Penn-Del Farm To Receive Guernsey Award PETERBOROUGH, N. H. Raymond F. St Louise A. Wit mer, owners of Penn-Del Farm, Willow Street, Pennsylvania have been named Gold Star Guernsey Breeder for 1967 by the American Guernsey-Cattle Club. The Witmer’s met all of the high requirements for this award during the past year. Some of these requirements were that all Guernseys over eight months of age owned by The Witmer’s will receive a the farm were registered, that special certificate from the the herd included at least 10 American Guernsey Cattle Club registered Guernsey cows with in recognition of their Gold Star production records made offi- Guernsey Breeder Award for cial during the year with at 1967. least 70% of them home-bred, that the herd was on official AR The leading cause of cancer •r HIR-DHIR test with a lacta- death in women, says the Amer lion average at least 15% over ican Cancer Society, is breast the breed average for either cancer. Ortho Starter Special Fer tilizer can have things popping around your place not long after planting time. Band it to the side of the seed row, or apply it with a drill as a pop-up application. Either way, it gives planted corn a big growth push when it needs one. Early. It’s strong on the elements that produce fast action. But that’s not all. Ortho Starter Special is a uniform chemical combination of P. L. ROHRER & BRO. Smoke town, Po. milk or butterfat 305-2 x M.E. and that 80% of the cows with official records completed dur ing the year were classified with an average score for the group of 82,5% or better. * The production summary of the Witmer’s herd showed 41 cows with 44 records averaging 12,142 pounds of milk and 599 pounds of fat, 305-2 x M.E., and with an average classification fgr 40 cows of 85 6 percent. 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ORTHO Starter Special THE RED ROSE 4-H BABY BEEF AND LAMB CLUB OFFICERS, (left to right) seated, Marvin Nissley, treasurer; Sharon Weaver, secretary; Dale Bushong, president; Mike Hosier, vice president. DISTRIBUTED BY Get your corn off to a strong, sure start with Ortho Starter Spe cial Fertilizer. You’ll be far ahead at the finish. ORTHO* CHEVRON CHEMICAL COMPANY ORTHO DIVISION Ortho Way, Fort Madison, lowa 52627 D art of the great group of Chevron compsnie* Fh. 397-3539 j~ i * Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 9.1968 Standing, Donna Hess, game leader; Kay Weaver and Larry Landis, song leaders; Barry Longenecker, game leader; Ray Brubaker and Sheryl Weaver, news re porters. L. F. Photo Quarryville - Fred Linton. Jason Weaver, Lampeter-Strasburg - Elvin Hess Jr , William Dean: Central - Myhn Good. Ray Ober, Ephrata-New Holland - Melvin Rohrer, Lairy Weaver; Lititz-Manheim - Jay Nissley, Carl Longeneckei, Mount Joy- Ehzabethtown - Harold Frey, Wilmer Nissley A special Lamb Club leader was appointed He is Mark Bushong, Columbia The meeting held in the Ex tension Training Room featuied four adult leadeis in a panel discussion of care and manage ment of the steer projects NORTHERN SOIL & WATER The Northern Lancaster Coun ty 4-H Soil Conservation Club met on Friday evening, Maich 1, at Twin Pine Auto Sales along Route 222 Douglas Sensenig demonstrated on two mmiatuie farms, how contour holds the soil A movie was shown, en titled “We Guard Our Heritage”. Dennis Martin was appointed to show his project on conserva tion practices at the annual meeting and banquet at Quarry ville The next meeting will be held at the Pennsylvania Tourist Bu reau, 200 Hempstead Road, Lan caster SOUTHERN SOIL & WATER The Southern Lancaster Coun ty 4-H Soil and Water Conserva tion Club met recently at the home of Ira Welk, Quairyville R 3 Jay Irwin, assistant county agent, explained taking soil sam ples and analysis and showed a film entitled “The Heritage We Guard” Garry Dean was chosen to go to county council The next meeting will be held March 18, at the home of How ard Schewing, Quairyville Rl. Time is 8 00 p m 4-H Service Committee Gives Progress Report The committee’s du ector, Norman Mindium, noted that 208,000 awards were given 4-H members in lecogmtion of their achievements Of these awards, 290 were scholarships and fel lowships valued at $165,000. Rounding out the total were 1,400 educational trips and awards given for achievement She^countyjftvek .* m“ * * i ■£ J • Bushong (Continued from Page 1) NEWS 9
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