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Library - Blni AMD School of r *^ ,rr; VOL 12 NO. 22 Com Products, Funk Seed Co. Merger Planned An agreement on principle to join the business and prop erty of Funk Bros Seed Co. to Corn Products was an nounced jointly this week by representatives of the two com panies Speaking for Corn Products was chairman A. N. McFar lane, and for Funk’s, company president E. D Funk They placed particular emphasis on two points (1) This joining of forces will mean expanded op portunity for service to agri culture through greater re search and service benefits to farmers, (2) the formal join ing of forces in the United States is but an expansion of (Continued on Page 1) FFA Tractor Contest Won By. , Yprk County Robert Burchett of Red turn placed first, in'the Futuf e Farmers of America area trac tor contest at Garden Spot High School Thursday with a score of 320 points. Lancaster County entries took second and third placings Lancaster County vo-ag boys were outnumbered four to two by York Countians in the com petition, but Jay Smoker, Clois (Continued on Page 5) Grain Stocks Adequate, Freeman Says; No Change In *67 Diversion Secretary of Agriculture Or ville L Freeman said Tuesday that no change will be made in the acreage diversion pro visions of the 1967 feed gram program He announced continuation of the program in answer to inquiries since the intentions to-plant report and the pro gram signup reports showed that Farmers may not plant as much acreage to feed grains as had previously been antici pated, and in response to de mands by industry representa tives that feed grain acreage and supplies be further in creased “Recent reports on crop and moisture conditions, farmers’ planting intentions, and stocks of grain on farms Farm Calendar April 30-Rural Life Sunday service, 7.30 pm at Stevens Hill Church of the Brethren May 2-7 30 p m., 4-H recrea tion workshop for S E Pa at Willow Street Community Center All teen leaders in vited. , , -7.30 pm, Kirkwood 4-H Club-at Bart-Colerain El-em - school. May 3-6:30 p.m., Lancaster County Bankers Assn, spring meeting at Host* Motel. Spe- , (Continued on Page 9) CHECKING POULTS ready for shipment at-the Ephrata Turkey Farm, Inc., Ephrata Rl, are Earl Hertzog, left, and Linford Weaver The boys*are employ ed by the firm as part of a seven-week, agribusiness training program supervised by Leins Ayers. Ephrata High. School agriculture teacher. Both are seniors at the high school. ' L. F Photo indicated that feed grain pro duction will be adequate to (Continued on Page 5) Farm & Home Offers Six Scholarships One of the objectives of the Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation is to encour age the 'higher education of the youth, of Lancaster Coun ty In this respect, the Founda tion is announcing the offering of six scholarship awards in 1967 in the fields of Agricul ture and Home Economics, ac cording to M M. Smith, schol arship committee chairman Each scholarship award will (Continued on Page 5) ES WeafAer The unseasonal “cold wave” is expected to be felt in this, area for at least the next five days with, temperatures ■ averaging below the normal range of 70 to 47 degrees.], Little day-to-day' "change is expected. Rain at the beginning of the- week may yield a total of 14 -Vt inch of precipitation. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 29,1967 Seven Local 4-H'ers At Leadership Workshop Seven 4-H Teen Leaders from Lancaster County aie partici- pating m the second annual Southeastern Pennsylvania aiea 4-H Leadership Workshop this weekend at Camp Innabah. Pugh town Chester County Approximately 100 young leaders from Bucks, Montgom ery, Delaware, Chester. Phila delphia and Lancaster Coun ties are taking part in this event (Continued on Page 7) NEIGHBORS of Clair Kreider, Drumore Center, provided the help Wednesday teen men and tractors plowed 50 acres in to keep up With his spring field work. Fif teen men and tractors ployed 50 acres in two-and-a-half-hours as a Church work pro ject. L. F. Photo Ephrata Agribusiness Program Marks Second Successful Year b> Don Timmons Eight Ephrata High School seniors are busy these spring days getting -valuable on-the-job experience under the Agi i business Training Program launched last year by the high school agriculture department Ephrata is finding as the Garden Spot High School pio gram did several yeais ago. that the number ol employers will ing to cooperate with job train ing exceeds the number of seni or agriculture boys available Agriculture instructor Lewis Ayers showed real enthusiasm for the program as he guided this reporter on visits to sever al of his woiking students this week “Students enrolled in the pro gram attend regular school classes in the morning and af ter lunch report to their agri business jobs,” Ayers explain ed The program, which began March 28, will run until May Neighbors Lend A Hand With “Spring Plowing” b> Everett New sw anger. Staff Reporter Good, old -1 a shioned b r o the rly kindness pre vailed in Lan caster County again this week, as fur row after fur row opened and closed on the farm of Clair Kreider, Q u a r ryville R 1 New sw anger Neighbors and friends with 15 tractors and 44 plow bot toms “p u 11 - p u 11 e d” and “hummed” their way through 50 acres of corn stalks and sod m two-and-a-half hours Wed- $2 Per Year 12 The seven weeks spent in one continuous employment, but most of the boys interview ed were gaining a wide variety of experience bv learning to be useful at anything their em ployer needed done OBJECTIVES The program has been or ganized to give senior vocation al agriculture students the op poitumty to gam experience in some type ot agriculture busi ness before giaduation from high school ' It is our hope,” Ayers notes, “that students receiving this tvpe of training will better un derstand the organization and management of an agriculture business ” STUDENTS Boys participating in the ag ribusiness progiam this year, and their places of employment, aie Charles Harting, Agway, Inc , Barry Sensenig. DifEendall Landscape Service; Earl Hert (Continued on Page 6) nesday morning, to help a friend just out of the hospital keep up with his spnng field work It all started when James Kreider, Quarryville HI, presi dent of the Men’s Work Proj ect Committee of the Mechan ics Grove Church Of The Brethren, ‘"called around” to get some men with tractors to gether to plow for Clair. And plow they did tractors of various sizes each pulling its favorite plow Nine hundred and sixty hoise power in all, busting the way around the gently curving contours “Al most everyone that we called came,” James said In discussing this friendly act of his neighbors, Clair Kreider said “I certainly do appreciate all they are doing (Continued on Page 9>