VOL. 15 NO. 15
Jay Irwin, associate county agent, points out video tape
which wiil be used by Channel 8 TV in a new 10-week educa
tional program for 4-H youth.
10,000 County Youth
Hoped for TV Series
About 3,000 young people in
the county have already signed
up for a new 10-week 4-H edu-
cationa) TV program on how to
Farm Calendar
Saturday, March 7
1.30 pm—Faim Women Socie
ty 4fl Home of Mis John
New comei
Monday, Maich 9
730 p m Aiyshne, Jeisey,
Brown Swiss 4-H Dany
■Ciiio leoigamzation meet
uit Faim and Home Cen
4er
8 00 p m —Lancastei County 4-
H it-deis council, Faim &
nor.e Centei.
Tuesday, March 10
930 ato -3 00 p m Lancas
ter County Dany Day,
Farm & Home Centei
1:00 pm Lancastei County
Swire Produceis Associa
tion Carcass Show, Stock
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repsond to disaster situations,
according to Jay W Irwin, asso
ciate county agent
Irwin said the goal is 10,000
paiticipants in the 4-H TV Ac
tion Club Club members re
ceive a membeiship ceitificate
and pin
The extension sei vice is woi Ic
ing thiough Lancaster County
Schools on the program liwm
said many school officials in the
county aie quite enthusiastic
about the piogiam
The half-hom films will uin
on Channel 8 each Satin dav at
12 30 foi 10 weeks beginning
Maich 21
The 4-H TV Action Club
membeis will have a booklet in
which to follow the TV pio
giam The film will covei van
ous types of emeigencies and
how to be piepaied foi them
Included will be tornadoes,
eaithquakes, floods, falls acci
dents in the home, hies, and
heat
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 7,1970
Local Group To Hear
Talk From California
Lancastei Countj egg pioduc
ms will have a unique oppoitun
itj to talk pci son-to person with
a poultij expei I in California in
a special piogiam at Bpm Mai
17 at the Faun and Home Cen
tei
Donald Bell countv agent of
Ravei side Countv, Calif, the hu
gest poultiy countj in the Unit
ed States, will give a tele lectin e
from his office in California
Local officials will initiate the
lectuie by calling Bell bj phone
fiom the Faim and Home Cen
tal The phone will be connected
to the cental’s public addiess
system, so that Bell can talk di
rectly to his audience, and even
hear and answer questions fiom
the floor.
Jay liwm, Associate Lancastei
County agent, said slides will be
shown locally to synchronize
with Bell’s talk on “Forced
MouTing of Chickens ” The over
all effect should be about the
same as if Bell were physically
piesent, liwm said
liwm said it’s hoped the ex
pei iment with long-distance com
munications will prove success
ful and that at can be used ex
tensively in the'futiue
If successful, he said it could
be a means of saving both time
Dairy Meeting
Slated Friday
The Pennsylvania Dairymen’s
Institute will be held at 12 30
p m Friday, March 13 at the
Farm and Home Centei, Lancas
ter
The institute is sponsoied by
the Pennsylvania Holstein Asso
ciation and the Pennsylvania
Young Farmers Association
Speakers aie John W McKit
nck of Columbus, Ohio, and
Fiancis R Wempe of Lawrence,
Kansas.
McKitnck is an approved
judge for all breeds of dany cat
tle and has officiated at over 200
shows in the past six years For
the past seven yeais, has author
ed the “Heidsman’s Diaiy,” a
regulai featiue in Hoard’s Dauy
man magazine
The Wempe held of Kanawaka
Holstein ranks among the best
in the nation and his heid tanks
highest in Kansas on pioduction
I,i 1955 he leceived the bankeis
awaid foi Soil Conseivation
Piactices and in 1961 the Kan
sas DHIA. efficient Pioduction
Awaid
4-H Rescheduled
The legulai meeting of the
Lancastei County 4H Leadeis
Council has been postponed un
til 8 p m Monday, Maich 9, at
the county extension office in
the Faim and Home Centei.
