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VGL. 12 NO. 30
Jacob L. StolUfus
County Plowing Contest, Field Day
Set July 25, SWCD Directors Note
The Lancaster County plow
ing -contest and. conservation
field day-. Will be-held in the
Ephxvta area -on Tuesday,. July
Lodi, ' ..cvOiiL.g to tne county'
soil and y water - conservation
dptlicf -’directors. The district'
sponsors this popular event
annually in an effort to pro
mote interest in good, conser
vation farming methoids.
In, announcing the twin
events, director Aaron Z. Stauf
fer, plowing contest and field
day chairman noted two farms
will be involved The plowing
contest nil be held on the Ed
win Kurtz farm where a 15-
acre small grain field will be
used. The field day activities
will be on the adjoining farm
of Louis Hurst Both are lo
cated in the Ephrata RL aiea
ACTIVITIES
Although field day activities
are still in the discussion stage,
it is hoped that two attractions
popular ;n the past will be on
the progvem again this year
Last year's greased pig chase
was 'the highlight of the day
for some 50 farm boys It was
-won. fey Buinell Birchen who
got to keep the 50-pound Yo'-k
-shire gilt donated by Eby’s
Feed JVlili Lititz Two years
ago, a fish-shocking deraoi.v.iv.
tion pur on by the state fish
commission drew a lot oi in
terest, and :t the personnel i»
available fins vear it is' hoped
this demonstration will be re
peated
“Indian Run has plenty oi
fish in m this yeai ” Stauffer
Farm Calendar
June 25-25-20. Holstein Pnesi
an Association of America
national convention and sale
at Minneapolis, Minn
June 26-9 am. FFA dairy cat
tle judging workshop, at;
Ephrata High' School.
-10 am, District 4-H horse
judging practice at Gray
stone Manor Stables.
-7 p.m.y Chester-Delaware
Counties fruit growers’ twi
light -meeting at Robert H
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FFA State Officer Candidates From County
Robert Weaver
noted “It would make an ideal
fish-shocking spot” (Note. For
'.those who haven’t seen the fish
cshocking demonstration, it
yhe--explained -that it
, does not -barm 1 the, fish The
Fish Commission uses it as a
device for estimating the fish
population in any given stream
It momentarily stuns the fish,
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Wesley M, Gordon
SCS Trainee To
Work In County
Wesley M Gordon, a 22 year
o'd senior at the University oi
Maryland, will foe workup with
the U S Soil Conservation
Service this summer a* a train
ee, according to SCS countv
consei vationisr, Orvat A Bass
Gordon, who is studying
general agriculture m college,
woiked last summer with the
Agi i cultural Research Service
at BeltSvilie, Md, but feels
that tollowing graduation in
January, 1963 he may be in
terested in a career with SCS
Raised on a t.Si-acre beef
farm in Maryland, Gordon stud
ied vocational agriculture in
high school. He was a state, F
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24,1967
Adam N. Zimmerman
Grain Problems Discussed
By Experts At Field Day
LANCASTER Those at-
tending the Pennsylvania Small
Crams’Field Day .here Tnesdaj
heard of some, gams .and some
losses for farmers and seeds-
men in the "battle of the bugs’
The gams were largely rep
resented m the continuing
fight to eliminate the fungus
responsible for stem rust in
grains The causative organism
requires the European or com
mon barberry plant tf it is to
winter over The cooperative
state-federal barberry conti ol
program which began m 1935
has been highly successful
USD A plant pest control su
pervisor Edgar Eekess told the
group assembled at the Penn
State Imuersity Southeastern
Field Research, Station, neai
Landisville
Commenting on the work ot
the 30-man force continually
Egg Specialists
To Instruct At
NEPPCO School
HARRISBURG Egg specia
lists in the Pennsylvania De
pai tment of Agriculture will be
instructor at the 36th NETPPCO
(Northeastern Poultry Pioduc
ers Council) Egg Quality
School July 9-13 at State Urn
vci sity
Edward J Lawless, Jr chief
of the department’s poultry and
egg diyision, has traveled the
noitheastern cucuxt teaching at
all 35 pievious NEPPCO coui
sea This year in addition to
leclm mg he is coordinating ac
tivities for the sessions with
Julius F Bauermann, extension
food technologist at Penn State
Depai tment grading and mai
ketmg specialists who will in
struct aie Martin P Hartzfield
Eston L Krug. Joseph F Mai
tinski, Alfied C Nelson Them
as Reedy Donald Strieker, Law
rence A Weber and Anselm S
Wurfl
The school is designed for
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Darjl Bollinger
survevmg Pennsylvania for
signs of stem rust Eckess no
ted f ‘o»v ’men have yet to re
port the first case of rust de
velopment in the state this
y ear "
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THE EUROPEAN, or common barberry, shown in
the pat in right foreground, is the plant that enables the
stem rust orgamsm to over-whiter in this area, explains
Edgar Eckess, USDA plant pest control supervisor. The
Japanese barberry in the coffee can plays no part in the
life cycle of the fungus, Eckess notes as he points out
stem rust damage on a sample of oats L F Photo
$2 Per Year
63 Local Boys
To State FFA; 4
For State Office
Four Lancaster County Fu
ture Fawners will oe competing
tor state offices next week dur
ing the annua! FFA Activities
Week at Penn State University.
Candidates from Lancaster
Countv will include Robert
Weaver St'asburg RI, Adam
Zimmerman East Earl RI, Ja
cob Stolt/iiis iNarvoa R 2, and
Darvl Bollinger LitiU RI
One of the teat'.red speakers
during a combined meeting
w'Uh the Fatire Homemakers
of America will oe Lancaster
County’s Glenn Weber of Mohn
ton R 2 Weber is currently the
State FFA president
A total ot 63 boys and IS
teacheis will be traveling to
Penn State according to Lewis
Ayers, president of the county
vo-ag teachers association This
number includes those who will
compete in the various judging
contests and the FFA chorus
and band
FFA Week winch runs
June 28. 29. and 30 will be at
tended bj some 1300 members
and teachers from all over the
state In addition to the 15 con-
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