VOL. 13 NO. 49
HAND PICKING CORN along Route
23, just East of New Holland. In his travels
this week, Lancaster Farming editor
Everett Newswanger. found this Amish
friend with his team of horses and corn
wagon along the road. He stopped and ask-
For Federal Highway Projects
Government Makes Relocation
Payments Where Land Is Taken
The Department of Trrnspor
tation has announced its interim
procedures for more adequate
relocation payments to persons
whose land' is acquired for fed
erally assisted highwav con
struction projects, accoiding to
Farm Bureau News.
The payments were authoriz
ed by the Federal-Aid Highway
Act of 1968.
The new law provides that
any state highway construction
projects which involve the tak
ing of land after August 23,
1968, may include relocation
payments as part of the project
cost.
A person dispossessed by a
highwav project may receive
reasonable expenses for moving
himself, his family, his business,
or his farm operation, including
personal property.
IF A FARMER or other per
son must move from his resi
dence the maximum payment is
$2OO plus a dislocation payment
of $lOO.
j If a farmer is forced to dis
continue his farm operation as
the result of taking his land, he
may receive a fixed relocation
payment equal to the average
net earnings of the farm during
the preceding two years, or
$5OOO whichever is smaller.
LANDOWNERS will also be
Farm Calendar
Saturday, November 2 (today)
2 & 3 55th Horticulture Show,
Penn State.
Tuesday, November 5
10:00 a.m. Area Agronomy
meet, Fleetwood Grange,
Fleetwood, Berks Co.
4:30 p.m.—County Vo-Ag Teach
ers meet, Pequea Valley HigS
School.
Wednesday, November 6
6 & 7 Pa. Assn, of Farmer
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ed about the corn crop and for a picture of
the horses. The farmer agreed and report
ed at least a one-fourth reduction in corn
production from last year. The ears on his
wagon looked very nice, however.
reimbursed for expenses incun’-
ed for recording fees transfer
taxes, or similar expenses, for
penalty costs of prepayment of
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Holstein Assn.
Announces Meet
For November 13
The Lancaster County Hol
stein Association sent out invi
tations to their 18th Annual Ban
quet this week The dinner
meeting will be held Wednes
day evening November 13 at
Harris Wilcox
6.45 p.m. at the Dutch Town
and Country Inn, located at Vin
tage.
The featured speaker for the
event is Harris Wilcox, auction
eer from Bergen, New York.
Entertainment will be by a lo-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 2,19ti8
Guernsey Breeders
Asked To Report Herd
& Lifetime Averages
All Guernsey breeders who
have yearly butterfat herd
averages of 500 pounds or
more for the period just end
ing were asked this week
to report same to Kenneth B.
Garber, Willow Street R 2, in
time for the annual Lancaster
County Guernsey Banquet to
be held November 15 at
Rhoads Spanish Restaurant in
Quarryville. Elmer Lapp, As
sociation secretary also sug
gested you send your last
month’s average along if your
365 day report is not com
plete.
Those in charge would also
lilte to have the highest life
time record for both milk and
butterfat. If you think you
might have one that would
qualify, also report this.
ADA & DC Annual Meet
Held In Lebanon Co.
The Annual Dinner Meeting
of District #lB of the American
Dairy Association and Dairy
Council of New York took place
at Heisey’s 72 Diner, Lebanon,
Monday Evening, October 28,
with J Russell Ober presiding.
The election of committeemen
saw J. Russel Ober, Lititz, John
Krone, Glen Rock, Re-elected; J
Lester Martin, Willow Hill, and
Ned Laysei, Lebanon elected.
Mr. M E Erickson, ADA &
DC Syracuse and Mrs Mar
cella Guiney, NDC New York,
N.Y were the featured speakers
and gave those attending an oral
and visual presentation of the
American Dairy Association and
Dairy Council’s expanded activ
ities of advertising, merchandis
ing and educational programing
Expansion will continue during
the coming year.
In the Director’s report, Rus
sel E. Cassel said, “We have seen
the results of the expanded milk
promotion programs that dairy-
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Freeman Holds Reading
Conference; Reports $l5
Billion Net Farm Income
READING Nation?! Secre
tary of Agriculture 0-villa L
Freeman told a capacity c.owd
here Thursday night that die
pieliminary USDA estimates in
dicate that realized net fai.n in
come foi 1968 Will reach t.ie
fourth highest level in histoij
He also repoited that gross fa’m
income would reach the highest
level on record
Speaking to the meeting in
Rajah Temple sponsored by the
Farmers for Action Committee
Freeman said, “Gross farm in
come is expected to reach S5l
billion, about $l5 billion higher
L. F. Photo
National Secretary of Agri
culture Orville L. Freeman held
a news conference prior to giv
ing a speech to the Farmers for
Action Committee in the Rajah
Temple in Reading. He reported
realized net farm income to be
the fourth highest in history.
Pa. Association Of
Farmer Cooperatives
To Meet Next Week
Two visual reports on coopeia
tive activity will be presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Penn
sylvania Association of Faimer
Cooperatives, November 6 and 7
at Allenberry Lodge, Wilbur
Seipt, Lansdale, President said
this week.
J. E. Nicholson, Brookville,
Manager of United Electric Co
operative, will speak on Rural
Electrification in Foreign Lands
Mr Nicholson recently spent six
months in Venezuela establish
ing an electric cooperative.
Professors Hal Doran and
John Gauss will tell of work at
The Pennsylvania State Umver
sity in support of the farm co
operative program.
Speakers will include G Al
len burson, Atlanta, Georgia, Di
rector of Purchasing for the
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52.00 Per Yea
than ever before Realized net
faim income should teach or ex
ceed $l5 billion, up $BOO million
ovei 1967. and Hading only the
banner >ears of 1947. 1948 and
1966 Realized net income pei
fa.m nationwide is piojected to
be $4,900, second highest in our
history and $1,938 more than *t
Was in 1960
When questioned fiom the
floor about the cost-piice squeeze
even though farmeis are receiv
ing more gross income the Sec
retary emphasized he was talk
ing about net farm income.
The program featuring the na
tional figuie was delayed for
about a half-houi while the 600
farmers, government workers
and other interested peisons in
cluding many school lunch pro
gram ladies watched President
Johnson’s national TV speech
via three television sets install
ed on the platform of the third
floor ballroom
In a pi ess confeience prior to
the main address Freeman told
reporters the fundamental issue
in the presidential election on
Tues is the peison rather than
the issues “People want a per
son in the White House they can
trust,” he said
On the war on hunger, he said,
“I think we will win the war on
hunger It is not a certainty But
in the last two years we have
seen encouraging results on crop
production and Agriculture im
portance in many foreign coun
tries ” Later he clarified his
thinking on the subject by say
ing he was “mildly optimistic.”
The secretary likened the
election as “the most important
farm referendum in history. We
cannot solve space age problems
with pious platitudes about the
good old days,” he said. “Here
in Pennsylvania, the dairy indus
try is second only to the steel
industry as a source of income.
Last year, Pennsylvania farmers
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Farm Credit
Associations
To Meet Nov. 7
The invitation and offic.al no
tice of the joint annual stock
holders meeting of The Federal
Land Bank Association of Lan
caster and the Lancaster Pro
duction Credit Association was
given this week by Carl A.
Brown, Manager of Production
Credit. The joint meeting is to
be held Thursday, November 7
at Plain and Fancy Farm in
Bird-In-Hand along Route 340.
Time for the meeting is 12 noon.
A dinner will be served, im
mediately followed by a busi
ness meeting. Reservations
should be made by Monday, No
vember 4.