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VOL. 12 NO. 15
County Dairy Day Draws Capacity
Crowd; Local Dairymen Featured
A panel of four outstanding
County dairymen aired their
views Tuesday on feeding pro
grams, housing, breeding effici
ency, automation, and the out
look for dairy farming in the
county
Climaxing the all-day, county
d.iiry program at the Guernsey
Sale Pavilion, Mrs Herbert
Royer, 2025 Oregon Pike; Wil
liam Arrowsmith, Peach Bot
tom Rl, J. Mowery Frey, Jr.,
401 Beaver Valley Pike; and
Rohrer Witmer, Willow Street
R 2, responded to questions
from model ator Joe Taylor,
chairman, Penn State Univer
sity dairy science extension.
Taylor, who earlier in the
program had talked to the au
dience of moie than 400 farm
ers on general herd manage
ment,' related’ some" of those
problems to the 'local level by
quizzing the .panel members on
fheir. ihdividuai. operations. -
FEEDIhGPROGRAMS ...
hirgehfer-.
at-agro^nientTSf
- cf-.tteir r
-actual practice. They'
air fed at "least some home-
grains, hay and silage,
- and placed an upper limit on
the quantity of grain any one
cow would receive daily.
Each member, r however,'
stressed the need to know and
Potato Growers Informational
Meeting Slated For March 14
A special informational meet
ing will be held next week,
March 14, for potato growers.
It will concentrate on produc
tion and storage practices, ac
cording to associate county
agent Arnold G Lueck.
Beginning at 9:15 a.m at the
Lancaster Farm Credit build
ing, the meeting is scheduled
to run until 3 p.m.
Specialists from Penn State
Farm Calendar
Mafici* 13— 1 pm, Lain'Cias'er
Ctemmty Swalius PikwJu'Ciei - ® As
sail Swing Calroaes Show
aßiltf EvaCto*iiioin Coir.l tot’, at
tSiE*- Lancaster Stock Yaind®
—7 30 pm, Ayu shame-Jen sey
4-K Dairy Onto, at Laincals
tolf Farm Crodait biMlddmg
MUrtin. 14—9 16 aim , Potato
Gnoiwe'rs’ Moiimaltaoinul imJdt
afiilg alt LancaKOan FaLm Oiedit
bui-Ddlrag
7 36 pm, Epha till'd Faam
■EOactalcity Class ait Ephuiaifla
HbgEi School, “SeDaoliJrag and
o!P'£l:aitiiiig leOecituuc moites”
—7 30 p m, E'liraa'beif'h'liown 1 -
'Dofategal 4-H Commum ify
CM), at Donegal High School.
—9 - S0 p m, G«iddein Spot
Yteong Faamei's Assot, “Conn
Gnotoriing” meshing at Gatr
dtsfro- Spot High Schioo'l.
—9:45 pm., CeinlVull 4-H
Tfr&tttoi' CM), ait LH. Bru-
batter Fairlm Equifpmetnft
Sltßirlei, Stadabuirg.
MakCb. 15—7:30 p-.m., 4-H Wild
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observe one’s individual ani
mals. and feed them according
to their needs.
“None of the panelists was a
strong advocate of “lead feed
ing”, in fact, one member stat
ed he didn’t believe in it at all
There was general agreement
on feeding large amounts of
forage, and several members
icpoited they did not limit for
age to increase grain consump
tion
BREEDING EFFICIENCY
All the panelists reported
ihey were generally able to get
cows settled on the first serv
ice at least 60 percent of the
time, although one dairyman
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Red Rose DHIA Lists
January Milk Records
- According to the -January
news letter released this “week'
by the Red Rose Dairy Herd
Improvement '.Association, a
.•by, Charles Tindall of Peach
TSdtfftm RV completed the high
est 305-day lactation in the as
sociation. “Lucinda” ..produced
21,095 pounds of mitt and 884
pounds of butterfat.
Second high cow completing
a '305-day lactation was a reg
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University, and their subjects,
include: Elmer Pifer,’varieties,
soil tests and Weed control;
Carlton Taylor, field and stor
age disease control; Joe Mc-
Curdy, a \entilation control
system for potato storage; Hen
ry Menusan, insect pests and
their control
A good part of the afternoon
session will be devoted to re
search agronomist Joe Harring
ton’s presentation of prelimin
ary research results on new
varieties and fertility studies
now in pi ogress.
Lancaster, First
PFA Group With
1000 Members
Lancaster County Farmers’
Association became the first
county affiliate of the organiza
tion to reach the 1000-member
level, according to an an
nouncement last week by the
Pennsylvania Farmers’ Associa
tion.
The local group has been
giowmg steadily, it was report
ed, and last year became the
lop membership county in the
state at 94'i This compared
with 818 the year before, and
750 in 1964.
County association member-
ship chairman Clarence Stauff
er of Ephrata Rl announced a
goal of 1100 members before
the end of 1967.
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 11, 1967
RECEIVING A SCRAPBOOK from SWCD vice chairman Henry Hackman,
left, Mr. and Mrs. AmpsH.Punk, Millersville Rl. Funk was honored at the
District’s aruftfar bariquet' for-his long-tirne- efforts*-in conservation In LanpastßP
County. , - ' L. F. Photo
Amos F unk Honored At S WCD Banquet;
Dubbed “Mr. Conservationist” By Group
OUTSTANDING CONSERVATION FARMER for
1966 award was presented to Elmer Good, Lititz Rl,
by County Commissioner Arthur R. Campbell, Jr,
left, at the District’s annual banquet. L F. Photo
Doebler To Speak At
Corn Growing Meeting
Theodore Doebler, Sr., of
the T. A. Doebler Seed Co.
will be the featured speaker at
the final meeting of the Gar
den Spot Young Fanners As
sociation next Tuesday, it was
announced by agriculture in
structor Robert Elmer,
agricultural and
sciences library
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
At the meeting, set foi
March 14, at 730 pm at the
Garden Spot High School, 1966
corn growing contest data will
be collected, summarized, and
compared, Elmer said
He noted that registration
for the 1967 com growing con
test will also be held at this
meeting.
$2 Per Year
Elmer Good Is
’67 Conservation
Farmer
Thursday night’s banquet
meeting of Lancaster County
Soil & Water Conservation Dis
trict Coopei ators turned into
a surprise testimonial to the
county’s leading conservation
ist.
Most surpiised was the re
cipient of the honor, Amos H.
Funk, who has served as chair
man of the conservation die
trict for the past 15 years.
He was praised for his ef
forts by Mrs Henry H. Hack
man, wife of the district vice
chan man On concluding the
reading of a poem dedicated to
Funk, Mrs Hackman conferred
upon him the unique title of
“Mr Conservationist of Lan
caster County”
After receiving a scrapbook
assembled by Henry Hackman,
and hearing excerpts from con
tributors read including
praise from Governor Raymond
Shafer Funk thanked the
225 cooperators assembled at
Hostetter’s Banquet Hall in
Mount Joy, and others who had
participated in bestowing the
honor
“You know, I went out and
begged by friends and neigh
bors to take the last 36 tickets
I had for tins affair I assure
them all I didn’t know any
thing about this,” the conser
vationist stated.
ELMER GOOD CITED
Elmer Good of lititz R 1 was
presented with a plaque by
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