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-
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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
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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
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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.
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$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
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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
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