VOL. 12 NO. 41
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USDA Representatives from Belts
ville, Maryland checked tobacco disease
damage and sucker control Wednesday,
at Southeastern Field Research Labora
tory, Landisville. (left to right) Dr. J. E.
McMuitrey, Consultant; John Yocum,
Experiment Station iSupermtendent;
James Chaplin, Breeding, Seeding and
Disease Investigator; George Steffens,
Pbultiyl^eci^^
President As Guest At Meeting
The president of the Penn
sylvania State Poultry Federa
tion told local poultrymen
Thursday night, that we need
to try to create a better im
age to the people around us
and we need- to do a better
job of housekeeping. -
Reporting to the regular
monthly meeting of the Lan
caster County Poultry 'Associ
ation- directors at the Produc
tion Credit Building, Walter
Wheelock, Chambersburg, told
of the discussion of the state
poultry presidents’ and secre
taries’ meeting held recently
at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
In New Jersey, he said ,they
have set up a cross section of
the .population to make a study
of matters .dealing with poul
try nuisances, disposal of poul
try waste and control of odors.
They have also set up a legal
committee to help those -who
have problems.
Farm Calendar
Monday, Sept. 11
9:00 am-Judging Pa Junior
Dairy Show, Harrisburg.
6-00 pm - Holstein State Sale
8.00pm.-Soil & Water Con
servation Directors meet at
Production Crdt. Bldg.
Tuesday, Sept. 12
8:00 a.m - Judging Pa Black
& White Show, Harrisburg.
9.00a.m.-Judging Brown
.Swiss
10:00a.m.-Vegetable Crops
Field Day at Penn State
Research Farm, Rt 45, 5
mi. W of Pine Giove Mills
Wednesday, Sept. 13
9:00 a.m. - Judging Ayrshire &
Guernsey classes, Harris
bung
9:30a.m.-Corn drying meet
ing,' Robert 6. Hamish "
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The state president said that
when you have a complaint it
should be taken care of as soon
•ais. possible to keep good pub
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Farm and Home
Center Extends
Drive For Funds
John H Herr, steering com
mittee chairman for the Lancas
ter County Farm and Home
Foundation drive, has announc
ed that the campaign for $lOO -
"600 will be extended to Sept 15
The three-week extension is
necessary this year because of
the late harvest of crops which
has kept canvassers from mak
ing th eir rounds to local farm
ers and farm-related business
es, Herr said.
Herr also said that ten per
cent of the more than 2,000
cards have been returned and
he is pleased with the contribu
tions so far. The drive was orig
inally scheduled for Aug 9
through Aug. 30
All-American Dairy
Show In Harrisburg
Next week is the five-day in
ternational event at the Farm
Show Building m Harrisburg
The All-American Dairy
Show Open to dairy breeders in
the United States and Canada
the show will offer $50,000 in
cash premiums and six dairy
breeds will be represented
The Jersey and Holstein
breeds will have their state sale
and the Eastern National Hol
stein Show will be held.
As usual parking and admis
sion -is free. See o«r
Calendar” for the
dule.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9,1967
Leader of Tobacco Research and J. R.
Stavely, Research Plant Pathologist. Yo
cum reported suckers hard to control in
this wet season if the control material
was not applied soon enough after topp
ing. He also said, “If we would have
had one more rain storm, wildfire would
have taken over. But the nice clear
weather lately stopped it very well.”
Smith Announces Corn
Meetings Next Week
County Agent M. M. Smith
announced Thursday, two meet
ings for 'Lancaster County
farmers in the interest of corn
drying. “With the possibilities
of many crops of com being
too large for existing storage
space, we feel that some atten
tion to the proper drying of
corn is needed,” Smith said.
Both meetings are to be held
Wednesday, September 13 The
first in the morning at 9:30
a.m. at the farm of Robert G.
Harrush, Conestoga R 2 The
second at 8 pm. at the Farm
Credit Building, 411 W. Rose
ville Road.
Please feel free to invite
others in your area to come
along to these meetings.
Lefever Brothers
& Hiram Aungst
Top July DHIA
A Registered Holstein cow
owned by Lefever Brothers,
Manheim Rl, completed the
highest 305 day lactation, ac
cording to the Monthly News
Letter of the Red Rose Dairy
Herd Improvement Association
for July. Jane produced 20,-
719 lbs. of milk, 818 lbs. of
butterfat with a 39% test
Second high lactation was com
pleted by a Registered Hol
stein cow owned by Henry W.
Martin. Ephrata Rl Eva pro
duced 17,454 lbs of milk 807
lbs of butterfat with a 4.6%
test in 305 days
The herd of Hiram S.
Aungst, Elizabethtown Rl had
the highest monthly butterfat
average. This herd of 33.0 Reg
istered Holstein cows averaged
1,672 lbs of milk, 66 lbs of
butterfat with a 4.0% test The
herds of Eli-S. King, Box 126 A,
and Robert F.
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Breeders Told To Give Up
Individual Independence
Hershey - A prominent farm
leader this week told a nation
al meeting of animal breeders,
“We need size in farm organi
zations if we’re going to meet
the competition.”
Edmund H. Fallon, General
Manager, Agway, Inc, Syra
cuse, N. Y, giving the keynote
address Wednesday at the Na-
Frey’s Dairy
Hosts National
Breeders Tour
Frey’s Dairy Farm, Conesto
ga R 2- was the 'Lancaster Coun
ty stop for five bus loads of
tour people attending the Na
tional Association of Animal
Breeders in Hershey this week.
Here on an 850 acre spread.
Armor P. Frey and son Jay
house 415 milking cows in a
420’x 86’ free-stall barn and
milk them, 36 at a tame, in
their nine unit mi’king par
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IT WILL BE FUN PICKING THIS STUFF. Armor
P. Frey (left) and Paul Herr show the height of these
com stalks in the Conestoga RD #2 area. The ear was
9 feet the ground X lk was 15 feet hiplb
the , st^ ik was V* leet
fhe seventy acres behind these stalks were just as thick
anid just ais tall. Frey had bought the variety to grow a
medium high stalk.
$2 Per Year
tional Association of Animal
Breeders’ 20th Annual Con
vention, said, “The competi
tion has size and there is noth
ing wrong with farmers hav
ing it, too ”
Speaking to the 425 associa
tion members and guests gath
ered in Hotel Hershey, Fallon,
said the big problem is that
farmers have traditionally
wanted to be independent.
“But now we need to exchange
individual independence for
collective independence by get
ting together,” he sand. “If we
are going to have power be
yond our line fence (and we
better) we are going to have
size. We have not moved as
fast as our competition.”
Farm Prices
In speaking of farm prices,
Fallon listed wages, taxes and
inflation as being factors in
the present situation. “We have
a soft spot in prices right now
but we will see a tremendous
demand for food as we con-
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