VOL. 13 NO. 20 Zimmerman Is Conservation 4-H Winner The annual 4-H Soil and Wa ter Conservation Clubs Roundup was held in the Faun & Home Center Monday night, with 2fi exhifc/.s on display People at the rcandup were impressed at the r. mber of entries and their qual t. Fir>; place winner was Jay C Zimmerman, 14-year-old son of Mr .-nd Mrs James Zimmer man. Ephrata Rl. His display show tif the value of contouring rollini land. Second place went to Leon Mart,i Stevens Rl, for his ex- ';ee Photo On Page 6) hibit on lumbering practices, and third to Ricky Pfautz, Stev ens Rl on planting recommen dations for slopes too steep to farm In special recognition, Aaron Z Svuffer, Ephrata Rl, was presented a colored aerial photo ot his farm for his outstanding seruce in Lancaster County Conservation The presentation was made by Amos H. Funk, Chairman of the local conserva tion tr strict Lloj d Welk, president of the Southern 4-H Soil and Water Conservation Club, presided at the roundup Furrow Queen Applications Available Now The National Plowing Con test at Hershey Aug 27, 28 and 29 is going to have a queen Her title will be Queen of the Furrow and she will be crown ed the first day of the event. The queen will be selected from statewide contests being sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Inc Donald Stevens, chairman of the queen contest, said contes tants must be single, between the ages of 16-21 and come from rural Pennsylavma. He said they will be judged on beauty, grace, personality and poise. County elimination contest will be held prior to July 27 The v. inners will be eligible for six regional eliminations with the six regional winners compet ing for the Queen of the Fur row title. Queen of the Furrow applica tions may be obtained from county offices of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Stevens said. Farm Calendar Monday, April 15 8 00 pm- Manheim Young Farmer meeting, (What you should-know about traffic safe ly), School Vo-Ag Room. Tuesday, April 16 16-18 Swine Building Confer (Continued on Page 13) CALLING THE FOXHOUNDS. Walter Watson, night watchman at' Vintage Sales Stables, uses the call to bring his other dogs home. Lancaster Farming’s Editor reports, on experiences Monday morning. L F. Photo Milk Prices To Farmers Will Increase 28 Cents On April 15 The Pennsylvania Milk Con- trol Commission recently re- leased new Official General Or- ders for six of the thirteen Milk Marketing Areas in the State The six areas include. Lehigh, Area No 6; Harrisburg, Area No 8, Johnstown-Altoona, Area No 9, York, Area No 12, Lan- caster, Area No 14, and Read- mg, Area No 15 The effective date of the orders is 12.01 a m , Monday, April 15, 1968 J Lin Huber, Chairman of the Commission, announced that the price producers will receive for fluid milk will increase 28c per hundredweight This in crease reflects the recent action taken by the United States De partment of Agriculture m in creasing the dairy support pric es and overall increases in the Federal Milk Orders through out the country Also, the ac counting method of determining dealers’ obligations to produc ers will increase producer re turns for milk sold for fluid uses in the six markets ranging from 12c to 30c a hundredweight “In 'addition, milk dealers have experienced increased la bor costs and operating expens es These factors, together with the producer price increases, make it necessary to increase minimum .resale (consumer and wholesale) prices.” Chairman Huber explained “The new schedules of mini- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 13,1968 mum resale prices for milk de hvered to homes and tor out-of store sales encourages econo mies in distribution The new Orders, for the first time, pro vided a consumer quantity dis count of 1c a quart for 6 or more quarts delivered to the home at one lime in Quart, one-half Gal lon, and Gallon containers The discount is applicable to the par (Continued on Page 8) Farmer Boy and His Ribbon Editor’s Note: Farmer Boy And His Ribbon is a parable a story with a moral. It reveals the great paradox that sometimes the winner loses and loser wins. Your com ments and/or suggestions for other Farmer Boy subjects are invited. Once upon a time, a farmer boy got a calf ready for the show. He led him daily and fed him well He kept the pen clean and was scored