VOL. 14 NO. 52
- THOMAS- BLANK with Ms 4-H, horse
SEA .'ROSE They won first place in the
English. Pleasure Saddle Seat Competitiffif** 0 "
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Blank Wins At State 4-H Horse Show
ThonTa&Bikmk, 17-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blank
Sr., 1137 Louise Ave., Lancastei
won .first place in the English
Pleasure Horse & Saddle Seat
Competition at the Pennsylvania
State-4-H-Horse and Pony Show
in Harrisburg last week Thomas
is a five-year member of the lo
cal Silver Spuis Club and rode
his hoise named Sea Rose to the
win He is a senior at Manheim
Twp High School.
Other winners included Year
ling, 3id, Shirley Craig, Brood
Maie, 6th, Margaret Keeney,
Hunter Seat Equestrian, Jr. Div
not to jump* sth, Debbie Cum-
Landis Has
High County
Guernsey Herd
John Landis, 1804 Hempstead
Road, Lancaster, was honored
lest (Friday night at the Lancas
tei Co Guernsey Association’s
annual meeting for having the
top local Guemsey herd His
held of 49 cows averaged 12,290
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Farm Calendar
Saturday, Nov. 22 (today) ~
2 00 pm —Grant Heilman’s op- -
en house at Studio, in Lititz
Monday, Nov. 24
24 25 —Forage and Seed Confei-
ence, Cocoa Inn, Heishey
7.30 pm Lancaster Covmty
FPA Chaptei meets,
peter-Slrasbuig High School
800 pm DHIA Dneftois
meet. Farm and Home Cen-
m f 1 ’ m „
Tuesday Nov 2o '
2o26—lnterstate Milk Producers
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last week at the State 4-H Horse Show in
Harr>sburg.
mings; Hunter Seat Equestrian,
Sr, Div, over jumps, 3rd, Can
dace Groff; Open Trail, 2nd, Shir
ley Craig, County Team, 2nd,
Roxanne Jones, Lisa Wendel,
James Watts.
Several other county horse
club members also competed in
the state contest and received
paiticipation ribbons They were
Nancy Henkel, Gail Chem, Bob
Moms, Cathy Remholds, Randy
Glick, and Denise Shaub
Riders and their horses, all
winners in county and district
eliminations, weie entered in 25
different classes with members
from each district in the Com
monwealth competing Approxi
mately 375 contestants from
most counties vied for awards.
Associate County Agent Jay
W. Irwin said classes in the state
contest gave members an oppor
tunity to display their skills in
horsemanship and their ability
to groom a horse for showing
He lepoits the primaiy pui
poses of the Stats 4-H Hoise pio
gram are to develop ixding skills,
gam self-confidence by compet
ing in shows, leceive training in
leadership and citizenship, and
leaxn the meaning of responsi
bility by eaiing for an animal
Classes at the state show weie
Milk Referendum Information
Aired At Extension Meeting
“Milk dealeis don’t have anj-
mourn esponsibihty to keep fann-
ers in business than the farmei
does to keep cattle dealeis and
feed companies in business long-
er tnan they aie needed.” said
William L Roberts, Atlantic
Dairy Association
Speaking to a group of dauy
men Tuesday afternoon at the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1969
designed to give the young horse
men an opportunity to perform
in practically every type of rid
ing which is popular today.
The junior event was part of
the Pennsylvania Livestock Ex
position, held last week at the
State Farm Show Building. The
state show climaxes the year for
moie than 5,000 Commonwealth
4-H members eni oiled m horse
project work
Two Day Symposium
Set For Poultrymen
The third meeting in a series
of three poultry symposiums was
announced this week by Jay Ir
win, Associate County Agent, to
be held at the 'Farm and Home
Center Decenter 9 and 10 The
first day will be spent in discus
sion of topics on poultry waste
problems and the second day
vail feature a tour of Dr. Glenn
Biessler’s sloping wire floor poul
try house and the FAM Corpoia
tion composting plant at Alto
ona
Irwin said the goal of the
meeting is to contubule to the
concept of converting poultiy
waste into something usable,
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fust of four meetings to provide
nifoimation on the Pennsjivama
Ml jk Marketing Development
Piogram soon to be vot<*d upon
by produ cers, Roberts said soft
dnn ks. dea lei diveisifications.
