predicted
with amounts totaling up to
14-inch. This will occur
mainly about Monday,
Five Area Holsteins
Post- New Records
Five registered Holstein
cows in Lancaster Counity
herds recorded new produc
tion marks, according to the
Holstein-Friesian Association of
America.
A four-year-old, Spring Lawn
Lad Ax Vune, owned -by Jay
C Garber of Lancaster, pro
duced 16,730 M and 575 F
In the Robert C Groff herd,
Quarryville, eight-year-old
Groffdale Lucky Nina had 18,-
550 M, 614 F, in 312 days
Beauchamp Capper Ebony,
seven-year-old, owned by Kreis
le & Foulk of Quan-yville, had
17,560 M. 605 F, an 305 days
In the Clarence Murry herd,
Drum ore, a six-year-old, Kmr
view Patsy Edgeware, pro
duced 16,820 M, 594 F, in 348
days Wissler-Run Echo Ida,
three-year-old, had 17,640 M,
549 F, in 305 days
Milk Handler
Pool Fate Still
Undetermined
The fate of the Order 4 milk
handler pool has been in the
government's hands for more
than a year since itt was orig
inally marked for doom by ag
riculture secretary OrViUe
Freeman The final decision to
dump or retain the Order will
not now be forthcoming until
after election day
So said Jam els Honan, gen
eral-, manager, Inter-State Milk
Producers Cooperative, Wed
nesday night Honan, speaking
to nearly 200 dairymen at an
Inten&tate District 6 meeting
at Gap Fire Hall, said, “We
will not get an answer on this,
one way or another, until af
ter 'November 8”
Honan told the dairy farm
ers and thieor wives that 34
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Farmers Must Get Their Story To
Consumers Or Be Federal Wards,
County Association Members Told
The federal government has
a “Master Plan” that will ap
pear to supply cheap food to
this nation of consume! s by
leveling the price on agricul
tural pioducts and making up
the difference to the faiinei
through a dnect subsidy This
is the threat -which hangs ovei
the head ol the American
farmer, Pennsylvania Farmed s
Association president Gerald
Biggs told some 250 Lancas
ter County Fanners Associa
tion members Tuesday night
at theii annual meeting at the
Blue Ball Fnc Hall
The only alternative to this
master plan is foi farmers to
get them story across to Mis
Consumer, Biggs said “This
is a job you cant hire any
body to do, only the farmers
themselves can do it,” Biggs
stated.
The piesent food plight in
this country is “the result of
30-odd years of federal con
trols, which have been the
greatest failure and most cost
lv' program known to man
kind,” the PFA president said
He suggested that, if at the
close of World War 11, gov
ernment controls had been re
moved and farmers allowed to
seek their own levels an agn
cultural production, “we would
not be in the situation we are
in today Toda\ we’re pinned
down in one of the worst posi
trons imaginable for American
agriculture ”
Biggs said that in 1861 the
Brubaker Wins National
FFA Office; Becomes 2nd.
Countian So Honored
It was an exciting day at
Kansas Caity, Missouri, last Fri
day for Harold J Brubaker of
Mount Joy Rl, and it marked
an historic occasion for Lan
caster County
Nineteen-year-old Brubaker
became the second Lancaster
Oountian ever* to be named to
a national office in the Fu
ture Fanners of America when
he was elected vice president
of the 12-state North Atlantic
region
Brubaker, the son of Mr and
Mrs Paul N~ Brubaker, grad
uated from Donegal High
School m 1964 He is a mem
ber of the Elizabethtown FFA
Cnapter Presently, he is
studying animal husbandry at
Delaware Valley College of
Science and Agriculture at
Doylestown, and plans eventu
ally to follow a career an
veterinary medicine At the
moment, he hopes the duties
of his new office will permit
ham to finish the current se
mester at college.
Brubaker attended the na
tional FFA convention as a
S 2 Per Year
total gross agricultural income
was 534 billion while total pro
duction costs were Sl4 billion.
In 1965 total income was
billion and costs crept up to
$34 billion In 19&1 agricultur
al net income was S2O billion,
compared to the SlO billion
difference between costs and
income in 1965
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Livestock Exp.
Makes Ready For
Over 3500 Head
HARRISBURG Animals
in the 13th Pennsylvania Live
stock Exposition Nor 5-12,
will total over 3,500 Harold
R McCulloch manager said
this week Beef cattle, hogs,
sheep, and hoises in the main
event will total 3.254, well
'above average for these shows.
More than 250 mounts will per
form in the Pennsylvania 44HL
Horse Show closing event on
the week-long program
Beef cattle total 773. sheep,
1,092. hogs, 1044. and horses,
345 In the exposition tor the
first time will be Quarter
horses, with 147 head, and
Chai'okus beef breeding cattle,
With 68 entnes
Shorthorns lead in beef
breeding cattle with 101 head.
Angus fellow with 89, Palled
Hereford 83 Charolais, 93;
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candidate for the American
Parmer degree, lug best award
obtainable to FPA members.
Two other Lancaster Counti
ans (see Lancaster Farming,
Aug 20, 1966) also received
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Harold J. Brubaker