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VOL. 11 NO. 52
Red Rose DHIA Directors Set
Banquet Date For January 17th
'At their quarterly board
meeting, directors of the Red
Rose Daii-y Herd Improvement
Association designated January
17 as the date for the next
annual banquet meeting, and
selected the Dutch Town &
Country Inn, Vintage, as the
site.
Meeting in the Livestock Ex
change Room at the Union
Stock Yards, Lancaster, on
Monday night, directors dis
cussed plans for the upcoming
annual event. Several possible
speakers were suggested by
program .committee chairman
Jay Garber, .but.no final deci
sion. - was . reached by-, board
members
SIX DIRECTORS’
TERMS EXPIRE
Association president Robert
Breneman- announced that the
terms of six of the directors
would expire, this year, and
that nominations, should be pre
sented, for.a membership vote
in--December.- Names of the
new-directors will he announc-
-
.directors, who 'are
Chliii?
£e«es, are: Association • -2,
Kenneth Shoemaker, Kirkwood
ftli Association 5-, Curt Akers,
Quarryville El; Association 8,
Robert Breneman,, Strasburg
BJt Association'll, Dieter.Lm-
Complaints Slow
Flans For Egg
Grade Change
‘MEW YORK Because of
complaints from numerous
dealers, Uvner-Barry Publica
tions has postponed from Nov
14 until next Feb 20 its plan
fox a spot quotation reflecting
the wholesale value of extra
large white eggs
The decision by the price
reporting firm was reached af
ter cartpners and wholesalers
charged that such a quotation
would cause major marketing
inconveniences.
fa announcing .the postpone
ment, the Urner-Barry editors
stated that “we still hold the
opinion that the volume of
extra large eggs moving
through the regular trade chan
nels justifies a clearly defined
market quotation on this grade,
just as carried on large, medi
ums and pullets”
Over the next three months,
the editors said they will check
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Farm Calendar
November ■28—7:30 p m., Coun
ty FFA Chapter meets at
■Garden Spot High School
November 29—7.30 p m , Com
unwnity watershed meeting
on Conoy Creek problems,
ait 'Agriculture room of Eliz
abethtown High School SOS,
®WCD and Vo-Ag teachers
do operating.
December 1—7:30 p.m., Eph
*afa Adult Farmer class, “Tr
*igaition— .Types of Systems”
High -School.
J de, Oxford Rl; Association 14,
i Samuel Kreider, Quarryville
t Rl: and Association 16, Harry
r M. Breneman, Quarryville R 2
t Three names will be present
i ed for each association by the
: (Continued on Page 6)
i
. Beef Club Prepares
i For County Roundup,
\ District Show & Sale
> Lancaster County agent M
: M. Smith' remiride'd 4-H Baby
1 Beef Club members this week
1 that the County Baby Beef
| Roundup will be held on Tues
day,-December 6,-at-the Lan
caster Stock Yards.
Steers should be brought to
j. the- S tock Yards between 8 and
, 11 o’clock Tuesday morning,
. Smith said At 1 p'm., steers
I to go to the Parin'Show in
. January will be selected,
s tagged and weighed. The coun-'
> ty quota' for Farm Show steers
■ this year will probably -be' 33’
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’ Holstein Assn*
, Announces Type
Scoring Changes
The type scoring program
fOr measuring the conforma
tion of registered Holsteins
will receive its first major
change in nearly 40 years in
January Holstein staff classi
fiers will be adding descriptive
information to their reports
of herd visits, according to
the Holstein' Friesian Associa
tion of America
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THEY GROW 'EM BIG IN LANCASTER COUNTY
THE AMF.RTr.A~NT INDIANS sure knew what they were doing when they
raised pumpkins with their Indian corn, but we doubt they ever grew any the
size of these beauties. This random group of golden big ones, seen recently on
.the Thomas Farm at Lititz RS, have since reached the end of “Pumpkin Lane” as
i- Jadc-Odianterhs, or, more recently, as pumpkin pie. L. F. Photo
BIOI.C- c;-l s
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 26, 1966-
Miss Royer To
Attend National
4-H Dairy Conf.
lAverril Boyer, 2025 Oregon
Pike r Lancaster, will be one of
seven 4-H Dairy Club members
from Pennsylvania attending
the National 4-H Dairy Con
ference in Chicago, December"
1-3. She will be representing
the state’s Holstein breeders
Miss Royer, 16-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Her
bert Royer, is a junior at Man
heim Township High School
Her ambition ns to become a
veterinarian. Long active in
4H dairy club affairs, she was
recognized at the County 4-H
Dairy Banquet October 28 with
'two outstanding awards She
topped the record book com
petition with a score of 96 4
out of a possible 100, and re
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Averril Royer
Pa. SWCD Directors Call
For Farm-Land Tax Break
At the 19th annual confer
ence of the State Soil & Wa
ter Conservation Commission
and the Pennsylvania Associa
tion of Soil and Water Con
servation District Directors,
Inc, held last v/eek at Lewis
town, further support was add
ed for the cause of changing
the state’s taxing system on
agricultural Land
The conservation directors
passed a resolution support
ing a tax break under state
law for land retained in the
production' of agricultural
crops as long as the land is
used entirely for that pur
pose. The resolution will go
to the SWCD legislative com
mittee which will then try to
get an appropriate state law
passed. - -
The directors expressed con
cern that _ the increased pres
sures ,of urban development
and industrial expansion on
Increasreth Need For Vocational
Agriculture Teachers Predicted
vocational agricul
m faces a critical
—•- «*■« ——
to Dr Ralph Barwirk associate
professor of agriculture ednra
tion at'.the University of Deta
ware The number of new
teachjn o notations will snpre»«e
bv nenrlv 25 neivent in the
next three vears but the num
her of students majoring in
agricultural education has de
creased' by ten percent m the
past five years
$2 Per Year
good agricultural land were in
direct opposition to the need
for continued food production.
They also felt that preserva
tion of open spaces could best
preserve Pennsylvama’s natur
al beauty Their tax-break pro
posal was designed to relieve
these combined pressures.
In a panel discussion mod
erated by Amos H. Funk,
Millersville Rl, Ralph W.
Hunter told the conservation
ists that only 11 percent of
the potential land in Penn
sylvania is under approved
conservation practices. Hunt
er, program specialist for the
State Soil & Water Conser
vation Commission, also stat
ed that, on the average,
only 36 percent of the prac
tices planned-for any particu
lar farm are ever actually
applied.
Another panelist, Elmer Sen
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Vocational agriculture is an
increasingly important _ field,
Barwick points out Agricul
ture today is a highly techni
cal business that requires ex
tensive training and a continu
ing education in production,
management, marketing and
financing. The new Vocational
Education Act makes programs
possible to train people for
(Continued on Page 12)
Guernsey Assn.
Elects Three
New Directors
M their annual banquet and
business meeting last Friday
night at Rhoad’s Spanish Tav
ern, Quarryville, members of
the Lancaster County Guern
sey Breeders Association elect
ed three new directors to the
board Named were Kenneth.
Garber, Willow Street Rl; An
drew Burtons, Drumore El,
and Clarence Harmsh, 2105
Pequea Lane, Lancaster.
The board of directors will
meet in the near future to
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More warm weather Is in
store for the next five days,
the weatherman says. Tem
peratures are expected to av
erage above the normal
range of 47 to 30 degrees.
The coolest part of the pe
riod will be over the week
end, with some moderation
beginning thereafter.
Little precipitation is in
sight for the period, with
less than 1/10 inch forecast
about mid-week.