SECOND SECTION
71 Farm Show Premiums
To Be Record $73,073
The 1971 Pennsylvania Farm tion Dairy cattle premiums to
Show to be held in Harrisburg tal $20,850, beef cattle $14,430,
January 11-15 will offer a record poultry $8,119, sheep $5,703,
high of $73,073 in premiums. horses $4,225 and swine $3,633
Premiums for crops: fruit $2,-
The highest premiums will vege tables, $1,435, apiary
be awarded in animal competi- pro ’ duct * $1>323 ; $658, ma-
pie products $573, corn $565,
P— P_* edible nuts $462, tobacco $312,
■ €»• K/diry nepon wool $296, small grains $282.
Christmas trees $262 and pota-
Miik production per cow for toes $219.
the first nine' months of 1970 Premiums for contests home
has averaged from 3 to 35’ economics $3,084, school demon
pounds above the same period strations $1,040, school exhibits
last year' in Pennsylvania, ae- $9lO, horse pulling $BOO, folk
cording to the State Crop Re- dance $750, tractor driving $l6O,
porting Service. potato grading $lOB, good
• This year’s growing season housekeeping $lOO, and sheep
was nearly ideal throughout blocking and grooming $25.
most of the state. Dairymen are Premiums for miscellaneous
going into the winter With good- exhibits: eggs $651, dressed tur
feed supplies keys $lBO and entomology $6B
Pastures held up well through- Horace L. Mann, Farm Show
out the season and the amount director, said doors will open
of roughage obtained was above a * 8-a.xn. during the week of the
xuos* recent years ' show and will close at 9 p.m
-The total number of cows Monday though Thursday and'
milked by commercial dairymen * p m ; Fnc * ay ; C } os 1 1 ?® '
(10 of more- cows )„ continued to * or evenmg events held in the
decline ' - large arena is determined by
The ‘ milk price continued JJ® time necessary to complete
strong ' Preliminary estimates the events.
- for the first .eight .months this' Mamvtermed the show an-
Scents
per hundredweight-above a year said that there aie 218
earlier, the Crop Reporting Ser- commercial exhibits eight by
vice said state agencies, and 11 church
! and agricultural association
food booths.
m * Mann said that about 50 co'm
jUfiCial KmltlinCl memal exhibitors are on a wait
■ * B %f ing list because of lack ot space
Cbimiaw DlanmaJ The governor’s tour of the
survey ■ IcHIIICCI facility has been set for Sunday
afternoon, Jan 10
A special smvey will be made
early in January to determine
the 1971 spring planting inten
tions of Pennsylvania farmeis,
the State Agncultuie Depart
ment announced recently.
Questionnaires will be mailed
to about 7,000 farmers request
ing information about acreage
to be used for major crops, ac
cording to W J. Fluke, statisti
cian in charge of the Pennsyl
vania Crop Reporting Service.
Pennsylvania is one of 35
states in which the survey will
be conducted among about 275,-
000 farmers by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Crop Re
porting Service. The purpose,
Fluke said, is to determine the
acreage to be planted to corn,
spring wheat, oats, barley,
sorghum, soybeans and cotton.
Of these, only corn, oats and
soybeans are spring planted in
Pennsylvania. _
A report oh acreage intentions,'
based on this survey, will be
issued January 25, 1971, Fluke
said. It will be followed by the
annual planting intentions re*
port issued regularly in March
by the State - Crop Reporting
Service, Fluke added.
. The January appraisal, he ex
plained, is intended to help
farmers get an early season
view of prospective acreages in
relation to new faim legislation
It also will provide USDA pro
gram planneis with an early
acreage outlook
Fluke urged farmers who re
ceive questionnanes to indicate
their cun ent. planting inten
tions, recognizing that later fac
tors may bring about a change
in plans.
Indian Run Watershed Association Planned
A wateished association is
being formed for the Indian
Run north of Ephrata, Aaron
Stauffer, president of the Lan
caster County Soil and Water
Conservation District, said this
week
The Ephrata Jaycees are
planning to start the water
shed association and the forma
tion of the association will have
the assistance of the Pennsyl
vania Soil and Water Conserva
tion Commission, Stauffer said
Indian Run, which starts at
Indian Lake north of Schoeneck
and flows into the Cocalico at
Ephrata, drains 2,150 acres or
about 3.4 square miles of land
almost directly north of Eph
rata.
Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation District is
Editor Voted NFEA V-P
Zane Wilson, managing edi
tor of Lancaster Farming, has
been elected vice president,
Eastern Division, of the News
paper Farm Editors of Ameri
ca (NFEA) at the organization’s
recent meeting in Chicago
S Archie Holdndge. farm
editor, The Haitford Courant,
Hartford, Conn, was elected
president of NFEA to succeed
Don Muhm of the Des Moines
Register and Tribune.
The NFEA has three divi
sions in addition to the East
Midwest, Southeast, and South
and West.
Poultry Federation Plans Banquet
The Pennsylvania Poultxy the Pennsylvania Poultiy Fed- William R Myer is again serv-
Federation is completing plans eration office at 3807 Paxton mg as chairman of the Farm
for the Farm Show activities, Street, Harnsbuig, Penna Show food booth The food
which will be held January 17111 booth will be operated on the
11 thiough January 15, 1971. main floor of the Farm Show
Highlighting the week’s acti- building In order to meet the
vities will be the annual banquet Dairy Conference Sef demand for the “Flavor-Crisp
slated to begin at 6’30 p m fried chicken” three large pres-
Wednesday, January 13, in the “The Challenge of Progress” sure cookers will be installed
beautiful new ballroom of the has been chosen as the theme and will be in operation for the
Penn Harris Motor Inn located for the 1971 Southeastern Dairy five day period
n _p a ” 1 P 1 Conference On Wednesday, January 13,
Frederick Slezak, President xhc Southeastein Dairy Con Dr. Robert F. Gentry, Poultry
of the Pennsylvania Poultry ference, an annual event held at Disease Researchei, Pennsyl-
Federation has appointed Earl the Guernsey Bleeders Barn vania State University, will ad>
L Hess, Ephrata, as chairman on highway 30 east of Lancaster, dress an educational meeting,
of the annual banquet i s sponsored jointly by Allis which will be held m Room 305
The guest lecturer at the ban- Chalmers, Curtiss Bleeding Ser in the Department of Agricul
quet will be Dr Heartsill Wil- vlce j o hn w Eshelman & Sons ture Building on South Camer
son, Denver, Col, who was re- an( j Xew Holland Supply Com- on Street, directly across the
cently designated as ‘Best in pany street from the Farm Show
America in the fields of In- February 9, 1971 has been building
dustnal Psychology and Human chosen as the date foi this 6th Dr Gentry will discuss the
Motivation - Annual Conference Wally Lind production and use of Marek’s
Dr. Wilson is the recipient of
the Gold Laurel award of the
Master Speakers Guild His sub
ject for his address is “The
World of the Uncommon Man”.
Tickets for the banquet can
be ordered from any of the
committee members or from
Brand Egg Program 'Gains Momentum'
Interest in a state-wide brand Hess said the Association now be tested as a preliminary step
egg program “has gamed con- is in the process of developing toward an overall brand pro
siderable momentum, in the some “point of sale material.” gram.
past few days,” according to This material includes price Sam Berenson stated that
Earl Hess, president of Hess tags and shelf display material when a brand egg program Is
Bros. Farms, Inc, Ephrata. for actual use in a pilot pro- adopted it should be registered
Hess said he has received a gram. This will be finalized at for protection. He also stated
dozen or more inquiries from next month’s meeting, he said, that the marketing program on
feed dealers, maiketers and egg At Friday’s meeting Hess re- the brand egg should be on a
P’Oduceis “They have express ported that several states have Lanchise basis in order to
ed concern about the need for been contacted to obtain inf or- establish a tiue sale value.
