• VOL. 12 NO. 46
WHICH COMES FIRST? Five-year-bid Jeffrey
Kline, Liitfiitz R 3, really sees no connecfciofi between the
big sculptured egg (bne of a dozen on-d’isplay) and the
little chicks. Jeffrey posed for this picture when he
visliite>d the NEPPCO Exposition at the Farm Show
Building this week, with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul
B. Kline.
Poultrymen Face Battle
In Urban Developments
HARRISBURG Po u Itry
men will have to give up any
“public -be - damned” not ions
they may harbor if they aie to
copy with the problems of an
ever-expanding urban popula
tion.
This was the concensus of a
threewnan panel of experts that
sifted the problems of odor
and flies from poultry farms
that wind up in the center or
on -the fringes of new housing
developments
The discussion fired the open
ing gun on three days of edu
cational sessions, displays and
competition at the annual ex
position. and convention of the
Northeastern Poultry Produc
ers Council (NEPPCO) in the
Farm 'Show Building here.
The peculiar problems of
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Farm Calendar
Monday, October 15
10 00 a.m. Farm and Home
directors meet at center con
struction
Tuesday, October 17
7 00 p m. Lancaster County
Farmers Association meeting
at Holiday Inn
' 7 30 pm. Farm and Home
directors meet at Agway
Bldg.
on Page 16)
DO YOU DISPOSE OF PESTICIDE
CONTAINERS PROPERLY? The Man
heam Cen’tral FFA boys do in their win
ning window display at the Community
Farm Show this week. They recommend
1) Dig disposal pit; 2) Burn bags and
cartons; 31 Break glass Containers; 4)
Flatten metal containers; 5) Bury ashes
and cans; 6) Don’t reuse empty contain
ers, Ephrata PFA was seconidC with
Uancaster Farming, Saturday, October 14, 1967
4-H Capon Exhibit-
At Elks Club Oit
Tuesday, October 24
The 4-H Dressed Capon Ex
hibit will be held on Tuesday
morning, October 24, at the
Elks Club, 219 North Duke St„
Lancaster, according to Arnold
Lueck and Jay Irwin, county
agents This is located opposite
the fire station. Have your
birds at the exhibit hall by
930 am Judging will take
place between 10 and 11 30
a m Birds will be weighed and
tagged at the hall. All exhib
itors are invited to be guests
for the noon meal of the Lan
caster Kiwams Club Awards
and trophies will (be presented
during the meal. The entire
program should be over by
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FFA Youth Is Winner
At Manheim Farm Show
Robert Donough, a 16-year-old
FFA youth in the Manheim
Central High 'School Chapter,
took grand champion honors at
:; fee,-Manhe_im, jCommunitv Farm
with'
his chunky black angus Don
ough, a junior, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Donough,
Manheim Rl
Reserve grand champion horn
ors went to the top 4-H entiy,
a Hereford, shown (by John
Long, son of Mr. and Mrs Si
las Long, Manheim R 4.
Judge for the show was Jay
Coble, Hershey Rl
Placings were as follows-
FFA Angus: 1, Robert Don
ough, 2, Lester Heistand, Man
heim R 4; 3, Ed Donough, Man
heim Rl, 4, Bairy Garber, Man
heim Rl
Farm & Home Foundation
Revitalizing Campaign
The Farm and Home Founda
tion of Lancaster County is le
vitahzing its Farm Gifts Cam
paign with the aim of comple
tion in the next few weeks
Weather and crop season com
plications faced by the farmer
solicitors slowed down their ac
tivities during the past months
Now that the tobacco harvest
is completed, a strong effort is
undeiway to complete solicita
tions before the farmers get
too busy with their own har
vesting
Co-chairmen of the Faim
Gift Campaign, Levi H Bru
bakei and Lawrence H Skrom-
1 FFA Herefords: 1, Nelson
Thomas, Mount Joy R 2; 2, Nel
’ son Hoffer, Mianheim -R3; 3,’
; John Nissley t Manheim Rl.
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Wenger And
Long Star
At Dairy Show
A straight-topped, just-fresh
daughter of Penn State Marks
man Reflection won the grand
championship of the Holstein
show at the Manheim Commun
ity Farm Show Thursday
night, for Arthur Wengei, Man
heim R 2
Valley 'Run Reflection Kitty,
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Traffic Safety”, and the Elisabethtown
Farm Youth were third with “Feed
Complete Feed.” In the photo (left to
right) Barry Garber, ManheimHl; Rich
ard Gruber, Elizabethtown R 3; Robert
Donough, Manheim R 1; and Lester Hei
stand, Manheim R 4. Heistand is presi
dent of the local chapter, Gruber is vice
president and GarberHs sentixM.
L. F. tPhoto
me, have called a meeting of
the Farm and Home Founda
tion Board of Directors and
Farm Gift Chan men for Mon
day, October 16, at 10 a.m. at
the site of the new building to
launch the wi ap up effort of
this campaign
The new Faim and Home
Center is rapidlv taking form.
Completion is anticipated by
the end of this year. When
ready, the Center will serve as
a common meeting place for
the farmers of Lancaster
County, not only for their many
meetings and activities, but
also as the source of the many
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Charles Shuman
Charles Shuman
To Speak At
Farmers’ Meet
Chailes B Shuman, presi
dent of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, will be the
'speaker for the Lancaster
County Fai mers’ Association
Annual Meeting, which will be
held m Lancaster Tuesday,
Oct 17, at the Holiday Inn, ac
cording to an announcement
made by Noah Wenger, Asso
ciation president
Each year the Lancaster
Farmers’ Association meets to
discuss local policy and make
policy suggestions to the Penn
sylvania Farmers’ Association,
an affiliate of the American
Farm Bureau Federation The
Lancaster organization has 1,-
030 family memberships in the
local unit.
President Shuman became
president of the American
Farm Bureau, the largest gen
eral farm organization in the
world, in December 1954, and.
has been re-elected president
for six additional two-year
terms.
He is a stock and grain farm
er and lives near Sullivan, Il
linois, where he (began his
work in the Farm Bureau or
ganization. Shuman actively
with his three sons
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