VOL. 14 NO. 27
Women's Event Added
To Slate Plow Contest
Pennsylvania’s top 42 plow
men all winners in county
competition will be vying
foi state championship honois
in the State Plowing Contest to
be held August 27 m Towanda,
Bisdfoid County.
The plowing championships
will be one of the feature attrac
tions of the 1969 Agricultural
Progress Days scheduled at Fox
Chase Farms adjacent to the
Towanda Airport.
Agricultural Progress Days,
Which will also feature three
dairy shows, forage and forestry
field days, and a women’s pro
gram. is being sponsored by the
Cooperative Extension Services
of Pennsylvania State Univer
sity and Cornell University,
Pennsylvania Grassland Coun
cil. and State Plowing Contest
Committee.
“Plowmen will be competing
in three divisions again this
year.” said Charles Slaton, of
the U S. Soil Conservation Ser
vice. Harrisburg, contest chair
man. “These include small plow,
level land (two and three bot
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Visiting Doctor Schmuck
And His Family At Their
Pine Lane Farmstead Home
By Everett R. Newswanger
Lancaster Farming Editor
Take the road West at the
junction in Wakefield, go exact
ly two miles, turn in the shaded
farm lane and you have arrived
at the 112 acre F arm of Dr &
Mrs Larry Schmuck and family
Dr ! Schmuck is a well-known
large animal veterinarian in
southern Lancaster County work
ing with Dr. McMullen and Dr
Cox out of Quarryville He was
still out on a call Wednesday
afternoon when this reporter ar
rived just before supper, so Mrs
Schmuck'suggested the children
give a tour of the farm Karen
6, Sandra 7, Ellen 10, and War
ren 11, (a lively group) showed
the animals There was Wanen’s
4-H Ayrshire calf, the Hereford
steers, the Holstein heifers, and
the quarter horses in the barn
yard The pure "white cat played
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 31,1969
with the three coloied cat while
the black cat with a white bib
slept on top of a barrel And the
friendly German shepheid shar
ed the farm with the poodles and
helped introduce us to the pigs
Now the pigs are leally what
makes this farm Each member
of the Schmuck family, including
Mis Schmuck, bought a Regist
ered Yorkshire from Willow
Glen Farm at Strasburg
“You can’t have a farm for a
hobby,” the doctoi said (He ar
rived during the middle of the
children’s tour) “You have to
prove to the Internal Revenue
Service you really farm so we
got into the swine breeding busi
ness in a small scale and depend
ing on the family we may have
50 siws m the future.
And already there are 17 more
piga on the Pine Lane Farm than
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Up The Silo . . .
The camera is up the silo look
ing down as John S Yost, Kih
zers HI works the power-take-off,
self unloading wagon to fill his
new 20’x60’ silo with alfalfa
Tuesday morning Yost was wilt
ing the grass to 40 percent mois
ture to make haylage foi his 80
head Registered Holstein heid of
dairy animals.
John said the alfalfa was in
the bud stage with only a few
flowers visible The alfalfa wee
vils were reported not too ser
ious to date with spittle bugs
more numerous than the wee
vils Yost hadn’t sprayed his al
falfa
Mr. & Mrs. Yost and their
three children, Debbie 4, Beth
3, and Lon 1, live just north of
Spring Garden on Spnnglea
'Farm
Many farmers in the County
were mowing grass and making
hay this week with bales seen
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EACH MEMBER of the Schmuck family has Registered
Yorkshire swine projects. The children of Dr/ and Mrs.
Larry Schmuck, Peach Bottom R 2, are (left to right), San
dra 7, Karen 6, Ellen 10, and Warren 11. The sow and ii
little pigs in the LANCASTER FARMING photo belong to
Karen.
& V
Dairy Issue Next Week
The annual salute to the Lan
caster County dany industry in
the form of a special Lancaster
'Farming issue, is coming next
week We’ll have reports from
DHIA and the Breed Associa
tions; interviews with top local
daiiymen and their families; art
icles written by leading dairy
representatives, scenic dairy pic
tures and advertising of special
interest to the dairy farmer. We
hope you enjoy it
V &
Regional Show
Hosted By
Lanchester Club
A legional hoise and pony
show is scheduled tf be held
June 16-22 at the John Gibson
Faim, Drumore, according to
Mrs George 'Hasslei, Chan man
Teams of youth from many clubs
through southeast Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, will gathei at
the Lancastei Pony Club’s head
quarters to compete and earn
the right to go to the National
Rally to be held in Nashville
Tenn dunng the week of July
2i
Representing the local club
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$2.00 Per Year
Potato Growers
Testify At
Public Hearing
Pennsylvania potato growers
testified at a public hearing held
here today (Tuesday) that they
favor a self-assessment plan of
one cent a hundredweight for
potato research and promotion.
The self-assessment plan, if ap
proved by the majority of grow
ers, will apply only to potatoes
produced for human consump
tion by growers of 10 or more
acres of the vegetable
State Agriculture Secretary
Leland H Bull is expected to
send ballots to growers on June
6 Ballots must be returned by
noon June 20
A Wayne Readmger, 'Fleet
wood Berks County master of
the Pennsylvania State Giange
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Farm Calendar
Monday. June 2
1 30 pm —4-H Capon pick-up afc
Meivm Peifei Faim. "\tan
heim R 1
7 30 p m —Pemyn -4 H Commun
ity Club meets. Pemyn Fue
Hall
Wednesday, June 4
730 p m Lancaster County
Soil and Water District Di
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