VOL 14 NO 41
Hoistein Youth
Contest Now
Being Conducted
The Pennsylvania Holstein
Distinguished Junior Member
Contest is now being conducted
accoiding to Nathan E. Stoltz
fus, local Chairman. The contest,
sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association is for any
4-K'-or FFA member who has
been enrolled in dairy project
work with Registered Holsteins
and who is a Junior Member of
the ' National Holstein Associa
tion
Stoltzfus said the contest was
formerly known as the Holstein
Boy and Girl Contest and Junior
meitibeis applied directly to the
state organization for the honor.
Now a local contest must be held
and-the winner presented to the
slate committee.
If you or a youth you know
has completed pro
ject uork with Registered Hol
steins and is a member of the
Holstein-Fresian Association of
America, you should contact
Stoltzfus before September 15,
for an entry blank. ‘
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Jay Smoker
Jay Smoker
Wins Kunzler
Scholarship
Jay Smoker, son of Mr & Mrs
Earl Smoker, Stevens R.l, was
named winner of the $5OO Kunz
ler & Co. scholarship for 1969
Jay a graduate of Ephrata High
School and membei of the Clois
ter FFA, is enrolled in the ag
riculture program at Pennsyl
vania State University
Smokei received his Keystone
Degree at the 1969 State FFA
Convention. He is past treasurei
of his local chapter and was a
delegate to the National FFA
Convention in 1968 Jay has a
farming program that includes
registered holstem dairy animals,
market hogs, & field corn He
has won numerous awards with
his dairy animals and market
hogs at both local and state
sljows.
Jay was an -honor student at
Epbirata High School.
INSPECTING an excellent dark green stand of no-til
planted corn is Robert Rohrer. The ears in the milk stage
are large and well-developed and the stalks are tall and
thick. - ~ " ' L. F. Photo
Statement Asks Change In
Proposed Route 30 Bypass
A statement from the Board of
Supervisors of the West Sads
burg Twp in Chester Co was
read Wednesday night at the
monthly meeting of the Lancas
ter County Soil and Water Dis
tuct Directors
Requesting an investigation by
the Lancaster and Chester Coun
tv Planning Commissions the
statement asked for an evalua
tion of a more northerly route
through the eastern Lancaster
County portion and the Chester
County portion of the proposed
Route 30 bypass between Lan
caster and the Coatesville bypass
“This proposed alternate would
not necessarily affect the western
three-fourths of the Lancaster
County portion,” the statement
said.
“The possible alternate would
start from the eastern end of the
Mine Ridge and connect with the
western end of the Gap Ridge,
either directly or by the shortest
feasible circuitous manner that
v/ould be consistent with a tie
in with Route 41, and also take
in a minimum of Agricultural
land in eastein Lancaster Coun
ty”
Discussion at the meeting fav
ored the statement and it is be
lieved the highway department
will make a further study
Farm Calendar
Sunday, sept. 7
12 30 p m Ephiata Young
Farmei Picnic, Rheams
town Memorial Park
Monday, Sept. 8
7 30 p.m Elm-Penryn 4-H
Club meets' Penryn Fire
, Hall.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 6. 1969
In other business the directors
started work on a teacher’s con
servation workshop possibly next
summei The woikshop would
emphasize not only how conser
vation works but why it is im
portant to individual pupils
Also the dnectors asked the
Lancaster Planning Commission
to consider forwarding all plans
to the Distuct for review The
District would look them over
and make suggestions on place
ments of drains and conserva
tion practices and return the
plans to the commission. They
offered to do this as a service
rather than as a police force.
The following eo-operators
were approved: Franklin E Kur
tz, East Cooalico, 42A; Harry H.
Martin, East Earl, 63A; John G.
Farrington, Elizabeth, 200 A; Cal
eb Hershey, Penn, 31A
James Kerr, Jr.
A Cross-County Survey
No-Til Planted Corn Fields
Show Excellent Promise
By Everett Newswange r
Lancaster Farming Editor
The newest thing in corn plant
ing on Lancaster County faims
for several years has been what
everyone has come to call the
“No-Til” method While older
farmers shake their heads in
disbelief at the thought of plant
ing corn m sod or corn stalks
without even plowing or disking,
a few adventuresome fellows
have tried it Most of them how
ever, have been cautious, plant
ing only a small percentage of
their corn acreage by the new
method
Now the time of coin haivest
foi silage and fox gram is ap
proaching What has happened
in the corn fields where the new
no-til plantings have been made’
“You have to remember it was
a perfect year for it,” says Rob
ert Breighner, Lancaster R 2
“But I feel the no-til
corn is every bit as good as the
field planted beside it in the
conventional way ”
Breighnei had five acies plant
ed the new way when he was
unable to do his own farm woik
in the spring because of an ac
cident He likes the speed with
v'hich the corn was planted
“Foi fellows like me with no
silo, you can get your hay off and
corn planted quickei,” he said
Bob planted his no-til coin in
Four New Ag
Teachers In Co.
Four new Vocational Agricul
ture teachers greeted FFA Stu
dents across the County this
week They are James Hilton,
Pequea Valley; A K. Kissell,
New Holland; August Birchler,
Penn Manor; and James Kerr,
Jr, Warwick
Hilton graduated from Oxford
High School in 1965 and from
Penn State in June A resident of
Chester County, he raised pigs,
beef and bees during his eight
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August Birchler
S 2 00 Per Year
alfalfa stalks at a 23,000 plant
pei-acre population two days
after the hay was made He used
200 pounds of 6-12-12 fertilizer to
the acre with the planter and
applied 100 pounds of liquid
nitrogen on top of the ground.
Two and a half pounds of atra
zine per acre took caie of the
sod and weeds very nicely.
Breighner did hear reports
that sprouted corn from the
pievious year could be a prob
lem in planting corn year after
year He feels it might be best
to plow the ground once in a
while
Fianklin Myers, Lancaster R 6,
has two years experience with
the method now and went from
a trial of 10 arces in 1968 to 30
acies this year And he reports
last year’s yields on the no-til
coin at 140 to 150 bushels per
acre as good or better than,
the rest of bis crop And his
fields look just as good r nis year.
“One thing you have to accept
in no-til planting is the fact that
you get a field loss of seed plant
ed, ” he said “You need to accept
this as one of the expenses of the
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James Hilton
A. K. Kissell