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TOP STATE DAIRY 4-H JUDGING
TEATI. last Saturday at Penn State. They
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Rojer. John Kurtz and Joyce Stoltzfus.
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Committee
Plans Princess
Pageant July 10
The committee for the Lancas
ter County Dairy Princess Pag
eant met Tuesday night at the
Manheim Twp branch of the
Conestoga National Bank to con
tinue plans for the pageant to be
held July 10, at the Host Town
Motel
According to Mrs Herbert
Royer chairman, two official
entries have been received and
other interested persons are m
uted to participate The con
testants will be judged on ap
peal ance, speaking ability, poise,
peisonahty, intelligence and
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Farm Calendar
Monday, May 13
1 00 p m -Intermediate Clothing
Construction Workshop, Farm
& Home Center
8 00 p m -Ayrshire, Jersey &
Biown Swiss 4-H Club meet,
Wilham Aaron Farm, Quarry
ville R 1
Tuesday, May 14
9 30 a m -Advanced Tailoring,
Farm & Home Center
1 00 p nr -Advanced Clothing
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Kurtz was second high individual in the
state and Miss Royer was third
Farm Council Hosts House And
Senate Agricultupe^Conimittees
HARRISBURG Secretary
of Agriculture, Leland H. Bull.
told the 150 state farm leaders
present at the Pennsylvania
State Agriculture Council of
Farm Organizations’ Legislative
Dinner here Tuesday night, that
the clty of Tokyo has more peo "
Pie than the entire state of
Pennsylvania with one hundred
million people
. Reporting with a slide presen
tation on his recent trip to Ja
pan, Bull said, “Dairymen plan
to double their number of dairy
cattle in the next five years and
their greatest interest is in the
Holstein breed,” he said. “A lot
of the cattle will come from the
THE DUST WAS FLYING, Tuesday morning, as
Franklin Myers. Lancaster R 6, sped through the field
with his new minimum tillage type corn planter. Myers
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 11, 1968
United States ”
He showed slides of a 90 head
dairy herd that was housed on a
farm of sy 2 acres “Cows are fed
rice straw and brewery slop,”
he said
The Council of Farm Organi
zatlons is composed of 32 state
faim organizations representing
agncultuie They played host to
the Agricultural committees of
both the house and Senate
Russel Larson, Dean at Penn
State, served as master of cere
monies and was one of the main
speakers along with Rep. Wil
ham Ashton, Chester County
and Dean Mark Allan, from
Penn State
Minimum Tillage Planting
Of Corn Tried In County
“111 con save one 01 two tups
over the field with the disk
and I’m sme I can it will be
worth it “ So says Franklin My
eis, Lancaster R 6 about his new
corn planter designed to sow
seed without plowing
Myers is quick to point out he
is expeumenting with the no til
idea on only 10 acies of coin
stalks this year but hopes to go
fiom Ins present 70 acres of
corn to 100 acies next year with
the use of his new planter
One of the mam advantages
as Mvei s sees it is that a planter
wheie you don’t need to plow,
will help you to hold the soil
and conserve the land. “And
every time you drive over the
field to work it up you dry it
out and tramp it down” he said
Harry Shepardson, Sales Man
ager for L H. Brubaker Farm
Equipment,' says the machine
has been used in other parts of
the country in stubbles and even
sod. “In tests the ground show
ed better tilth, more absorption
and less run-off of water,” he
said
L. F. Photo
Myers is’pre-emerge spraying
for weeds and hopes to control
the weeds without cultivation.
He is planting 34 inch rows but
likes the adjustability of the
planter so that when harvesting
equipment becomes more readi
ly available he can go to nar
rower rows He is using plant
populations of 23,000 for picking
corn and 26 000 for silo corn
In Ohio tests, spraying sod,
planting corn without plowing
or cultivation has shown the
highest yields of any combina
tion of tillage practices on silt
loam soils during the past 6
years The tests showed 15
bushels per acre more than
is experimenting with 10 acres this year by planting
corn without plowing. L F. Photo
S 2 00 Per Year
conventional methods
Ci op expei ts ciedit the higher
yields to the way the system
retains good soil stiucture.
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Richard Buckwalter
Buckwalter Is
Elected Head
Of 4-H Council
The Lancaster 4 H County
Council reorganized Thursday
evening, at their regular meet
ing held in the Farm and Home
Center
Richai d Buckwalter was elect
ed president from the agricul
ture clubs and Audrey Yungin
ger was named co-president
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