VOL. 16 NO. 47
Poultry Assn. Holds Annual Banquet
About 215 producers and allied
industrymen attended the annual
Lancaster County Poultry
Association banquet Thursday
night at the Plain and Fancy
Restaurant, Bird-in-Hand.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, October 16
8 p.m. - Fulton Grange quarterly
meeting, Fulton Grange Hall,
Oakryn.
Monday, October 18
8 p.m. - Fulton Grange officers
and committee meetings,
Fulton Grange Hall, Oakryn.
Tuesday, October 19
8 p.m. - Dairy Herd Management
educational meeting, Farm
and Home Center.
8 p.m. - Farm and Home
Foundation board of directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
8 p.m. - Ephrata Young Farmers
monthly meeting, vocational
agriculture department,
Ephrata High School.
8 p.m. - Manheim Young Far
mers' meeting. Clarence
Keener farm.
Garden Spot Young Farmers
meeting, Vo-tech school
program.
“The Widening World of Women”
Extension seminar, Holiday
Inn, King of Prussia, October
19 and 20.
National meeting on Poultry
Condemnation, Convention
Hall, Ocean City , Md., October
19 - 20.
Thursday, October 21
8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. - Penn
sylvania Poultry Business
Management seminar. Farm
and Home Center.
Friday, October 22
7 p.m. ~ Lancaster County
Farmers Association dinner
meeting, Harvest Drive
Restaurant, Gordonville.
Saturday, October 23
Annual Horticulture Show, Penn
State University, October 23 -
24.
American Breeders Service
“Exotic Weekend II,” Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.
First of 3 Dairy Meetings Set Tuesday Night
The first of three important
dairy management meetings will
be held at the Farm and Home
Center at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oc
tober 19.
Donald L. Ace, Penn State
University dairy Extension, will
speak on “Calf and Cow
Management” including calf
raising and milking herd
management.
Max Smith, Lancaster County
ag agent, and N. Alan Bair,
assistant county agent, are
urging dairymen to attend the
meetings.
They said, “We are par
ticularly interested in reaching
dairymen with herd averages
under 450 pounds of butterfat.
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The program included election
of four director’s to the
Association’s board.
Voted producer represen
tatives were; J. Harold Esben
shade, Manheim RD2; Aaron S.
Glick, Quarryville RD2, and John
W. Melhorn, Mount Joy.
Esbenshade, who previously
served as a director, replaced
Claude Hess, who is stepping
down after several years Glick
and Melhorn were re-elected.
The new allied industry
Poultry Management Seminar Slated
A state-wide Poultry Business
Management Seminar will be
held at the Farm and Home
Center from 8:30 a.m. till 4:15
p.m. Thursday, October 21.
Jay W. Irwin, associate Lan
caster County ag agent, said the
meeting will feature outstanding
speakers with good up-to-date
management information. He
said there has been considerable
interest in the program and a
large turnout is being sought.
The morning program, under
the direction of Dr. Floyd Hicks,
Penn State University poultry
science professor, will begin with
registration at 8:30 a.m., a brief
welcome from Irwin at 9 a.m. and
a discussion of “The Employee”
by Dr. James S. Holt, Penn State
Association ag professor at 9:05
a.m.
Holt’s talk will involve the
future supply and demand of
labor in relation to agriculture,
labor quality and turnover, and
labor legislation.
At 9:50 a.m., Dr. Richard
Keppler, Penn State associate ag
professor, will speak on “The
Job”, including making the job as
easy and efficient as possible and
guidelines for making the work
simpler, including enlisting
participation, using employees’
ideas, working smarter rather
than harder, teaching principles,
and allowing time to experiment.
Following a question and an
swer session at 10:50 a.m.,
Kermit Birth and Louis Moore,
Penn State associate ag
professors, will speak at 11:05
a.m. on “The Investment.” The
discussion will involve deter
mining when it is profitable to
With increased knowledge of
good feeding and herd
management practices, we feel
that many dairymen can in
crease their profits. We hope that
you will be able to accept this
opportunity of permitting us to
help you improve your returns
from your dairy operation.”
Smith explained that while it
takes good animals to reach the
highest production levels, use of
the right management
procedures can usually result in
major improvements with low
producing herds.
Increasing production usually
requires a combination of im
proved breeding schedules to cut
down on the number of dry cows
and the length of time they are
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 16,1971
representative is Kenneth Roth,
Rheems, succeeding Lonn
Weigard.
