Cattle Meeting
To Feature Talk
On "Futures"
Cattle futures trading, a sub
ject of increasing interest to
Lancaster County cattlemen,
will be one of the highlights
of a conference on beef cattle
to be held December 8 at the
Lancaster Union Stock Yards
Sale Pavilion.
The conference, co-sponsor
ed by three area firms Lan
caster Livestock Exchange,
Reynolds & Company, and
John W. Eshelman & Sons
will begin at 7:15 p.m. next
Thursday. According to the
sponsors, all cattlemen in the
area are invited to attend.
Master of ceremonies for the
evening will be Levi H. Bru
baker, Rohrersto v/n, well
known Lancaster County farm
er.
Cattle futures trading as a
tool to assure profits for the
cattle feeder will be dis
cussed by Richard A. Reed,
commodity specialist with
the local office of Reynolds
& Company. Reed will ex
plain how futures trading
works and - how Lancaster
County cattlemen can use it
to their advantage.
‘Also on the program from
Harold H. Good
Terre Hill
H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc*.
Stevens Feed Mill, Inc.
Stevens, Penna.
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Reynolds -& Company will be
Angler B. Duke, a national
commodity specialist from New
York. Duke will discuss the
outlook for beef cattle and
what feeders can expect from
market trends.
Dr. John R. S. Fisher, di
rector of research for John W.
Eshelman & Sons, will discuss
the advantages of his com
pany’s product Red Rose
Cattle Wormer to the cat
tle feeder.
Representing the Livestock
Exchange, James Dunlap, pres
ident of Walter Dunlap &
Sons, will speak briefly on the
role of terminal markets in
the livestock marketing pic
ture.
Other speakers and guests
who will be included in a
panel discussion are: Milton
Marshall, cattle buyer, Cross
Bros; Forney Longenecker,
cattle feeder, and president of
the State Young Farmer Assn ;
Robert Heilbron, S. L. Heil
bron & Sons; and James C.
Dunlap.
The sponsoring firms added
that door prizes and refresh
ments will be included in the
evening’s two-hour program.
• Lancaster Auction
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• County FFA
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Garden Spot High School were;
William Buchter, Cloister
Chapter, vice president; Galen
Yoder, Grassland Chapter, sec
retary; Gerald Phillips, Solan
co Chapter, treasurer; John Da
vid Nissley, Manheim Chapter,
chaplain; Barry Nickel, Pequea
Valley Chapter, parliamentari
an; Clair Eib, Manor Chapter,
corresponding secretary; John
Kurtz, Elizabethtown Chapter,
sentinel: and Thomas Houser,
Garden Spot Chapter, reporter.
Forty-three Lancaster Coun
ty youths wall receive the Red
Rose degree, highest honor be
stowed on the county level, at
the January meeting.
Thomas Malm, vocational ag
riculture adviser for Lancas
ter and York Counties, an
nounced that 23 county youths
wall receive the Keystone
Parmer Degree at the 1967
Farm Show,
S. H. Hiestand & Co., Inc.
Salunga
Grubb Supply Co
, Elizabethtown
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 3, 1966
HOLDING HIS COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE at
a table which displayed some of the agricultural pro- 1
ducts which abound in Lancaster and Chester Counties,
retiring Congressman Paul B. Dague, right, received
the “thanks” of some 400 of his constituents at a recent
testimonial dinner. Left is Eugene McDowell, Lincoln
University, co-chairman for the Dague tribute which
was sponsored by the Lancaster and Chester County
Farmers’ Associations. L. F. Photo
• Dague
(Continued from Page 1) In further discussing the ag
seveial state legislators and XL nculture committee, of which
S. Representative-elect Edwin Dague was the ranking Repub*
Eshleman. hcan member, McLain said the
A special program “This Is decision to reduce its,size to
.Your Life, Congressman 25 members would probably-
Dague” featured a biographical make it more effective “We’ll
reading by "Mrs. David Holt, see better days on the commit-
Lincoln University, and a se- tee, and it will be more in
ries of slides highlighting some line with what you people in
of the Congressman’s memor- Pennsylvania want,” he added,
'able moments. Co-chairmen for the event
Featured speaker Marvin Me- were J. Robert Hess, Stias-
Lain, assistant legislative da- burg Rl, and Eugene McDow
rector of the American Farm ell, Lincoln University Rl Mc-
Bureau Federation’s Washing- Dowell presented the Congress
ton office, described Dague as man with a plaque from the
a Congressman who “had kept two farm organization groups,
close to his constituents,” who Dague, who spoke buefly,
was “patient and tolerant and commended the philosophy of
willing to listen and learn.” farmers in Lancaster and Ches-
McLam commented on the ter counties He said, “You are
fact that ten of the 21 Demo- a bulwark in this time of give
crats serving on the 35-mem- away” He added, “I’ve leaned
her House Agriculture Com- heavily on the Pennsylvania
mittee would not be returning Farmeis’ Association If I
to Washington as a result of didn’t take anything else to
the recent elections “These Washington with me 20 yea is
ten were the greatest boosteis ago, I took your philosophy ”
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