VOL. 1-1 NO. 33
RECEIVING CUCUMBERS at Good’s
Plant Food Store in Intercourse. Harvey
Good, mqyqs .the pickles with a.tow-motor
in front of arc Amish grower’s teahju Farm-
Plowing Contest Set For July 29
Plans for the 1969 Lancaster
County Plowing Contest were
finalized Wednesday night at the
director’s meeting of the local
Soil and Water Conservation Dis
trict Aaron Stauffer, chairman,
reported the time and place of
the cor.'.est to be Tuesday, July
29, starring at 10 am at Earl
Hurst’s farm. Lititz R 3 Rain date
is Thursday, July 31
County farmers or those reg
ularly employed as farm work
ers are invited to enter This
year a new class for farm wonien
has been added. So, if you’re 16
years-old or over, you should get
your entries to Aaron Stauffer,
Ephrata Rl. no later than July
25
Also being held the same day
will be 4-H and FFA Land
Farm Calendar
Tuesday, July 15
10.00 a m —District 4--H Live
stock Judging, Masonic
Home Farms, Elizabeth
town.
B’oo p.m Lancaster County
Faim and Home Founda
tion Directors meet. Farm
and Home Center.
11 30 pm —4-H Tom to lowa
leaves Faim and Home
Center.
Wednesday, July 16
8 30 a.m—New Holland Young
Fsimeis Tour, leave High
School
10 00 ? m Holstein Judging
School. Bucks County. _
Thursday, July 17
7 30 p.m 4H Hoise Club
Leadeis meet, Farm and
Home Center
8 00 pm—lntel-state Milk Pro
duceis meeting, Faim and
Home Center.
Friday, July 18
18 & 19—Pa Young Fanners
- Picnic, Gettysburg.
ers seem pleased with the first results of
an excellent growing season in this first
year trial.. ~ L. F. Photo
Judging, the Lancaster County
4-H tractor driving contest, a
fish denonstration and a pig
chase for the childien.
The classes for plowing are
contour, small plow (level land),
large plow (level land) and lad
ies (level land)
In other business Amos Funk
was announced as the winner of
the State Farm Conservation
Award from he Keystone Chapt
er of Soil Conservation Society
of America. In making the an
nouncement, Orval Bass, Con
servationist, said Funk will re
ceive the award at the society’s
annual meeting in Lockhaven,
July 25 and 26 .
School FFA Chapters complet
ing Conservation Programs were
announced in ordei of their plac
ings They aie New Holland,
Ephiata, Solanco. Penn Manor,
and Waivwck "
A pictoualn-epoit of conserva
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County 4-H
Youths Qualify
For District
County 4-H youths qualified
for district competition Tuesday
when they competed m the local
Demonstration Day in the Fai m
and Home Center
In the senior division, Burnell
Buchen Manheim R 3, and Roy
Biubaker. Lancaster, were nam
ed winners for their demonstra
tion '''Better Caie—Better Pro
fits ” The demonstration show
ed the safe handling of live
stock Ray and Burnell are
members of the Baby Beef and
Lamb 4-H Club
In the junior division, Judy
Risser, of Leola Rl, was selected
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 12.1969
Local 4-H Youths
To Attend PAFC
Summer institute
Two hundred rural boys and
girls from 46 Commonwealth
counties and parts of New
York State and New Jersey will
convene in Shippensburg to
morrow, at Shippensburg State
College for the ninth summer
institute of the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer Coopeia
tives.
The institute, which will run
through Thursday, is sponsored
by the farm cooperative trade
organization and College of Ag
riculture of The Pennsylvania
State University.
Averril Royer, 2025 Oregon
Pike, is co-chairman and Ken
neth Risser, Leola Rl, is a coun
cil scholar. Other local youths
attending are Lynn Heistand,
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HOME ECONOMICS DEMONSTRA-
TION. (left to right) Deborah Degenhardt.
Cindy Smith, and Pat Smucker gave senior
4-H demonstrations Wednesday that will
take, them on to district competition. De-
Farmers Show Enthusiasm
For Cucumber Cash Crop
•‘Picking reallj isn’t so bad
when >ou get the hang of it.’
said an Amish faimer Tlunsday
He was speaking about pick.ng
Holstein Men
Set Field Day
The Lancaster County Hol
stein Breeders Association will
hold their annual Field Day on
Wednesday, July 23, 1969, at the
farm of Paul B Zimmerman,
R D 1, Ephrata
To attend, follow Route 222
North of Ephrata to Wickes
Lumber Yard Turn right, Zim
merman’s is the first farm on
the left. Field Day signs will
be posted.
The judging contest will be
gin at 10 30 a.m Official judge
will be Raymond Seidel, Ker
chenhill Farm, Richland, Penn
sylvania. At noon there will be a
chicken barbecue, price $1.50.
Reservations should be made no
later than July 17th.
The afternoon program will
begin at 1:30 p.m. with James
F Pound, Director of Extension,
Brattleboro, Vermont as speak
er.
The Holstein Field Day Com
mittee in charge is H. Richard
Hershey (Chairman), David
Sweigart, and James Kreider
Wheat Certificate Payments Set
Producers of eligible 1969 crop
wheat will get $152 per bushel
soon after July 14. 1969,14 cents
more than the 1968 crop certifi-
cate value, Fred G Seldomndge,
Chairman, Agricultural Stabihza-
tion and' Conservation Service
said this week.
The Chairman said payments
In Lancaster County will be
made to producers on about 850
f arms
Certificate value is based or
the difference between July 1,
1969 wheat parity price of $2 71
borah’s demonstration was titled “Buttons
and Bows”, Cindy’s was jThe Sewing
Primer”, and Pat’s was “Sumpthin’
Luv.” L. F. Ph®t«
$2 00 Per Year
cucumbeis —Lancaster County’s
Rev est cash ciop
The Oxford Pickle Company,
South Deeifield Mass, had ad
veitised foi gioweis eaily this
spring with the hope of obtain
ing at least 50 acies in the area
foi this growing season And the
attempt has been successful For
now tne pickles aie commmg in
to the local receiving station at
Good’s Plant Food Store in Inter
com se and the company lepre
sentative David Oiloff is happy
with the way they have been
giown The 39 faimeis raising 51
acres of SMR 58 cucumbers are
also apparently happy with the
lesults that are now begimng to
show in this new venture.
In fact, for the farmers who
have done some harvesting to
date, the word enthusiasm would
describe their reactions. ‘Tt’s an
exceptional year for pickles,”
another grower said. “The last
ram really brought them on. We
finished picking our IV2 acres
in one day and they had. growi*
so much we had to start right
over again.” This farmer had
just unloaded nearly 100 bushelS
of fine pickles from his mule
drawm steel-wheeled hay wagoa.
It was his second picking. Nor
mal picking is usually every sec
ond day.
Harvey Good, local link b»-
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per 'oushei and the 1969-crop na
tional average loan rate of $1.25
per bushel, he explained,
Certificate payments add sub
stantially to the income farmers
receive from marketing their
1969 wheat crop,
Chairman Seldomndge related
that payments nationally will
total about $BOO million to ap
proximately 980,000 farmers He
said the $BOO million in certifi
cate payments, when related to
the total production on 45 nul
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