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Vol. 17 No. 9
Jaycees Give Outstanding Young Farmer Award,
Max Smith Discusses Lancaster County Farming
P. Robert Wenger, Quarryville
RDI, was named Outstanding
Young Farmer by the
Quarryville Jaycees at a banquet
meeting at the Willow Street
Restaurant Thursday night.
Wenger, 26 years old, operates
a 420 acre farm three miles south
of the Buck. He has 67 milking
Holsteins.
The farm is owned by his
mother, but he has been
operating it with his wife, the
former Deborah Byers, for the
past two years. He operated it
with his father three years prior
to that.
In This Issue
Classified Ads 22,23
Editorial Page 10
Market Reports 2,3,4
Also see page one story on
Jaycees’ Outstanding Young
Farmer award and comments on
the local farm scene by Max
Smith, Lancaster County ag
agent.
Inside, see regular McSparran
feature and special reports on
Lancaster County dairymen with
outstanding DHIA production
records in 1971 and related story
on comments on farming by State
Senator Elmer Hawbaker at the
annual DHIA banquet.
Looking at a copy of a film strip "America the Beautiful”
which is available to local schools and other interested
persons and groups is Henry Hackman, executive assistant
for the Lancaster County Soil and Water Conservation
District. The 65-frame film shows scenes, mostly local, of
conservation, including pollution, wildlife,erosion, and how
local folks are working to improve the environment. The film
is available by calling the district office 299-5361.
Wenger describes the land as
185 acres tillable, about 85 acres
of pasture land and the rest as „too
hilly for farming.
Wenger was selected from
among 10 young farmers which
were chosen by Southern Lan
caster County businessmen who
deal with them. All 10 were
praised Thursday night as being
truly outstanding in their field.
J. E. Stoner, district Chevrolet
manager, Harrisburg, presented
Wenger with a plaque, $5O and
use of a pick-up truck for two
weeks.
Wenger is a member of the
Solanco Chapter of the Penn
sylvania Young Farmers
Association, the Solanco Fair
Association, the National
Holstein-Friesian Association,
the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association and formerly the
FFA.
Judges were Robert Bucher,
Commonwealth Bank; Charles
Schreiber Sr, Lancaster
Production Credit and Federal
Land Bank Association, and
Stanley Musselman, National
Central Bank, chairman.
Isaac Hershey was Jaycee
committee chairman in charge of
the Outstanding Young Farmer
award.
Banquet speaker was Max
Smith, Lancaster County ag
(Continued on Page 21)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 22,1972
P. Robert Wenger, left, Quarryville RDI,
receives the Quarryville Jaycees' Out
standing Young Farmer award Thursday
night at the Willow Street Restaurant. The
Farm Calendar
Monday,January 24
7-30 pm Lancaster County
FFA meeting, Red Rose
Degrees, Ephrata
Tuesday, January 25
7 30 p m Swme management
meeting, Farm and Home
Center
7 30 p m Penn Manor Young
Farmer Forage Management
course, vo-ag room, Penn
Manor High School
Ephrata Young Farmers Hay
Summary, vo-ag room,
Ephrata Area High School
Garden Spot Young Farmer
Dairy Management course,
vo-ag room, Garden Spot High
School
Wednesday, January 26
10 a m. State Young Farmers
Leadership Training Con
ference, Penn State
University.
Thursday, January 27
10 a.m. - 3 pm Lancaster
County Dairy Day, Holiday
Inn, Lancaster
12 noon Inter-State
Cooperative District meeting,
Quarryville Methodist
Church
12 noon Mount Joy Farmers
Cooperative meeting,
Hostetler’s Banquet Hall,
Mount Joy.
6:30 p.m. Farm and Home
Foundation annual dinner
meeting, Farm and Home
Center
7:30 p m Penn Manor Young
award is presented by J. E. Stoner,
Harrisburg, district Chevrolet manager.
Also enjoying the occasion is Mrs. Wenger.
Southeastern Dairy
Conference Slated
The board of directors lor the
Seventh Annual Southeastern
Pennsylvania Dairy Conference
is planning an outstanding
program lor the all-day meeting
on February 15, at the Guernsey
Pavilion, Lancaster
Obie Snyder ol Singing Brook
Farm will be the keynote
speaker He operates a 150 head
registered Holstein herd in
Bedford County
Snyder won the Progressive
breeder Award in 1970 from the
Holstein Fresian Association He
won the National Farm Award in
1960 lor his outstanding work and
is presently a director of the
National Holstein Association
Snyder comes highly recom
mended for this year’s con
ference theme “The Challenge of
the Future”.
Farmer Forage Management
course, vo-ag room, Penn
Manor High School
Lancaster County Swine
Producers board of directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center
Saturday, January 29
730 p.m Farm and Home
Center program, Rev Glenn
Eshelman, Farm and Home
Center.
Y^ar
The co-sponsors are Curtiss
Breeding Service, Allis-
Chalmers, John W Eshelman
and Sons, and New Holland
Supply Company Registration
time lor the conference is 9 a m
Free lunch will be served
Farm Family
Night Set
The second of two Farm and
Home family night programs will
be held at 7 30 pm. Saturday,
January 29 at the Farm and
Home Center, Lancaster
The Rev. Glenn M. Eshelman
will give his visual presentation
on “God’s Great Masterpiece ”
The full evening of family
entertainment will also feature
Lancaster County 4-H talent
winners during the past year plus
a vocal trio from a Farm
Woman’s Society
A collection will be taken for
the Farm and Home Center
mortgage reduction fund.