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BIOLOGHAL S''.”" . j«».ARY
VOL. 12 no: 51
Ivan Yost
Elected YFA
Vke President
Ivan» Yost, Narvon R 2, was
elected Region 2 Vice President
of the Pennsylvania Young
Farmers Association at the Bth
Annual Convention Thursday,
held at the Yorktown Motel,
York, according to Donald
Robinson, Vo-Ag teacher at
Garden Spot High School.
Yost is a dairy farmer and
won the Lancaster County Trac
tor Driving contest in July.
Attending the convention
from Garden Spot along with
Robinson and his wife, were-
Eobert Martin, president of the
local association and Vernon
Beiler
Producers Exchange
HoF<& Annual Meeting
At~Mt. Jay, Tuesday
“Egg prices for all grade:
, avcraged'2B cents per -dozen,’
-tor K. iM. -Senders
for-'Produc
-Stoi>der% to tbe an
nual- at JHqstetter’s in
- Mt.-'joy, Tuesday' evening, said,
' is not as
good for "the cooperative as
last, year,, because, "we payed
everything we could back to
■ the" producers.”
“It"has-been" a trying year,”
he said. “Customers using farm
grade# eggs- have decreased.
And operating-costs have crept
up a bit. Also, many birds have
been put ih before the produc
ers found a - market for -the
eggs. They should find a mar
ket and then produce for that
market.” '
The manager reported sell
ing quite a few eggs for ex
port—as far away as Ethiopia.
DIRECTORS ELECTED
The- 75 members and friends
preseat elected three directors
for the cooperative as follows:
H. Raymond Stoner 1051 Eden
Rd.; - Lancaster; Clyde Sump
man, JHt, Joy, and Robert Wal
lis,,- Liverpool.
' Haxxy P. Metz, Belleville,
presided.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, November 18 (today)
9:00* AM. - Distribution of
4-H Hereford Baby Beef
calves, N. H. Sales Stables.
, _ i ParmCity iWeek continues
through the 23rd.
; Tuesday, November. 21
1,121-22 Interstate Milk JProduc
| : lers' Annual Meet., Marriott
H j (Motel; Philadelphia.
I ' 12- Noon, Presentation of Ki
' ,W;anis Conservation Essay
Contest' awards, Elks Club,
Lancaster."
Thursday, November 23
Thanksgiving Day.
Saturday, November 25
8:00- P.M.' - Lane. Sr. Ex.
Square Dance, Leola War
Mem. Bldg., -Leola.
“PRETTY TURKEY!” These two little tots from
the Burrowes School in Lancaster are talking to the
big White gobbler at the Esbensbalde Turkey Farm. The
children visited the farm Monday with their classmates
to sea where their Thanskgiving turkey comes from
Vicki Boyer (left) and Michael Kane. L. F. Photo
Larson Speaks To Ag-Banquet
On "The Telescoped Evolution”
Cr. Russell E 'Larson, Dean
of Penn State Agriculture Col
lege, repoited Thursday night,
that there are two explosive
forces generating demand for
food in the world One' is the
population explosion and the
other is the rapid rise in per
capita income occurring in
many countries.
Speaking to the Ag-Industry
Banquet held at Town and
Country Inn, Vintage, the Dean
said, “Grains occupy more' than
70 percent of the world’s crop
land, and, in terms of 6alones,
they provide more than half ot
man’s total food energy when
consumed directly, and a siz
able part of the remainder—
when consumed indirectly in
the form of meat, milk and
eggs.,
“Some 1,600 pounds of grain
per person per year are re
quired to provide the high pro
tein diet common to the Unit
ed States. This contrasts sharp
ly with the annual availability
of 400 pounds per person in
the less developed countries.
(Continued on Page 16)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 18,1967
SPEAKERS AT THE AG-INDUS
TRY BANQUET, (left to right) Harold
Roihrer, director Pennsylvania Farmers
Association; Stanley Musselman, mas-
AGRiC'iITUfM! AND
City Tots Visit County
Turkey Farm Operation
Some thirty small school
children fi’om the Burrowes
School East Orange Street and
Ranck Ave., Lancaster, will
know where thetr Thanksgiving
turkey came from this year.
They visited the Esbenshade
Turkey Farm, south of Para
dise, Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Esbenshade gave them
a tour of the farm as she does
on many occasions. She show
ed them the live turkeys, and
the on-the-farm dressing plant
as well as a pony, a steer and
some chickens. At the turkey
pens the children may make as
much noise as they desire be
cause the turkeys will still
come up to the door near them
Credit Man Says We Could Not
Get Along Without Our Farmers
A’ farm credit official said
this week that we could not
-get along-without ■'
- . H., Johnson,,- direc
tor of" Public Relations, Farm
- Credit Banks of Baltimore,
--said, “Farmers are the biggest
producers and the biggest con
sumers of any business in the
nation.”
Speaking to the 250 mem
bers and guests present at the
50th Anniversary meeting of
the Federal Land Bank Asso
ciation and the Production
Credit Association, Johnson
said, “In the last 23 years in
dustry has increased produc
ion by 40 percent per man, hut
farmers have increased their
production per man by 46 per
cent' And the farmer’s lead
continues to remain about the
same,” he added
Looking to the future, John
son saw increased needs for
farm production by 1983 But
the farmer will still have prob
lems
ter-of-ceremonies; Russell E. Larson,
dean, Penn State and M. M. Smith, agri
cultural chairman for the Lancaster
Chamber of Commerce. L. F, Photo
$2 Per Ye*
But at the chicken house they
must be quiet or they will
scare the hens.
The Esbenshade Farm, own
ed and operated by Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Esbenshade, rais
es 2,500 birds each year and
they dress them on the farm
for individual housewives and
businessmen who give turkeys
to their employees at Christ
mas.
“Thanksgiving creeps up on
people,” Robert said, “and you
get a lot of late orders.” It is
different at Christmas with the
orders coming in early.
Esbenshade starts two flocks
of White Holland birds at dif
(Oontinued on Page 8)
The credit man saw low farm
net. for the-next 15
years;, "The 1- farmers are--in
- (Continued on Pag 2 9)
Frey Elected
President Of
Holstein Assn.
J Mowery Frey Jr., 401
Beaver Valley Pike, was elect
ed president of the Lancaster
County Holstein lAssn. Friday
evening at the annual meeting,
held at Hostetter’s Dining
Service, Mount Joy.
Other officers elected were
John J. Herr, Mount Joy, vice
president; Mervin Landis, Bird-
In-Hand, secretary; and John
Kreider, Willow Road, Lancas
ter, treasurer
Directors elected were Jolfn
Jacob Herr, Mount Joy; .Rich
ard Hershey, Manheun; and
David Sweigart, Elizabethtown.
- (See Photo on Page 13)