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VOL. 11 NO. 50
SPEAKERS AT AG-INDUSTRY meeting were, from left, George W Davis,
Wheeler McMillen, and .Samuel Dum. The banquet meeting, sponsored by the
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, replaces the former Business-Farm Day which
was conducted by the Chamber over the past five years. L, F. Photo
Groff Elected
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by ‘Everett Newswanger
-Staff Reporter '
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Robert C. Groff, Quarryviße
R 3, was elected president of
the Lancaster County Holstein
Association Tuesday evening.
following ai '. nu ~'
meeting held at the Dutch
Toivn and Country Hm, Van
tage He was formerly vice
president Groff succeeds retii
ing president Clarence Stauf
±eL Ephrata Rl.
Filling the vice president
pos non lett vacant by Giotts
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Robert C. Groff
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* HI
No\Tember 14—8 pm, Laneais
ter Qounty SWCD directors’
meeting at Host 'Farm Mo
ed. Lincoln Highway East,
_ Lancaster. "
Ncvember IS-dSth and 16th,
Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative annual meeting
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 12, 1966
County Group Title Returns To
Lancaster At Livestock Exposition
Lancaster' County youngsters
bad to 'be' contented with two
titles in this year’s junior
steer show at the 10th Penn
sylvania Livestock Exposition
alt, the. Farm Show Building,
Harrisburg. *
Their biggest win came at
the conclusion of Monday’s
show when they regained the
County Group of Five title
with a classy looking Angus
group shown by Donald Mil
ler, Elizabethtown Ril, Sharon
Weaver, New Holland HI; Rob
eit Donough, Mount Joy R 2,
C William Frey, Quarryville
K 2, and Lynn Heistand, Man
heam R 4
'The county group title had
nearly become a private pos
session for Lancastrians until
last year Prior to the 1965
show, the title had gone to a
Lancaster entry for the eight
consecutive years the Exposi
tion had been operating
Third in the county group
class last year, Lancaster 4-H
State Holstein
Annual Meeting
November 17-18
The Pennsylvania Holstein
Association win. told its 12th
annual convention November
17 and 18 at the Downlngifcown
Inn, Dowmngton, according to
association fieldman Nelvm B
Empet Holstein breeders from
southeastern Pennsylvania will
host 'the event
Tlie program will began at
9am on Thursday, the 17:th,
with a meeting of the execu
live committee, and will con
dude with the convenliion
banquet Friday‘evening
The banquet speaker will be
Edward J. Griffiths, a judge
in the Court of -Common Pleas,
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Beef Club members Oils year
placed above- clubs from York,
2, Chester, 3, Dauphin, 5,
and Lebanon, 6 Fourth place
went to an Ohio club
The reseive Angus title, the
highest win by a Lancaster
County youth in the individual
junior steer competition, went
to a summer yearling shown
by C William Frey Fiey’s
steer, “Mickey,” stood second
in its class to a Richard Ris
hel, York Counity, entry Af
ter looking over the 60-plus
Angus steers in the show,
judge Val Brungaidt of the
University of Wisconsin’s ani
mal husbandry department,
went with the same combina
tion—R.ishel and Fiey Anoth
er Frey steer, a senior calf,
won its class to piovide the
only first-place ribbon for a
Laneaoter County entry
Rishel’s Angus went on to
win the reserve champion
steer title in the junior show,
the top win going to a sum
mer yearling Hereford shown
by David .1 Greenbaig Jr oi
Montgomery County 7 In the
open class steer show on Tues
day, Greenberg exhibited his
steer to the number two spot
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County Atr Allocation
At $llO,OOO For 1967
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The ‘Lancaster County Agm
cultural Stabilization & Con
serration Service noted this
week that enrollment is now
open to county farmeis for
the 1967 Agricultural Consei
vation Program,
This year’s allocation of
sl'lo,ooo is available to farm
ers who may wish to take >ad
vantage of the cost-share as
saStance features of the pro
gram.
