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VOL. 12 NO. 8
State Rules On
"Egg Breakouts”
Effective Feb. 1
Harrisburg New rules,
and regulations governing the
operation of so-called ‘Egg
Breakout Plants’ will be put
into'full force and effect Feb
ruary 1, it was announced by'
Clarence W Funk, director of
the Bureau of Markets, Penn
sylvania Department of Agri
culture.
Actually, the new regulations
were effective last July 1, but
the state’s egg inspectors have
been working for the past half,
year with the individual mem
bers of the industry to help
bring facilities and procedures
into line with the require
ments, Funk said.
The new rules apply to
operations in which eggs are
broken from their shells and
prepared in liquid or frozen
form for bakeries and other
institutions.
Unlike some states, Penn
- sylvania rules demand that
eggs he .of .Grade A quaßty.
' before .they,- : are’ J hr6keu -,if;
. they acel'to- h'tTceftfficd-itf: :
- the liquid form. .
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Top County Dairy Herds Honored
At 1967 Red Rose DHIA Banquet
Nineteen Lancastei County
dairymen were honored Tues
day at the annual Red Rose
Dairy Held Improvement As
sedation's annual banquet
meeting at the Dutch Town ’
Country Inn, Vintage More
th!an 400 persons attended.
Lelading the county for the
second consecutive year was
the registered Holstein herd
of .1 Mowery Frey, Jr, 401
Bsaver Valley Pike, Lancas
ter Frey’s high butterfat av
erage of 074 pounds topped
has last year’s record by three
Farm Calendar
January 23 6:30 p.m., 4-H
Leaders’ annual banquet at
Meadow Hills Dining Hall,
New Danville Pike, Lane.
—-7:30 pm., Lancaster Coun
ity SWOD directors St Court
house.
—7:30 p.m., Lancaster Coun
ty Swine Producer's Alssn.
meeting on “Swine Diseases
& Health”, at Lancaster
Stem Credit Bldg.
—7:30 pm, Red Rose FFA
'Chapter at Elizabethtown
High School, -Installation of
officers and awarding of Red
■Rase Degrees.
January 24 7.30 pm, Farm
Records Course at Ephrata
•Hugh School, “Farm Record
Keeping Systems”.
—7:45 p.m., County, Poultry
Aissn informational meeting
at Lititz Community Center
—•■’Preserving Your Right to
Farm”.
—7.45 p.m., Lancaster Coun
ity Central 4-H Tractor Club
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DR. D. L. BIEMESDERFER, right, chats with
Red Rose Badly Herd Improvement Association presi
dent*-Robert A. -Brepeman of. Strasbourg R 1 following
the annual ' Tuesday
Biemesderfer, former president'
College, was the featured speaker at the affair.
L. F. Photo
pounds The Fiey- herd has
finished among the top three
county herds m fom of the
last five yeans,
High butterfat citations for
leadeis in other breeds went
to- Raymond and Louise Wit
mer, Willow Street Rl, Guern
sey, James Martin, Stevens
Rl, Ayi shire, William P Ar
rowsmith, Peach Bottom Rl,
Jersey; and David W Swei
gart, Elizabethtown R 3, Mixed
DIRECTORS NAMED
The following six directors
were named to thiee-year
terms: Arrowsmith, Association
10; John R. Brexieman, Kirk
wood Rl, Assn. 11; Harry Krei
der, Quarryvilie Rl, Assn 5;
Irvin DeLong, Quarryvilie Rl,
Assn 14; Harry L. Troup,
Quarryvilie R 3, Assn 2; and
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ASCS Sets Dates For
Wheat And Feed Groin
Informational Meetings
Informational meetings on
1967 wheat and feed -grain ~
federal programs were an
nounced this week by the Lan
caster County . Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
office. -
The meetings will duplicate
each other, but are held in !
separate parts of the county to :
make attendance easier.- The
first, scheduled for January 27, :
wiU be held at the Lancaster -I
Farm Credit Office, 411 West i
Roseville Road. The second, at .
