AGRICUITURAI^IW
VOL. 11 NO. 48
MELVIN STOLTZFUS, HONKS R 2, studies the dip stick of his bulk milk
tank. Melvin has seen no drop in individual production records since moving his
herd from a conventional tie stall bam to a free-stall system. L. F. Photo
Wheeler McMillen To Speak At
Agriculture And Industry Banquet
Wheeler McMillen, former
editor of The Farm Journal
and nationally known agricul
tural expert, will be the fea
tured speaker at the Lancas
ter Chamber of Commerce
Agriculture and Industry Ban
quet, November 10’ at 7 pm
M. Maxwell Smith, Lancas
ter County extension agent
and chairman of the Cham
ber’s agriculture committee,
announced this week that Mc-
Mdlen will- speak on “Agri
culture’s Next Few Years.”
According to Smith, the ban
quet is designed to “bring to
gether the agricultural and
business communities to dis
cuss mutual interests” as well
as hear a noted authority
speak on- the future of agri
culture.
McMillen, born and reared
on an Ohio farm, began has
newspaper career as a report-,
or in 1911 and several years
teter purchased a weekly news
paper in Covington, Indiana
Farm: Calendar
October 29 29th and 30th,
Annual Horticulture Show at
Perm State University. -
November 2 1 p.m., DHIA
Supervisors, at Jacob Hous
er. Jr. home, Lampeter.
—7:30 pan., Agricultural oc
cupations meeting for Agr.
teachers and Guidance Coun
selors at Penn Manor High
School
P-m., 4-H Red Rose Baby
®®af & Lamb Club at Lam
peter Elementary 'School;
mbvies and roundup news.
November 3—6:30 pm, Lan
kier County Poultry Assn.,
“jmquet and annual meeting
®t Plain & . Fancy Farm Res
l*urant;^fiird-in®&m.d.! - <
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29, 1966
He returned to the farm in
1918, remaining there until
1922 when he Was appointed
associate editor of Farm and
Fireside.
Named editor-in-chief of The
Farm Journal in 1939, he also
held the same position with
Pathfinder from 1946 to 1992
and became a vice president
of Farm Journal, Inc, in 1955
In 1935, McMillen enlisted
the aid of Henry Ford and
others to organize the Nation
al Farm Chemurgic Council
and served as the organiza
tion’s president or chairman
until 1962.
McMillen is one" of the most
widely read authors of agri
cultural books in the nation.
Included among his numerous
works' are Land of Plenty; Har
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Goodwin Named
PSU Poultry
Science Head
Dr .Kenneth Goodwin,-poul
try geneticist, has been ap
pointed professor and head of
the' department of poultry sci
ence at Penn State university
Having received his early
education in the public schools
of Ossining, N. _ Y., Goodwin
enrolled at Cornell Univer
sity, " where ■he earned three
degrees: the bachelor of sci
ence in agriculture; the master
"of, -science in animal genetics
and histology; - and the doctor
of philosophy in animal genet
ics, with minor emphasis on
veterinary physiology and poul
try pathology. As an under
graduate and graduate student
at Cornell, he served as lab
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REMINDER
Don’t forget the Lancaster
County Poultry Association
annual banquet on Tuesday
November 3 6:30 p.m.
at the Plain & Fancy Farm
Restaurant, Bird-in-Hand.
If you haven’t gotten your
ticket yet, see your local
feed, hatchery or other
supplier; he may still have
some left. Although there
should be some tickets avail
able at the door, the rest
aurant only seats about 300;
if you buy your ticket now,
you will be sure of getting
a seat.
In addition to the good
food and good company, the
featured speaker Orvel
H. Cockrel, of the Watt
Publishing Co. is reported
ly a most enjoyable speaker.
This will mark the first
year since the old Lancaster
Poultry Association and the
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
joined forces that officers
and directors will be elected
at the banquet meeting. This
move was enacted by a
change in the association’s
by-laws at the last annual
meeting on March 17th.
US. Wheat
Stocks Lowest
Since 1952
All wheat stocks on October
1 were 16 percent less than a
year earlier and were the low
est October 1 holdings since
1952 Stocks of the four feed
grains totaled 58 million tons
—2O percent below last year
and 36 percent less than avei
age Stocks of each of the feed
grainls were below a year earli
er, and with the combined Oc
tober 1 tonnage averaged the
lowest since 1954. Rye stocks
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Mechanization Improves
Labor Productivity For
Ronks Area Dairyman
by Everett Newswanger
Staff Reporter
T . , . .
Labor accounts for about
one-foui th of milk production
costs according to the latest
reports of dairy labor trends
Because the skill and know -
edge necessary for farm woik
has increased faimeis find it
difficult to obtain an adequate
work force
To alleviate some of their
labor problems, farmers have
improved labor pioductivity
shaiply In the past decade
Sue Hershey Captures Top
Honors At 4-H Capon Show
Pei haps there’s something
about the air, or the water,
or just the 4-H’ers in the Lit
itz area 'that produces out
standing capons At any rate,
Tuesday’s capon loundup at
the Elks Club in Lancaster
marked the fourth consecutive
year that the winning entry
was shown by a Lititz aiea
> oungster
Ten-year old Sue Hershey,
who in hei first year of club
work last year had the le
CHAMPION CAPON TRIO shown by Barbara
Sue Hershey, Ldtitz Rl. Miss Hershey moved, from
reserve champion at last year’s show to grand
champion this year. The birds she exhibited were
from a flock of 250 young capons which she raised
this year. L. F, Photo
$2 Per Year
alone, nulk output per man
hour rose almost 100 percent.
And Melvin Stotofus, Ronks
R 2 es that labor 1S
decislve factol ,
About ten months ago>
sloK2fus moved hls 45 regis .
tered Guemsey cmvs from a
conVen . JOnal &table to m s new
60 . umt operation.
He bmlt a 20x60 sllo
a 72 ft bunk feeder beside the
two, 12x50 ft silos he did
bave A double-four, herring
bone milking pari 01 was
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serve champion capon entry*
Came back for the top award
this year Her too of 9%-
poxmd White Rock-Comasb
crossbreds were picked over
16 other entries by judge
Floyd Hicks, extension poultry
man from Penn State Uni
verse ty
Miss Hershey, the daughter
of Mr and Mrs H Richard
Heishey of Lititz Rl, its a
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