SECOND SECTION
Lancaster ASC Committee
Sets Information Meeting
The Lancaster County ASC the need to plant within the
Committee will hold an mfor- bases and allotments on othei
mational meeting at 730 p m farms.
Tuesday, March 16 at the Pio
duction Credit Association, 411
W. Roseville Road, Lancaster.
The meeting is intended to
describe the new “set-aside pro
gram,” what it means to the
farmer and the part it plays in
assisting agriculture to solve its
marketing problems and im
prove its income.
According to the Lancaster
County ASC committee, the
new 1971 set-aside program is
not restrictive and offers par
ticipants flexibility on what
may be planted and eliminates
County Commissioner To Speak
Or Land Value Reassessment
County Commissioner Ben- A banquet will be held in the
jamm Weaver will discuss land evening at the Penn Hams
reassessment at a meeting at Motor Inn, Camp Hill
the Farm and Home Center at A lt marketlng meetm ,
730 pm Friday night (March o pen to the public was announc
“t . „ „ . ~ ed for the Production Credit
Open to all farm families, the Bmld Lanca ster. at' 30 p m
meeting is sponsored by the March £ 2 . ;he Wll l ex-
Lancaster County Farmers Asso- p]ain the Asso^la t ion ’s “spent
~ , , 'hen” program to encourage or-
Weayer. will also discuss sev- , ar \ eting^o£ layin§ ens
eral other issues pertaining tor - D
farming. ' ' s The summer picnic was an-
The Farmers Association also nounced for 7pm July 16 at
made final plans Association Lampeter Park
representatives will .go to the Plans' were also discussed to
capitol to visit and talk with host the group of young farmers
legislators. from Tennessee July 22
Mrs. Ober, a Town Girl Who Really Mastered Farm Life
Bj Mrs. Charles McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
Mis. Ronald M. (Sandia)
Ober, who lives on Milton Grove
Road not far from the Mount
Joy-Manheim exit of route 283,
is a young farmer’s wife who
grew up in town but loves coun
try life and is a real helpmate
to her husband
Through her husband’s serious
tractor accident a few years ago,
she was suddenly thrust into
the actual work of a dairy farm
er.
Smce that time, she can take
over milking chores and does
in the summer when her hus
band is busy in the fields. She
runs the tractor to work, the
ground in planting season, strips
tobacco in winter and runs er
rands for her husband
Obers rent their 140 acre farm
Warning on Corn Seed
Reports of black market op
erators claiming to have blight
resistant corn seed for sale in
the Midwest Corn Belt bi ought
a warning to fanners fiom
James McHale, Pennsylvania
agriculture secretary
McHale said that so far no
known attempts to market this
seed have been made in the
Keystone State, but they have
shown up in the midwest at
premium prices.
“Buy seed corn of recognized
quality from reliable dealers,”
•he urged. “If you don’t, you
may be buying nothing but
trouble.’ 1
In terms of expanding de
mand in 1971 the U S expects
to use the production of 20 000,
000 acres more than was actual
ly harvested in 1970 This de
mand is now being met by a
draw-down and cany ovei
stocks, and particulaily owned
and financed by the Commo
dity Credit Corporation it was
noted
Participation in the 1971
Wheat and Feed Gram Set-
Aside Programs is available
during the sign-up period from
March 1 until April 9
and 20 additional acres where
they grow about 75 acres of
corn, 10 acres of tobacco and a
lot of hay They intend to cut
their tobacco acreage to six
acres this year and glow more
corn which they will need for
additional cows Not having
much of their own help on the
faim, tobacco isn't too profit
able. They have one man who
helps strip tobacco fom dajs a
week in the winter
They have 38 head of llol
stems, 30 being milking cows,
and are gradually increasing
their held They deliver their
own milk in cans to Mount Joy
Farmeis Cooperative creamery,
which is near their farm
They finish 9 or 10 hogs a
jear and are raising a colt so
they will have a riding horse
This colt “Isiael” was born last
Easter
Obers have been on this farm
two years and pnor to coming
heie were ira a farm between
Marietta and Bainbndge for two
years.
Besides being a busy home
makei, Mrs Ober works pait
time as a waitiess at Hostetteis
Banquet Hall in Mount Joy
Sandra is the daughter of Mi
and Mis. John Updegroff of
Mount Joy.and Ronald is the son
of Mr and Mis Richard Ob'ci
of Lititz They have three young
farmeis coming on Ronald Jr
is seven and is m fust giade at
Elm Tree Elementary School
Michael is four and Ryan Lee is
three
Since Maich 7-13 is Girl Scout
Week, we call attention to the
New 4-H Year Officially Launched
The Lancaster County 4H uewed some of the nmeting the Farm and Home Founda-
Leader Kick Off meeting was dates of the 4 H County Coun- tion m making the Farm and
held at 639 pm Tuesday at the cil The leview included Coun- Home Center possible.
