VOL 14 NO. 20
A BEAUTIFUL WATERFALLS is
viewed by Elam Longenecker on his 92
acre dairyJarm. Elam, a retired farmer,
Thousands 0£ Yellow Daffodils
Brighten Longenecker’s Corner
Many things have changed in
Elam Longenecker’s three score
and 13 years, but two beautiful
shellbark trees standing below
his summer cottage along the
Big Chickies Creek flowing
tlnough his 92 acre dairy farm
still looks the same as when he
was a boy
The meadow, the spang fed
shallow pond, the water falls
and the spruce and white pine
trees that were planted in the
eaily 1930’s under the direction
of foimer County Agent Floyd
(Dutch) Buchei, all added to
a peaceful spring day Tuesday
morning But what you really
go to see is the daffodils
Stopping at Mi and Mrs
Longenecker’s newly built home
at the end of the home farm
lane gives you the first mtio
duction to these quiet, hospitable
people Mrs Longeneckei greet
ed Lancaster Fanning Editoi,
Everett Nowswangei at the door
and inti oduced him to Mr Long
eneckei in the garage working
on his signs to be put up this
week to duect then many
fi lends who come each yeai
toack the faim lane to the thou
sands of blooms on his hilly
slieam-side acies
Farm Calendar
Monday, April 14
13 16 American Gueinsey Cattle
Club meeting, Hershey Hotel,
Heishey
6 30 pm —Lancastei County
Fruit Gioweis and Honey Pio
ducers Annual Banquet, Fai m
and Home Centei
7 30 p m —Lancastei County
4-H Ayrshne, Jeisey and
(Continued on Paje 13)
Walking with Elam through
the meadow, he gives you the
fiom-up-on-the-hill view fust
Then you walk to the cottage and
it happens The poet William
Wardsworth says it best
‘ When all at once I saw a crowd
A host, of golden daffodils
Beside the lake, beneath the
ti ees
Fluttering and dancing in the
bieeze ”
The Longeneckt i family
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Self-Assessment
Hearings Set
In Harrisburg
, „
Peach potato and milk pro-
Queers have scheduled pubhc
hearings at the State A o i mul
ture building to consider self
assessment programs to pro
sale and use o£ the :
pi ° auccb . .
The peach heanng-will be
held May 21, the potato heai
mg May 27 and the milk heai
in|July 15
Peach producers will discuss
a p ™P osed assessment of three
cents a hundiedweight on
peaches sold foi the fresh mai
ket and one cent on
sold foi piocessing
A one cent a hundi edv'eight
assessment on potatoes sold foi
human consumption will b?
consideied at the potato heal
ing while milk pioduceis will
discuss the pi os and cons of a
levy of one half of one peicent
ot then gioss milk check
The assessments foi peaches
and potatoes will be accepted or
iejected when pioduceis vote
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 12, 1969
has thousands of daffodils planted on a
hillside overlooking Big Chickies Creek
and this shallow spring-fed /arm, pond.
Forest Fire Season
Is Here Again;
Be Careful
The spnhg forest fire season
’S in full swing The recent rain
fall has not eliminated the
probability of forest fne occur
icnce As the beautiful spung
weather lines us to work and
recreate outdoors we must con,
srder again that we, the people,
aie the major cause of foiest
fnes
Last year Lancaster County
ranked second in the numbei of
forest fries reported to Valley
Forge Distnct of Pennsylvania
Department of Forests &
Waters Valley Forge District
includes Lancastei, Berks, Ches
ter, Delaware, Montgomery,
Bucks and Philadelphia Counties
as well as parts of Lehigh and
Northhampton Counties
Debris and field burning ac
counted for 39% of the fues in
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Martin Wins
4-H Round-up
A fifteen yeai old Ephiata R 3
youth won the giand champion
ship in the 4-H Conservation
Round up Wednesday night,
with his exhibit on conserving
soil and water Leon R Mai tin,
son of Mi and Mis Leon Z Mai
tin won over 17 othei entiles
Rcseive giand championship
honors went to Claik Stauxlei,
ard thud place to Shnley Stauf
fei The Stauffeis aie son and
daughtei of Mi and Mis Aaion
Stauf fei, Ephiata R 1
Kaien Hoist, New Holland Rl,
was fouith
Othei blue nbbon winneis
weie Louis Hoist, Ephiata Rl,
(Continued on Page 11)
Poultry Association To
Use Farm Show Egg Banner
For Promotion Locally
The laigest and best display
ol eggs came from Lancaster
County at the Harrisburg Faim
Show in January but it took un
til this week foi the bannei with
the piop°i inscription to reach
the local poultry association
Jay Irwin, Associate Lancas
ter County Agent, said the ban
net came through the fust time
without Lancastei County be
ing identified so it was returned
Conservation
Speaking Won
By Lee Ressler
Lee Ressler, 16-year-old son of
Mi and Mrs Harold L Ressler,
East Earl Rl, won the Conserva
tion Public Speaking Contest
sponsored by the Lancaster Soil
and Water Conseivation District
The contest, the first of its kind,
was held at the Farm and Home
Center Wednesday night with 9
youths contending Resslei’s
speech was entitled “America
Destroyed” He is a student at
Garden Spot High School
The second place speech was
given by Roger Campbell 15,
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L. F. Photo
4-H CONSERVATION ROUND-UP winner is Leon R.
Martin, Ephrata R 3 Leon’s exhibit asked. ‘‘Where would
you rather live, at the dump?” His answers won him the
champion ribbon over 17 other contestants. L. F. Photo
$2.00 Per Year
Now it is back ready to go to
woik piomotmg Lancaster Coun
ty eggs in stotes and public
places
The County Poultiy Duectors
at then icgulai meeting Thuis
day night, voted to obtain the
services of a specialist from
State Secretatj Leland Bull’s
office to help set up a promo
tional program built aiound the
faim show bannei
Diagnostic Lab
lii othei business, at the
directors meeting, Homer Bicks
ler, Pa Poultry Federation, re
ported on the situation of the
poultiy diagnostic lab comtem
plated foi Lancaster County.
“Frankly,” Bicksler said, “The
situation is in a state of con
fusion I talked to the Secretary
(Leland Bull) on March 25 and
again Wednesday night-.a£ a
committee meeting and the sec
retary just doesn’t know what
the industiy wants We can
have fewer labs and equip them
better or we can have more labs
and not as well equipped,” he
said
‘Unfortunately for those who
think theie should be a lab
locally, the Secretaiy has start- -
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