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VOL. 16 NO. 19
Farm Calendar
Saturday, April 3
9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Grange Re
gional Youth Conference,
North Coventry Grange
Hall, Cedarville, Chester
County.
4 - 8 p m Fulton Grange an
nual turkey supper, Grange
Kali, Oakryn.
Monday, April 5
7:30 pm. Lancaster County
4-H County Council, Farm
and Home Center.
Bpm Lancaster County
Poultry Association board
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Junior Grange roller skating
party, the Buck.'
Tuesday, April 6
8 a.m. - 8:30 pm. Lancaster-
County Guernsey Breed
ers’ Tour.
Pennsylvania Farmers Associa
tion board meeting, Farm
and Home Center,
Poultry Sales aim Con
feremce,' Keller-. Building,
Penn State, April 6-7.
Wednesday, April 7
7:30 pm. Soil and Water
Conservation District meet
ing, Farm and Home Cen
ter.
8 p.m Red Rose 4-H Baby
Beef and Lamb Club, Farm
and Home Center.
Thursday, April 8
8 a m - 9 p.m Lancaster
County Holstein Associa
tion tour; buses leave from
Garden Spot FFA Chapter Has Annual Parent-Son Banquet
The Garden Spot FFA Chap
ter held its Annual Parent-Son
Banquet at Lampeter-Strasburg
High School Thursday night
The Chapter Star Farmer
award was presented to Jerry
-Diller, 2112 South View Road,
Lancaster.
Diller’s farm program con
- sists of five dairy calves and
five veal calves.
The Chapter Star Greenhand
award was presented to Rick
Hess, Strasburg RDI, whose
farm progiam centers around
dairy cattle
The Chapter Star Red Rose
Farmer award went to Don
Breneman, Strasburg RDI,
whose farm program include)
dairy cattle, heifers and com
He is chapter vice piesident
The meeting was conducted
by Clair Witwei, 617 Strasburg
Pike, Lancaster, who is chapter
president.
George Myers, principal ol
Martin Mylin Junior High
School, received special recog
nition for his service to the
chapter.
Jerry Diller also was recog
nized for his membership in the
State FFA band.
The program for the evening
included showing of slides of
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Guernsey Breeders Teur Set Tuesday
Lancaster County Guernsey
Breeders tour will be held
Tuesday (April 6) in the north
central area of Pennsylvania.
Leaving Willow Valley at 8
am, the group will pick up
passengers at Stauffer’s market
at Kissel Hill at 8 30, have a
rest stop at 10 and arrive at the
Robert Book farm in Millville
at 11-30 a m The Book farm is
the home of a great Bonn cow
with 22,000 pounds of milk and
the farm has several other ex
cellent cows.
At 12-15 pm, the group will
stop at the Christ Wolff Jr.
farm at Millville. This modern
jugging operation has a unique
milk' tank and transport sys
tem. Tractor powered scoop is
used to clean gutters and there
is a new addition to the barn
with cemented in mats. There
are plenty of Master Chief
daughters to -see.
The group will eat a packed
lunch at the Wolff farm, with
-Mr. Wolff providing milk and
coffee. *“ . '' .' -
Lancaster Shopping Cen
ter.
Friday, April 9
Good Fuday.
Last day to sign up for U S
Corn and Feed Grain pro
gram, ASCS office, Farm
and Home Center
Bpm Lancaster County Hol
stein Directors meeting,
Farm and Home Center
Clair Witwer, left, Garden Spot FFA Chapter pre-
sident, congratulates Jerry Diller, who was recognized
at the Chapter’s Annual Parent-Son Banquet Thursday
night for receiving the Chapter Star Farmer Award and
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 3,1971
At 1 45 pm, the group will
tour Girton Manufacturing
Company at Millville, the home
of the Girton bulk tanks.
At 3 30 pm, the gioup will
visit Wyno Farms at Muncy,
managed by Lee Yost The
home of Wyno’s Saints Hugo,
the farm uses an Agway fiee
stall set up with flat parlor and
grates.
Dinner will be had at Dutch
New Pork Belly Futures Contrutt Opens
2 Hew Markets
Begin Weekly
Lancaster Farming this in
troduces two new cattle mar
kets, the Omaha Cattle mar
ket and the Oklahoma City
Feeder auction, in our mar
ket section on pages 2 and 3.
As long as the Chicago
-Cattle market remains open,-
we wiir also "continue to run
it. .The two new markets, in
addition to our local mar
kets, reflect our desire to
maintain a representative
coverage of U S cattle mar
kets before and after the
scheduled closing of the Chi
cago market later this year.
We will evaluate the mar
ket situation as it changes in
relation to the Chicago mar
ket in a continuing effort to
provide representative and
timely market coverage.
Pantry near Selmsgrove at 6
p m. and the group will arrive
back- in Lancaster County at
about 8.30 p m
Cost of the trip is $4 75 per
person To make resei vations,
contact one of the following
committee members no later
than Monday (April 5) Ken
neth Garber, 464-2894, Larry
Breneman, 786-7667, or Ralph
Bitier, 548-2803
On April 5, pork belly futures
contracts will be opened for
trading in the pit of the Minnea
polis Grain Exchange at 4th
Avenue South and 4th Street,
announced Frank H Murnn,
President of the Board.
Trading will be in the brand
new “Minneapolis Mini” fu
tures contract for 18,000 pounds
of frozen pork bellies.
The Minneapolis Grain Ex
change has traded grain com
modities exclusively since its
founding in 1881. It has grown
to a high annual dollar volume
of $5OO million a year, reports
H H Tearse Jr, President of
Searle Gram Co, who is Chair
man of Public Relations for the
Exchange
The Exchange anticipates
an active tracTe in pork bellies
among the vast body of pio
ducers, processois, storage
firms and investors in the sur
rounding area
The region’s large number of
producers assures an ample
supply of bellies with Mmne
being a member of the State FFA Band. Also present
are Don Breneman, second from right, Chapter Star
Red Rose Farmer, and Rick Hess, right, Star Green
hand.
$2.00 Per Year
Enrollment Deadline
Farmers were reminded
this week that next Friday
(April 9) is the last day for
enrollment in the 1971 wheat
and feed gram programs
So far, some 327 farms rep
resenting the base acreage of
6,211 have enrolled in the
feed grain program and 379
faims with an allotment of
1,421 acres have signed up
for the wheat program
sota and lowa being two of tke
top three hog producing states
in the nation There are also
many processors and storage
firms who take the bellies and
freeze them until they are need
ed for bacon. These industries
use pork belly futures as a
hedge when they buy or sell fu
tures contracts as a protection
against price fluctuation.
For investors, pork bellies en
large the opportunity to buy
and sell futures contracts as
their judgement dictates. The
investment function aids the
total marketing process by in
creasing the scope and activity
of the market and improving its
liquidity
Peter Kitten, head of the
Midwest’s largest exclusive com
modity brokerage firm, sees
pork bellies as a step toward
stronger growth in the chang
ing trade patterns which face
the Exchange Kitten antici
pates trade to be heavy and
fast, especially for the “Minnea
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