Jay Irwin, associate Lan
caster County ag agent, reviewed
the association’s activities during
the past year, including: four
educational meetings m the first
half of 1971; two additional
meetings coming up, including
one from 8:30 a.m till 4:15 pm.
Thursday, October 21, and
another from 9:30 a m. till 4:30
p.m. November 10; held a tour to
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Dr E.I. Robertson, nutritionist
with John W Eshelman & Sons,
Lancaster feed firm, will chair
the afternoon program beginning
with a group lunch at 11:50 a.m.
Luncheon speaker on “The
Future of the Industry” will be
Clifford Stewart, Hyline Poultry
Farms, Des Moines, lowa.'
At 1:30 p.m., Luke Bomberger,
treasurer, Victor F. Weaver,
Inc., New Holland, will speak on
“Computer Applications,” in
cluding-a discussion of how the
computer is used
management in decision making
and labor cost control.
Following a question and an
swer period at 2:15, Dr. Wesley
Kriebel, Penn State associate ag
professor, will speak on “Pick
Up and Delivery Routing for
Maximum Efficiency,” including
how computer programs can aid
in developing the most efficient
routing. Questions and answers
are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. with
adjournment at 4:15 p.m.
Advance registration is being
requested by Tuesday, October 19
in order to make luncheon
arrangements. Registration fee,
including luncheon, is $5.
Registration can be made
through Irwin at 1383 Arcadia
Road, Lancaster, Pa. 17601.
In This Issue
Classified 25, 26, 27
Editorial Page 10
4-H News 17
Market Reports 2,3, 4
McSparran Feature 18
Women’s News 19, 20, 21, 22
dry; feeding a more balanced
ration; improving crop
management to develop a better
quality of feed; improving the
handling of cows; improving
milking schedules and
techniques.
These are some of the types of
issues which will be discussed at
the three meetings and most
farmers should be able to pick
suggestions which can be used on
the farm to result m more ef
ficient milk production, Smith
said.
Meetings are also scheduled for
Tuesday, October 26 and
Tuesday, November 2 with Penn
State dairy Extension personnel
speaking at the Farm and Home
Center beginning at 8 p.m.
Enos Heisey introduces his slide presentation on
“Agriculture in Africa” at the Lancaster County Poultry
Association banquet, while Stanley Musselman, toastmaster,
makes some notes
Ki Hyung Yoo Receives
Cattle for South Korea
Ki Hyung Yoo, the Korean
visitor who spent about four
weeks visiting in Lancaster
County has represented his
country recently in special -
ceremonies at the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Farm near Get
tysburg.
Mrs. Eisenhower presented a
registered Angus bull to the
American Korean Foundation
(AKF) and a bred Angus heifer
donated by the Adams County 4-H
Clubs for shipment to Korea to
help upgrade Dorea’s beef cattle
production.
The cattle are the first part of
the Eisenhower Agriculture
Program founded by the AKF
recognition of what the former
president did for South Korea.
The name of the bull is being
officially changed to AKF
Local 4-H Girl Cited at National Contest
The Pennsylvania 4-H dairy
judging team placed fifth in
competition with 32 other state
teams this week at the 4-H
National Dairy Judging Contest
in Columbus, Ohio.
Two of the four members, all
girls, of the Pennsylvania team
were from Lancaster County.
Raelene Harbold,
Elizabethtown RDI, placed fifth
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Eisenhower and he will be kept at
the Sosa Farm in South Korea,
but will be offered to co-ops
around the country to be bred
artificially to native South
Korean cows. The heifer will also
remain at the farm to become the
nucleus of a registered Angus
herd there
Yoo, AKF youth specialist of
Sousa, South Korea, is a leading
4-H official in Korea While m
Lancaster County for about four
weeks m August and September,
Yoo divided his time as guests of
the Glenn Porter family,
Washington Boro RDI, and the
James Hess family, Quarryville
RD2.
Yoo is slated to continue his
study of U.S. agriculture and
youth programs until November,
when he will return to South
Korea.
nationally in individual scoring
She placed second in reasons
given for her judgments.
Other members of the state
team were: Sue Kauffman,
Elizabethtown RDI, Lancaster
County Dairy Princess, Ginger
Siegnst, Franklin County, and
Shirley Thompson, York County.
The state team was selected on
the basis of top scores in the state
4-H dairy judging contest.