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<bAg instructor
for the Eastern Lancaster Coun
ty School District, conducted a
special "Farm & Home Safety
Through Art” contest in cooper
ation with the art teachers of
the school, district.
Throughout the year, safety
has been stressed in Elementary
Agriculture as the various units
are taught. In this contest'each
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Farm Calendar
Monday, March 25
25-27- ADA Annual Meeting,
-Chicago. .
7:30 p.m.—County FFA Meet
ing, Sbkunco High School. • ■ •
Tuesday, March 2ft
7:00 p.m.—Farm & Home Foun
dation meeting. Farm & Home
Center.
7:00 p.m.—County FFA Parlia
mentary Procedure & Public
Speaking Contest.
7:30 p.m.—Garden Spot Adult
Farmer Meet, School Vo-Ag
Room.
7:30 p.m.—Lancaster County
Farmers Assn, meeting, Farm
& Home Center.
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■ 'series of Beef Cattle Feeder
’ meetings under the direction of
i the County Extension Service,
i Hughes said, “You put more ef
-1 fort on work than how to get it
. done. Can you tell me how
i much return on your capital in
vestment you made last year?”
f “There" is no point in know
how to feed and fertilize if you
can’t manage,” he said.
Hughes listed these problems
in farm management: inade
quate resources; improper use
|of resources; under-employ
ment of resources and technical
’ knowledge.
'“We need to manage profits,”
i he said. “We can no longer look
at farming as only a way of
life.”
In making management deci
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Holstein Tour
Set For April 3
The Lancaster County Holstein
Association has announced plans
for their annual tour to leave
the Conestoga Transportation
Company, Wednesday, April 3,
at 8 a.m. The tour will go to
York County this year and will
return to' Lancaster by 4:30
p.m., according to Jay Landis,
tour committee chairman.
The visits to be made are as
follows:
(1) The first stop will be Ro
meda Farms owned by Mr.
Eichelberger. This is a new
dairy barn with 150, comfort
stalls and pipe line milker.
2) Tioga Weaving Company is
a large weaving mill that makes
drapery and upholstery materi
al, and other types of fabrics.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 23,1968
their three Keystone Farmer sons (left to
right) Roy, Edwin and Arthur.
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' -' . 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;
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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
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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.