VOL. 13 NO. 34
GROUP LEADERS at the eighth Sum
mer Youth Institute of the Pennsylvania
Association of Farm Cooperatives being
held at Shippensburg this week discuss re
sponsibilities with Daryl K. Heasley,
right, Extension rural sociologist at The
Pennsylvania State University, program
chairman. From left are: Kenneth Risser
of RDI, Leola, youth council member;
Averril Royer of 2025 Oregon Pike, Lan
caster, discussion leader; Lynn Heistand
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Farm And Home Directors
Hold Monthly Business Meeting
The Lancaster County Farm
and Home Foundation Directors
met Tuesday night in the Farm
and Home Center for their reg
ular monthly meeting.
Levi Brubaker read portions
of the court statement awarding
the Foundation the $50,000 from
the Elmer L. Esbenshade Estate.
There had been question as to
when the money would be re
leased, but last Friday the de
cision was handed down by
Judge John L. Bowman.
Brubaker’s report showed one
of the main reasons for the court
action in favor of the Founda
tion was because Esbenshade had
induced others to give matching
funds for his two $25,000 gifts
and had made arrangements to
completehis part of the promise
but died before completing the
agreement Esbenshade of course
was the donor of the 10 5 acre
tract of land on which the Farm
and Home Center is located
In other business, discussion
brough cut the Foundation: in
ability to obtain sales tax exemp
tion to date and a committee of
Farm Calendar
Saturday, July 20 (today)
10 a m.-Lancaster County Swine
Day, Stauffer Homestead
Farm, East Earl Rl.
Sunday, July 21
21-27 National Farm Safety
Week
Monday, July 22
7:30 p m -4-H Photography Club
meets, Eric Soner home, 1051
Eden Rd.
8.00 p.m.—Red Rose FFA Chap
ter meet, Elizabethtown High
School
Tuesday, July 23
10:45 a.m. - Lancaster County
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Mayor Thomas J. Monaghan, M.
M. Smith and Phares S. Risser
were appointed by President B.
Snavely Garber to investigate
further the possibility of obtain
ing this status for the Founda
tion.
The directors also authorized
the building committee to pay
the remaining $6,000 payment to
Buckwalter Construction Co.
after a meeting between com
mittee and company to discuss
several construction items still
needing attention. And they also
made plans for another financial
campaign early next year.
Newcomer Now
Tri-State
Speech Champ
The Penn Manor High School
senior who has taken all the state
and local FFA public speaking
events this year has extended
his winning ways to the Tri-
State Future Farmers of
America Public Speaking event
held Monday at New Brunswick,
N. J.
Nelson Newcomer, speaks on
the topic, “A World Divided,”
which deals with avoiding world
starvation- by teaching other
peoples to farm efficiently.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
L. Newcomers Washington Boro
Rl, Nelson is now set to go to
the national semi-finals in Massa
chusetts in September. This con
test—The North Atlantic Reg
ional Contest—will include
champions from Maryland, Vir
ginia, West Virginia and two
from New England areas and
is held in conjunction with the
Eastern States Livestock Exposi
tion at Springfield, Mass.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 20, 1968
of RD4, Manheim, recorder, and Eugene
Bollinger of RD2, Denver, recorder.
The delegates, sponsored by the Lancas
ter Council of Farmer Cooperatives, were
chosen to participate in Institute activities
on a competitive basis. They are among
162 youths from 44 Commonwealth coun
ties and parts of New York and New Jer
sey who attended the educational confer
ence sponsored by P.A.F.C. and the Penn
State College of Agriculture.
Wheat Certificate
Value Set At $1.38
Wheat certificate payments to
farmers participating in the 1968
wheat iprogram will have a
value of $1.38 per bushel, the
U. S. Deparment of Agriculture
has announced. The payments
are based on the difference be
tween the July 1, 1968, wheat
parity pries of $2 63 per bushel
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A'PAIR OF HUGE HOLSTEIN STEERS
standing nearly 6 feet tall at the withers;
weighing 2,870 and 2,695 lbs., and carrying
30-inch-spread horns were shioped into
Vintage Sales Stables last Friday from
New York State. The steers originally
Wheat Agreement Spells
More Trouble For Farmers
Further trouble for wheat
farmers, already plagued by
record low prices, was predicted
by Charles B. Shuman, president
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, at the annual confer
ence of State Farm Bureau in
formation directors in Austin,
Texas recently.
The national farm leader said
that the new international wheat
treaty recently ratified by the
U. S. Senate and signed by
President Johnson will hurt
rather than help U. S producers.
Shuman predicted that the
new treaty, known as the Inter
national Wheat Trade Conven
tion, which seeks to set mini
mum world wheat prices 23
cents above the old wheat agree
ment and some 12 cents over
the current market price, would
cut U. S exports in the market
ing season which started July 1
“IF THE U.S. attempts to
maintain minimum U. S. export
ASCS HEWS
1969 Wheat ’rogram
The 1969 wheat allotments
will be mailed to county farm
ers on July 19th.
The allotment notice will also
include a pamphlet explaining
the 1969 wheat program.
Farmers who plant within the
1969 wheat allotment can earn
certificate payments on 43% of
the allotment by diverting 15%
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came from Maine and were said to be
broken to pull a plow. The two steers were
sold Tuesday night for $795 71. They were
very tame as Ken Hershey, Manager,
shows in the L.F. Photo.
$2.00 Per Year
prices for wheat above world
market levels, there is a danger
of losing competitive advantages
and restricting the volume of
exports,” Shuman said.
“This is especially true if oth
ei exporting countries do not
comply with the minimum price
indicators as scrupulously as the
U. S.
“A world price fixed artifiicial
ly in this manner could also in
duce increased production in
other countries e'.en when that
producton is less efficient than
that of the U. S.
“Fewer bushels of U. S. wheat
sold in the export market meant
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4-H Youths
Win District
Demonstrations
Lancaster County 4-H Demon
stration teams and individuals
brought home six first place
wins from the District contest
held Tuesday at the Owen J.
Roberts High School in Chester
County.
In the Agriculture demonstra
tions Hugh Wenger, Quarryville
R 2 had a score of 95 5 points
for his “Mounting of Adult In
sects” presentation. Marvin Nss
ley, Mt. Joy Rl, and Dale Bush
ong, Columbia R 2, teamed up
to score 95 points on “Conrolling
Internal Parasites in Cattle”;
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