VQL. i 2 NO. 1
Beef Roundup
Scheduled For
December 5 & 6
County Agent M M Smith
cent information relating to the
county 4-H Baby Roundup
and Southeast District Show
and Sale this week, to all 4-H
Baby Beef Club membeis
The contents of the letter
gent from the Extension Office,
are as follows.
“All (Lancaster County steers
are to be brought to the Stock
\ aids on Tuesday morning, De
cember 5, between 800 am.
and 11:00 am., unload them
through the chutes at the west
end of the hog barn where they
mil be tagged, weighed and
put into their stalls (This will
not be the sale weight)
“Starting promptly at 1:00
p m Tuesday, we will conduct
our county roundup for the pur
pose of project completions and
to select our State Farm Show
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Grange Ends
National-Meet
With New Goals
SYRACUSE, NY. The Na
tional Grange last week ended
its Centennial Session, attended
)>} more than 12,000 of its 620,-
000 members, with new legisla
tive goals to begin its second
century. Emphasizing that
Grange goals are dedicated to
providing parity of income, op
portunity, public service to rur
al people, the Grange recom
mended acceleration of pro
grams to produce more job op
portunities, along with new me
dical, literary, water and sani
tary facilities for rural areas
The Grange favors a new na
tional land policy to improve
1 oral communities and conserve
natural resources as well as ef
fective farm programs including
non-recourse loans to stabilize
markets and support farm com
modity prices.
The Grange called for import
quota restriction for all meats
and process meats and prompt
enforcement of import quotas
on all foreign agriculture pro
ducts when they interfere with
domestic prices.
The Grange endorsed the ac
(Continued on Page 61
Lancaster Farming
Anniversary Passed
With This Issue
(See Editorial Page 4)
Farm Calendar
Monday, December 4
4-6 Farm Income Tax and So
cial Security Short Course,
Penn State University
7:30 p.m.—Manheim Young
Farmers Farm Management
Meet., School Ag. Bldg
Tuesday, December 5
4-H Baby Beef Show at Lan
caster Stock Yards.
. (Continued on Page 13)
■ THE NEWLY ELECTED COUNTY FFA PRESI
DENT Linford Martin, shows his Ayrshire project to
Philip Ogline, Garden Spot Vo-Ag teacher. The L. F.
Photo was taken on a visit this week to the farm where
Linford keeps his projects.
A New Slant
City Congressmen Understand
Agriculture, Fultbn Says
An uiban Congressman has
'basically .the same viewpoints
on agriculture as one represent
ing a rural district. Rep Rich
ard Fulton (D ) of Tennessee
said in a recent address to the
annual meeting of the Tennes
see Farm Bureau Federation.
Fulton, who represents the
city of Nashville, told his farm
audience that “contrary to the
view of some, those of us from
urban areas are well aware that
our food does not miraculously
appear in bottles, cans, and the
frozen food counters of _pur gro
cery stores ' ~
“American agriculture today
is an outstanding success in the
fulfillment of its major func
tion—the production of the ba
sic needs of life,” ihe said.
“There is hardly a nation in
the world that would not gladly
exchange its ‘farm problem’ for
ours
“The unparalleled productiv
ity of American farmers is a
major factor in providing the
people of the United States with
the highest standard of living
the world has ever known”
Fulton said the American
farm family “must have the op
portunity to achieve parity of
income without exploiting ei
ther the taxpayer or the con
sumer.
‘’We must seek to enable the
farmer to realize equality of
economic opportunity by means
(Continued' on Page 8)
Lancaster Farming, .Saturday, December 2,1967
AT THE THURSDAY REMODEL
ING DAIRY BARN TOUR. Pictured at
the first stop of the Albert Mellinger
Farm, Strasburg Rl, is (left to right) Mr.
and Mrs. Mellinger, Larry Click, Penn
State University and Victor Plastow,
Associate County Agent. A group of 40
New FFA President Sees
Land And Living Costs
As Farmer’s Big Problem
An On-The-Form Visit
by Everett Newswanger
Lancaster Farming Editor
The new Lancaster County
FFA president thinks high costs
are the greatest problem of
farmers today
Linford Martin, member of
the Garden Spot Chapter, told
this reporter during an on-the
farm visit 'Wednesday after
school, “I think the cost of land
and the cost of living are the
big problems of the farmer ”
Quality, Not Color
Should Determine
Limestone Purchases
Aglime is a limestone rock
reduced in size by crushing
down to the size specified by
state law, AGP specifications -or
both' according' ttrttie‘National
Limestone Institute. It has been
applied to the soil to “sweeten”
it—-raise the pH for hundreds
of years. Aglime supplies the
calcium, magnesium and other
minor elements which crops,
erosion and leaching remove
from the soil
Some limestones are almost
pure calcium while others con
tain varying quantities of mag
nesium as well as other minor
elements and impurities. The
lowest grade or acceptable ag
lime in any state is 65% CaCO 3
(Continued on Page 9)
farmers described for size as “very nice
considering the snow storm”, toured
several area farms for ideas on bam con
struction. Other farms on the schedule
were Melvin R. Stoltzfus, Ronks Rl;
Donald Eby, Gordonville Rl and Donald
Hostetter, Parkesburg R 2. X. F. Photo
$2 Per Yeas
The county president leans
toward the self-sufficient family
farm as the answer to these
high costs. “They say you need
to specialize but I feel the
farmer is best off being diver
sified. The 16-year-old high
school Junior paused a moment
and then clarified what he
meant “I mean you should ma
jor in one thing like dairying
for example, but still have a
few chickens, pigs and maybe a
steer for your own use I lake
farms to be self-sufficient,” he
said
Hanford also thought a good
way to cut costs was for the
farmer to be able to do his own
farm equipment service work.
And he put a great emphasis
on education to accomplish this
self-sufficiency “The way to be
come is through
education,” he said.
■- Martin appreciates his chance
to go through high school as he
is the first boy in his family to
do so “I am grateful to my par
; ents. to my Ag teachers and
: chapter,” he said “They have
' all done a great deal to help me
in my problems”
Philip Ogline, Vocational Ag
ricultural teacher at Carden
: Spot labeled the youth as a sin
cere fellow and a good student
■ with a B+ average. It is to be
noted that Linford is taking all
: the subjects needed to enter
college along with the Vo-Ag
i course
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