VOL. 16 NO. 26
We Salute Dairying June 5
Dairying is approximately a $4O million a year
business in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’s most
productive agricultural county. Dairying is also im
portant in neighboring counties.
Lancaster Farming will recognize the area’s
dynamic dairy industry in its June 5 Special Dairy-
Issue.
Lancaster Farming extends a special invita
tion to dairy groups and organizations, as well as in
dividuals, to submit articles and news on dairying
for the Dairy Issue.
Advertisers are invited to make their own ap
peal to a large segment of the Southeastern Pennsyl
vania dairy market.
To be sure to make the Dairy Issue, please
submit all material by Wednesday, June 2.
Call us at 394-3047 or 626-2191 (ask for Lan
caster Farming). Or write to Lancaster Farming,
P. O. Box 266, Lititz, Pa. 17543.
Pa. Poultry Federation Annual Meeting
Will Feature 'Economics and Ecology'
“Economics and Ecology” is
the. theme for the 1971 annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania
Poultry-Federation. The meeting’
willbq held at the Sheraton Har
risburg Inn, a new motor inn lo
cated-seven miles southwest of
Harrisburg on Route 83.
Dr. Jonathan Tobey, first vice
president, Chase Manhattan
Bank, New York City, will ad
dress the opening session on
Factors Affecting the
Pennsylvania Poultry Industry ”
Doctor Tobey is a graduate of
the University of Rhode Island
and received his doctorate from
National Sheep Referendum Set
A nationwide referendum will
be held for sheep produceis to
decide whether the sheep indus
try should continue a promo
tional program for its products
The referendum, to be con
ducted by mail ballot June 7 to
18, has been called by U S
Agriculture Secretary Clifford
Hardin.
In similar referendums in
1955, 1959, 1962, and 1966,
Sheepmen gave overwhelming
approval of the promotion pro
gram. All sheep producers and
feeders are eligible to vote in
the referendum if they own
sheep or lambs which are six
months of age or older for any
one of at least 30 days since Jan
uary 1, 1971.
WMte sheep are not consider
ed one cf the major farm pro
ducts in Southeastern Pennsyl
vania, many farmers keep some
sheep and some farmers special
ize in sheep production. Lan
caster -County ranks third in the
state in sheep production with
nearly 5,600 sheep and Penn
sylvania >s 25th among the
states in sheep production.
For approval, the promotional
program for lamb and wool re
quires a “yes” vote by more than
,two-tftirds of the individual pro
ducers vetmg or producers own- j
ing more than two-thirds of the
the University of Cornell He
had majored in marketing Pnor
to joining Chase* '"Manhattan
Bank, he spent several years
with Quaker Oats Company as a
poultry specialist. He also was a
professor of Marketing at Cor
nell with agricultural economic
lesponsibilities in Extension
teaching and research in poultry
and livestock marketing
The two late morning sessions
will be on ‘ Past, Present, and
Future on Egg Pricing” and
“Poultiy Inspection, What It’s
All About.” Mi Herbert Bechei
man of Baltimore and Dr Fied
sheep repiesented by those tot
ing
Sheepmen contribute to the
cost of the piomotion thiough
a deduction fiom then incen
tive payment on wool
During the 1970 market year,
75 Lancaster County faimers le
ceived $9,521 in incentive pay
ments for wool and unshorn
lambs, the local Agncultuial
Stabilization and Conseivation
Service office has announced
The amount deducted for the
piomotion is 1.5 cents for each
pound of shorn wool and 7 5
cents for each 100 pounds of
unshorn lamb. This gives an
equitable distribution of contri
butions from all sheep pro
ducers according to the size of
their operation.
The promotions for lamb and
wool. are conducted in the
major population areas of the
nation," and include joint pro
grams with food processors and
wool manufacturers: a lamb and
wool education piogram; a lamb
and wool publicity program for
newspapers, radio and television,
the Miss Wool of America con
test, and the “Make It Yourself
With' Wool” contest for teenage
home sewing buffs.
