VOL. 13 NO. 17 THE B&ENEMANS, with Willow Bend T.C. Shirley. Mr. and Mira; John A. Brene man, Willow Street'Rl, are standing with Penn State Management Head Instructs Beef Cattle Feeders “You would rather plow or feed cattle than keep records,” Fred Hughes, Penn State Farm Management Specialist, told 75 cattle feeders at the Farm and Home Center, Tuesday night. “But can you afford to by-pass the records? 5 ' Speaking at the last in a Elementary Farm Safety Contest Held The Elementary Agriculture Program under the direction of Eobert Herr, V S ' .-w ' -' . L. K. Photo Carl B. Herr Is New -Extension President Carl' B. Herr, 840 Penn Grant Road, was elected pres ident of the Lancaster County Agriculture and Home Eco nomics Extension Association at a recent reorganization meeting. J. Wade Groff, 644 Beaver Valley Pike, is vice president; Mrs. David E. Buckwalter of Lititz R 3, sec retary, and Melvin G. Rohrer, Lititz R 3, treasurer. George Cogley Wins Swine Carcass Show The Lancaster County Swine Producers Association’s Annual Carcass Show was held Wednes day afternoon at Kunzler & Co., Manor Street, Lancaster, with quality running deep into the 20 head entry list. George Cogley, Ronks Rl, showed the best carcass with a 44 2 percent ham-loin rating. The meat quality in Cogley’s Yorkshire entry was rated at 2 and loin eye was 4.4; carcass length 34.4; and back fat 1.0. The pig weighed in at 196 pounds and had a carcass weight of 144 pounds. The list of entries above 40 percent ham-loin rating is as follows: (1) Cogley, 44.2; (2) Carl Harrison, Johnstown, (Crossbred) 43.7; (3) John Hast ings, Kirk wood, (Crossbred) 43.2; (4) Clair A. Hartman, Gratz, (Spot) 43.3; (5) Real Farm, Tipton, (Hampshire) 42.- 9; (6) Masonic Homes, Eliza bethtown, (Crossbred) 41.6; (7) Robert Armstrong, Drumore, (Crossbred) 41.3; (8) Howard Martin, Lititz, (Crossbred) 41.3; (Continued on Page 9) The Breneman Family Is Interested In Farming Closely knit and intensely in terested in farming is the John A. Breneman family which lives along Route 222, south of Lan caster. The interest in farming can be shown by the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Breneman were recently honored for having all three of their boys (Arthur, Roy and Ed win) named Keystone Farmers. The closely knit part is some thing intangible that you sense as you stand in a circle in the middle of their cow stable filled with fine-uddered, upstanding. Registered Guernseys and lis ten to the Breneman’s friendly discussion of this cow and that, as this reporter did last Satur day afternoon. The Keystone Farmer Father thinks the best thing about rais ing bovs on a farm is that they learn to “do things and learn responsibility.” He also feels the moral atmosphere is “fa vorable.” The Breneman farm consists of 120 woodland) and their main crops are hay and corn. The Registered Guern sey herd consists of 80 head. Arthur, age 27 and Keystone Farmer in 1955, is married to the former Dorothy High and lives in the large part of the farm house. He farms the home place on the halves. They have two children, Kathy Ann, age 5 and Kerry May, age 2. Arthur likes farming. He ac quired high grades in school, especially in mathematics, and was offered a good off-the-farm job about the time he was ready to start. But he chose farming “because I like it better here,” he said. Art was recently elect ed vice president of the Lancas ter Guernsey Breeders’ Associ ation. Roy, age 25 and Keystone Farmer in 1961, has kept a keen interest in the dairy herd even though he has been away at Farm And Home Sets Membership Loan Meeting A special letter has gone to all the dues paying membership of the Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation this week, announcing a special to tal membership meeting for Tuesday, March 26, to be held at the Farm and Home Center. Time for the meeting is 3:00 p.m. According to anr' official of the Foundation, the meeting must be called to obtain the mortgage the directors approv ed at their last board meeting because Pennsylvania law re quires non-profit organizations to have the vote of full member ship to obtain-loans. The Foun dation by-laws say quorum is in effect when 21 persons are pre sent. Total membership is about 250 persons. $2.00 Per Year Eastern Mennonite College for two years and spent time from June of 1965 to November 1967 in Algeria under the Mennonite Central Committee’s Pax Serv ice Program. Roy would write home and tell the family when it was time to dry up a certain cow and, when he came back from his overseas work just be fore Thanksgiving, he knew ev ery cow in the herd except one his dad had bought and had n’t told him. His brothers say he even knew the cows that had grown from calves while he was away. Roy has now applied for ad mission to Delaware Valley Col lege where he would like to study animal husbandry, and then go back and continue some type of work like he had in Al geria. While in Algeria, Roy served as a dairy superintendent and taught the farmers to take care of dairy cattle. “I taught men to feed dairy cattle so they were able to take them home and properly care for them,” he said. “I never knew that ani mals could exist on so littie, and I saw plenty of hoof and mouth disease and other animal (Continued on Page 8) County Farmers Meet With Legislators More than 200 farmers met with their legislators Tuesday to discuss important issues fac ing agriculture. The farmers were all members of the Penn sylvania Farmers’ Association (PFA). Attending from L a n c a s ter County were: Noah Wenger, James Garber, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wivell, Abe Yeiset, Lester Hollmger, Aaron Stauffer, Har old Rohrer, William Dean, James Wood, Roy G r eid e r, Clyde Bucher and Mrs. Lewis Bixler. The farmers talked with their senators and representatives about four legislative proposals: (1) Highway department pur chase of land (H.B. 1521); (2) Marketing orders for commodity promotion (S.B. 1273); (3) elim ination of the Milk Control Law in its present form (H.B. 2064); and (4) possible increases in farm truck licenses. “All four of these issues are vital to the future of agriculture in Pennsylvania,” according to PFA president, G. A. Biggs. “The first three proposals could set agriculture back many years, and increase the migra tion from the farm.” Although the farmers repre sented the PFA, they also repre sented their individual county units. The PFA has 45 different county units within Pennsylva nia, and it is an affiliate of the American Farm Bureau Feder ation.