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Vol. 17 No. 11
Farm Calendar
Saturday, February 5
6.45 p.m. Ephrata Young
Farmer Association annual
banquet, Mt. Airy Fire Hall.
Monday, February 7
6:30 p.m. DeKalb 200 bushel
award banquet, Hunt Valley
Inn, north of Baltimore.
8 pm. Lancaster County
Poultry Association meeting,
Farm and Home Center.
Pennsylvania Vegetable Con
ference, Pennsylvania State
University, February 7-9.
Tuesday, February 8
7:30 p.m Central 4-H Tractor
Club, Landis Bros., Lancaster.
7:30 p.m Ephrata Young
Farmer farm managment
course, vo-ag department,
Ephrata Area High. School.
7:30 p.m. Penn Manor Young
Farmer monthly meeting, Milk
Marketing and Promotion, vo
ag department, Penn Manor
High School.
7:30 p.m. Farm and Home
educational meeting, “No-
Fault Auto Insurance”, Farm
and Home Center.
8 p.m. Farm and Home
Foundation board of directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Garden Spot Young Farmer
dairy management course, vo
ag department. Garden Spot
High School.
Jug Dairy Processors Con
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Max Smith Honored tor 35 Years of Service
Max Smith, Lancaster County
ag agent, was honored for his 35
years of service to the local farm
community at a special program
at the annual Red Rose 4-H Baby
Beef and Lamb Club annual
banquet at the Farm and Home
Center Thursday night.
The program featured the well
known Floyd “Dutch” Bucher,
Reamstown, county agent who
hired Smith in 1937.
Bucher, who noted it has been
“about 27 years since I’ve faced
such a fine audience,” recalled
that Smith early in his career
complained about not having
enough to do so the 4-H work was
Two veterans of the local farm scene greet each other
Thursday night. They're "Dutch" Bucher, left, long time
Lancaster County ag agent, and Max Smith, current ag agent,
who was honored last night for his 35 years of Extension
work in .Lancaster County.
National FFA officers visited Lancaster County
Wednesday. The National FFA recognized New Holland
Division of Sperry Rand with a “Gold Sponsor’s Award”
for the firm’s sponsorship of the FFA award program
through the National FFA Foundation. Among those
visiting New Holland’s operations center Wednesday
are; front, left tt> right, Tim Burke, lowa, National FFA
president; Paul Gray, national FFA executive secretary;
turned over the the former
Washington Countain “lock,
stock and barrel.” Bucher added,
“And yea all know what a fine job
he has done.”
Several others also spoke about
the important role Smith has
played in Lancaster County 4-H
work. They included: Miss
Debbie Kreider, 4-H’er who gave
a humorous account of Smith’s
concern about top quality care of
show animals; Stanley
Musselman, National Central
Bank farm representative, who
emphasized Smith’s role as a
representative of agriculture to
the business community and his
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 5,1972
role in getting the Farm and
Home Center built, Arthur
Rohrer and Mylin Good.
Fred Linton, Quarryville RD2,
Red Rose 4-H Club leader, was
master of ceremonies to the
award program. Based on
research by club leaders, he said
Smith has helped to buy, sell and
feed some 3,500 steers worth $1.4
million and 1,200 sheep worth
$60,000 Smith also has attended
and conducted about 7,280
meetings “as near as we could
figure ” His 4-H’ers have had 11
grand champion steers at the
Farm Show
In expressing his appreciation,
In This Issue
Ag Teacher Report 6
Classified Ads 25,26,27
DHIA Report 8
Editorial Page 10
4-H Beef, Lamb Banquet 1
Holstein Breeders Report 21
Market Section 2,3,4
Poultry Short Course 7
Sale Register 22,23,24
Women’s News 12,13,20
Max Smith, Lancaster County
ag agent, was honored Thursday
night for 35 years of Extension
work m Lancaster County See
story on page 1.
In the 1960’5, the pullet growing
industry in Southeastern Penn
sylvania nearly died out, because
of a dread disease known as
Marek’s. But a Stevens RDI
pullet operation survived and,
now that Marek’s is under control
with vaccine, is expanding,
perhaps signalling the return of
pullet growing here. See story on
Daniel E. Wenger’s conversion to
a cage operation on page 16.
Kevin Hall, Keymar, Md., North Atlantic Region FFA vice
president; J. C. Fink, state FFA advisor. Back, Ken Ibach,
New Holland computer operations supervisor ; Phil
Johnson, Nebraska, Central Region FFA vice president;
Doyle O. Waybright, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania FFA
president, and Dan Reuwee, national FFA information
director.
Smith particularly noted “help ot
good leaders all the way
through” and “the trail blazing of
some of the men like Dutch
Bucher ”
He added, “I guess I’ll get
turned out to pasture too one of
these days. I hope I’ll wear half
3 Poultry Meetings Planned
A series of three educational
meetings for poultrymen have
been scheduled jointly by the
Lancaster County Poultry
Association and the Cooperative
Extension Service
The meeting dates are
February 10, February 24 and
March 9, all beginning at 7 30
pm at the Farm and Home
Center, Lancaster
Topic of the February 10 meet
mg is “Producing and Marketing
Quality Eggs ” Paul Hess Jr,
marketing manager of the Plain
and Fancy Egg Ranch, Inc , will
speak on “Marketing Aspects for
Marketing Quality Eggs” and
Herbert Jordan, Penn State
University poultry specialist, will
Lancaster Farming this week expands its Hog Prices
coverage with the introduction of hog market reports from
Indianapolis, St. Louis and Peoria.
Last week, we began separating the hog market portions
from our regular reports under a single Hog Prices heading
for easy reading by our hog producers. The three markets
introduced this week will give an overview of what’s hap
pening in Western hog markets to supplement information
previously available about local hog markets.
We continue to I'e'come suggestion'- fo- further im
provement of our market covet
$2.00 Per Year
as well as that Dutch Bucher ”
Smith also said that working
with the youth “has been the
highlight of my career” and “this
is what has kept me young ”
Gary Dean, 4-H’er, presented a
humorous farewell to 19 club
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speak on “Management Aspects
for Producing Quality Eggs ” A
summary on “Management-
Marketing as Partners” will also
be given
The February 24 meeting will
cover “Pennsylvania Standards
for Eggs” and how these stan
dards relate to “Federal Stan
dards Under the Egg Products
Inspection Act ” Also scheduled
is a discussion of “The
Economics of Egg Shell Damage.
The March 9 meeting will
deal with “The Public Image of
the Egg and What the Industry
Can Do to Improve It” and a
review of the “Market Order
Check Off and the Fowl Ad
justment Act.”