VOL. 13 NO. 50
Eleven different Farm Women’s So
cieties were among 18 women’s service
clubs and organizations which recently
completed the enormous task of assisting
the Tuberculosis and Health Society in the
preparation of 76,000 pieces of campaign
mail for £he 62nd annual Christmas Seal
campaign. Shown above, left to right, are
members of Farm Women’s Society No. 1,
at their tasks of “stuffing” envelopes with
campaign material: Mrs Elmer Hershev.
Lititz R 2; Mrs. Amos Shenk, Lititz R 2;
Mrs. Roy Brubaker, Lititz R 3, president of
the society; Mrs. Ira Shearer, Lititz R 4;
County Conservation District
Makes Effort To Involve FFA
Chapters And Individuals
The Lancaster County Soil
and Water District Directors
held their regulai monthly
meeting Wednesday night, in
the Farm and Home Center and
the main order of business was
to discuss ways to involve Lan
caster County FFA Chapters in
the conservation contest spon
sored by the Sears Roebuck
Foundation.
A number of associate direc
tors were present to hear the
program explained by Henry
Givler, Area Vo-Ag Advisor,
and were in turn asked to go to
each county school having a Vo-
Ag department and present the
need to actively engage m con
servation activities and the con
servation contest
Givler said there are two
to the Sears Contest chapter
Farm Calendar
Saturday, November 9 (today)
9- Pennsylvania Livestock
Exposition, Harrisburg
Sunday, November 10
10- PFA Annual Meeting,
George Washington Motor
Lodge Allentown
Tuesday, November 12
12-14 Joint State Convention,
Pennsylvania Association of
Soil and Water Conservation
District Directors and State
Soil and Water Conservation
Commission, Seven Springs,
Somerset County.
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activities and a pub'jc sneaking
contest for individuals He said
the schools know about the con
test but only two of the nine
patticipited last jear.
The Foundation i; offering
$3,800 on the state level for the
activity and Amos Funk, Chair
man of the district, announced
they will give a trophy to the
top county chapter and the win
ning county public speaker.
The directors also approved
the following cooperators to
participate in conservation prac
tices- Earl S Fisher, Brecknock
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, CREDIT DIRECTORS. Elected at the
meeting of farmer owned credit associa
tions Wednesday afternoon are Cleft to
right) Paul Herr, Quarryville Rl, director
ot The federal Land Bank Association:
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 9,1968
and Mrs. Martin Moore, Lititz Rl. The
other Farm Women’s Societies which help
ed m campaign preparation were Num
bers 2,9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21 and 25. In
addition, women from Ins Club, Lititz Wo
man’s Club, Ephrata Woman’s Club, Wo
man’s Club oi Lancaster, Towne Club,
: t T jfflw>r
hary to the Purple HearTNo. 107, Eancas
ter County, also worked for the Society as
mail volunteers. The annual campaign for
funds for the TB Society begins officially
on Tuesday. Nov. 12. and ends on Christ
mas Day.
State Young Farmers
To Hold Convention
The Pennsylvania Young
Faimeis’ Association will hold
their state convention next
Thin sday, Novembei 14 at the
Lycoming Hotel in Williams
port, to I\an Yost
Regional Vice President Regis
tration is set for 8 30 a m.
Delegates will be voting on
region division and officers will
be elected
The day before Wednes
day, November 13 the execu
tive committee will meet at
1 30 p.m and the Officers Club
Banquet will be held Wednes
day evening.
The closing event oi tho con
vention is the annual banquet
Thursday evening Yost said
everyone is welcome
Sheaffer Cloisterdale Farms
Become Affiliated WJfK Miller
And Bushong And D. E. Horn Co.
Ray Sheaffer of L M Sheaf
fer-Cloisterdale Farms, Ephrata,
Pa., and Allen Graybill of the
Grimes Poultry Processing Cor
poration, Fredencksburg, Pa,
announce that effective Novem
ber 1 the L. M Sheaffer-Clois
tudale organization became af
filiated with the Games Cor
poration
L M Sheaffer is one of Penn
sylvania’s oldest and laigest egg
processing firms A substantial
portion of their marketing le
quirements come from their re
cently developed Cloisterdale
Farms, Inc which is one of the
largest automated egg produc
tion units in Pennsylvania The
balance of the eggs marketed by
Sheaffer are supplied by inde
pendent produceis
Grimes, which is jointly own
ed by Miller & Bughon? Inc of
Poultrymen Elect Directors;
Laboratory
The Lancaster Countv Poul
try Association elected four
directors Thursday night at
their annual banquet held at
the Farm and Home Center
They are Claude Hess, 2462
New Holland Pike; Aaron
Click Quairyville R 2 and John
W Melhorn, Mt Joy, all repre
senting poultry pioducers' and
Lorm Weigaid, 1031 Devonshne
Road Lancastei repiesenting
Allied Industry.
Members also voted 6 to 1 in
favor of having a state operated
diagnostic laboratory in Lan
castei County.
Donald Horn, vice president
of the Pennsvlvania Poultry
Federation to’d the 160 poultrv
men and friends present that
the Federation directors have
decided Pennsylvania needs ?
strong state-wide organization
existing to provide service for
members. “I feel,” he said, “the
most important service the Fed
eration can do is to represent
you in political circles This we
will do ”
Horn listed the recent
John J. Long, Peach Bottom R 1 and John
H. Gibble, Myerstown R 2, re-elected direc
tors of the Lancaster Production Credit
Association. The appointment was for
three years. , L. F. Photo
$2.00 Per Year
Rohrerstown, Pa. and D. E.
Horn & Co., Inc of York, Pa,
processes and markets ice pack,
frozen, and further processed
poultry in the northeastern
metropolitan area.
L M. Sheaf fer-Cloisterdale
will be operated as an indepen
dent unit Sheaffer, who has
been responsible foi its giowth
and development, will continue
as general manager with no
changes in nolicies or personnel
contemplated.
It is felt that this step will
ictain an important egg market
for the Eastern Pennsylvania
Poultry Industry and the affili
ation of L M. Sheaffer with
these agri-business firms will
improve their ability to expand
as a leading egg supplier to
northeastern markets
changes and activities at the
state level as 1. the luring of a
full time executive director; 2,
making organization changes
and 3 financing the Federation
by an aggressive membership
campaign and a fund raising
banquet at Farm Show time
which calls for selling 432 tick
ets at S5O each <- We are well on
our way to a sell-out at the
banquet ” he said
The Lancaster County Poul
try Queen, Miss Geni Hiestand,
is a student at the Chicago Art
Institute and sent a telegram to
John H. Hess, Association Presi
dent, thanking the association
for the opportunity to be the
poultry queen.
The guest speaker was Furh
man F Bailey, former assistant
superintendent of Lancaster
County Schools who spoke on
the subiect “Remembering and
Forgetting ”
Mrs Mary Hawk, local record
ing artist, entertained and John
N Weidman was the master of
ceremonies.
Large Crowd At
Credit Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the
Land Bank Association
of Lancaster and Lancastei Pio
ductioa Ci edit Association was
held Wednesday afternoon at
the Plain and Fancy Faun, Bud
In Hand
Carl Brown, Manager, told the
350 stockholders and fi lends
present that both locally own
ed associations had a very good
year “We were able to increase
our Land Bank Association by
approximately $BOO,OOO and Pro
duction Credit Association by
about $500,000,” he said.
“Under the tight money situa
tion we have had some problem
to get money at reasonable rates
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