VOL. 13 NO. 13
Farm And Home
Mortgage Limit
At $235,400
Nfew Farm Campaign
To Commence Feb. 28
The board of directors of the
Lancaster County Farm & Home
Foundation met Monday evening
in the new Farm & Home Cen
ter board meeting room.
After lengthy discussion, they
voted to increase the mortgage
Timit on the Center property with
the Conestoga National Bank to
§235,000, making it clear they
would not use the entire amount
unless it was needed To pay
current contractual obligations
the directors used $65,000 mort
gage money already granted,
and borrowed $13,000 on a 30-
dav note to add to the $7,898 64
balances on hand
A new farm campaign is
scheduled to start Feb 28 with
a meeting for farm campaign
workers to be held at 7.30 in the
Center. "An open •Bouse/arid-in
dustry campaign is planned for
inter. thi§'Spring-
In other business the board
decided to prohibit alcoholic bev
erages on the' premises' and
smoking-iri the meeting rooms -
Smoking in the board confer
ence room, lunch room, offices
and halls is allowed
A proposed letter, explaining
rates for use of the center, was
distributed to board members.
The letter will be sent to organ
izations who might be interested
in using the Farm & Home Cen
ter as a meeting place. It ex
plains that a one-third discount
is offered to organizations or in
dividuals who have strongly sup
ported the foundation with con
tributions or pledges
With this discount, a fairly
large organization can secure a
meeting room in the Farm &
Home Center for as little as $lO
for an evening or a half-day
meeting Also, with this dis
count, the entire multi-purpose
auditorium can be secured for a
large meeting of up to 600 per
sons for a net cost of $36.67
Farm Calendar
Monday, February 26
8 00 pm - Red-Rose- DHIA-©i-?
rectors meet. Farm & Home-
Center
8 00 p.ri - Soil and Water Con
servation District Directors
meet, Farm & Home Center
Tuesday, February 27
27-28 - Farmersville Equipment
Co. Oliver Farm Fair' Ephra
ta R 2
9-00 am - Forage Workshop,'
Cocoa' Inn, Hershey.
9.30 a m - 3rd Southeast Dairy
Conference, Guernsey Barn,
Lincoln Highway East
10:00 a m - Potato Groweis
Meeting, Galchelville, York Co
6 30 p m - Regional No. 2 Pro
duction Credit District Ban
quet Host Farms, Lincoln
Highway East.
7 30 - Ephrata Adult Farmer
Program- (Mastitis & Udder
(Continued. on Page 7)
GOTTLIEB STROHMAIER feeds his 18,000 pound pro
ducer a chunk of fine hay. Sthromaier and his wife and five
children were selected as the “FHA Family of the Year”
from the local three county district. L. F. Photo
Extension Association Meeting
Sees Soil Slide Presentation
In a slide presentation en
titled “For Land’s Sake”, Dr
Milford Heddleson, Extension
Agronomy Specialist from Penn
State, told the crowd gathered at
the Agricultural and Home Eco
nomics Extension Association
Annual Meeting, Tuesday eve
ning, that you can’t judge soil
by looking at it from the sur
face “You have to look at the
entire profile,” he said
Heddleson’s illustrated talk at
the Plain and Fancy Farm Res
taurant, Bird-in-Hand, listed
mineral factors, organic matter,-
air and water as the soil com
ponents. He showed how import
ant it is to know the soil struc
ture m building as well as farm
ing,- _ -
Harry Kreider
Is Elected
ABC Director
The Atlantic Breeders Cooper
ative County District meetings
were 'held recently to elect .di-
rectors, and sire reporting com ;
mitteemen and to present busi
ness highlights and certificates
of production for outstanding
members of the organization
In the Southern Lancaster
County District meeting held
last week at the Solanco High
School, Harry G. Kreider, Quar
ryvxlle Rl, was newly elected as
a director succeeding Elvin Hess
Jr„ Strasburg Rl.
(Continued on Page 8)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24,1968
Miss Mary Rosenberger, As
sistant Home Economist, and
Jay W Irwin. Assistant County
Agent, gave the extension staff
reports and Miss Ellen Garber
gave remarks as the Assistant
State Home Economic Leader.
