VOL. 14 NO. 22
S h ini ngMold boards
Robert Harnish, Manheim R 2,
adjusting one of his three trip
bottoms, was scooting the fur
rows open with a sporty new
tractor Monday afternoon when
Lancaster Farming Editor Ever
ett Newswanger found him.
The dnst wasn’t flying though
and Robert said it was a little
wet in the flats. But the plow
ing had to go on because a stiff
South wind was calling for more
rain and May 1 is soon here.
Robert was recently married and
Quality Statements Mads At
Marketing Council Meeting
Quality is remembered long
after price is forgotten
people will pay for quality
consumer demand can be creat
ed by quality.
These were some of the state
ments made recently in Her
shey where the members of
nine state marketing advisory
councils met to discuss quality
The meeting, called the All-
Council Conference, was spon
sored by State Marketing Ad
visory Councils, the Pennsylvan
ia Department of Agriculture,
Agway, Inc., and the Pennsyl
vania Poultry Federation.
Councils for apples, eggs,
grapes, mushrooms, potatoes,
poultry, vegetables, nursery pro
ducts and farm markets were
represented at the meeting
Farm Calendar
Saturday, April 25 (today)
8 p.m.—Lancaster County 4-H
Play, Conestoga Valley High
School.
Monday, April 28
7.30 p.m.—Hempfield 4-H Com
munity Club meets, Farmdale
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started farming for himself'this
year. He has 70 head of Holstein
dairy cattle and farms 77 acres.
His father Jacob Harnish was
also working around the barn
at the time of the editor’s visit.
The Pennsylvania Crop Re
porting Service reports the fre
quent showers and wet soils have
limited field work across the
state just as they have in Lan
caster County. Sweet cherries
are in full bloom and sour cher
x’ies and early peaches are be
ginning to show blossoms. No
Fro=t damage has been reported
Here are some of the thoughts
expressed at the meeting
The concept of quality
changes as consumer tastes
change Country-style smoked
ham may be an older person’s
idea of quality ham while a
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Cereal Leaf Beetle
Survey Coming To Co.
The State Agriculture Depart
ment this week announced plans
for a cereal leaf beetle survey to
be made in 25 counties begin
ning May 1.
The cereal leaf beetle, a com
paratively new plant pest in the
United States, causes serious
damage in grain fields, particular
ly those bearing oats, wheat and
barley The insect has moved
ispidly eastward since its dis
covery in Michigan in 1962 and
appeared in Pennsylvania for
the first time in 1967 when it
was found in several western
counties.
The survey will be a coopera
tive effort by the Department’s
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26,1969
-to the cherries, peaches or apple
trees.
Early vegetables are making
rapid growth as are hay and
pasture grasses. Soft ground has
limited pasturing of cattle
though.
Oats seeding has been slowed
by wet weather with about one
half the crop planted in the
southern counties and some seed
ing has been started in the cen
tral areas. Fall seeded grains
have greened up with little win
ter damage in evidence.
L. F. Photo
Robert A. Martin
Robert Martin
Elected Pres.
Of Co. Swinemen
Robert A Martin was elect
ed president of the Lancaster
County Swine Producers Asso
ciation Thursday night at a re
orgamzational meeting held at
the Faim and Home Center
Martin owns Rippling Sti earns
Faitns at East Earl RI
Elected vice president was
John H Henkel, Willow Glen
Farm, Strasburg Rl and James
Horton, Manager of Masonic
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‘Dutch’ Meal Served R.I.
Guests of Garden Spot Boys
by Everett Newswanger (
Lancaster Farming Editor
“Come on in boys, supper is }
ready,” was the make-yourself- £
at-home greeting some 50 hun- |
gry Rhode Island FFA boys (and *
a few girls) received Wednes- (
day evening after their bus roll- J
ed into Bowmansville about an (
hour and a half late And the (
warm-heaited invitation was no ]
fake. Supper really was ready
Foi Bartram (Bart) M. Leaman,
East Earl Rl, knows how to ]
, (
Farmers Given
Responsibility To
Guard Health
“The American farmer as
sumes a new responsibility”, a
movie on the safe use of pesti
cides. emphasized. “He (the
farmer) assumes the respon
sibility to guard the health of
the nation.”
This movie along with opin
ions of experts in feeds, foods,
drugs, and pesticides were on
the agenda of the Seminar on
Agricultural Chemicals held
Thursday at the Host Town
Motel in Lancaster
Samuel Guss of the Veterinary
Science Extension at the Penn
sylvania State University told
the gioup of about 25 industry
leadeis and educators that he
has been piomoting manage
ment ovei medicine for years j
Many diug and medicine people 1
have objected, but undei the
p.esent situation, the thinking 1
has pioved conect “Medicated 1
feeds are very useful, but the
least we can do is prevent the
indisciimmate use of them,”
Guss said
“I wish there was a way to i
prevent faimers from buying
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Lancaster County Farm And Home
Scholarships Offered To Youths
One of the objectives of the
'Lancaster County Farm and
Home Foundation is to encour
age the higher education of the
youth of Lancaster County. In
this respect the Foundation is
announcing the offering of
scholarship awards in 1969 in
the fields of Agriculture and
Home Economics Depending
upon the numbei and quality of
applicants, a maximum of eight
scholarships may be awarded
According to M M Smith,
Lancaster County Agent, each
scholarship awaid will be in the
amount of $4OO 00 and may be
used to help,defray tuition, fees,
or room and boaid expenses at
any acci edited college oi uni
versity, which offers a course
of study in Agucultuie and/oi
Home Economics
These Farm and Home Found
ation scholarships are earnings
$2.00 Per Year
handle a hungry man, or lady
or boy or girl.
It was all you could eat of
home made bread & butter,
apple butter, ham loaf, mash
ed potatoes, baked beans And
there was pickled beets, eggs,
chow chow and apple sauce.
And if you were still hungry
(who was?) dessert was still to
come graham cracker-banana
pudding, fruit salad and at least
two kinds of cake
The visitors, guests of the
FFA boys at Garden Spot High
School, could well have been
our own sons and daughters
clean cut, likeable, polite, with
just the right amount of re
servedness to show their fine
self-discipline. They weren’t
quite sure how to take our wind
ing back roads. But that is un
derstandable. Even the bus
driver said the roads from
Rhode Island to - Washington,
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Youth Are
Informed Of
Co-op Methods
“We know those persons re
lated to agriculture are in the
minority But if we can inform
more people of our problems,
they can go into the world on
oui side with true facts ”
Jay Irwin, Associate County
Agent said that is the reason
for having the Youth Institute
on Cooperative Business Meld
Tuesday at the Farm and Home
Center “Those who are inform
ed aie less critical” Irwin said.
Hal F Doian, Penn State
University, told the more than
100 youths, teachers, adult ad
visois and Co-op leaders, “The
one thing we need is quality,
not necessarily quantity.”
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from an irrevocable Trust Fund
set up by the late (Elmer L. Es
benshade, one of the founders
of the (Lancaster County Farm
and Home Foundation. The in
income from this trust fund will
be offered annually in the form
of educational scholarships
through the Farm and Home
Foundation
All Senior Guidance Counse
lors throughout the Lancaster
County School Districts are 'be
ing informed of these scholar
ships in order to get prospective
boys and girls informed.
Interested youth are urged to
contact their Senior Guidance
Counselor for details and an ap
plication blank Additional in
formation is also available from
M M Smith, Chairman of the
Scholarship Committee, 1383
Arcadia Road, Lancaster, Penn
sylvania 17601.