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VOL. 16 NO. 50
2 Holstein Barn Meetings Set
The Lancaster County Holstein
Breeders Association will hold
two bam meetings, November 15
and 16.
The educational meetings
include an explanation of animal
classification and how it applies
. to particular animals.
The meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, November 15 will be
held at the Winding Glenn Farm
owned by John C. Metzler two
miles south of Christiana on
Noble Road.
The meeting at 7:30 p.m
Tuesday, November 16 will be
Farm Calendar
Saturday, November 6
Keystone International Livestock
Exposition, Farm Show
Building, Harrisburg,
November 6 - 13.
Sunday, November 7
Pennsylvania Young Farmers-
Week November 7 - 13.
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association annual con
vention, November 7 - 10.
' Monday, November 8
8 p.m. Lancaster County
Poultry Association board of
directors meeting. Farm and
Home Center.
Fulton Junior Grange meeting.
Tuesday, November 9
6:45 p.m. Lancaster County
Holstein annual meeting and
banquet, Farm and Home
Center.
7:30 p.m. Manor Young
Farmers animal nutrition
course, vo ag room, Penn
Manor High School.
7:30 p.m. Ephrata Young
Farmers herd management
course, vo ag department,
Ephrata High School.
Garden Spot Young Farmers
small grains course, vo ag
department, Garden Spot High
School.
Wednesday, November 10
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Penn
sylvania Poultry Waste
Disposal Seminar, Farm and
Home Center.
7:30 p.m. Panel by Legislators
on “What is Happening at
Harrisburg”, Farm and Home
Center.
State Young Farmers Con
vention, Treadway Inn,
- Lebanon, November 10 - 11.
Thursday, November 11
7 p.m. Lancaster County
Chamber of Commerce 11th
annual Agriculture-Industry
Banquet, Farm and Home
Center.
7:30 p.m. —• Manor Young
Farmers animal nutrition
course, vo ag room, Penn
Monor High School.
Penn State Geranium School,
Holiday Inn, King of Prussia.
Friday, November 12
7 p.m. Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association
meeting, Sheraton Motel,
Lancaster.
7 p.m. Pequea Valley Local,
Eastern Milk Producers
Association banquet, Bird-in-
Hand Motor Inn.
Saturday, November 13
Eastern National Livestock
Show, Timonium, Md.
held at Trout Spring Farm owned
by John E. Kreider on Willow
Road east of Lancaster.
The Association has asked its
members to attend one of these
meetings and bring an interested
neighbor or friend. Refreshments
will be served.
The meeting cdmmittee is John
M. Harnish, Albert Frey and
Vernon Umble.
Keystone Will Feature
Barnyard Babies Show
A barnyard babies exhibit has
been arranged as a special
feature for children at the 15th
annual Keystone International
Livestock Exposition opening at
the Farm Show Building today
(November 6).
The barnyard babies exhibit
opens Sunday, November 7, and
continues through Thursday,
November 11, from 8:30 a.m. to
about 4 p.m., according to State
Secretary of Agriculture Jim
McHale.
Youngsters in school and
family groups are expected to
visit the exhibit to see: a beef cow
and calf, a sow and litter of
piglets, an ewe and lambs, a
nanny goat and kid, puppies,
kittens, rabbits and hatching
eggs. Miniature horses and an
animal representing a cross
between a zebra and an Arabian
horse also will be on display.
Conducted tours will be held so
that children can see some of the
4,011 entries in the big show. They
include: 1,240 head of sheep,
represending 14 different breeds;
892 swine, representing seven
breeds; 893 head of beef cattle,
representing five breeds and 993
horses and ponies, representing
four breeds.
Tours for schools may be
scheduled by calling Tom Kelly,
show manager, at (717) 787-2905.
Admission is free and there will
be "plenty of free parking
available during the exposition
which continues through
Saturday, Nov. 13.
Chester Co. Farmers Assn.
Votes Hershey President
The Chester County Farmers’
Association recently elected
Arthur D Hershey, Cochranville,
president-for the coming year.
Other officers elected at this
meeting were: Robert Yeatman,
West Grove, vice president, and
Nathan G. King, Lincoln
University, secretary-treasurer.