and consumei ideas
about diets and cholesteiol 3ie
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“Why Don’t They Listen”
Is Dean O’Brien’s Topic
“Most of us start at the con
clusion and hunt facts to make i
it seem logical,” said Dr Haiold
J O’Brien, Associate Dean of
Liberal Arts at Penn State Uni
versity
Speaking to the Agriculture ;
Industry Banquet Wednesday ■
night at the Farm and Home 1
Center, Dean O’Brien gave rea- I
sons why we often fail to com- 1
municate with other peopile (
“We would think that if we gave
facts, we would communicate,” i
he said, “but it doesn’t work
Don’t rely on giving a person the
facts, and be sure he will take
appropriate action. You must ap
peal to the inner person to moti
vate him.”
Under the speech title of ,
“Why Don’t They Listen’” Dr.
O’Brien said language is a very
unreliable means of communica
tion. “Words don’t mean, people
mean,” he quoted. “We should
not hold people to their word.
We should ask what did he
mean~when he said the words.”
“I like family and work groups
Wilmer Groff
Groff Wins
FFA Contest
A Manheim Central High
School FFA student won first
place in the area quiz contest
Wednesday afternoon at the Eas
tern York County High School
in Wughtsville
Wilmer Groff, 16 yeai-old son
of Mr. and Mis Allen Gioff,
Manheim, topped all contestants
from Lancaster, Yoik, and Dau
phin Counties in answering ques
tions taken fiom the FFA Man
uel and Handbook Gioff is a
jumoi at the school
Second place went to Daniel
Melhorn, Eastein High School
and third place was won by Da\e
Heckeit, Dover High School
Both aie Yoik County schools
The contest was hold at the
Twenty-fifth Annual Aiea Lead
eiship Tiaining Confeience
wheie local chaptei officers were
instiucted in ways to improve
their abilities About 200 stu
dents, teachers and guests at
tended
$2.00 Per Year
where there is a lot of talk,” he
continued “When we don’t let
people talk, we polarize all the
negative thoughts against what
we want their action to be."
In the welcome from the busi
ness community, Donald B. Ho
stetler, President of the Lancas
ter Chamber of Commerce said,
the combined impact of Agricul
ture and business in Lancaster
County is the life blood of the
community. Showing that Lan
caster Co. is used by many oth
ers as an example of excellence,
Hostetler quoted the commercial
that uses the Pennsylvania Dutch
theme and says, “Get to know
what good is.”
Melvin Stoizfus, Dairy Fanner
on the Extension Board of Di
rectors, spoke for the Ag Com
munity. No nation has become
strong until it developed a strong
agriculture,” he said. “The farm
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Inter-State
Sets Ahriual
Meet Nov. 25-26
■Local dairy farmers, who are
members of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative, will
send delegates to represent them
at their annual meeting at the
Benjamin Franklin Hotel, 9th &
Chestnut Streets, Phila., Pa.,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov
ember 25 and 26
The program keyed to dairy
farmers and their problems will
feature Richard E Lyng, Assis
tant Secietaiy United States De
partment of Agriculture, who
will speak on “USDA’s Team
Program ” Assistant Secretary
Lyng brings national experience
in agncultuie He is US. Assis
tant Secretary of Agriculture
and is responsible for Consumer
& Marketing Service area of US
DA activities and was Director
of California’s Department of
Agriculture
The Inter-State Milk Produc
ers’ Cooperative, with its home
office in Philadelphia, has some
3 300 dairy farmer members in
24 districts m Delaware, Mary
land, New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania These distncts, in turn,
are divided into 79 locals, whose
119 delegates will vote on reso
lutions and new business at Wed
nesday’s session
The session on Tuesday, No
vembei 25, will be devoted to
lepoils by Wilbui Seipt, presi
dent, Di James E Honan, gen
cial inamgei, Di Paul E Hand,
sscietary & asst treasurer; Flor
ence Schultz, tieasuiei, Golden
W Davis, management assistant;
Donald Copeland, counsel, Wat
son Buckman, duector of trans
portation, and Boyd C Gartley,
director of member and public
relations
In addition to the address by
Ass’t Secretary Lyng at the ban
quet, Tuesday evening, before
approximately 700 members and
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