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TOMATOES PICKED MECHANICALLY last fall run Into on a
wagon pulled along besidethe machine. Harold Martin (driving tractbr)”lgt.'"
.Joy El Tomato Farmer and Richard Forry, 2020 Horseshoe Rd., Lancaster,
check the operation.,
SORTERS riding along on the locally manufactured tomato harvester pick
out the green and unusable culls. The machine is designed to use an electronic
device in place of hand sorting when the mechanical sorter is perfected.
arm Calendar
Tuesday, July 8
6.00 pm. Silver Spurs 4H
Club Grooming and Show
manship Competition, John
Glick Stables.
7:30 p.m. Manheim Young
Farmer Corn Field Work--
. shop, Vo-Ag room. - .
Wednesday, July 9 -
l;0O p.m.—4-H Public - Speaking
- ’ 'and'Demonstratlon Contest,
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Harvesting Machine Idea Given
By A Local Tomato Farmer
A new attempt to make tomato
picking under local conditions a
mechanical piocess is succeed
ing. The idea of building a pick
er around a centeral power unit
was originated local!} by Haiold
W-. Mai tin, a tomato"grower near
Mount Joy And now the Graybill
Tomato Harvester is being pro
duced commercially by-Graybill
Machines Inc., LiUtz R 2. Used
lunltedly oxT IS' acres last fall.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 5,1969
the harvester is ready to go again
when the tomatoes are ripe
“The mam objective of our
mechanical harvester is to get
the 30b done,” says Wilbur Gia>-
bill “With good help to pick to
matoes almost non-existent,
growers may need to go to mech
ameah-picking r or we may not be
growing tomatoes around here ”
“We don’t have the same con
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Martin And Stauffer Win
Pennsylvania FFA Offices
Two local boys became state
officers of the Pennsylvania As
sociation of Future Farmers this
Linford Martin
County Losing
Scabies-Free
Sheep Status
Lancaster County is losing its
sheep scabies-free status follow
ing a recent scabies outbieak.
the U S Department of Agiicui
ture icpoits
Program officials explain that
the change in status means that
sheep cannot be legallv moved
outsiae of Monmouth 01 Laneas
tei Counties unless they have
been dipped in a USD'k spmov
ed insecticide bath 01 aie being
taken directly to slaughter The
dipping must oe supervised by
an accredited veterinarian 01
USDA or State animal health
official Piopei dipping of the
sheep kills the tiny, parasitic
mites that cause scabies
Di J B Stauffei, local Veter
inarian with the Bureau of Ani
mal Industry at the Lancastei
Stockyards said Wednesday that
oiuy a small flock of four sheep
being used to turn weeds around
a junk yaid were found to have
the- disease “These sheep have
been, dipped twice,” he said
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Local Men
Win Triple
Hunting Trophy
Two local men were among
39 hunters winning the Penn
sylvama Game Commission’s
coveted Triple Trophy Award
during the 1968-69 seasons ac
cording to an announcement
this week by Roy W Treoxter
Information and Education Chief
They are: Emory H. Herr,
Ronks R 1 and Gerald D Heil
ner, Elizabethtown R 2
The Triple Trophy Award
is available to hunters who take
a wild turkey, an antlered white
tail deer and a black bear dur
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$2.00 Per Yau
weeß at the 1969 mid-year con
vention at University Park in
conjunction with FFA Activities
week on the Penn State camp u«.
They are Lmfoid Martin. Grass
land Chapter, who became first
Vice-President and Vice-Presi
dent of Region II and Earl
Stauffei who became state treas
uie"
Mai tin son of Mi and Mrs.
Waite! S Mat tin. East Earl RI,
is the out-going president of the
Fed Rose FFA Chaptei and nas
seived as vice president and
piesident of his local Giassland
Chaptei His faimmg piogram
includes dairj, hogs, beef sheep,
corn and tobacco and he has
woik experience m caipentry,
masoniy and farm maikets
Active in FFA, Linford attend
ed the National FFA Convention
and the State summer and win
ter conventions He was a mem
ber of the chapter parliamentary
procedure team and scored weU
in livestock and dairy judging at
Lampeter Fair. In local activi
ties, Martin scored Ist in chapter
meat, dairy, and sheep judging
and was second in public speak
ing He presided at the area lead
ership training conference and
working for a livestock farmer
on a 120 acre farm
He is also president of the
New Holland 4-H Baby Beef
Club; sang in the Garden Spoo
Semoi Choi us and is a member
ot the Wear erland Chustian Am
bassadois his chuicn youth
gioup
Stauffer son of Mi and Mis
Claienca Stauftei, Ephrata RD 1
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Earl Stauffer
Sub Sale July 12
The Lancaster County 4-H
Council is sponsoring a Sub Sale
Saturday July 12, to raise $lOOO
or[ their exchange trip to lowa.
Subs will sell tor 50 cents each
and orders are being taken until
July 7 To place an order con
tact a council member or the
County Agent’s office, 1353 Ar
cadia Road, Lancaster, or Phone
394-6851.,