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Vol. 17 No. 7
In This Issue
Classified Ads 26 27
Adult Tobacco Show 1
DHIA Report 56
Editorial Page 10
Facts foi Dairymen 36
Farm Show Meetings 35
Farm Show Schedule 38
Farmers Assn Meets 46
4-H Tobacco, Corn Shows 7
FFA Tobacco, Coi n Show s 1
FFA Keystone Degrees 30,32,33,
34
Sale Register 47
Women’s News 43,44
Also see Farm Show items on
pages 1, 22 and 23 To know
what’s going on, where and when,
clip our Farm Show Schedule on
page 38 and be sure to check the
meeting schedule on page 35 to
attend meetings of farm
organizations which are im
portant to you
A special USDA report on new
machinery being developed to
meet the farm labor squeeze is on
page 20, a new automated system
developed by a local
agribusinessman is reported on
page 16
Huber Demoted
Governor Milton Shapp this
week named two new members to
the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing
Board, including a new chairman
to replace J Lm Huber.
The new chairman is Harry E.
Kapleau, Harrisburg. Also ap
pointed was Nina Gowell, Pitt
sburgh.
Huber, 70, Franklin County
dairyman, remains as the third
member of the three-member
board pending a decision by the
Lancaster Co. FFA and Adult Tobacco, FFA Corn Shows Held
The Lancaster County FFA and
Adult Tobacco Show and the FFA
Corn Show were hdd at the
Farm and Home Center Thur
sday.
The Rohrers of Strasburg EDI
continued to dominate the show
this year, taking all six top spots
in the six classes.
Roy M. Rohrer, Strasburg
Pam Qssesm
Launch Show
Fourteen Pennsylvania
agricultural commodity and
other queens will help Governor
Milton Shapp to get the 1972
Pennsylvania Farm Show un
derway for a five-day stand
beginning on Monday morning,
January 10.
Each queen will present a
token gift representing the area
of her reign to Governor Shapp at
the Governor’s annual Farm
Show preview for the press on
Sunday evening, January 9.
Traditionally, the queens go to
a great deal of trouble to present
their commodity in some unusual
or even unique fashion to Penn
sylvania’s chief executive. But
the presentation will be their
royal way of saying another big
show is underway.
Farm Calendar
Sunday, January 9
16th National Cooperative
Bargaining Conference,
Phoenix, Ariz., January 9 -10.
Monday, January 10
8 p.m. Fulton Grange 66
meeting, Oakryn.
Pennsylvania State Farm Show,
January 10-14.
Tuesday, January 11
8 p.m. Farm and Home
Foundation board of directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Wednesday, January 12
National Council of Farmers
Cooperatives, Phoenix, Ariz.,
January 12-13.
Friday, January 14
7 pm. Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association
meeting, Sheraton-Conestoga
Inn, Lancaster.
Saturday, January 15
7pm Lancaster County
Pomona Grange dinner
meeting, Rhoads Spanish
Restaurant, Quarryville.
On Milk Board
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governor on a hearing previously
held to oust Huber.
Huber, a former president of
Inter-State Milk Producers
Cooperative, Philadelphia, has
served on the Milk Board since
1963.
Kapleau has been associated
with the dairy industry for 30
years,including 12 years as a
partner in a Philadelphia firm
which offered accounting and
consulting services on marketing
matters.
RDI, took five of six class firsts,
including championships in
binder and filler.
Eugene M. Rohrer, Strasburg
RDI, took the remaining class
championship and went on to win
the grand championship in
wrapper.
In the FFA competition, James
Gruber, Elizabethtown RD3,
showed the grand champion FFA
tobacco in the wrapper category.
He beat out Donald S. Wenger,
Manheim RD2, who had the top
filler tobacco and was overall
reserve grand champion
In the FFA corn competition,
Wayne Kreider, Quarryville
RDI, took first place among 19
entries.
Other corn entries m the top 10
were-
Joseph Lefever, Manheim
RD4, second; Scott Steffy, Leola,
third; Amos Sauder, Manheim
RDI, fourth, Carl Gerlach,
Columbia RD2, fifth; Dave
Gerlach, Columbia RD2, sixth;
Alvin Redcay, Leola RDI,
seventh; Gary Long, Columbia
RD2, eighth; Martin Hamish,
Willow Street RDI, ninth, and
James Charles, Lancaster RD2,
10th.