it,” he said mation about their brand egg In other discussion Kermifc
Hess made the remarks this progiam, but response so far Birth reminded members that
week following a meeting last has not been satisfactory, he egg pickup for the Farm Show
Friday of the Pennsylvania Egg said _was set for early this week. He
Marketing" Association Hess is Fred Pohtz discussed reports also reported that' the “ 1971
helping to lay the ground work of average egg selling prices Farm Show will feature a
foi a biand egg program undei and said the egg industry must pyramid with new designs and
which eggs for a large numbei maintain good marketing prac- a story of the industry’s interest
of producers are promoted under ikes He stated that it is profit- in ecology
one bi and name The egg able to get eggs into cartons and President Frank Troester ap
marketing association has foim- establish a brand that'will be pointed two committees as foi
ed committees and has been tak- recognized and cannot be lows - nominating, Ben Burk
ing the pieluninary steps lead- broken down by competition holder, Ray Sauder, and Russel
mg to a brand egg program for Mel Mitchell said the individ- Knoir, auditing, Tom Smith and
many months ual brand egg programs should John Wenger
planning a watershed meeting While the state doesn’t have gives the district a chance to
in the vo-ag rooms in Ephrata to agree with the district’s study the plans in advance be
and New Holland sometime this recommendations, the state has fore a public hearing, Stauffer
winter Primarily centered agreed to considei them This explained.
around Indian Run, the meet- Orval Bass, district consent
mgs would be designed to get .. , . tionist, is now reviewing pop
both farmers and developeis to Merck Announces Plans tions of the new route 23 and
sign up and help clean up In- For Morek's Vaccine 222 in Lancaster County.
dian Run, Stauffer said.
The basic reason for forming Woild-wide rights outside the
the Association, he said, is to United States to a vaccine
curb siltation in Indian Run against Marek’s disease in
The effort would be aimed at chickens, based on the “Bur
all silt producers in the water- naester strain” of turkey herpes
shed, including new develop- virus > have been assigned to
ments and farms, as well as new Merck & Co , Inc by Drs Ben
highway constiuction. Farms Burmester, William Okazaki,
are still the number one silt M Graham Purchase, and Rich
producer, Stauffer noted. ar d L. Witter, owners of the
The Association also would be foreign rights to the invention,
aimed at “any pollution which Merck earlier had announced
may be involved.” that it is preparing to produce
the vaccine for marketing in the
United States and abroad early
Highway Review
Stauffer also said the district in 1971 under the trademark
is in the process of reviewing ‘Deptavac HVT.
all new highway construction in Prior to US. marketing, a
Lancaster County. This includes license must be received from
any relocation and building of the U S Department of Agncul
bridges ture
The new review, which start- According to the company the with good weather next year,
ed a few months ago, is the re- limited amounts of vaccine that The Amos program centers
suit of the new memorandum of will be initially available after around wooden figures of a
understanding with the Penn- USDA licensing can be expected farmer standing at the entrance
sylvama Department of Trans- to increase rapidly throughout of a farm with a list of the good
nortation Under the am-ee- the year as full pioduction is conservation practices which
ment, the District is to review reached are being used on the particu
all drawings in icgard to the The company hopes ultimatelj l ar farm The program is in
effect on the ecology of high- to make “Deptavac HVT’ avail tended to publicize conserva
way work in the County. This able in more than 30, countries, tion work which farmers aro
includes a study of drainag'e, where' there' are substantial pouF" doing and to create an
erosion and preservation of try and egg producing opera awareness of the ne&d for con
land, he said. tions. . servation.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 19,1970 —17
skoog of Arlinda Holstein Farm Vaccine. Marek’s Vaccine is be
m Turlock, California will be ing produced by the new Penn
the Keynote Speaker Bio Laboratories, which are
Lindskoog achieved the recoid located in State College. Re
of having the high herd search indicates that mortality
nationally for milk and fat in from Marek’s can almost fe*
the ovei 100 cow category, with eliminated by proper vaccina
a herd average of 20,000 plus tion
Junior Directors’ Role
In reporting on the Districts
recent meeting Stauffer said a
decision has been made to give
the junior directors a “more ex
tensive role”. The District is in
the process of devising means
of getting the young members
more involved, he said.
“We’re hoping to get them to
organize youth groups, clean up
streams and work on the Amos
programs,” he said, in explain*
ing the types of programs in
which the young members can
be helpful.
In the Amos program, for in>
stance, the youth’s are helping
make the Amoses and will help
erect them. The Amos program
is expected to get underway