The 1967 program, os pnac
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Former Editor Predicts
Changes For Agriculture
With the barber shop quar
tet strains of “How Ya Gonna
Keep ’Em Down On The Farm”
still ringing in the hall, a
former editor of national prom
inence told some 300 Lancaster
Countians Thursday evening
about some of the changes that
F & H Directors
Vote To Build
Entire Center
The pioposed Farm & Home
Center will be bmlt in its en
tirety, it was announced this
week by Farm & Home Foun
dation publicity chairman John
H Hen
At a recent meeting, the
board of directors decided to
pioceed with the entire pioj
ect now, rather than building
only the office section now and
adding the general purpose
meeting room as funds per
mitted
Although public response to
the Foundation’s .recent plea
for additional funds did not
quite match the latest “chal
lenge” gift of $25,000, the
board was sufficiently encour
aged to proceed with plans for
the Center Financing in the
amount not contributed by
public pledges and contribu
tions is presently being ar
ranged with the Conestoga Na
tional Bank, Lancaster, Herr
said
Some details on the con
struction project are still un
der discussion with low-bidding
contractors, but it is anticipat
ed that these differences wall
be resolved in the next few
days The Foundation’s board
of directors will then meet to
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Young Farmers To Hold Annual
State Convention Nov. 15 At PSU
Act Alave Today, Be Alive
Tomorrow” is the theme for
the Seventh Annual Conven
tion of the Pennsylvania
Young Farmers Association, fo
be held November 15 at Penn
State University. All meetings
will be held in the Keller
Building with a banquet m
the Nkttany Lion Inn
Featured speaker will be
Warren G Weiler, State Su
pervisor of Agricultural Edu
cation in Ohio The Honorary
Young Farmer Award will be
presented to George D Derr,
of Harrisburg, past adviser to
the Young Farmers Associa
tion and former assistant su
pervisor of vocational agricul
ture in Pennsylvania.
Delegates from 40 statewide
chapters wall be welcomed to
the campus by Dr David R
McC'lay, head of the depart
ment of agricultural educa
tion at Penn State. Handling
local arrangements for the
convention committee is. Dr.
$2 Per Year
were driving youngsters away
from farming, and cited others
that would help make fanning
more profitable in the coming
years
Speaking at the agi iculture
industry dinner meeting spon
sored by the Lancaster Cham
ber of Commerce at the Dutch
Town & Country Inn, Vintage,
Wheeler McMillen charted the
progress made by American
agriculture since the country’s
founding in 1789 He pointed
out that progress in Amenca,
during the brief period of
three short lifetimes since we
became the United States of
America, parelleled progress
in American agriculture.
An Ohio-born farm boy, Mc-
Millen spent most of his life in
the field of communications,
rising to editor-in-chief of the
Farm Journal, a national farm
publication.
In praising American agri
culture, McMillen said that
“we’ve created a PATTERN for
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Milk Co-Op Sets
Annual Meeting
For Nov. 15-16
Local dairy farmers, who
are members of the Inter-
State Milk Producers’ Coopera
tive, will send delegates to
represent them at the 31st an
nual meeting of the bargain
ing cooperative m the Ben
jamin Fran Min Hotel, Phila
delphia, November 15 and 16,
the Cooperative announced
this week
The program, geared to
dairy farmers and then* prob
lems, will feature Drew Pear
son, noted writer and corres-
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Gene M Love associate pro
fessor oi agricultural educa
tion
Pi esiding at the opening
ceremony at 10 am will be
president Paul Kline, Lititz
R 3 The invocation will be
given by Jay Dilts, vice presi
dent of Region 5 Certificates
and pins for retiring officers
will be presented by H Bran
ton Gerhart, advisory council
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Temperatures for the next
five days are expected to av
erage below the normal
range of 53 to 35, with the
colder conditions prevailing
throughout the period.
Precipitation in the form
of rain is predicted for Sun
day night and Monday with
amounts totaling ii-inch.