Faim and Home Center
The buffet supper meeting is
an annual event to officially be
gin the new 4-H Club program
year
The featuied speaker was
Prof Samuel Leadley. Penn
State professor of rural socio
logy He spoke on adult leaders
in 4 H work and encouraged in
volving teen leadeis in the pio-
giam
He strongly uiged the con
cept of using oldei 4 H teen
membsis to help tiam youngei
4-H membei s Not only does
this relieve the leadeis of some
of the woik load, it also helps
teach the teens a sense of ips
ponsibility and helps make
them feel needed in the 4H
program, he explained
Some of the programs com
ing up in 1971 were leviewed,
including the 4-H Exchange
Program Under this program,
local 4-H members will be tra
veling to North Carolina this
summer from July 15 to July
23 and Lancaster County 4-H’ers
will be hosting 4-H members
fiom Wisconsin June 25 to July
3.
Miss Joan Lucas, assistant Ex
tension home economist, ic-
The workshop will be known
?s the Northeast Regional Work
shop It is being organized by
the Agnculture Department’s
The annual Lancastei County science and education section in
Soil and Water Conservation Dis- Co °P eratlon i.ational
tiict annual banquet will be held Association oX State Universities
at 630 pm Tuesday, Ivlarch 23 and Land Gldnt Colleges
Conservation Banquet
Is Slated at Blue Bail
at the Blue Ball Fire Hall The woikshop’s mission will
John Rahenkamp, piesident of be t 0 eva luace the effect of cur
the land planning firm of Rahen- lvnt and pl ejected science and
kamp Sach Wells and Associates education programs on specific
ol Philadejphia, will speak on commodities and’problems
“Natural Cnteua and Develop
ment Impact ” The Northeast region includes
Tickets may be obtained from Pennsylvania, Connecticut,
SCD directors or from the Soil Delaware, Maine, Maryland,
Conservation Service office, 1383 Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Arcadia Road New Jersey, New York, Rhode
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' Mrs. Ober displays the tree she made from pine cones
and nuts, a picture made with artificial flowers and fruit
and a papier-mache angel with wings made from a drier. 1
sea weed.
cil play Apul 16 and 17 at Con-
estoga Valley High School, the Irwin also reviewed proce
officer training and new leader dines on organizing the 4-H
orientation meeting Api il 22 dubs for the coming year,
and 4-H Flapjack Day at the Mrs Dons Thomas, Extea-
Farm and Home Centei fiom s } on home economist, covered
7am to 2 p m April 24 [he extended nutrition program
Jay W liwm, associate Lan- which was started recently to
caster County agncultuial help bring nutrition and home
agent, leviewed the pait that 4- management infoimation to
H has played in contiibutions to needy families
Meali Wsuger is Hamsd To U.S.
Ag Dept. isivlrosißiesital Study
Noah Wengei, 26, a Stevens
RDI pcultn o nd stcei farmer,
has been named a legional p'o
giam advisoi of a U S aancul
tuie Depaitnent wo ksV>op to
stud;, envjionmental piofciems
The study wdl dev'Ton ’.ecnm
mendations fci goieirirriVal de
partments at umveisities in a
12 state aiea
The appointment was
announced jointly Wednesday in
Washington by U S Senators
Hugh Scott and Richard Schwei
ker and Congiessman Edwin D
Eshelman
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 6,1971
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Island, Veimont and West Vir-
ginia
Wenger opeiates a 100-acre
poultry and steer farm m West
Cocahco Twp , which had been
operated befoie him by his
fathet, Elam Wengei
Wenger is past president tit
the Lancastei County Fanners
Association
> Noah Wenger
In U.S. Environment Study
fact Sandy grew up in Scouting
and has been active in it ever
since she Was in third grade in
school
She -was selected by Penn
Laurel Council to go to the 1962
International Gal Scout Round
Up held in Vermont Penn
Laurel Council takes in Adams,
Fiankhn, Fulton, Lancaster,
Lebanon and York counties,
Tms was a terrific experience.
There weie 10,000 girls from all
ovei the world in attendance.
It was the custom to trade
souvenus with girls from other
states and countries. Sandy is
still very proud of the straw
hat which is covered with these
mementos and she has many
moie besides the ones on her
hat Industry gave the Penn
Laurel girls things to swap.
This Round Up has been dis
continued because the National
Guaid can’t guaid their en
campment any longer. However,
some 200 girls from Penn Laurel
Council have attended interna
tional events and will hold n
Round Up reunion this year
Penn Lam el Council is having
a big birthday year m 1971. They
aie going to dedicate a new
Girl Scout office in York next
week
Sandia seived as assistant
Scout leader in Elizabethtown,
worKing wnth Juniors, Cadettes
and Seniors
She is now Consultant with
the Junior Troops of the Done
gal Neighborhood. A consul
tant solves problems in the
troops, makes up trips, etc.
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