VOL. 13 NO. 32
THE PAUSE IN BARLEY HARVEST
Tuesday afternoon, at the Raymond Stoner
Farm, 1051 Eden Road, was only long
enough to catch a drink of "water and al
low one snap of the camera to record the
abo\ e L. F. Photo of guests and members
of their family. Mr. Stoner is on the com
bine and others are (left to right) Steve
Meylan; Mrs. Stoner; Ronald Williams;
Creation Of New Milk Federation
Includes Philadelphia, Baltimore
And Washington Marketing Areas
Inter-Stale Milk Producers’
Cooperative, Philadelphia, Pa;
Maryland Cooperative Milk Pro
ducers, Baltimore, Md; and
Maryland and Virginia Milk Pro
ducers Association, Washington,
D C., announced this week the
creation ox a new milk market
ing federation to promote and
encourage the economic and ef
ficient production, distribution
and sale cf their milk and dairy
products in the three milk mar
kets involved.
The new Federation, Penn
marva Dairymen’s Cooperative
Federation, Inc. will have its
headquarters in Baltimore. Ed-
■ward C. Norman, President ol
Maryland and Virginia Milk Pro-
ducers Association was elected
Piesideni of the new Federa-
tion Herbert W Wessel Jr, Vice
President of the Baltimore co
operative, was elected Vice Pres-
Farm Calendar
Monday, July 8
8 & 9—State FFA Vo-Ag
teachers judging school,-Penn
State.
Tuesday, July 9
1:00 p m —Lancaster County 4-H
Demonstration Day and Pub
lic Speaking Contest, Farm
and Home Center.
Wednesday, July 10
7:00 pm.—Lancaster County
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ident of the Federation, and Dr.
Paul E Hand of the Philadel
phia cooperative was elected
Seeietary of the Federation.
Boyd M. Cook of the Baltimore
cooperative will serve as Treas
urer.
The three cooperative mem
bers of the new Federation rep
resent more than 5,000 dairy
farmers, who produce more than
a billion quarts of milk each
year for the Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Washington markets.
The new Federation was organ
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Sherry Diana Lord
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 6,1968
Fay and Eric Stoner; and Peter Meylan.
Ronald is a guest of the family in the
Shared Holiday program and the Meylan
boys are friends of the family spending
the summer on the farm. Incidently, the
grain and straw were in excellent condi
tion and though the barley was lodged
extensively, the combine was gleening the
field very well.
County Plowing
Contest Date
Set July 29
The Lancaster county sou and
Water Conservation District Di
rectors met Monday night at the
Farm and 'Home Center.
Aaron Stauffer, chairman of
the county plowing contest, an
nounced the date for this year’s
event to be held Mondav, July
29 at the farm of Tony Grumel
li, near Nine Points The local
contest will feature two classes:
Contour and Level Land Each
class will be limited to eight en
tries and prize money for each
class will be Ist, $35; 2nd, $25;
3rd, $l5 and all other entries
$lO
To enter the contest you must
be a bona fide farmer, farm
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Carol Brubaker
The Stoners Share Farm
Life With Young Guests
For those with enough inter
est in children age three to fif
teen, who need a change of en
vironment for a few weeks,
Shared Holiday is one answer.
Shared Holiday is the local an
swer to the Fresh Air program
where children from city and
county homes go to other area
farms and homes for a two-week
vacation.
One such sharing of farm fam
ily living is going on at the Ray
mond Stoner Farm at 1051 Eden
Road, where 10-year-old Ronald
Williams from Main Street in
Mt. Joy, is spending July 1 to
13, playing in the wagons of
newly combined barley; helping
to gather eggs and all the things
you can have fun doing on a
106 acre steer and chicken farm.
Kenneth Weber Is
Elected Secretary Of
State Future Farmers
Kenneth Weber, Mohnton R 2,
was elected secretary of the
State Future Farmers of Amer
ica, last week, at the closing ses
sion of the activities week held
at Penn State A member of the
Grassland FFA Chapter at Gar
den Spot High School, he is a
cousin of Glenn Weber, who was
state president two years ago
Nine state officers were chosen
from a state membership of 11,-
COO The new secretary is a son
of Mr and Mrs Howard Weber
Four Contestants Enter
Dairy Princess Pageant
Four candidates for the title
of Lancaster County Dairy Pi in
cess were announced this week
by Mrs. Herbert M. Royer, Prin
cess Pageant chairman They are
Miss Susan Barge, 17-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Ray
mond Barge, Ronks Rl; Carol
Brubaker, 18-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Milton Brubak
er, Lititz Rl; Sherry Diana Lord,
18-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Lord, Manheim Rl,
Derail Elaine Binkley
$2.00 Per Year
The Stoners have four children
ol their own—Roger, 23; Mark,
22; Eric, 20 and Fay, 14—but,
because Roger and Mark are
away serving their country in
the Air Force and Army respec
tively, Mrs. Stoner fills the em
pty space in their spacious farm
home with a Shared Holiday
guest. Also, they are playing
host to Peter and Steve Meylan,
15 and 13 year-old sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Meylan, New
Providence, N.J. The Meylan
family formerly lived at Lititz
and the boys are back in the
county “to learn to work,” as
their father says And they were
learning to work Tuesday by
helping to gather eggs
Mrs. Stoner says the Shared
Holiday program is designed to
give children with problems a
chance to change environment
for a few weeks The program is
sponsored by the Lancaster
Council of Churches and the
YWCA. It was through their
church the St. Paul’s United
Church of Christ, Lancaster
that the Stoners learned of this
program
On Monday evening, 74 chil
dren left the YWCA in Lancas
ter to start their visits and the
second period with approximate
ly 50 children participating will
be held from July 15 to July 27.
The third period runs from July
29 to August 10,
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and Debrah Elaine Binkley, 17-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard 0 Binkley, Colum
bia R 2.
The contestants will compete
at the fifth annual Pageant and
Banquet to be held Wednesday,
July 10 at 7.00 p m. at the Host
Town Motel. Tickets for this
event are now available from
the Extension Office; Mrs. Roy
er, 2025 Oregon Pike; any mera
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Susan Barge