6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 25,1967
• Reflections
(Continued from Page 20)
FIVE YEARS AGO
Zeiset, wh o contoured his
farm in 1956. remarked that,
“My crops are definitely bet
ter, but some of my neighbors
think it is because I feed more
cattle and have more manure
to put on the ground.”
Some of the increase is due
to better lertilization practices,
Zeiset believes, but he says, “I
couldn’t hold the manure and
fertilizer on the fields without
strips.”
The conservation farmer, who
is an associate director in the
district, has planted com after
com for several years and sees
no ill effects
Leininger Barrow Tops Mar
ket Show-A Spotted Poland T An A OT»
China barrow won grandcham- * C *l * cal 9 ■ r »s v
pion honois Wednesday (March
13) at the Lancaster County
Swine Producers’ annual mar- dH 1A Directors Announce
Icet hog show, held at the Lan- p ro g ram Change-A six-point
caster Stock Yards program to solve problems due
The 205-pound animal was t 0 machine record keeping
from the herd of C Warren S y S t em to begin in the dairy
Leiningei. Denver R 2. and was jj en j improvement testing pro
also one of three Spotted Po- g rarn June i V /as adapted by
land China hogs in the reserve Red Rose DHIA directors this
championship trio wee k Mai i)
Champion ribbon for pen of The new plan includes (1)
three went to Masonic Homes jj ert j owners and the tester will
Farm, Elizabethtown, with Berk- anv increase in cost due
shires averaging 193 pounds to the change on an equal ba-
Stauffer Homestead Farm, SIS (2) Additional owner-sam-
East Earl Rl, won pen-of-ten pj er W o r k will be under the
competition with a trim load direction of the head tester and
of Landrace crossbreds the supeivision of assistant
county agent Victor Plastow;
Farm Tax Law Changes Urg- (3) For pay purposes, theherd
ed-Farmeis were advised to size limit shall be increased
push for a law to allow agn- from 40 to 70 head.
cultural land to be taxed on a
special basis compai ed with oth
er property m the aiea Thurs- Agricultural-Business Alli
day (Mar 29) ance Urged-A total of 159 peo-
Speaking at a meeting of the Pi® attended the $lOO-a-plate
Lancaster County Agricultural Poultry Booster Banquet at the
Council,county planner C Bick- Hotel Brunswick Wednesday
ley Foster outlined four -ways night (Mar 6)
farmers could help maintain They heard HH. Alp of the
their position in aieas threat- American Farm Bureau Feder
ened by urban sprawl. atlon call for a unification of
He said that, at present, farm efforts and more agncultural
land is assessed at the market, business alliances
or speculative, value This is Alp pointed out that, too of
true whether it is being de- t® n > agricultural policy is de
veloped for building sites or temuned by groups outside the
being farmed industry.
Foster =aid a more equitable For example, he said, farm
way would be to assess land on ei s operating costs are raised
the basis of agricultural pro- by processors demanding new
duction until it is sold for non- equipment and new methods of
farming uses If, and when, it marketing Too often, Alp no-
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raising the standard of living
■ of today’s farmers, and the in
creased investment in farming
($BB,OOO on the average, he 1
said), have all combined to
make the fanner more vulner
able to puce and cost varia
tions.
Dossin To Head Poultry Ex
tension-Prof. Carl 0. Dossin, ex
tension poultry specialist at
Penn State University since
1927, was recently made chair
man of the poultry extension
department. Dossin succeeds
Prof. H. H. Kauffman, now re
tired.
Dossin nelped to organize
poultry and egg marketing co
operatives in Pennsylvania and
developed a quality egg pro
gram. He was honored in 1952
by the poultry farmers of south
eastern Pennsylvania at a testi
monial dinner. He also receiv
ed the Poultry Science Assn.
“Outstanding Poultryman"
award in 1952.
March, 1957
Hess Named Delegate To Na
tional 4-H Conf.-James A. Hess,
20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elvin Hess, Strasburg Rl, has
been cited for outstanding
achievement in 4-H club work
and for leadership in club and
community affairs He was nam
ed as onp of four Pennsylvania
4-H’ers to attend the national
conference in Washington, D.
C. in Junr.
County Tobacco Acres To Re
main Steady For 1957 Crop-
There will be no drop from
last year in the number of ac
res planted to Type 41 tobac-.
co in Lancaster County in 1957,!
according to planting inten
tions announced recently by
USD A.
Approximately 30,000 acres
were planted to tobacco last
year, producing a bumper crop
of 51 million pounds Last
year’s yield was up 200 pounds
per acre over the normal to
bacco yields of 1500 pounds,
it was reported.
Earlier this year, growers
‘had indicated an intention to
cut acreage due to difficulties
in selling the 1956 crop.
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Poultry Producers Council pres
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speak at a $25-a-plate fund
raising banquet to be held Ap
ril 17 at Hostetter’s in Mount
Joy.
Klahold will talk on “the
Poultryman of the Future” at
the benefit banquet to help
raise money for constructing
the new Poultry Center in Lan
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