VOL. 13 NO. 11
Cattle Feeder
Meetings to
Start Feb. 15
A series of Cattle Feeder
meetings has been scheduled by
the Lancaster County Extension
Service
These meetings will all be
held at 7-30 pm in the Exten
sion Training Room (in the base
ment) of the new Farm & Home
Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lan
caster (Turn east from the
Mapfteim Pike (Route 72) on
Service Road, (just south of the
Route 30 bypass) and drive two
blocks to the building.) The
meetings are as follows:
Thursday, Feb 15—Speakers 1
H. Louis Moore, Extension Agri
cultural Economist from Penn
State University Subject “Live
stock and Feed Outlook ” Les
ter A. Burdette, Livestock Ex
tension from Penn State Univer
sity Subject: “Reducing Cost of
Gams.”
Thursday, Feb 22—Speakers -
Dr. Samuel Gass, Extension vet
erinarian Subject - “A Beef Cat
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Chemical Weed
Co#roi Produces
Maximum Yields
If weed control ever becomes
perfect for vegetable crops,
commercial growers will prob
ably change from row planting
to planting in beds to achieve
maximum yields, predicted C. J
Noll, of the department of horti
culture at Penn State University
during a recent meeting of the
State Vegetable Growers Assn
Professor Noll said maximum
weed control of vegetable crops
may be possible in the future
witn a mixture of herbicides
Chemical weeding has helped to
free the grower from the high
cost of labor and the uncertain
ty of getting labor into the field
when- needed.
In charge of chemical weed
ing of vegetables for the Agri
cultural Experiment Station at
Penn State, Professor Noll in
dicated he and associates attain
a good indication of how a herbi
cide will behave-under field con
ditions.
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Farm Calendar
Monday, February 12
12-J4 Vegetable Conference, Nit
tany Lion Inn, University
Park.
8:00 a.m. Chemgro Fertilizer
Plant open house. East Peters
burg.
7-3© p.m.,—Garden Spot Young
Farmer Meet, (Engine Per
formance Evaluation), Allen
Matz Tractor Dealer, New
Holland.
Tuesday, February 13
9’oo a.m. —Forage Workshop,
Cocoa Inn, Hershey.
730 p.m.—Spray Materials
Meeting, Ronks Fire Hall.
7-3® p.m.—Ephrata Adult Farm
er- Program, (Livestock Feed
ing & Animal Health), Vo-Ag
room. . - ,
7:45 - p.m.—Lancaster County
Poultry Association Educa
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CELERY GROWERS MEETING. An informal meeting
for celery growers was held Tuesday afternoon at the Jay
Hodecker Celery Farm, East Petersburg. Jim Dutt and
Ernie Bergman, PSU Agronomy Department, conducted the
meeting and answered questions raised by the 35 celery
farmers present. In the photo are (left to right) Hodecker;
Dutt; Wendell Ditmer, Seed Program Supervisor, Pa Dept,
of Agriculture; Bergman & George Baker, 1148 Centerville
Road, oldest Lancaster County celery grower Baker is 92
years-old and still helps his son Roy Baker, 18 Rohrerstown
Road, trim celery. George started raising celery in 1900.
Extension Agronomists Speak
At County Crops And Soils Day
The Lancaster County Crops
and Soils Day Program was held
Wednesday, at the Leola Me
morial Hall, Leola 125 farmers
attended
John Baylor, Extension Agron
omist, r e c o m m e n ded using
chemical weed control in new
spring alfalfa seedmgs Speak
ing on the subject, A Forage
Program for Top Profit
4-H Play Try-Outs For
"Nervous Wreck" Set
For February 15
The Lancaster 4-H County
Council will hold try-outs for
their annual play, “Nervous
Wreck", on Thursday, Febru
ary 15 at 7:30 P.M. in the Lan
caster Production Credit Build
ing, 411 W. Roseville Road.
REID H. SHEAFFER FARM, 915 Lime Valley
Road, Willow Street. Sheaffer has a 23,000 bird caged
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10,1968
Yields, Baylor said, “In spring
seedmgs of a 1 f a 1 f a w ithout a
nurse crop and using chemical
control of weeds, >ou can take
three or more tons of hay per
acre from the field the first
year With hay at $3O a ton, it
gives you $lOO I believe it pays
to spray.” he said
On the question from the floor
concerning the best time to plant
grass Baylor said, “Mid-August
is the ideal time to seed any
grass When you go later in the
fall you need to select the vari
ety for winter hardy ness ”
According to the Penn State
Specialist, legume management
is everything you do to the plant
from seed to storage as hay or
silage. He listed good manage
ment practices as. (1) liming
and fertilizing for top yields
The best time for this is after
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State Representative Of
ASCS Explains Programs
A pair of state representa
tives from the Agricultural Sta
bilization and Conservation Ser
vice explained the 1968 ASCS
Wheat, Feed Gram and Tobacco
programs and read a speech
fiom the ASC State Committee,
to a capacity crowd of farmers
at the Farm Credit Building,
Tuesday evening
Raymond Connolly, State Pro
gram Specialist, said concerning
the Voluntary Wheat Program
'that this year is the easiest pro
Potato Storage
Plant Uses
Lancaster Spuds
A new potato storage and con
-ditionmg plant—one of the larg
est of its kind east of Chicago—
is supplying from its facilities in
Centre County, potatoes selected
specifically to meet modern pro
cessing and marketing require
ments
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“We are building a new mar
ket based on consistency and
quality,” Ray M Hendrick, di
rector of potato purchasing for
the Tri-Co Foods Corp told
State Agriculture Secretary Le
land H Bull when the latter
toured the plant
The new Tn Co Foods building
at Centre Hall has a storage ca-
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Sheaffer Farm Combines
Management,Birds &Feed
A Lancaster county egg pro-
ducer who has been winning
first place in egg competition at
Lampeter Fair since 1964. re-
ceived a Superior Rating on a
first place in the One Dozen
Carton Class at the Farm Show
this year the first time he
tried. We visited this farm Mon-
day morning and talked with
owner, Reid Sheaffer and his
layer operation.
$2 00 Per Year
gram we have e\ er had as far as
farmers cooperating To qualify
for the program a fanner must
(1) Sign up with the ASCS
county office during the signup
period, February 5, through
March 15, 1968 (2) Have an
acreage of wheat no larger than
the farm’s allotment, or no larg
er than permitted acreage when
either the substitution or excess
farm acreage option is used (3)
Maintain the farm’s conserving
base (4) Keep within all other
allotments established for the
participating farm (5) Keep
within the wheat allotment or
permitted acreage on any other
faim m which the producer has
an interest (6) If a producer
elects to use tre substitution
provision, he must also sign up
and participate in the feed grain
program if the farm has a feed
gram base or produce no corn
or gram sorghum if he has no
feed grain base
In the Feed Grain Program,
farmers with feed grain bases of
25 acres or less have available
a program very much like the
1967 program where you can di
vert the entire acreage
For farms with feed gram
bases of more than 25 acres,
farmers may, after diverting 20
percent for no division payment
to qualify as participants, divert
additional acreage for diversion
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manager, John (Pete) Watson
about their operation
Sheaffer studied a bit when
asked what the most important
thing is in the operation of a
23,000 cage layer house such as
he has. But his answer was very
definite. “Management comes
first," he said “If you don’t
have management, you’re lost,
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