VOl 13 NO 9
Farm and Home
Sets Annual
Meet Jan. 29
Ttoe Fomth Annual Messing
of the Farm & Home Founda
tion will be held Monday, Janu
ary 29, at the new Farm &
Home Center, 1451 Arcadia Rd
Time for thus fust meatng
scheduled for the Center is 8
p na
To get to the Center tu*n
Ea3i> an Service Road, off Man
heiir- Pike at Jones Pontiac just
South of Route 30 By-Pass
Drive one block and you’i e
there
At the Annual Me© 1 ' ng, prog
ress nepoits and the plans for
completion and operation of the
facility w 11 be given as well as
the eiecton of seven duecto-s
for 1 a three-year teim to guide
the Foundation
There wJI be no solicitation
except for membership dues, ac
cording to B Snavely Gaiber,
piesi-aenl
Hbgmen Discuss
Nickels-- For
Profit Program
The “Nickels For Piofit” pro
gram was discussed at length
Thwniday night, at the mfor
matMm meeting for Lancaster
County Hog Pioduoeis held in
the fmles barn of the Lancaster
Union. Stocky aids John Hen
kel, president led the demis
sion
The piogiam started two
year© ago as a result of a ques
tionnaire distnbuted to hog
men.
Pork producers are being
askew to contribute five cents
per market hog or two cents
per ceeder pig when they are
sold, whether it be dnect,
through auction or stockyards
The five cents deducted from
the ’sale of each hog will be di
vide* as follows
- 2 cent to National Livestock
and Meat Board;
- 2,6 cents to stay m Pennsyl
vania to support programs on
sta.ts 'and county levels,
- 4 cent to National Pork
Producers to support national
program
After discussion of the pro
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Farm Calendar
Monday, January 29
6-30 p.m -Lancaster County 4-H
Leaders Banquet, Meadow
Hills Banquet Hall
7 30- p.m -Lancaster Co FPA
Officers to be installed, Man
hexm Central High School
8 00 p.m.-Farm & Home Foun
dation Annual Meeting, new
Farm & Home Center.
Tuesday, January 30
12 30 'p.m.-Breaders Institute,
Morgantown Fire Hall, Mor
gantown.
7 30- p.m-Garden Spot Young
Farmers meet, School Ag Rm
(Dairy Housing Efficiency)
7‘30- p.m -Ephrata Adult Farm
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LLOYD WOLF, Quarryville R 2, (left)
and Paul Welk, herdsman, with Royal
view L anhoe Dora, the 4-year-old that has
milked 101 pounds a day for the tester.
Gartley Tells Dairymen Of Need
For Return To Principles That
Helped Make This Nation Great
“Just cnee I would like to
bear the Piesident of the Unit
ed States say on a mtjonw.de
telecast that ‘haid work, thirft,
sacrifice, discipline, respect for
others and a belief in God help
ed make this nation great’ ”
These are the words from the
address of Boyd C Gaitley, pub
lic relations, Inter-State F Ok
Producers’ Coopei ative, that
brought spontaneous applause
fiom the audience in the exowd
ed damns room of the Holiday
Inn, Lancaster, Tuesday after
noon Garlley was the featured
speaker for the gathering of
400 dairymen, their wives and
friends at the Annual Lancaster
County DHIA dinner meeting
“It used to be,” he continued,
“that when you wanted some
thing, you worked to earn it
Now, you stage a xiot to get it
given to vou at someone else’s
expense
“In this confused country of
ours, farmers are a minority.
You have few friends in Con
gress today and you will have
less tomorrow.
“American Agriculture is the
envy of the world. It is a prod
uct of the educational and re
search efforts of our land-giant
colleges, the county agent, the
ag teacher, the state and feder
al departments of agriculture,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 27,1968
our self-help cooperatives and
our farm organizations
“Agriculture is a growing in
dustry,” he said “It is the big
gest industry in this nation
Farmers spend $lOO milhon a
day every day of the >ear Yet
some politicians and educators
today refer to agriculture as a
dying occupation
“It is a dynamic, growing, ex
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District No. 3 Of
Inter-State
Holds Meeting
The head of a nvlk coopera
tive told Sou'hern Lancaster
County dairymen Thursday af
ternoon, he bel.eves the blend
price of $6 65 per hundred
pounds of fluid milk establish
ed last fall to be paid to farmers
will be extended past the Apiil
30 deadline
James E. Honan, general man-
ager, Inter-State Milk Produc-
era’ Cooperative, said that if
something is not done, flu*d
milk prices would fall at that
time But he listed the election
year and economic conditions
as reasons for believing “we
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Wolf and Welk have combined manage
ment abilities to produce the top DHIA
herd in Lancaster County last year
Poultrymen To Hold
Educational Meetings
The first of a senes of three
meetings of educational value
to poultrymsn will be held next
week Time and place is Tues
day evening, Januaij 30 at 7 45
pm in the L.htz Recieation
Center.
Heibeit Joidan and Homei
Baxler will be the speakei s
ACCEPTING 50-YEAR MEMBERSHIP AWARDS (left)
William Walton for his mother Mrs. Fannie Walton and
(right) John Sheetz. The presentation was made by Robert
McSparran, Director of Inter-State Milk Producers, at the
District 3 annual dinner meeting at the Quarryville
Methodist Church Thursday afternoon. L. F. Photo
Management
Makes High
DHIA Herd
An On-The-Farm Visit
by Everett Newswanger
Lancaster Farming Editor
Walk into the cow barn past
Royalview Ivanhoe Dora, the
four-year-old that thiee months
ago gave the milk tester 101
pounds of milk and hasn’t giv
en him less than 96 pounds
sine -1 , go down between the two
row: of upstanding, well-udder
ed H ’j ;ms to the far end and
take a look -t Fian-Will Ivan
G G mot, wi h three recoi'ds
over 20 000 pounds of milk up
to 21,958 m 1,02. t 47% in 310
days (her last 'lion), check
on Sylvia, a giade with several
20,000 lb leccids to 5-lly 312 d
21,C54m 954£ 4 5%. and you
know you have amoved at Pond
spring Faim, home of the top
DHIA herd in Lancaster Coun
,ty -last year In this herd only
Me y doWtfin"ished’’-la3t year with
less than 500 pounds of butter
fat and most of the lecords are
between 298 and 335 days in
length
How is it done 7 Well, if you
talk to the owner, Lloyd Wolf,
Quarryville R 2, he will tell you,
“I have a very good herdsman.”
.And if ycu talk to the herds
man, Paul Welk, he’ll say, “I
have good cows to work with”
Get them together around a
cup of coffee like this reporter
did Wednesday morning, and
they’Ll both tell you it takes an
all around progiam to get top
production “You can’t be fussy
in just one thing and ignore the
rest,” Wolf said
L. F Photo
They both think that good
hay is important Welk pointed
out that a hay piogiam “may
not be the cheapest,” but it
makes production
Wolf did not set himself up
as an authouty “Sometimes we
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