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VOL. 12 NO. 49
4-H Members
Are Eligible For
Essay Contest
The 1967 4-H Conservation
Essay Contest sponsored by
the Lancaster Kiwanis Club
was announced this week, by
the Lancaster County Exten
sion Office. Any club mem
ber may enter by writing an
essay on the subject, “Soil
and Water Conservation”.
The essay should be written
on 8M;xll paper and be 200-
300 words in length. Entries
may include pictures show
ing good conservation prac
tices and should deal with
methods, value, purpose and
importance of saving soil and
water.
Awards will be given: Ist
place, $75; 2nd place, $5O,
and 3rd place, $25. Essays
are due in the Extension Of
fice by Tuesday, Nov. 14.
Livestock Entries In
Annuol Exposition
Totol 3,882 Head
, thi* an
nual • 4*OBHsylvaJiia Livestock'
Exjk>atkwS ! at'''the Farm ’Show
Building next week- total 1171
head of sheep, 1)073 hogs, 824
beef cattle, and 464 horses in
the competitive classes of the
exposition. An additional 350
horses and their young riders
will perform in the Pennsyl
vania 4H Horse Show, Nov. 10
and H, in the Farm Show
Arena.
Premiums offered total ap
proximately $50,000, with ad
ditional. trophies and awards by
national breed associations.
There is no admission charge
to any of the events at the ex
position which is sponsored by
the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture, its Farm Show
Commission, and the Pennsyl
vania Livestock and Allied. In
dustries Association.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, November 4 (today)
4—ll Eleventh Annual Pa.
Livestock Exposition, Farm
‘Show Arena.
Sunday, November 5
5-10 American Society of
Agronomy meeting, Washing
ton D.C.
Tuesday, November 7
4:30 p.m.—Ag teachers meet
at Warwick High School.
7:30 p.m.—Garden Spot High
School Young Adult Program
in A g Room.
Wednesday, November 8
8-10 State SWCD Annual
Meeting, Host Farm Motel.
8-10 Penna. Farmers lAs’sn.
Annual Meeting, Hotel York
town, York.
9:00 a.m.—Penn State Ger
anium Clinic, (Plymouth
Meeting, Pa.
10:00 a.m.—Large Herd Own
ers meeting, Ag Bldg., Har
risburg.
5:15 p.m.—Lincoln 4-H Club
Dressed Capon Exhibit, Am
erican Legion Hall, Ephrata.
Thursday, November 9
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1967
EIjEGTjijD - - OFFTCERS -
Poultry Association., (left to right) seated, Allen. Gray
bill,-Lebla, Vice President and John Hess, New Holland,
President. Standing: John R. Huber, Jr., lititz, Secre
tary ’and J. Harold Esbenshade, Manheim, Treasurer.
The election was held at the regular directors meeting
Thursday night, at the Production Credit Building.
L. F. Photo
Dairy Adv. Man
Says Chemical
Milk Is Here
A leading dairy products ad
vertising man said this week,
“In spite of what some people
are saying about us making too
much fuss over imitation milk
—it’s here, on the grocery
shelves and it will be sold im
mediately ”
M. E Erickson, Membership
Director for The American
Dairy Association and Dairy
Council of New York told the
few members present at the
annual meeting of District 18
in the Bnckerville Fire Hall,
Wednesday afternoon, that it
is only a matter of time until
every state has it. “This is the
greatest threat to dairy farm
ers,” Erickson said.
The director also said that
Wayne Lefever Has
Perfect Honey Score
The 4-H Honey Club Round
up was held Thursday evening
at the Ralph Gamber Honey
House, 911 State Street, Lan
caster.
Wayne Lefever, 14-year-old
son of Mr. andi Mrs. Richard
Lefever, Quarryville ‘ Rl, had
first place with a perfect score
of 20. Second was James Bren
ner, Lititz R 3 and third was
Jeffrey Risser, Leola Rl.
The awards were made by
the Lancaster Honey Producers
Association. W. W. Clarke Jr.,
Extension Apiarist from Penn
State, was the judge.
it really was the farmers’ bat
tle, because it is the dairyman
who has 95 percent of the to
tal investment in the dairy in
dustry.
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THE PENN STATE CARNATION
CLINIC held Wednesday and Thursday
at the Host Town Motel was attended
by 90 carnation growers from the Mid-
Atlantic States. Carnation sales in Penn
sylvania at the wholesale grower level
■totaled 3.1 million dollars. In the above
photograph (left to right) James K.
The Hackmans Return To
Poland After Seven Years
“If we never see you again
here on this earth, we will see
you in Heaven.”
Words to this effect were
given to Mr. and Mrs Henry
■Hackman, Manheim R 2, as a
State Soil And
Water Meeting
Here Next Week
Lieut. Gov Raymond C
Broderick will be the featured
speaker at the annual joint
conference of the Stats Soil
and Water Conservation Com
mission and the Penna Associ
ation of Soil and Water Con
servation District Directors,
Inc., to he held Nov. 8-10 at
Host Town Motel, Lancaster.
Broderick is scheduled to
speak at the conference ban
quet at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 9.
The conferees, will be wel
comed. at' T;3o' p.m., Nov. 8, ..by.
Amos- H. .Millersvilh^^a
member of the Commission:
State' Secretary of Agriculture
Leland H. Bull; and David J.
Woods, Transfer, Mercer Coun
ty, president of the Penna. As
sociation of S&WCDD.
Benefits to be gained from
proper land use will be dis
cussed Nov. 9 by ’Ralph W.
Hunter, Harrisburg; M. Dice
Statler,’ Washington, Washing
ton County; (Ralph Rumpf, Car
lisle, and Dr. Virgil Crowley,
Penn 'State University.
Workshop leaders for Nov.
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Rathmell, Jr., Penn State University;
Elmer Lefever, Lancaster; Arnold
Lueck, Lancaster County Agricultural
Agent; T. R. Jackson, president, Mid-
Atlantic Carnation Growers, Kennett
Square and Fred Hellberg, Dird-In-
Hand. L. F. Photo
$2 Per Year
token of the hope their friends
in Poland do have. The state
ment was made by Edmund
Apolinarski after repeated
questioning as to when the
Manheim farm couple would
again return behind the Iron
Cuitain after their visit there
this summer. Edmund is the
director of 7,500 acres of Gov
ernment farm land located
about 40 miles south of Poz
nan, Poland.
The Hackmans spent 17 days
in Poland with the director
and his family in August as a
return visit of seven years ago
(in 1960) when Hemy had
been sent to Poland as an ex
change farmer through The
Church of the Brethren.
SEE PHOTOS ON PAGE 7
Three years later, Apolinar
-1 ski was a guest of the Hack
mans on their Manheim farm.
This reporter, witnessed a
private showing Monday eve
t ning„,of A th« S,aigr6d slide johes
. CTtatfdh''-wmcn the Hackmans
use at church and civic mectv
e ings to show their six-week
• trip to Communist countries.
Much of interest in their
presentation must be omitted.
’But, for a focal point in this
1 report, the Government farms
managed by the Edmund Apo
linarski family visited by Mr.
1 and Mirs. Hackman on their ad
venture into Poland and sur
rounding countries in August,
will be used.
The vast acreage covered by
this government complex is
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