S. Horace Mowrer, Spring City,
was the only new director elected
at the Fall Policy Meeting which
was held at the East Brandywine
Fire Hall, Gunthriesville, in
October.
Reelected were: Richard
Barnard, Kennett Square; John
C. McCausland, Downington; and
Carroll Pratt, Avondale.
Other members of the board
are: Charles Gable, Elverson,
Dwight Rath, Wawa, Paul Sands,
Coatesville, H. Lee Brown,
Oxford, and X AI Bartels, West
Grove.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 6,1971
Chatting at the annual FLBA and RCA
meeting Thursday are: left to right, Carl A.
Brown, manager, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
Howard Settle.-Settle, vice: president, and.
FLBA and PCA Hold Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the
Federal Land Bank Association
(FLBA) and Production Credit
Association (PCA) was held
Thursday at the Plain and Fancy
Restaurant, Bird-in-Hand.
Jacob N. Smith, FLBA
president, reported that loans
were up $2.5 million in the past
year and John J. Long, PCA
president, reported loans up $3.5
million and about double in the
past five years. Each of the
organizations reported total
loans of about $16.5 million.
Carl A. Brown, manager,
reported plans to add three of
fices and a board room on the
east end of the present credit
building in Lancaster.
The Lebanon office, which
handles about 25 per cent of the
business, may be relocated, he
said.
Arthur D. Hershey
Chester Farmers President
, He explained that the work load
stemming from the increased
loan volume is making the ad
ditional space necessary.
Looking ahead, Brown
projected that when the present
national price freeze ends, there
will probably be pressure for
interest rates to go up again. His
office will try to withstand the
pressure and maintain present
interest rates which have been
considerably lower than a year
ago, he said.
John Jacob Oberholtzer, the
nominating committee chair
man, presented the slate of
nominees. From among six
nominees, the following three
directors were reelected for three
year terms:
John J. Long, Peach Bottom
RDI, who has been PCA
president; John H. Gibble,
Myerstown RD2, who has been
PCA vice president; and Paul M.
Herr, Quarryville RDI, FLBA
director.
Speaker was J. Howard Settle,
vice president and treasurer of
the Federal Land Bank of
Baltimore and the Federal In
termediate Credit Bank. Settle
gave what he described as an
over simplified explanation of the
present national economic
program.
He said the key points of the
president’s economic policy are:
strong economic incentive for
industry, a major effort to cut
inflation, and moves to help the
dollar internationally.
He said the action stemmed
largely from the international
payment situation The U.S. had
enjoyed a good balance of trade
for many years, but this trade
balance deteriorated rapidly in
the past nine months.
Settle said the impact of the
policies on farming will be dif
ficult to anticipate. He noted that
farming has been one of the few
areas of the economy con
treasurer of the Federal Land Bank of
Baltimore and the Federal Intermediate
Bank, was speaker.
tnbuting positively to the trade
balance; farm exports have been
rising.
In This Issue
Classified Ads 25,26,27
Editorial Page 10
Farm Women Societies 21
Keystone Schedule 6
Market Reports 2,3,4
McSparran Feature 20
Sale Register 23
Also see other local and farm
features throughout, including
“Across the Editor’s Desk” on
page 17; local bulls enter ABS
sire program on page 7; national
sheep producers promote lamb
dishes and “action fabrics” on
page 9; NFO tries protein milk
pricing on 8, Eastern
Cooperative says “no” to milk
referendum on 16, and USDA
analyzes growing farm waste
problem and evaluates some
solutions on page 12
Conservation District
Makes Slide Narration
The Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation District has
announced plans to make a slide
narration entitled “America the
Beautiful” available to county
schools
The presentation, geared to
elementary school children, was
worked up by Henry Hackman
and his wife. Six copies will be
made, five will be placed in
schools and the sixth will be kept
at the district office (interested
persons should call 299-5361).
Elsewhere, it was noted Robert
G. Brubaker, Elizabethtown
RD3, was appointed by the
county commissioners to fill the
unexpired term of Hackman on
the Conservation District board
Hackman was employed part
time by the board
$2.00 Per Year
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