high on his project book. The day before the show Farmer Boy was heard to say as he led his calf and compared it with others on the farm: “If I don’t win this year I never will.” A large crowd was on hand under the show ring tent. Parmer Boy had one of about 34 calves entered in his class. But he v as still confident. He had a very fine typed calf. Sure enough, the judge picked him out right away. Time and again he came back Fox Hunting With Walter Watson Is Very Exciting by Everetl New swanger Lancaster Fanning Editoi We left Strubel’s Restaurant in Strasbuig, Monday morning ar nine o’clock and took Bunker Hill Road, south to the top of the rise In last year’s corn stalks, below us, a ring-necked cockbird crowed his morning greeting and a ground hog tried to make himself small as he ran down the hill At the hilltop we turned into the lane that is the western ex tension of Hill Road and drove back to the woods Several piec es of abandoned farm machin ery and a partly dismantled junk car came into view as we park ed our cars Incidentally, we were not look ing for pheasants or ground hogs We were looking for foxes, animals which the encyclopedia calls “carmvarous mammals be longing to the dog family ” You know they steal chickens and eat game animals such as rab bits, muskrats and other ro dents Our party numbered six Walter Watipn, night watchman at VintageTßales Stables, his four foxhounds Spottie, age 6, County Fruit Growers And Honey Producers To Hold Banquet The Lancaster County Fruit Growers and Honey Pioducers will hold their annual banquet, Monday mght, April 22 at the Meadow Hills Dining Hall Time is 6 - 30 p m. The featured speaker will be a graduate student at Penn State who comes from the country of Iraq His name is WaiT S Tik nty, who will give an illustrat ed talk on his native country This presentation should be quite timely in view of more recent events occurring in that part of the world. (Continued on Page 4) $2.00 Per Year Dick 3 Annie. 3 and Saltie 4; and this reportei (weighted down w ith a focused shutter bo's set on last speed to catch the action as it occurred) Walter Watson is a medium tall man with a deep love for his dogs and an instinct for knowing where foxes are and where they are going He both tiaps them and hunts them with his dogs Foxes are. by natuie, \ery cunning in avoiding traps and breaking the line of scent when dogs are in pursuit A fox will walk along the top of a fence or follow a stream to hide his trail. He o‘ien back-tracks on his own trail, leaping to one side before taking off m another direction Watson explained that his dogs find it hardest to trail foxes in a field which has a heavy ma nure coating And although it wouldn’t bother the canine mem bers of our party, the fox has a loping speed of -at least six miles an hour They have been known to accelerate up to 45 miles an hour if neccessary. Reference books say “I?ew of the older and experienced fox es are ever caught ” But, of course few encyclopedia writers have ever met Walter Watson or his dogs Walter opened the car trunk and released the four dogs Im mediately they surveyed the old tractor tire and little woodshed beside our parked cars. Then, quickly, the pack is off, “tongu ing” their hearts out on the trail of a fox visitor to the area the night before Watson says it is nothing to (Continued on Page 8) Swine Producer Has Close Call With Fumes A Lancaster County swine producer recently had an ex penence with the fumes caused by stirring manure in a pit that should give a warning to other farmers Roman Beiler. Paradise RI, built a 26’x82’ farrowing house about a year ago, with a manure pit around the outside edge The pit is five feet wide by five feet deep and is covered with slats. The day was clear, the doors of the house were open and a good wind was blowing But, just a few moments after he had started agitating the manure in the pit to clean out the pen, pigs started squealing He quick ly turned off the motor and threw the little pigs out into the middle entry. The little pigs were gasping and he gave some artificial respiration “I worked fast,” he said “It happened in a very short time ” About 30 of his 300 pigs were affected However, only one was lost because he had been un noticed in a back pen (Continued on Page 11)
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