In the election of directors
during the business meeting the
following people and their area
were named as - Northsvest,
John J. Herr, Mt. Joy, North
east, Melvin G Rohrer, Lititz
R 3; Southwest, Mrs John San
-grey, Conestoga, Southeast, Mrs
Roy Book, Ronks Rl, and
Southern, James G Kreider,
Quarryville Rl
EXTENSION DIRECTORS elected at
the Association’s Annual Meeting held
Tuesday evening, at the Plain and Fancy
Farm Restaurant. They are; (left to right)
Progressive Farm Family
Receives FH A Year Award
An On-The-Form Visit
by Everett Nevvswanger
Lancaster Farming Editor
The soft music drifting from
-the green carpeted living room
into the maple-paneled modern
dining room of the Gottlieb
Strohmaier farm home when
this reporter visited there Wed
nesday morning, is symbolic of
the peaceful, good living that is
so evident throughout the farm
ing operation of this Oxford
Garden Spot YF
Assn. Reelects
All Officers
The entire slate of officers of
the Garden Spot Young 1 Farmer
Association was reelected at the
Annual Banquet held Tuesday
evening, at the Blue Ball Fire
Hall They are Robert Martin,
president, Larry Weaver, vice
president, John C Campbell,
secretary; Eugene Eberly, treas
urer and Mervm Weiler, mem
ber at large
A number of awards were
presented. Melvin Brendle and
Eugene Eberly were presented
awards for attending the most
meetings; Andrew Stoltzfus had
the high dairy herd with 14,970
pounds of milk and 597 pounds
of butterfat; and Ivan Yost was
the county winner of the Young
Farmer Plowing Contest.
In the Gram Corn Growing
Contest these winners were
named: 1, Clyde Martin (186 0
bu.), 2, Raymond Hoover (171.0
bu.), 3, John Landis (169.8 bu.);
4, Alfred Wanner (160.0 bu.); 5,
Clarence Weaver (159.0 bu.); 6,
John Yost; 7, John Campbell;
8, Robert Martin; 9. Charles
Martin: 10, Guy Wanner.
Winners in the Corn Silage
Contest were- Andrew Stoltzfus
(12.900# TDN, 30.4 T); 2. Clar
ence Weaver (12,320# TDN,
28.5 T), 3. Ivan Yost (11,900#
TDN. 28 6T)
(Continued on Page 7)
Mrs. Roy Book, Mrs
G. Kreider, John J.
Rohrer.
$2.00 Per Year
area Farmers Home Adminis
tration “Family Of The Year”.
In the barn, the 60 clean, most
ly Registered-Holstem, milk
cows stretch back to back
through the spacious well-light
ed stable These cows, “our
only business,” as Strohmaier
says, have turned out 720,000
pounds of milk last year and,
since last December, have been
putting 50 nounds of milk per
head a day in the bulk milk
tank
A member of the Dairy Herd
Improvement Association, Gott
lieb’s records show $4BO profit
per head above feed cost His
best cow last year milked over
18,000 pound
The crop yields have been ex
cellent, with 125 bushel of corn
and 125 tons'of silage per acre
being harvested in last year’s
good growing season The con
tours and waterways give posi
tive evidence of the cooperation
that has been done with the Soil
Conservation Service
But, it wasn’t always this way.
Gottlieb started farming in 1934
on a cash rent basis with small
equity but a lot of deterrama
tion and ability Then, ten years
ago, with help of FHA mortgage,
operating and equipment loans,
he bought and started improving
the present homestead. Major
investments in personal prop
erty were made to develop a
good herd of cows. Equipment
investment is adequate to farm
efficiently but has been kept to
a minimum.
The family operates the farm
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Third Poultry
Meeting Feb. 27
The third in a senes of Poul
try Education meetings will be
held February 27 at the Farm &
Home Center. Time is 7 - 45 p.m.
Speakers Sam Berenson and
Richard Ammon will discuss
production controls Refresh
ments and entertainment will be
provided.
John Sangrey, James
Herr, and Melvin G.
L. F. Photo