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VOL. 12 NO. 6
EDITOR Norman F. Reber, center, points out some of the management fea
tures of his farm publication to Edwin F. Pox, left, and Miles W. Fry. Fox is pro
gram chairman for the "annual series of farm community meetings
hekL.at'.the- lincqln Independent School. Reber was the featured speaker this
week. .
Getting Farm Viewpoint To Public
b Job Of Farm Press, Editor Says
As- fanners decrease in num
bers. it becomes increasingly
important that the farm view
point be effectively carried to
the nomfaim public, a well
known editor told about 80
farm folks Wednesday night
Speaking at a community
meeting at the Lincoln Inde
pendent School, near Maitin
dale Dr Norman F Rebel,
editor of the Pennsylvania
Fanner,' said that his publica
tion. has been sending compli
mentary copies of each issue
to those who write and broad
cast to the general public
This is a continuing effort to
Specialists See
*6 l Outlook As
"Uncertain”
Two agricultural economics
extension specialists from Penn
Stale University told faimeis
ami allied mdustrymen Wed
nesday night that the faiin
outlook for 1967 is complicat
ed. with many uncertainties
Speaking at the Lancaster
Farm Credit Building, Charles
Porter and William Jonestone
pointed out several factors
about the outlook for 1967
(Continued on Page 12;
? The annual FARM SHOW section will he
? found on pages 13 through 20 of this issue of
£ Lancaster Forming. The section includes feature
J stories about the show, a story on Lancaster
t County’s FFA Keystone Farmer Degree winners,
5 and the complete Farm Show schedule. We sug
s gest you lift the section out .and take it to the
£ Farm Show with you. Other regular features of ;
♦ Lancaster Farming will be found in their usual i
* spots in the paper. j
AGRICULTURAL AND
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LIBRARY
M ■ PENNSYLVANIA STAfUMUVERSJTy ■
Annual Farm Snow Issue
inform the non-farm public on
some of the problems farmers
have in feeding the nation
Another phase of the le
sponsibility of the farm pi ess,
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Funk Begins 15 th
Term As SWCD
Chairman
Amos H Funk, Millersville
Rl, was reelected unanimous
ly Tuesday night to his 15th
term as chairman of the Lan
caster County Soil & Water
Conservation Distract
Also reelected at the direc
tors meeting at the County
Courthouse were vice chair
man Heniy H -Hackman, and
secretaiy-treasurer Garland E
Gingerich
Commissioner-m ember Ar
thur R Campbell, Ji an
nounced that the Board of
County Commissioners had ear
lier reappointed Funk to a
four-yeai term as director, and
himself to a one-year term
Hackman noted that the
date for the District’s an
nual banquet meeting for
1967 would be March 9. The
(Continued on Page 6)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 7, 1967
County Tobacco Assn.
Officers Reelecfed
The Lancaster Ooumty Tobac
co Glowers Association re
elected all officers for 1987 at
the annual meeting held in
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FORSAKING TOWN LIVING FOR THE FARM, Bob Groff began with a
few 4-H Club calves and built the identifying name of Groffdale into a symbol
;Ofe quality dairy cattle. - L. F. Photo *
Groffdale, A Family Dairy
F armßuiltWithGoodCo ws
by Everett Newswanger
Staff Reporter
Take a little winding stieam
flowing undei a wooden budge
and thiough the snow coveied
meadow, add a macadam lane
with one shaip cuive in it,
nestle a group of farm build
mgs between the creek and a
gently rising hill, include a
patch of evergieen trees heie
and there and you have the
Groffdale Family Farm, Quar
ryville R 3
Robert C. Groff came from
a long line of painters. But as
a boy he spent tame on his
grandfather’s farm because
“there wasn’t anything to do
in town” Here, Bob learned
to love animals and with his
4r-H Club animals (one a Luci
fer daughter) he started a
herd of registered Holstems
that still has maternal deseen
dents in his barn today
Bob really left town for
good when he took his 4-H
animals and joined in partnei
slup with the late George
jfci. F. Photo
$2 Per Year
Rutt in Denvei In the spring
of 1855 Gioff and his family
moved to then piesent loca
tion
The> farm 120 acres with
corn, alfalta and barley as
their mam field crops. The
piesent dairy herd consists of
35 cows and 40 heifers
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Rohrer Captures
Two Titles At
Tobacco Show
Purple ribbons in the filler
and wrapper classes went to
entries exhibited by Roy M.
Rohrer cf alt
Thursday - afternoon’s" Lancas
ter County , Tobacco Show.
This double win was a duplica*
tien of last year’s show wtoefi.
'the same two titles were won
by Melvin S Fisher, Straa
burg R 1
The 181-entry show, held a lt
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