Quarryville Fire Hall, on Feb- '
ruary 7. Both meetings are to
begin at 8 p,m. i
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8,0,/ GmCULTUR AL AND
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21, 1967
county Add?'Horam
A new program for Lancas
ter County adult hoise owneis
was announced this week by
Winthrop Mernam, associate
county agent Although the ex
tension office has assisted 4rH
Club horsemen for quite some
time, Mernam said this will be
the first time that adults have
been included
The program will be in the
foim of two informational
meetings to be held at the
L'andisville Elementary School,
Land’isville The first meeting
is planned foi Bpm, January
27; the second for February 10
At the initial meeting, two
Penn State University horse
specialists James Gallagher
and Dr Dwight Swaitz will
discuss "Horse Nutntion” and
“Maintaining Horse Health”,
reipectively
The meetings will be open
to. anyone interested in horses,
Merrxam said.
Lime-Fertilizer
Conf. Slated For
February 1 To 3
A group of farmers will de
scribe what they expect from
the lime and fertilizer industry
at the annual Lime and Ferti
lizer Conference to be held
February 1 to 3 at Penn State
University Speaking on the
five-farmer panel will be J. K.
Sorgen, Clinton County vege
table grower: William Hileman,
Armstrong County fruit grow
er; William Stoner, Franklin
County dairyman; John R. Rog
ers, Mifflin County dairyman;
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Farmers Protest Plan To
Cancel Vo-Ag At Warwick
More than a dozen fanners,
and representatives of farming
interests in the Warwick com
munity, attended Tuesday
night’s Warwick School Board
meeting to protest dissolving
of the school’s ten-year-old vo
cational agriculture program
The school board and the
administration at Warwick con
tend that the decreasing num
ber of farms in the area is be
ing reflected in a constantly
declining enrollment in voca
tional agriculture Board mem
bers stated they could not
economically justify the en
rollment of only 25 students
in the agriculture curnculum.
Spokesman for the protest
ing farmers was Forney F.
Longenecker, Lititz R 3, pres
ident of the Pennsylvania
Young Farmer Association.
Longenecker told the board
that he had talked to many
fanners in the area that felt
strongly the vo-ag program
- should continue. In-the ini
““mediate future, this coun
try’s need for agriculturally
trained people will increase,
Lancaster County Swine Producers
Slate Winter Activities Schedule
The highlight of the winter
activities of the Lancaster
County Swine Producers As
sociation will be the annual
banquet, set for Maich 17 at
the Blue Ball Fire Hall, as
sociation secretary James Z
Martin announced lecently
The program will feature a
talk by Roland Paul, execu
tive vice president of the Na
tional Pork Producers Coun
Sec. Bull To Speak At Annual
Farm & Home Foundation Banquet
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Aigriculture Leland H Bull
will be the' featured speaker
at the annual meeting of the
Lancaster County Farm and
Home Foundation, according to
foundation president B Snave
ly Garber
Secretary Bull, who had
served as agriculture secre
tary in the Scranton Adminis
tmtion, was recently reap
pointed to that post by Gov
ernor Raymond Shaffer
The dinner meeting will be
held at the Meadow Hills Din
ing Hall, New Danville Pike,
Lancaster, on January 31, at
6:30 pm The affair is open
to the geneial public, Garber
said, with advance ticket res
ervations necessary by Satur
day, January 28
During the evening, a brief
business meeting will be held,
including the election of sev
en directors for three-year
terms. Progress reports of the
Farm and Home Center proj
ect will be given by Jacob
$2 Per Year
not decrease, he said. “Agri
culture is the biggest single
industry in the state,” Long
enecker stated, explaining
that “forty-two percent of
the state’s economy is relat
ed to 'agriculture.”
Warwick High School would
continue to offer the program,
but any students taking it
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Cattle Feeder
Meetings Set
Plans to hold two cattle
feeder meetings in January
were announced this week by
Lancaster County Agent M,
M- Smith Speakers will be
from Penn S‘ate University
The first meeting, slated for
January 24, will feature tallies
on “Cattle and Feed Outlook”
by Louis Moore, agricultural
economist, and on “Cattle Se
leotion-Gna d e-WeigM-Breed" by
Lester Burdette, livestock ex
tension
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cil Paul has been associated
with swine programs and ac
tivities at state and national
levels
Other activities announced
by Martin include a meeting
for all mtei ested producers on
“Swine Diseases And Health”.
This will be held at the Lan
caster Farm Credit Building,
411 West Roseville Road, Jan
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Kurtz of the building commit
tee, Noah W Kreider of the
finance committee, and Levi H
Brubaker representing the
fund-raising committee.
Leland H. BuU