VOL. 12 NO. 40
Timmons Leaves
LF Editor Post
Effective with %is issue of
Lancaster Farming, Don Tim
mons will be resigning as
editor.
Timmons, who has worked in
this capacity for the past three
years, has been named eastern
editor for Watt Publishing Co
of Mount Morris, Illinois
He will work out of his
home in Lancaster, covering
the 14 northeastern states
from Maine to North Carolina.
The 50-year-old publishing
film serves the nation’s seven
billion dollar poultry industry
from coast to coast, and also
publishes several international
poultry magazines
Mrs Timmons, the former
Jean Totten, is a teacher in
the Donegal school system at
Mount Joy. Their 18-year-old
daughter, Laura, enters college
at Dover, Delaware this fall.
Timmons came to Lancaster
Farming following five years
in the feed sales and service VISITING FUTURE FARMER, Tahir Gunar from
field with John W. Eshelman Turkey, gets the feel of this tractor on the farm where
& Sons, area feed manufactur- h e -vvill stay for the coming school year. Guner lives on a
holds degrees in agricul- 166 ' acre farm in Turkey, and will study this year in the
tune and poultry-science from Warwick vocational agriculture program as an exchange
the University of Ehode He is staying with the Charles Keller family
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Red Rose DMA Directors Question
Milk-O-Tester Program Merit
by Everett Newswanger
Staff Reporter
The board of directors of
the Red Rose DHIA this week,
instructed state director J. Rob
erb Hess to “drag his feet” on
the new nulk-o-tester program
proposed by the state organi
zation.
Meeting at the Lancaster
Farm Credit building Monday
evening, the dozen directors
present heard both Hess and
associate county agent, Victor
Plastow discuss the problems
anct advantages of the proposal
that would require all milk
samples now run by the local
tester to be processed at a cen
tral laboratory
Plastow reported that they
have now found the preserva
tive used in the samples dur
ing mailing has not been en
tirely satisfactory. Authorities
had earlier said this was no
problem. '
On +be credit side, however,
the milk tested both at Penn
Fprm Calendar
September 5 - sth-Bth, Annual
Co vention NationaLAssn. of
Ar’mal Breeders (NAAB) at
He^shey.
Sept' mber 6 - Red Rose Baby
Be f Club picnic, Penryn.
Sepfc Tiber 7 - 4:30 p.m. r Lan
car l er County agriculture
teachers, at Garden Spot High
Sebiol.
- 8 p.m., Lancaster County
PO try Assn directors, at
La Farm Credit Bldg.
Sept Tiber 10-12-30 p.m. Eph
rat \ Adult farmer Picnic,
He mstown Memorial Park. ‘
State and here had the same
test percentage
Hess expressed disappoint
ment that the new testing
equipment can be regulated to
raise or lower the test read
ing And with the market
trends of using milk products
minus the fat in non-dairy
manufacturing, he questioned
the possibility that we may
shortly “wake-up” to find we
should be testing the other
qualities in milk rather than
fat He gave examples of situ
ations in Anzqna and Salt Lake
City, Utah, where the dairy
manufacturers are using the
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2,321 Entries For
All-American
Show Listed
"HARRISBURG The Farm
Show Building m Harrisburg
is being converted into a giant
“cowtown” to house the 2,321
daily animals entered in the
fourth annual Pennsylvania All-
American Dairy Show, opening
Monday, Sept. 11.
Fourteen states and Canada
are represented among the en
tries with Holstems leading
the six principal breeds with a
total of 908. The All-American
is host this year to the East
ern National Holstein Show.
Pennsylvania Holstein breed
ers combine their annual Black
and White Show with the ex
position, and account for 300
of the entries.
Totals for the five -other
breeds 'are: Jersey, 283; Guern
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, September 2,1967
1967 County Star Farmer
Title Won By John Kurtz
NEPPCO Visitors To Tour County Furms
HARRISBURG An inside
look at the most talked-about
egg and poultry operations in
America’s top agricultural coun
ty will be given farmers on a
first-come, first-served basis in
October.