The promotions are conducted
ithrough the American Sheep
Producers Council.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 22,1971
Egg Shells to Be Panel Topic
Egg shells and how to get
quality egg shells will be the
topic of an educational meeting
n Lititz June 10
All intei ested poultrymen
have been invited to attend the
session, which will begin with
an open house at R W Sander’s
Egg Processing Plant one-half
mile noith of Lititz on Route
501 from 6 to 730 pm At
Saudei’s, produceis can observe
the handling of eggs from the
time the eggs entei the plant
till they are packaged foi the
consumei
At Bpm three speakers will
seive on a panel to discuss how
to achieve egg shell quality and
avoid breakage problems Panel-
Fullerton of the USD A will han
dle these topics
The ecology session will start
promptly after the luncheon
hour, and the “keynoter” on the
ecology session is Dr C L Hos
ier, Dean of Earth and Mineial
Sciences, Penn State University
He will piesent a slide presenta
tion on “Man’s Impact on His
Environment ”
Following Doctoi Hosier’s
presentation, Dr Howard Zm
dell, Poultry Science Depart
ment, Michigan State, John
Bergdoll, Anderson Box Com
pany, and Richard Chumnej, as
sistant to the New Jersey Secre
tary, of Agnculture, will discuss
various methods of soiling the
poultiy waste pioblem
The annual business session of
the Federation will be a bnef
meeting scheduled foi late after
noon The business session will
include the election of directors
and reorganizations of the board
of duectois President Fred
Slezak will be presiding at these
business sessions
A banquet in the beautiful,
new ballroom of the Sheraton
will conclude the day's activities
The toastmaster for the banquet
will be the Berks County Agri
cultural Agent, James F Halde
man
The Federation will honoi an
outstanding Allied Industryman
and an outstanding Poulrtyman
with special citations. The Poul
tiyman of the Year Award will
be made by last year’s recipient,
Charles Phillips, and the Allied
Industryman of the Year Award
■will be preesnted by George L.
Hauer
Herb Jordan, Penn State Poul
try Specialist, will present Youth
Awards to the outstanding youth
in both FFA and 4-H
He will also present a “Good
Egg Award” to an adult who has
made very outstanding contribu
tions for the poultry industry
among Pennsylvama >outh Fol
lowing the presentation of
awards, an orchestra, the “Mello
Maes,” will play for the dancing
pleasure of those attending.
ists will also answer questions
The panelists and their topics
aie Herb Jordan, Penn State
John Weaver, son or Mr
and Mrs. J. Paul Wea\er,
Ephrata RDI, displays the
trophy he won recently for
winning the annual Lancas
ter County FFA Quiz Contest
at Solanco The Cloister FFA
Chapter member beat out 17
other contestants from lane
county schools.
Sslanco FFA Wins Land Contest
The Lancaster County FFA
Land Use and Management con-
test was held on the farm of
Howard J Miller, Refton Thurs
day afternoon
The top team was Solanco
FFA Chapter and the high scoi
ing individual was Dave Aliment,
also of Solanco There were six
See Editorial Page
Editor’s Note See editori
als, Max Smith column and
Rev. Lawrence W. Althouse
column on Page 20.
This page, which we call
the editorial page, has been
permanently moved to the
fourth page of Section Two
While it has a new location,
the page itself is the same as
before.
It’s easy to find. It’s in the
same location as before, ex
cept it’s in Section Two in
stead of Section One.
The change also allows
some of our markets, parti
cularly the poultry markets,
to be carried on page four.
Markets now’ are on pages
two, three and four.
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poultry specialist, ‘“A Strong
Bud A Strong Shell”, on man
aging the flock for shell quality.
Dr Dwight Schwartz, Penn
Slate poultiy veterinarian, “A
Weak Bird A Weak Shell”,
the impact of disease on shell
quality, and Keimit Birth, Pea*
State poultiy marketing special
ist, ‘ Bump, Bang and Crack'”,
is the problem one of a weak
shell or abuse’
Jay W Irwin, associate Lan
caster County agricultural agent,
noted that egg shell quality and
damage plays an impoitant role
in the producer’s final egg check.
Irwin emphasized that many
factors go into making good
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Farm Calendar
Sunday, May 23
Bpm —Fulton Grange annual
Go-to-Church night.
Monday, May 24
Bpm DHIA quarterly direc
tors meeting, Farm and
Home Center
8 pm—Dairy Pnncess contest
committee meeting. Farm
and Home Center.
Tuesday, May 2S
Bpm —Lancaster County Agri
cultuie and Home Economics
Extension Association, Farm
and Home Center.
Fulton Grange Meeting
Wednesday, May 26
6 30 pm Southeastern Penn
s\ Ivama Feed Nutritionists
meeting, Lancaster Stock
Yaids
Thursday, May 27
Lancaster County Swine Pro
ducers meeting, Farm and
Home Center.
teams fiom Lancaster 'County'
and one from Chestei County and
43 individual contestants.
Other teams in the order of
their placing weie Manheim
Central, second, Cloister of
Ephrata, third, Grassland of
New Holland, fourth, Pequea
Valley, fifth, and Penn Manor,
sixth Oxfoid of Chester County
also participated
Others in the top 10 in indi
vidual competition were: Wil
liam Hershey, Solanco, second;
Joe Lefevei, Manheim Central,
third; William Krantz, Solanco,
fourth; Dave Bitler, So
lanco. fifth; Robert Fite, Solanco,
sixth.
Marlin Smoker, Cloister,
seventh; Memn Groff, Manheim
Central, eighth; Kenneth Click,
Solanco, ninth, and Marlin Beck
ei, Manheim Central, tenth.
The Octorara Watershed Asso
ciation presented the winning
team, a rotating trophy. The So
lanco team advisor was Bill
Fredd, vo-ag teacher
The Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation District pre
sented Aliment a plaque.
Official contest judge was
Oival Bass, district, conserve
tionist