ft—Lnncaslcr Farming. Saturday. August 16.1969
Vottr Eligibility
For ASC Committee
Elections Exploined
Ballots soon will be mailed to
agricultural producers known to
be eligible to vote in Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conser
vation committee elections, ac
cording to Lancaster County
ASC Committee Chairman Fred
G. Seldomridge.
He said any resident of the
county who is eligible to take
part in a farm program admin
istered by ASCS is eligible to
vote in the community com
mittee elections to be held the
third week in September. This
applies without regard to sex,
race, color, religion, or national
origin.
“Our list of known eligible
voters totals 7,410 and I am
hopeful that each will cast a
ballot,” the ASC Chairman said.
He pointed out there may be
agricultural producers —■ own
ers, operators, tenants, or share
croppers who are eligible to
vote but are not on the eligible
voters’ list. “We invite those
who may be eligible voters to
check at the Lancaster County
ASCS Office, 1383 Arcadia Rd.,
Lancaster, Pa If they are eligi
ble, we will add their names to
the list and they will receive
ballots. The list of known eligi
ble voters is maintained at the
ASCS office and is available
there for public inspection,”
Chairman Seldomridge said.
Almost every agricultural
producer in the county is an
eligible voter, according to the
ASC Committee Chairman. “For
instance, if he produced a crop
eligible for price-support, he is
eligible voter. He doesn’t neces
sarily have to actually apply
for price-support, so long as he
has a crop which was eligible
for price-support,” said Mr.
Seldomridge.
“If he has cropland in any of
the various retirement or diver-
sion programs of the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture, he is
an eligible voter, or if be could
have participated in the Agri
cultural Conservation Program
(ACP) for installing soil and
water conservation practices, he
is an eligible voter in the ASCS
community committee elections.
Again, I point out that partici
pation in the programs is not
the determining factor; what
counts is whether a producer
was eligible to participatee in
any ASCS program,” he con
tinued If so, he or she is eligi
ble to vote.”
Holstein Association
Participates In Research
Executive Secretary Rumler
has announced that HFAA will
participate in a project to study
the relationship between gene
tic markers and performance in
dairy cattle. Cooperating agen
cies in the project which began
last year and is anticipated to
continue for four years, are the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
and the Experiment Stations in
Farm Women
SOCIETY 14
Farm Women Society #l4 met
Wednesday afternoon at the sum
mer home of Mrs. Murl Clark at
Spring Lake. Co-hostesses were
Mrs. James Hall, Mrs. Harold
Groff, and Mrs. Charles Murray.
Anna Marie Groff had charge
of devotions, reading some
verses from James Chapter 3
and some valuable thoughts
from “Daily Bread” on how
small things may become great.
Roll call was answered by a
Bible verse on nature. The presi
dent, Mrs. Christian Landis re
ported on the County board meet
ing and plans were discussed for
selling mints.
Professor Raymond C. Mullin,
Safety Education Instructor at
Millersville State College gave a
lecture entitled, “Accidents are
not Accidental” Did you know
that accidents aie the fourth
major cause of death in our coun
try?
Next meeting of the Society
will be held Sept 10, at the home
of Mrs Aaron Shirk in Paradise
Co-hostesses will be Mrs Ira
Ki eider, Mrs. Merle LeFevre
and Mrs. Ira Rutt. Mrs. E. Mark
Weaver will speak on “The Joy
of Drying Flowers.”
The Agricultural Stablization
and Conservation Service ad
ministers acreage allotments,
price-support loans and pay
ments, cropland retirement and
diversion programs, the sugar
program wool and mohair in
centive production program,
wheat certificate program, the
farm storage and drying equip
ment loan program and the Ag
ricultural Conservation Pro
gram, a joint effort by land
owners and the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture to preserve
our Nation’s land, water and
timber resources.
the Northeast, North Central
and Western Regions.
The object of the project is
to determine the degree of re
lationship between marker gen
es for blood and to milk protein
types and economically import
ant traits such as milk yield,
milk composition, reproductive
performance and liability in
dairy cattle. Blood and milk
protein typing and milk consti
tuent determinations will be
done on 6,000 Holstein cows
(approximately 1,500 first calf
heifers each year for four years)
in Experiment Stations and co
operating herds. The marker
genes involved must be studied
in a large number of animals if
there is to be any hope of de
termining their relationship to
economically important traits
through joint cooperation work
on the genetic marker system
has the potential to make a
significant contribution to know
ledge in cattle breeding.
Historically, selecting dairy
cattle for genetic improvement
hinges waiting long enough to
have lactation records available
on a large number of daughters.
Our present system of evaluat
ing the performance of a sire
means that the bull is already
mature and that “cows are at
least three years old before
their first lactation records are
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