VOL. 12 NO. 34
County 4-H Demonstrators Capture
7 Blue Ribbons at Regional Contest
Nine Lancaster County young
sters entered the Pennsylvania
Southeast Regional 4-H Day
demonstration competition held
Tuesday at the Owen J. Rob
erts High School in Chester
County. Seven of them came
home with blue ribbons.
Six of the seven blues rep
resented first-place wins, five
in agricultural projects and one
in home economics. These win
ners will compete in state com
petition August 7-9. Other rib
bons won included one each of
red and white.
In the general agriculture
category, Averril Royer of 2025
Oregon Pike topped entries
from the ether 12 southeastern
Pennsylvania counties in the
region with her demonstration
on “How to Give a Demonstra
tion”.
Ann Nissiey, Mount Joyßl,
and Audrey Yunginger, Mari
etta Rl, teamed up to win the
County Barley Harvest Winds Up;
Wheat Approaches 40 percent Cut
A'; check ' wi% ,several; grain
elevator ’ late - THuTS 2 -
day suggested that ? this year’s
barley.’harvest is just-about
wound up. “We see an occasion
al truckload on the road, but for
all practical purposes it’s fin
ished,” one operator reported.
Wheat, reported "tough” last
week, is little better this week,
although test weights are re
ported improved at 58-585
pounds per bushel.
With some rain reported
nearly every day last week, an d
precipitation totaling more than
two inches, not much of the
crop was cut. Although actual
rain avoided the county most of
this week, humidity and lower
overnight temperatures slowed
drying. Moisture measurements
on wheat received at grain ele
vators during the week ranged
14.5 to 15 5%. At any level
above 13.5 most wheat must be
artificially dried before storage.
™ONE GOOD DAY”
“If we get one good drying
Farm Calendar
July 23 —Ftanm Women No. 26,
annual picnic at Sico Park,
Mount Joy. . -
—Lancaster Pony Club, at
Drumiore,
July 24 -7 p. m., York Coun
ty Poultry Assn*, annual ban
quet and queen* pageant, at
the WmJtersbown Fire Halt
—Fulton Grange annual pic
nic afc the Grange Hall, Qak
ryn
July 25-16 a.xn. Lancaster Co-
Plowing Contest and Con
servation Field Day, at the
- farms of Edwin Kurtz and
Louis Hurst, both Ephrata
m. '
July 26 —10:45 a. m, Lancaster
County HoMiedn Assn, field
.day - and. judging contest at'
■Amos Rutt farm, Qaarryviate
R 2. - ‘
July 27—0-30 p.m., 'County
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uvestocx conservation category
with a demonstration titled
“Protect Livestock Use Pes
ticides Safely”.
In the livestock demonstra
tion category, another counity
team won with the subject
“Corn Silage Is King”. They
were Dale Bushong, Columbia
R 2, and Marvin Nissiey, Mount
Joy Rl.
Two other county demonstra
tors won in the entomology
and handyman categories. They
were Hugh Wenger, Quarry
vilie R 2, and Dale Shank of
Lititz R 3. Their subjects were,
respectively, “Mounting of Ad
ult Insects”, and “Common
Wood Joints”.
In the home economics divi
sion the county’s one winner
was Kaye Smith, Ephrata R 2,
for her clothing construction
demonstration titled “A Press
ing Need”. Betty Barley, Mil
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day youTl "realiy some
wheat movement in the coun
ty,” one operator predicted. He
estimated the amount of wheat
cut in Lancaster County at
about 40%, but noted there
may be as much as 80 percent
still standing in some other ar
eas of the east where weather
hasn’t been as “good” as it has
locally.
Weather permitting, all esti
mates were that the county’s
wheat harvest would be pretty
well wrapped up by the end otf
next week.
Farm & Home Campaign Kick-off Date July 31st
' CAMPAIGN. DIRECTOR Furhman F.
Bailey explains how' the county has
been’ divided into five large areas for ■
the fijnd drive which -will he launched
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 22,1967
Brucellosis Licked
By 1971 Is Po. Goal
HARRISBURG State Ag
riculture Secretary Leland H.
