10—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 18.1968
ASCS NEWS
Information from the office of
the Agricultural Stabilization &
Conservation Service, 1383 Arca
dia Road (Farm & Homo Center)
v as distributed this week. It is
ns follows:
Final Date for Wheat
Certification
Farmers enrolled in the 1968
wheat program must reixirt
wheat acreage and certify com
pliance with the program by
June 7th.
’ Farmers who fail to certify by
this date will be ineligible for
wheat certificate payments.
June 7th is also the final date
to dispose of excess wheat to
come into compliance with the
program.
Golden Eagle Passports
Golden Eagle Passports and a
directory of Federal Recreation
areas are available at the ASCS
Office.
These passports, costing $7 00
will admit the purchaser and all
who accompany him in a private
noncommercial vehicle to desig
nated recreation areas.
The passports now on sale are
valid until April 1, 1969.
Wool Incentive Payments
Wool growers are reminded to
file application for incentive pay
ments on wool and unshorn
lambs sold.
Applications must include sign
ed sales slip with all sales in
formation and those for lambs
must include the certification
tnat the lambs were unshorn at
time of sale
ASCS Regional Meeting
County and Community Com
mitteemen and Office Managers
from 10 counties will attend a
Report and Review meeting at
tne Kutztown Grange Hall on
Tuesday, May 21
Purpose of the meeting is to
discuss and review existing farm
piograms, t'heir accomplish
ments in recent years, pending
farm legislation and a review of
the agricultural situation
Ideas will be solicited for im
provements in programs to bet
ter meet the needs of Pennsylva
nia agriculture
Wheat Loan Rate Announced
The basic county price support
loan rate for Lancaster County»
has been announced at $1 41 per
bushel
C. B. HOOBER
INTERCOURSE
This rale is applicable for
wheal stored on the farm. Ware
house storage will be about ten
cents per bushel less. Discounts
will be made on basis of grade
determination.
This year grade determina
tions on warehouse w heat will be
made by the warehouseman and
it will not be necessary to send
samples to Philadelphia for
grade determination.
Ail farmers who participate in
the wheat program are eligible
for wheat price support.
• Rain Holds
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Stoltzfus and Shirk were plan
ning to pull and plant 10,000
plants on Thursday—enough for
two acres. "You can truly say.”
Shirk said, "today (Thursday)
would have been the start of the
tobacco planting season if the
weather would have cooperated
We are now as anxious to get to
planting as John is to get the
plants out of the beds,”
The team has had tobacco
planted earlier than this only
THESE TOBACCO PLANT BEDS are
two weeks later due to a cool, uncovered for a few days before pulling
late Spring. to get them accustomed to the sunlight.
A TOBACCO PULLER’S DELIGHT. These disease-free
and well developed tobacco plants were ready for the first
pulling this week on the John E. Stoltzfus Farm, Gordon
ville Rl. By Thursday there were 7 to 8 inch plants ready
to pull. L. F. Photo
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