Co. Farmers’ Assn. Gets State Award
The Lancaster County Farm \ania Agtleulumil Coopeiatise Mi and Mis .tames L Mat tin,
ers’ Association won fust place Maikctmg Association) Stiasbuiy 111)1 Mi and Mrs
in a vale progiam and two fusi Kieidoi. .ilon 4 with o'lui William (iuhl Osfoid Mi and
place itgional awaids this week I,,’iie.istei countuns. attended M,s CIuU Wuell. Columbia
at (lit 20th annual muling of the FFA annual meeting in HIM. Mi and Mis .lames (;
the Pennsylvania F.nnuns’Asso- ('amp Hill at the Penn ll.mis Kieidti. Quauwillc HPI. Mi
cialion (PFA). aeeoiding to MOIOI Inn 'lhe awaids wen and Mis .Jesse Wood, Notling
Lancaster County Piesident piesenled to Lamastei County ham. Mi and Mis hin Yost,
James G Kietdei at the annual .maids banipirt Chiisluna. Mis Raymond Lan
Lanc.isiei County leceiud the Tuesdav night dis, (Juaiivville Wilbui Sollen
slatc fiisl place awaid in Faun Those attending fiom Lanc.is beigei, Hobson Road. Lanc.isiei,
jVlan.ui nieiit Business Analysis ter County weu H.nold M.ulin. Mi and Mis Leon Kieidet
(FMB\S), and fust place ic Mt Joy RDI. Mi and Mis \o.lh QitaiiyMllc RDI Wayne All lie 1 .
gional piogiam awaids 111 Wengei. Steceiis Mi and Mis Mount Joy and Rogei Thome.
FMBAS and PACM V (Pcnnsyl- James Gaibei, Mt Joy R!)2 Elizabethtown RD.i
Attending the Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association annual meeting in Camp Hill
at the Penn Harris Motor Inn were, front
row: Mrs. James Garber, Mrs. James L
Martin, Mrs, William Guhl, Mrs. Clyde
Wivell, Mrs. Raymond Landis, Mrs. James
G. Kreider, Mrs. Jesse Wood, Mrs. Jvan
Darius Delbo Retires
Danus H Delbo. 1728 Old
Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster,
special assistant to the ice
ci earn managei at Penn Dames,
Inc. has letired after 40 yeais
of semce
He began his sales caieer in
tne ice cieam depaitment in
1930
Mrs. Johnson Named Farm Woman
By Mrs. Charles McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
The fifty-third annual conven
tion of the Society of Faim Wo
men of Lancaster County was
held Saturday, November 7,
fiom 10 am to 4 am at the
Farm and Home Centei
Mis John N Hess, president,
conducted the business session
from 11 ain to noon and gave
an annual report She oigamzed
Society 31 duung the yeai and
tiaveled ovei 3,000 miles to local
society meetings
In Lancastei County, Faim
Women have a membership of
1026 Vanous officeis and com
mittees lepoited
One ot the outstanding events
of the day was the selection of
the Faim Woman of the Yeai foi
the county Mis Call M (Doio
thy) Johnson, Quauyville RD2,
a membei ol Faim Women
Society 15, was selected
Chosen fiom among 19 local
society wmneis, she will lepie
sent Lancastei County in the
state competition and the wmnei
of the title of “Society of Faim
Women of Pennsylvania State
Faim Woman of the Yeai” will
be announced at the state con
vention Jan 11 at the Foium in
Hai nsbui'g
Yost. Second row: Wilbur Sollenberger,
James L. Martin, William Guhl, James
Garber, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kreider,
James G. Kreider, Jesse Wood, Ivan Yost.
Third row: Wayne Miller, Clyde Wivell
and Roger Thome.
lancaste^fepaririinq
SECOND SECTION
A pie-requisite of the contest judged on the woik done in then
was that they live on a pioductive local society as well as the coun
faim and aie active in commun- tv group Mrs Dons Thomas,
ity and chinch They were county Extension home econo-
Mrs. Carl M. Johnson,
Farm Women “Woman of
Society 15, Quarry ville RD2, is the Lancaster County Society of
the Year.’’
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 14.1970
The Lancaster County Farmers' received the Farm
Member Business Analysis Service (FMBAS) award for the
state at the state comention recently. Presenting the award
is Richard Dennison, left, to new Lancaster County presi
dent James G. Kreider.
Fall
Fruit Meeting
Scheduled Nov. 18
A Fall educational flint meet
ing will be held at Seipstown
Grange Hall and Mohr Oichaids
(west of Allentown. Lehigh
County) Wednesday, Novembet
18 Special anangements are be
ing made by Berks and Lehigh
Counties
The morning progiam at the
Seipstown Giange Hall is as fol
lows 9am —Registration with
Coffee and Donuts, 9 30 am
“Fall Apple Fertilization’’" by
Di C Mai shall Rittei, extension
pomologist; 950 am “Sum
mary of 1970 Insect and Mite
Situation and 1971 Peai Psylla
Conti ol” by Di Robeit Tetrault,
extensmn entomologist 10 15
am “Piepaiation of Equip
ment loi Wmtei Stoiage”, Di
Donald Daum extension agucul
tuial engmeei
10 45 am—“Collai Disoideis
oi Apples on Size-Conti oiling
Rootstocks” by Dr Donald
Peteisen, extension pathologist
mist, Mis Maiy Myers, Pennsyl
vania Powei & Light home econ
omist and Mrs Grace Sofillas,
Intelligencer Journal Woman’s
11 10 am “Quality Packag
ing’’, Tony Ruv.no, sales man
agei Blue Goo c e Groweis, 11 30
a m “Mouse and Deei Control”
by Di C Mai shall Rittei, exten
sion pomologist
Lunch will be at Seipstown
Grange Hall foi a nominal
chaige
The afternoon piogram at
Mohi Orchards is as follows 1
pm “Mouse Control Demon
stration” by Dr C Mai shall Rib*
tei, 130 pm “Pruni»g
Demonstration on All Tree
Fuuts” by Di C Mai shall Rit
tei At appiopnate points, Dr.
Tetiault and Dr Peteisen will
point out the effects of tree
tiammg and pruning on insect
and disease conti ol
Pruning equipment will ba
demonstiated including hydra
ladder pruning platfoim, Hy
aiaulic piuneis and hydraulic
pole saws and top and side
hedgei
Editoi, seived as judges for the
contest
Mis Johnson, the mother of
five man led children, has helped
with then faim work including
the milking of 45 cows and car
ing loi seveial heilers She has
been president of Society 15 for
two yeais It has a membership
o! 47 and laises ovei $l,OOO a
yeai foi chaiitable vvoik Their
society selves lefieshments for
local 4-H meetings at Bait-Cole
-lam Elemental \ School and she
assisted with this wmik
She seived on the county Farm
Women boaid lepiesenting them
this past yeai on the county Com
munity Council She also served
as Sunshine chan man and on the
legislation committee foi the
convention To quote one of her
socielv membeis She never
says anything she just pitches
in and does things ’
She teaches the adult Sunday
School class at Wesley United
Methodist Chmch Mount Hope
Cncmt She is chan man of the
Evangelism committee of her
chinch In the Womens Society
of Chnstian Seivice she teaches
a study class and is Needlework
Secietaiy She is a member of
Rawlinsv ille Camp Auxiliary and
a membei of Lancaster County
Mental Health Association
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