B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 27,1967
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Reflections
(From the files of Lancaster Fanning) decided to drill a well to sup
tamer* jSm ' Thomas. Jr?’ Jhi-
One Year Ago Five Years Ago
strike a 180-gallon a minute
gusher.
May, 1966
No State Pullet Program-
Poultry and allied industry
people went on record over
whelmingly opposing the pro
posed Pennsylvania Approved
Pullet Grown Program Tues
day (May 10) at a hearing at
the State Department of Agri
culture building in Harrisburg.
Although state agriculture
officials maintained the pro
gram had been requested by
members of the poultry indus
try, they refused to reveal who
those industrymen were.
Questions and statements
from the floor interrupted the
official reading of the proposed
program
At the end of the meeting,
assistant agriculture secretary
Jack R. Grey asked all those
opposed to the program to so
indicate with their signatures
He lamented the fact that
those people who i equested the
program had not seen, fit to
attend the hearing
Buy-Your-Ow n-Steer-Plan De
bated The question of
whether the Red Rose 4-H Baby
Beef Club should institute a
plan allowing members to pur
chase their own club steers was
the subject of a lively debate
Wednesday night (May 4)
In the member-parent-packed
auditorium of the Rohrerstown
Elementary School six speak
ers talked for and against the
proposal
Speaking in favor of chang
ing the rules were Larry Wea
ver, New Holland Rl, a for
mer beef club president; Bill
Hollinger, Quarryville;
and Carol Hess, Strasburg Rl.
Debating for the other side
of the issue weie club leader
Melvin Rohrer, Lititz H 3; Bill
Houser, Lampeter; and Pat
Yungmger, Marietta Rl.
Whether to change or retain
the present system in which
all steers are screened and
selected by a committee of
club leaders will be voted on
by the members at the next
meeting
NEPPCO Takes Freight Rate
Action—At the recent semi
annual board meeting direc
tors of the Northeastern Poul
try Producers Council
(NEPPCO) endorsed a plan to
obtain a reduction of freight
rates on feedstuffs shipped into
the northeast
The action was necessary,
NEPPCO said, due to the re
cent withdrawal of the New
York Central Railroad’s pro
posed rate schedule The new
schedule was withdrawn be
cause of ICC’s approval of the
Pennsylvania-Central merger.
The NEPPCO board voted
to use any legal means avail
able to pressure the merging
i ail companies to adopt the pro
posed rates once the merger
becomes effective
F&H Scholarships Awarded
—Two county jouths were
recipients of the first Farm
and Home Foundation scholar
ships this week (May 21).
Winners were Enc Stoner,
1051 Eden Road, and Eileen V.
Anspach, 1711 Ridgeview Ave
nue. Both awards, in the
amount of $250, were present
ed by F&H president B. Suav
ely Garber They will be used
by the recipients toward their
higher education at Penn State
University.
machine would be slightly high-
er than the cost of an upright
Sil ss h for eX 'fhe n ?ractJcality. he
will judge that after a three*
month trial period.
Artesian Well Yields 180
Gallons Per Minute—When he
May, 1962
Grons His Grass Indoors
A dairy farmer near Martic
ville, Charles H. Hess, is grow
ing hedge against short pas
tures he’s growing his grass
indoors.
While Hess doesn't expect
the grass to take the place of
pasture, he feels it will help
supplement the cows’ diet.
-The grass is grown from
oats in seven days in an air
conditioned incubator. It is
fed to the cows once a day
at the rate of 15 pounds per
head
Hess has not yet decided to
purchase the grass-growing ma
chine, but preliminary calcu
lations show the feed can be
produced for between $8 and
$lO per ton. The cost of the
When we put that Red Rose 125th Anniver»ary shield on
our shirts, a lot of things change. You expect us to have
the answers on animal nutrition and feeding programs.
You expect us to carry a complete line of fresh, top qual
ity feeds at reasonable prices
And v/e do.
Eshelman sees to it that we are always fully informed.
Sees to it that we have a full line of the freshest and
most nutritious feeds that science can produce.
We are proud to be part of this 125 year-young feed com
pany Eshelman hand-picked us to wear their shoulder patch
of service. You can depend on us to service you well.
Walter Binkley & Son
Lititz
Brown & Rea
Atglen
Elverson Supply Co.
Elverson
A. L. Herr & Bro.
Quarryville
Ammon E. Shelly
Lititz
E. P. Spotts, Inc.
Honey Brook
I. B. Groybill & Son
Refton Strasburg
L. T. Geib Estate
Manheim
Well driller Paul C. Myers
started drilling on the spot
where a neighboring water
dowser said water would be
found at 110 feet
According to Thomas, the
hole was so dry for 130 feet
that water had to be poured
into the hole to keep the drill
working. The first 122 feet of
drilling was through solid
limestone.
While free-flowing wells are
a rarity in Lancaster County,
one flowing at the rate of
180 gallons a minute, night and
day, is just about unheard of.
Word of Thomas’ unusual
“strike” spread fast, and in
the following few days more
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E. Musser Heisey & Son
Mt. Joy
Heistand Bros.
Elizabethtown
David B. Hurst
Bowmansville
L. M. Snaveiy
Lititz
Mountville Feed Service
Mountville
Musser Farms, Inc.
Columbia
Musser's Mill
The Buck
Chas. E. Sauder & Sons
Terre Hill
H. M. Stauffer & Sons
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