Bull today announced changes
in brucellosis control regula
tions aimed at stamping out
the disease in Pennsylvania by
1971.
Brucellosis is a disease of
livestock that causes contagi
ous and infectious abortion in
cattle. It also is the cause of
undulant fever in human be
ings, a serious disease that can
be transmitted from infected
animals.
Pennsylvania began a cam
paign in 1936 to rid the state
of brucellosis Control programs
carried out since then have re
duced the incidence of the dis
ease in cattle to less than one
tenth of one percent. Bull said.
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Consv. Field Day
& Plow Contest
Details Set
Final details for next Tues
day’s annual plowing contest
and conservation field day were
announced- yesterday by Aaron
Lancaster County
Soil land ■ Water Conservation
District director.
With the weather-delayed
wheat harvest, there was some
doubt that the 12-acre grain
field on the Edwin Kurtz tom
at Ephrata R 1 would be ready
for the bite of contestants’
plows. But Stauffer reports
most of the wheat is cut, and
baling of straw is underway.
The field will be ready for Soil
Conservation Service technd
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Irwin Joins County Extension Staff
NEPPCO Co-Op Division Supports
5.109 And Ex. Large Egg Quotes
The NEPPCO Division of Co-
operatives, meeting recently on
Cedar Point near. Sandusky,
'Ohio, “voted'to support - “ The ag-
ricultural Producers Marketing
Act of 1967” (5.109 and some
40 similar bills in the U.S.
House of Representatives).
The Division thus becomes
the first poultry organization to
openly support the bill which
is intended to protect produc-
ers from discrimination leveled
against them by handlers be-
cause they are members of a
bargaining or marketing co-
operative. The bill is strongly
supported by the four big na-
August 2nd. The goal of the Farm &
Home Foundation drive will be $lOO,-
000, which, it is anticipated, will deliver
the new Center debt-free. Li.F.Photo.
Jay W. Irwin
$2 Per Year
Jay W. Irwin joined the Lan
caster County extension staff
as assistant county agent this
week, filling the vacancy cre
ated when Wmthrop Merriam
resigned that post in June.
Irwin is a native of Blair
County. His wife, the former
Betty Wilson of Centre Hail,
and their sax children, present
ly reside in Latrobe. The fam
ily expects to move to Lancas
ter County in the near future.
Irwin graduated from Penn
State University in 1949 with
a major in agricultural eco
nomics. Following college, he
served two years as a veterans’
agricultural training supervi
sor, then for the next 15 yeans
was manager of Farm Bureau
Cooperatives in Indiana, Ve
nango, and Westmoreland coun
ties. For the past two years he
was employed as unit manager
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tional farm organizations and
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture. It is- opposed by the
National Broiler Council, the
Institute of American Poultry
Industries, Poul
try & Egg Association and sev
era! southern state poultry as
sociations.
EX-LG. FAVORED
In other action, the Division
also went on record as favor
ing the establishment of an
“Extra Large” egg price quo
tation. Last fall, the Urner
Barry Company, publishers of
“Producers Price - Ciurent ,
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Meetings Set
For Strasbourg
And Lititz
Directors of the Lancaster
County Farm and Home Foun
dation met Tuesday evening at
the temporary headquarters in
the Agway building on Diller
ville Rd., to map final plans for
launching a $lOO,OOO fund drive.
It will he a three-week effort
with the goal of collecting suf
ficient contributions to enable
the board to turn the new Fai m
and Home Center over to Lan
caster eountians debt-free.
Former assistant superintend
ent of schools Furhman F. Bai
ley, who was hired for an eight
week period to run the cam
paign, briefed the board mem
bers on actions taken and re
sults so far.
He explained that the county
had been divided into five areas,
each with a chairman Then,
each area was sub divided
among district chairmen who
will work with volunteer solici
tors in their districts.
“The cry of the hour is for
more district chairmen,” Bailey
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