Following Gruber in the FFA
wrapper class were: Craig Frey,
Ronks RDI, second; Fred
Lefever, Quarryville RDI, third;
Roger Frey, Conestoga RD2,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 8,1972
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The 56th Pennsylvania Farm
Show opens at 8 a.m. Monday
morning, January 10, in the
Farm Show Building and Arena,
culminating a full year of
planning and preparations
“In this time of concern for
Evening Programs Planned
At 56th Pa. Farm Show
Four action-packed programs
are planned for the large arena
during the evenings at the 56th
Pennsylvania Farm Show in
Harrisburg January 10-14
Monday, January 10, will be
Secretary of Agriculture Night
when Secretary Jim McHale,
who also serves as Farm Show
Commission chairman, will
extend greetings and a State
Police exhibition will be
presented. Executive Deputy
Secretary Raymond J. Kerstetter
will preside. The program begins
at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 11, will be
Master Farmers’ Night, with a
concert by the Furure Farmers
of America Band, with James W.
Dunlop of Penn State University,
directing. Scheduled also is a
Folk Dance Festival and Concert,
with Joseph R Cardenuto of
Penn State University, directing.
The program begins at 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, January 12, will be
a night filled with nostalgia.
Horses will be in a starring role
with a program which will in
clude; A lightweight horse
pulling contest, a six-horse hitch
demonstration and a
fourth, and Barry Smith,
Washington Boro, fifth
Following Wenger in the FFA
filler class were: John Kaufman,
Washington Boro, second; Roger
Frey, Conestoga RD2, third,
James Gruber, Elizabethtown
RD3, fourth, and Craig Frey,
Ronks RDI, fifth.
Placing behind Eugene Rohrer
in the long wrapper class were:
Roy M. Rohrer, Strasburg RDI,
second; Douglas Reist, 1050 Eden
Road, Lancaster, third; Michael
E. Rohrer, Strasburg RDI,
fourth, and John D. Habecker,
2809 Spring Valley Road, Lan
caster, fifth.
Placing below Roy Rohrer in
the other adult classes were:
Short wrapper Donald E.
Shank, Pequea RDI, second;
Eugene E Rohrer, Strasburg
RDI, third, John S. Habecker,
2301 Spring Valley Road, Lan
caster, fourth, and Douglas S.
Reist, 1050 Eden Road, Lan
caster, fifth.
Long binder Eugene M.
Rohrer, Strasburg, second;
Michael E. Rohrer, Strasburg
RDI, third, William G Rohrer,
Strasburg RD.I, fourth, and
Sandy Ginder, Elizabethtown
RD3, fifth.
Short binder Eugene M.
Rohrer, Strasburg RDI, second;
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both the environment and the
efficient production of
wholesome food,” Gov Milton J .
Shapp says in this year’s
greetings to visitors, “the 1972
Farm Show is a salute to the men
and women who occupy Penn
heavyweight horse pulling
contest. The program begins at
5:30 p m.
Thursday, January 13, will
feature the Livestock Cavalcade
of Champions and a 4-H Horse
and Pony Demonstration by the
Cumberland County 4-H Horse
and Pony Club. The program
begins at 7 p m.
There will be no program
Friday night. The 56th Fram
Show closes at 4 p.m
Pa. Poultry Federation Names
Newcastle Disease Committee
The Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation’s Executive Com
mittee requested that President
Shelly appoint a committee to
seek a meeting with Penn
sylvania Secretary of Agriculture
Jim McHale to have the
Department of Agriculture set up
an Indemnity Program in the
event that the “Hot Strain of
Newcastle” breaks in Penn
sylvana
Inspecting a winning entry at the annual tobacco show
Thursday are: H. B. Endslow, left, vice president, and Jacob
C. Stehman, president of the Lancaster County Tobacco
Association. The Association’s primary function is to award
cash prizes for the top four entries in each class and ribbons
for the top five entries, Stehman explained.
$2.00 Per Year
sylvanta’s farms and produce
their rich harvest ”
The Farm Show was born
during World War I for the
purpose of advancing Penn
sylvania agriculture by
recognizing agricultural
achievement This year’s theme
“Farmers and Consumers
Partners in Progress” recognizes
the balanced relationship of the
two principals in the consumer
producer system
The consumer has the right to a
wholesome, plentiful food sup
ply, the producer must have a
decent return for his work to
maintain a supply of quantity and
quality
Although the predominantly
farmer and farm lamily show
visitors can make a professional
appraisal of the quality of ihe
nearly 10,000 entires of farm and
farm home products just by
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Hendrik Wentink, Lancaster,
will serve as Chairman of the
committee
Others who will be asked to
serve on the committee are- G
W Robinson, Kreamer, Robert
Shelly, Worcester, Jay Greider,
Mount Joy, Robert Horsburgh,
Doylestown, and the Penn
sylvania Poultry Federation
Executive Director, H J
Bicksler.