VOL; 12 NO; 47
AMERICAN HEREFORD ASSOCIATION,' Kansas
City; Men, -was - one of the places the FFA'hoys, could
visit ait tiheir convention last'week. This photo and others
reproduced and published in this issue were brought
back for Lancaster Farming by ’the local members at
tesnldmg.' - ~ - ...
Local FFA Boys Join 10,000 Others
In K. Bring Photos For L. F.
Members from throe Lancas
ter-County Vo-Ag Departments
were among the approximately
10,000 FFA youth and 2,000
FFA- advisors from across the
Nation, that attended the 40th
National Convention of Future
Farmers of America held in
the Municipal Auditorium in
Kansas City, Missouri, last week.
Twenty-one local boys and
three teachers attended the.con-.
vention. Chapters from Ephrata,
New Holland and Elizabethtown
were represented
The Grassland Chapter of
New Holland received two
awards, the National Gold Em
Farm Calendar
'Saturday, (Today)
21-22 Horticulture Show
atPSU
< 'lrOO.p.m. Manheim Young"
Farmers Gun Shoot, Jay Fore
man Farm, Lititz Rl
Monday,-October 23
23-27 Pennsylvania State
Gtosage Meeting ’at Gettysburg
-3:00 p.m. Cutting To Fit
- Workshop, UGI Co., Lancas
ter
Tuesday, October 24
9:30 a.m. 4-H Dressed Ca
pon Exhibit, Elks €lub, 21.9
N. Duke St. ’ ’
9:30 a.m. Manage Way .To
- -Better Day .Workshop, PP&L;
Griest Bldg. " ■ ' ' ~
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.-P “ Hi..
blem - Award, for the second
consecutive year, and a superior
x-atmg for the chapter, for the
eighth year. Receiving the Gold
Award for the chapter was
Michael Smucker, Chapter pre
sident, and Philip Ogline, Vo-Ag
teacher at Garden Spot High
School Donald A. Sheaffer, high
school principal; was at Kansas
City for the presentation.-
Harold J. Brubaker, North At
lantic Regional Vice President,
presided at the Friday session
He also was a speaker in the
Thursday" program. His topic
was “The Image of the Future
Faimer”
Receiving an honorary Amen
(Continued on Pagle 7)
Small Game Season To
Open Sat., October 28
The regular- statewide small
game season in Pennsylvania
will open on Saturday, Oc
tober .28, at 9 a.m. Eastern
Daylight Saving Time. -
Game Commission Execu
tive-Director Glenn L. Bow- ;
ers this week reminded all ;
hunters to give special at- ;
tention to the opening hour
on October. 28. The entire <
state is operating under East- ]
ern Daylight-Saving Time, on (
.October. 28. this year, so there 1
should be no -confusion on j
tb£ .opening. hour. - j
. Bowers, reminded hunters <
that NO wild birds or wild t
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Lancaster Ftarming, Saturday, October 21,.1967
Shuman Blames Gov’t Programs
For The Farm “Mess We’re In”
Says Stockpile Buildup
- Was A Deliberate Act
By Everett Newswanger
Lancaster Farming Editor
A national farm figure told
a capacity crowd m the Holi
i day Inn Ball Room, Tuesday
night, that he believes we are
going' to get out of the mess
we’re in because farmers are
I realizing that government pro
grams are the cause of then*
troubles
Charles B. Shuman, presi
dent of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation, said three
fourths of all farmers want to
get rid of the farm govern
ment programs
'Speaking at the annual ban
quet of the Lancaster County
Farmers Association (the local
AFBF affiliate), Shuman again
and again came back to blame
present government programs
■for the farm price squeeze.. He
said he didn’t hate -. Freeman -
(Orville L. Freeman, National
■Secretary of Agriculture) as a I
, person, but “I hate everything ;
, he stands for,” he said.
1 “There can be little doubt
> that the Administration is ded
: icated to a ‘cheap food policy’
• as an attempt to placate con
sumers irritated by a continu
ing rise in the cost of living
resulting from government-fed
' inflation. Ironically, the ‘cheap
food’ policy, which is based on
the politics that consumers (94
percent) outvote farmers by a
considerable margin, has not
benefitted consumers. The con
sumer price index took a fur
ther jump last month, and
some economists predict retail
food prices will rise from three
to five percent next year
(Continued on Page 10)
Soils Congress In
Harrisburg Next Week
Pennsylvania’s first Soils Con
gress to consider use of soil
surveys in suburban and rural
planning will be held in Har
risburg, October 26 and 27.
Several hundred professional
planners, industry and govern
ment representatives and com
munity leaders will attend the
Congress which will open at
Ipm, October 26 at the Hol
iday Inn Town
The purpose of the Congress
is to stimulate a greater aware
ness and use of soils informa
tion in urban planning, select
ing industrial sites, developing
recreation areas_,apd improv
ing agriculture, according to.
Ivan 'McKeever, general chair
man of the event
McKeever, who is the State
Conservationist of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, Soil
Conservation Service, said the
two-day program is sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture, The Penn
sylvania 'State University and
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture.
CHARLES B. SHUMAN, President of the Ameri
can 'Farm Bureau Federation, (right) and NOAH
WENGER, ’President of the Lancaster Farmers Associa
tion, holds Lancaster County produce from the display
table put-together by the association women for their
annual meeting Tuesday evening. Shuman was the fea
tured speaker for the affair that drew more than 450
farm members and friends.
Miss Averril Royer
Cowmen' Reproductive
Meeting Announced
You are invited -to attend a
meeting on reproductive prob
lems affecting- the large herd
'owner/ according to associate
county ' agent, Victor Plastow.
It will-* be^held on-November
8 in the Slate Agricultural
building, Harrisburg. The meet
ing will start- at 10 a.m. and
close at 3 p.m. Eating facilities
will- be available at lunch time.
“This meeting will devote at
tention'to some of the key is
sues' of -good -reproductive per
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I Miss Royer Has
I 4-H Record Book
f Score Of 97.6
! Averril Royer, 2025 Oregon.
| Pike, Lancaster, was awarded
top honors for having the high
| score in the record book judg
ling announced at the 4-H Dairy
Banquet that was scheduled to
i be held last evening at Plain
' and Fancy Restaurant. With, a
j total of 97 6 points, Averril
‘ topped the Holstein division.
I Her award was presented by
J W. Eshelman & Sons Feed
• Other Senior Record Book
| winners were Jersey, Stephen
j Arrowsmith, Peach Bottom;
| Ayrshire, Paul Brubaker, Lit
’ itz Rl; Guernsey. Jesseßalmer.
Lititz R 4 These winners along
with Miss Royer were present
ed awards by Miller & Bushong.
In the Junior division: Jer
sey, Barbara Aaron, Quarry
ville Rl and Ayrshire, Donna
Wertz, Lititz Rl were present
ed awards by the DHIA Super
visors-Clarence Crider.
Junior Holstein Record Book,
Barbara Kreider, Quarryville.
award presented by Agway,
Elizabethtown, and Guernsey,
Charlene Wagner, Quarryville
R 2 presented by Oxford Hay
and Grain-Kenneth Shoemaker.
BREED CHAMPIONS
Ayrshire: Paul Brubaker,
presented by Graybill Dairy.
Jersey: Stephen Arrowsmith.
(Continued on Page 9)
$2 Per Year