Stauffer Is Re-Elected Conservation
Aaron Stauffer, Ephrata RDI,
was re-elected chairman of the
Lancaster County Soil and Water
Conservation District for the
coming year at a district meeting
at the Farm and Home Center
Wednesday night.
Other officers re-elected were •
Amos Funk, Millersville RDI,
vice chairman, Mrs Nancy
Burkhart, secretary, and
William Rohrer, treasurer
Stauffer also named Funk as
executive council member.
The district directors
presented the chairman of the
county commissioners, Abram
Dombach, with a basket of fruit
as a thank you for his service on
the district board. Dombach has
been a district director for four
years. He now becomes the first
chairman of the county com
missioners to ever serve as a
district director.
Dombach was instrumental in
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arranging for the National Assn
ot Soil Conservation District
Directors to schedule their
northeast annual meeting in
Lancaster in 1973
The organization’s annual
meeting will be held at the Hilton
Inn, during August 1973, with
about 300 district directors
representing states from West
Virginia to Maine in attendance
The 1972 meeting will be held in
Rhode Island
The directors discussed the
possibility of allowing all in
terested young people in the
county to participate in the
conservation public speaking
contest in April. A committee is
considering the issue
The district's objectives for
1972 were outlined and include •
Wise use of the county’s natural
resources through watershed
meetings, meetings with building
contractors, encouraging the
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teaching of conservation in area
schools, and publication of an
erosion and sediment control
hand book
—To provide the best en
vironment for the health and
welfare of the general public bj
wise planning of air, soil and
water resources
—Use and maintain the
agricultural and non-agncultural
lands of the count> through the
use of sound conservation
planning
—Promote public awareness of
environmental relationships
—Cooperate with all agencies
and groups concerned with
planning and use of natural
resources
Henry Hackman, executive
secretary of the district, an
nounced that copies of the local
filmstrip “America the
Beautiful” will be now available
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carefullv looking them o\er the
urban \isitor also will have an
opportunitv to express his
opinion 100
Each ol seven statewide farm
commoditv organizations will
operate concession booths for
earn-out sales of their particular
specialities while tons of fried
chicken baked and french fried
potatoes will be consumed on the
spot and gargantuan thirsts will
be slaked bv thousands of gallons
of milk shakes
These items w ill be offered for
sale bv the dairv poultrv and
potato organizations Others with
the fruits of their labor for sale
through the Soil Conservation
Service office at the Farm and
Home Center bv Januarv 15
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 8,1972
It's Farm
include apple grape honex and
florist organizations
This kind of buxing of
agricultural products is routine
and well-known to farmer and
consumer alike But other sales
during the farm show generate
excitement that can be so easilx
perceixed bx all that xou can
almost see it i the air These are
the sales of champion meat
animals
Exorbitant prices are paid to
the voung stockmen for their
prize specimens mam more
times what the buver can expect
to get in return But the buv ers
are proud to be part of the
process that can continue the
familv farm
The xoung cattle and lamb
feeders normallx take their prize
monex and set it aside to coxer
their college education in the
future usually an education that
is agriculture oriented
Last xears grand champion
babx beef owned bx 18-x ear-old
Exelxn Miller. Halifax RD2
Dauphin Countx was sold to a
Chester Countx slaughter house
lor $4 56 a pound At 1 180 pounds
this amounted to S 5 380 80 for
Miss Miller But ex en this was not
a record
Not so lor lambs Another
Chester Countv enterprise a food
market, paid S 9 a pound for the
grand chapion 4-H lamb a 100-
pound Hampshire shown bv
Thomas Van Wagner Dauphin
RDI. Dauphin Countv The old
record vv as a mere S 6 per pound
The swine sales, which are
open to the prolessional and the
teenager alike produce more
realistic prices Nev ertheless
meat processors from across the
state pay premium prices, a bit
more than they can expect to
make a protit on. just to assure
their customers that they are
getting the best that Penn
sy 1\ ania can produce
Each days activity Monday
through Thursday, is highlighted
by a special program in the .Main
Arena The first of these is
Secretary of Agriculture Night
with Secretary Jim McHale
present to watch the per
formance of the Pennsylvania
state Police
Succeeding nights will teatme
Future Farmers ol America
band concert, lolk dance testiv al
horse pulling contests and a
li\ estock ca\ alcade
There are manv traditions
associated w ith the Pennsv 1\ ama
State Farm Show Eating the
livestock sales and the evening
entertainment are just three of
them
But perhaps the best known
and most respected tradition is
the weather You can almost
count on it being bad At best,
bitter cold, and at the worst, a
couple ol teet ol new snow
Even those people m the tar
leaches oi the state, who rarelv
visit the Faun Show, will meet
even unpleasant (urn in (he
weather during the second week
ol Januarv with a shrug ot the
shouldeis and the cvnical
comment "It s Faun Show
Week What did vou expect 0 '
Grange Meeting
Lancaster Coun(> Pomona
(Lange will hold a dinner
meeting at 7 p m Saturday.
January 15 at Rhoads Spanish
Restaurant, Quarrwille
Rescn ations should be made
by Monday, January 10 In
contacting cither Joseph G Hess
Quarry \illc RD. 01 Gyles H
Brown, Peach Bottom
Following the dinnei (he an
nual memorial sen ice will be
conducted by Mis Jesse Wood
lecturci
Master Gyles Biown will
conduct the business session
Norman Maul and a (cam from
the Chester County Grange will
install officers for the coming
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