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VOL. 12 NO. 4
R, L. Kimble To Direct New Pa,
Meat Animal Evaluation Center
HARRISBURG State Sec
retary of Agriculture Leland
H Bull has announced the ap
pointment of Robert L Kim
ble, Bellefonte R 2, as director
of the new Meat Animal Eval
uation Centei at University
Park
The center, aimed at the ef
ficient production of quality
meat, has been erected by the
State Department of Agricul
ture on the grounds of the
Penn State University with
General State Authority financ
ing It is scheduled to start
operating in mid-January
Kimble, a native of Tioga
county where he graduated
from Liberty Joint High School,
earned a bachelor of science
degree in animal husbandry
from the University, and for
the past six years has been on
its county agricultural agent
staff.
He has been associate agent
in Centre-county where he. had
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.Care Ur ged In
Handling 1966
Tobacco Crop
Growers attending either of
the two’ Agway meetings Tues
day at the New Holland ware
house were urged to use spe
cial care in handling the 1966-
crop tobacco because of the
high stem moisture and shed
frozen leaves on late maturing
tobacco.
Ray Link, sales specialist for
the Agway tobacco divisioi
said, “This is a different crop
than you’ve had for three or
four years The late tobacco
has a lot of gum in it, and
should be stripped on the dry
side ”
USDA grader Leonard Ford
told the growers, “The small,
late tobacco has done all the
curing it’s going to do If you
have some of this, have it iso
lated and marked We feel the
best advice we can give is to
take the fillers off and straight
strip the rest ”
'Both Ford and Mark S.
Hess, director of Agway’s to
bacco division, stressed that
they were not running down
the 1966 crop as a whole,
although they felt that on
the average it was not up to
. 1965-crop quality. How much
actual shed damaged tobacco
there is around the county
has not yet been fully assess
ed, Hess said.
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Farm Calendar
December 29 7 30 pm, Eph
rata Adult Farmer Class,
“Income Taxes”
December 30 1 30 p m., Lan
caster County Farmers Assn
meeting on “Eminent Do
main Laws”, at Mount Joy
Fire Hall.
1:30 p.m., 4-H Corn & To
bacco Exhibit at Bayuk Cigar
' Co. Warehouse, 850 North
” Street, Lancaster,
charge of the extension live
stock program In college he
was a member of the livestock
iudging team and was treasur
er of the Little International
Livestock Show and the Block
and Bridle Club
Five Area Cows
Get "Excellent”
Classification
■Five Lancaster County leg
istered Ilolsteins on four Lan
caster County dairy farms have
been officially classified “Ex
cellent”, according to the Hol
stein-FrieSian Association of
America.
This highly-coveted designa
tion is applied only to animals
scoring 90 or more of the 100
possible points representing
perfection in body conforma
tion. ,
~ Two cows in the herd of J.
Robert' Hess, Strasburg Rl,
scored'“E”- for the-first time—
Dachlea' Ridge Citation .Silver,
91 points; Moo-Haven Queenie
Gracious, 90 points.
■Groffdale Reflection Delight,
owned by Robert C. Groff,
Quarryville R 3, scored 91
points
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FROM ALL OF US AT LANCASTER FARMING TO ALL OF YOU
: —A. VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 24, 1966
Conservation
Tech. Squires
To County SCS
Conservation technician Cle
ment Squires recently began a
new assignment with, the ied
eral Soil Conservation • Serv-.
ice in Lancaster County," ac
cording to an announcement
this week by SOS County work
unit conservationist Orval A
Dass
Squires, who has been with
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Clement W. Squires
1967 Outlook For Farmers
Good On Gross; Slightly
Lower On Net Returns
by Don Timmons
Faimeis in Pennsylvania and
in the nation can expect an
mciease in cash leceipts m
1967, accoiding to the 'out
look specialists” in the U S
Department of Agncultuie
The economists tell us that
puces of some commodities
will be higher notably, milk,
beef, and some grains But on
the down-side, government pay
ments to fanners will be less
and production costs will con
tinue then upward spiral
In summary, economists see
a net farm income in the com
ing year that may be as much
as five percent under the near
record level set in 1966, still
well above most other recent
years.
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
Although food prices are not
expected to .go up as much
next -year as they did in 1966,
they will be higher the ex
perts say However, food ex
penditures will not increase
as rapidly as consumers’ dis
posable income So, will they
eat more, or less’
On the gram side, consum-
$2 Per Year
eis will eat moie. say the
economists, anticipating more
plentiful giain supplies They
look for consumption of live
stock pioclucts to hold about
steady howevei
The demand foi food goes
beyond state and national bor
ders It is impossible to esti
mate food consumption with
out considering what purchas
es the military will require,
whether the state of the war
in Vietnam will accelerate or
decelerate, and what foreign
demand will be.
World food shortages in
1966 stimulated a strong,
worldwide demand and exports
reached new highs U. S. pop
ulation continues to increase.
We conclude that, although per
capita consumption of food
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LCFAToAir
Eminent Domain
Laws Dec. 30th.
The Lancaster County Farm
ers’ Association will hold, a
meeting at the Mount Joy Fire
Hall to discuss and review
some of the laws of Eminent
Domain, association president
Noah Wenger of Stevens Rl
announced this week
The meeting, which will be
held on the 30th ot December,
Fudav, at 130 pm, will fea
ture Hollas Hatfield, admims
tiative secretary of the Penn
sylvania Farmeis’ Association.
“This meeting is being held
in the Mount Joy area ” Wen
ger said “because landowners
m that vicinity have expressed
concein ovei land condemna
tions making way foi the pro
posed By-Pass ” But Wenger
stressed that the meeting dud
not indicate any official resis
tance to the By-Pass, nor to its
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A White Christmas? You
better believe it! The weath
erman is calling for tempera
tures to average below the
normal range of 39 to 24
degrees with cold readings
prevailing throughout the
period, Saturday through
Wednesday.
Snow for our area is sche
duled for Saturday. The
w'eatherman says amounts
will probably be greater than
'/2-inch, melted that means
more than five inches of ac
tual snow. He doesn’t think
this has the makings of a
really big storm though.
We’re going to second-guess
him this time, and look for
amounts of the white stuff
approaching 10 inches! Just
got .that feelin’, folks.
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