A bus tour of Lancaster
County’s top poultry facilities
is scheduled in conjunction
with the 30th anniversary con
vention and exposition of the
Northeastern Poultry Produc
ers Council. The big annual
show will be on display in this
city’s Farm Show Building Oc
tober 10-11-12.
“We’ll fill four busloads, but
John E. Kurtz
Farm Youth From Turkey
Here As Exchange Student
A 17-year-old exchange stu
dent from Turkey with a
“keen” interest m the field of
agriculture has arrived in
Lititz where he will attend
Warwick High School as a
member of the senior class
during the next nine months
Tahir Guner. Teku dag, Tur
key. is being sponsored by the
Warwick Chapter of the Ameri
can Field Service Interna
tional Scholarship program.
Tekirdag is a city in European
Turkey, and is located about
78 miles west of Istanbul.
Translated, Tekirdag means
“prince’s hill”
Tahir and his sisters Yas
mer and Fatma_ received their
education at the school in
Tekirdag which consisted of
five years of first school, three
years of middle school, and
three years at the high school
He and his sisters stayed in
Tekirdag throughout the school
term each year, renting rooms
in a private home.
During the summer months
they reside,-at their parents’
home in the,vAlage of Karaeuli
which has a population of 200
Seventeen-year-old John E
Kurtz topped a field of eight
hopefuls Monday to win the
title of 1967 County Star
Parmer.
A panel of three judges, af
ter interviewing the boys at
Penn Manor High School, se
lected Kurtz as the most out
standing Future Farmer in the
county. Named first and second
runnersup, respectively, were
Howett Seiverling of Warwick
FFA Chapter, and Kenneth
Weber Grassland Chapter
Kurtz is a senior at Eliza
bethtown High School, and is
president of his local FFA
chapter He is the son of Mr
and Mrs. Jacob L. Kurtz of
1160 N. Market St., Elizabeth
town
Raised on the family’s dairy
farm, most of Kurtz’ faim ac
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we’ve got to limit the tour size
to that,” says Richard I. Am
mon, NEPPCO executive di
rector. “Those who reserve
first will be the lucky ones ”
The tour planned and coor
dinated by the Lancaster Coun
ty Poultry Association, will vis
it a 240,000-layer complex, a
giant egg and poultry process
ing plant, a broiler operation
growing out 300,000 birds each
year and a broiler hatchery.
And it will also include
lunch, a visit to the renown
Pennsylvania Farm Museum
and an authentic Pennsylvania
Dutch feast at the famous Plain
$2 Per Year
people The climate there is
dry and rather warm Winter*
precipitation as a rule presents
a minimum of snow, and water
never freezes there The earth
quake which struck Sakarya,
Turkey, recently was located
about 300 miles from Tahir’s
home The/ felt a little disturb
ance. but that was all He said
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Everett Newswanger
E. Newswanger
New Lancaster
Farming Editor
A local farm news reporter
and radio broadcaster has been
appointed to fill the editorial
vacancy at Lancaster Farming
this week, according to Robert
G Campbell, owner and pub
hshei of the farm weekly
Eveiett R Newswanger,
working under the banner of
“Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly,” has both editorial
and news gathering responsi
bility as of .Sept sth
Not new to Lancaster Farm
ing readers, Everett has done
regular features and news sto
ries since July 1984, and was
promoted to editor when I>on
Timmons accepted a similar
position with Watt Publishing
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and Fancy Farm Restaurant in
Bird-in-Hand
The tour will begin and end
at th e Farm Show Building on
Monday, October 9, the day
prior to exposition opening.
The entire package will cost
$lO per person with checks and
advance reservation requeststo
be mailed to NEPPCO.
“It’s probably the best bar
gain we’ve ever offered in
conjunction with the exposi
tion,” Ammon says.
Back in Harrisburg on Tues
day, the touring fanners will
be admitted free to the big an
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