The meeting was scheduled for
the first Thuisday, March 5.
and monej foi both the speakei
and the sponsoung oigamzation
This would make it possible to
utilize a much bioader lange ot
talent in attempting to give local
gioups the best and most up-to
date information on a wide lange
ot subjects
liwm tenned it “ a means of ,
bi inging a specialist without hav
ing him physically piesent” and
he added, “We hope we can use
this moie We hope it will be ;
pai t of oui educational tools ”
Bell’s tele-lecture will be spon- ;
soied by the extension seivice m ;
coopeiation with the Lancastei
County Poultiy Assn
Bell is iccognized as a “lead-
Dairy Day Set
For March 10
The annual Lancaster County
Dairy Day has been scheduled
fi om 9 30 a m to 3 p m Tuesday,
March 10 at the Faim and Home
Center
Milk pioduction, dany farm
management, mastitis, milk mar
keting, breeding pioblems and
dany ventilation aie among top
ics scheduled for the meeting,
accoiding to Victor E Plastow,
associate county agent and Dairy
Day chairman
Plastow said about 400 dairy
men and exhibitors aie expected
foi the day About 12 to 15 ex
hibits aie planned
Dairy Day is conducted by the
Lancastei County Agricultural
Weaver Establishes
Poultry Scholarship
Victor F Weaver, Inc, New
Holland, has announced an an
nual $4OO Future Farmers of
America Scholarship to the out
standing FFA student in the
poultry field The announce
ment was made Febiuary 27. in
conjunction with FFA week
Company officials, in an
nouncing the Scholarship, stated
that its pm pose “is to stimulate
a continuing mtei est and in
volvement in the poultiy in
dustry, as an impoitant seg
ment of the food needs of the
woi Id ”
A recipient of the “Poultiy
Man of the Year Awaid” who
is an undergi aduate 01 a semoi
not planning to pursue a col
lege career would be awarded
a $2OO cash prize
Earl Groff, repi esenting
Weaver, outlined the mles foi
the new scholarship to county
52.00 Per Year
mg expei t on forced moulting,”
Invm said Foiced moulting is
used as a means of letammg ex
isting laying flocks foi a longer
period of about six to 12 months.
Foiced moulting is a means of
timing the moulting, for instance
to take advantage of maiket
conditions
Also at the Maich 17 meeting
will be Dr Floyd Hicks, poultry
specialist, and Keimit Birth,
poultiy marketing specialist,
both of Penn State. They will
piesent information on forced
moulting of Pennsylvania flocks.
Dr Hicks also will speak on
ventilation of poultiy houses.
Extension Seivice in cooperation
with the Milk Distubutois, Milk
Maiketing Cooperatnes, and
Dany Bleed Association in the
aiea
A SI 25 lunch will be available
dining the lunch bleak from,
11 50 a m to 1 30 p m
The morning schedule includ
es 9 30, a milk pi oduetion film,
courtesy of the Atlantic Dairy
Association, 10, “Dairy Faim
Management,” Dr Samuel Dum,
Penn State farm management
specialist, 10 40, “Mastitis Pro
gi am and Relationship to Quality
Milk,” Dr B P Anderson, Perry
County vetennanan, 11 20, ‘^VlilJi?
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vo-ag teachers a their meeting
this week at Lampeter-Stras
burg High School The teachers
voted to make May 7 the dead
line foi submission of applica
tions for the scholarship this
year
Some teacheis questioned the
lelatively low weight the scho
laiship idles put on actual
poultiy owneiship in relation to
an essay on poultiy and atten
dance of meetings on poultry
But Gioff explained that the
company feels any-FFA student
interested in becoming know
ledgable about the poultry busi
ness should have an opportunity
to win.
Weaver is one of the largest
and most modem poultry and
egg processing plants in Penn
sylvania, processing over 65.000
broilers and 65,000 dozen eggs
daily.