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VOL 12 NO. 11
THE SEASONS MEET Anyone ior a picnic? Would you believe, maybe,
a cold lunch? How about one-foot snow cones, to go? L. F. Photo
Doebler And Lueck To Be Featured
At Farmers’ Corn Growing Meeting
A memhei of the Lancaster
County Extension staff and a
well-known breeder will team
up next Wednesday evening at
the Lincoln Independent School
to discuss some impoitant fac
tois and experiences in “Corn
Giowing”, according to an an
nouncement this week by pro
gram chairman Edwin F Fox,
Ephrata R 3
Arnold G Lueck, associate
county agent will speak on
some of the current trends m
corn growing narrow rows,
plant population, selection of
hybrids, and use of starter
fertilizers
T A. Doebler, Sr, who op
erates a 400-acre seed farm in
Clinton County, will talk on
corn growing from a farmer’s
viewpoint Doebler was recog-'
nized during this year’s Farm
Farm Calendar
February 13 7 30 pm, Lan
caster County Soil & Water
Conservation District direc
tors, at the county com t
house.
Februaiy 14 630 pm, Lan
caster County Agriculture
and Home Economics Exten
sion Assn annual meeting at
Dutch Town & Country Inn,
Vintage.
7:30 pm, Ephrata Farm
Records course, “Labor Re
cords, Credit Accounts, and
Farm Analysis”, at Ephrata
High School.
February 15 7:30 p.m, Corn
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 11, 1967
Show as the 1953 Pennsylvania
Corn Club Champion in the
machine harvested class His
yield averaged 158 7 bushels
of shelled corn per acre His
plant population in that prize
winning test was 27,750 plants
per acre Doebler has long
been an advocate of high soil
feitihty and organic matter
.levels
The February 15th meeting
will stai t at 730 pm, Fox
said, emphasizing that all in
terested persons would be wel
come
Egg Marketing
Meeting Moved
-To Feb. 16th
One of the victims of this
week’s unscheduled snowstorm
was the egg marketing confer
ence slated for last Tuesday
This event, sponsored as pait
of an mfoimational senes by
the Lancaster County Poultry
Association, has been resched
uled for Thursday, Februaiy 16
In making the announce
ment, piogiam chan man J
Haiold Esbenshade said the
discussion w±ll be held at the
Lrtitz Community Center, and
the panel of local marketing
egg men will talk on new pi od
ucts, egg breaking, outside
competition, and egg quality
Speakers for the informa
tional meeting will be: R. W.
Sauder, Lititz, Earl Hess, Hess
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AGKfCULTURAL AND
Tax Break Seen For
investment Credit
Investment credit provides a
leal tax bieak for business
men, including farmeis It can
also be a source of trouble,
accoidmg to W T McAllister,
farm management specialist at
the University of Delaware
Tumble slants when farmers
don’t keep equipment on which
they have claimed investment
ciedit for the full period of
time used in computing the
ci edit McAllister uses the ex
ample of a farmer who bought
a tractor in 1962 for $5,000
He expected to keep it for
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PARTICIPATING IN S.E. DAIRY CONFERENCE Thursday at the Guern
sey Sales Pavilion were left to right: Jerry Shaffer, PP&L; Richard Hathaway,
AUis-Chahners; Robert Hill, master of ceremonies; Dr. E. I. Robertson, John W.
Eshelman & Sons; and Tom Kelly, Curtiss Breeding Service. Not available for
photo was Bert Hutchinson, Hess and Clark Co. - L. F. Photo
Top Com Awards To Jackson And
Frey At County Crops & Soils Day
One of the highlights of the
Lancaster County Ciops and
Soils Day held yesterday at the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion was
recognition ol countians in the
hand-hai vested class of the
Five-Acre Coin Club by as
sociate countj agent Arnold G
Lueck
The top countian in 1966 was
Herbeit Fiey, Marietta Rl,
with a yield of 195 9 bushels
per acre Second high yield
was 178 8 bushels scored by
George W Jackson & Son.
Christiana Rl Both farmers
received purple ribbons during
Farm Show Week for finishing
among the state’s top five corn
growers
Lueck noted that state
yield figures of farmers re
ceiving recognition was the
lowest in five years due to
the past year’s drought. He
also announced that the
band-harvested class in corn
club competition had been
discontinued.
“This move is in keeping
with the objective of making
yxeld -data more realistic in
Talks & Exhibits Featured
At Area Dairy Conference
More than 400 farmers were
on hand Thursday at the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion for
the 2nd annual southeastern
dairy conference The show,
which was snowed-out at its
scheduled meeting Tuesday,
featured talks by representa
tives of the four firms spon
soring the meetings,'and num
erous commercial exhibits
Sponsors were Allis-Ohalmeis,
John W Eshelman & Sons,
Curtiss Breeding Service, Inc ,
and New Holland Supply Co,
Inc
In discussing the future of
danying in Pennsylvania, Bert
Hutchinson oi Hess & Clark
$2 Per Year
teims of farm conditions,”
Lueck explained the change
over to ma,dune-harvested com
petition
For the top eighteen county
entnes in the 1966 corn con
test, yields averaged 143 7
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Dairy Day And
Meetings Slated
Lancaster County’s annual
dauy day will be held at the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion on
March 7th, associate counity
agent Victor Plastow an
nounced this week
The piogram will feature a
slate of specialists from Penn
State University, and a panel
of local dairymen, Plastow
said The affair will begin at
Sam, and will continue until
3pm Lunch Will be available
at the Pavilion for $l.
In addition, Plastow an
nounced two, extension spon
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told the farmers that south
eastern Pennsylvania had the
brightest prospects in the
state He said, “If you con
tinue to modernize and to take
advantage of the information
that’s available, you should do
all right ’
Using Penn State date,
Hutchinson showed that farm
ers with an average of 30 cows
have net incomes of less than
$3OOO He showed that an in
crease of ten more cows will
increase net income by 50 per
cent
COMPLETE COW
Tom Kelly, Curtiss Breeding
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