VOL 18 No. 6
Arthur; left', and Alfred Reist shared top honors at the 4-
H Tobacco Roundup held Thursday at the Farm and
Home Center. It was their fourth year for winning top
prizes at the show.
Boyd, Reist Twins
Take Show Honors
“Considering the year we had,
we’ve seen some pretty good
hands of tobacco today,”
declared John Yokum, the judge
for Thursday’s 4-H Tobacco
Roundup at the Farm and Home
Center.
Yokum is an agronomist, and
manager of the Penn State
Southeast Field Research Farm
near Landisville. He noted that
while the quality of the tobacco
was good, it wasn’t really the
Farming Highlights -
The year 1972 was a rough one
for many farmers locally and
across the nation. Farming this
year wasn’t as good as it should
have been, but probably wasn’t
as bad as it could have been,
either. \
Through it all, the good and the
bad, LANCASTER FARMING
was there. Our pages recorded
most of the important things that
happened this year in the far
ming community. Here are some
of the highlights from that year.
January
Rosters of winners at the 1972
Pennsylvania Farm Show con
tained many names familiar to
local readers. Donnie Dorwart,
then a sophomore at Solanco
High School, had the grand
champion 4-H steer. The York
County partnership of Kenneth
McCleary and John Strawbridge
swept grand and reserve
classical top cigar tobacco for
which the county is known.
Alfred and Arthur Reist, twin
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L.
Reist, 1050 Eden Road, exhibited
the top tobacco at the show.
Alfred had the champion
wrapper exhibit and Arthur the
winning fillers.
They also captured both
reserve championships. Third
place in wrapper went to Edward
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champion hog honors for their
entries in both the Hampshire
and Yorkshire competitions.
Roger Frey, Conestoga R 2, and
Photo Highlights
P. 14-15
Roy Rohrer, Strasburg Rl, split
top tobacco honors. The Herrs
from Narvon excelled as usual in
sheep competition. Plain
and Fancy Egg Ranch,
Elizabethtown, had the best
dozen eggs in the carton class, as
well as the best five dozen eggs in
the commercial class.
P. Robert Wenger, Quarryville
Rl, was the recipient of the
Quarryville Jaycee’s Out
standing Young
February
Max Smith, Lancaster County
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 30, 1972
FHA, REAP Funds Cut
State offices of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service were informed Tuesday
that the federal government’s
Rural Environmental Assistance
Program (REAP) has been
suspended.
Lancaster County had already
been allocated $104,000 for the
1973 program that would have
paid up to 80 per cent of the cost
for construction of terraces and
Denlinger Heads
State Bureau of
Animal Industry
Secretary of Agriculture Jim
McHale announced last week the
appointment of Dr. Everett
Denlinger as director of the
Bureau of Animal Industry. The
/ bureau is responsible for the
prevention, control and
eradication of transmissible
diseases of domestic animals and
poultry within the Com
monwealth.
Denlinger joined the depart
ment in May, 1969, as supervisor
of Meat Hygiene at the Region VI
headquarters, Middletown, and
has since served in a number of
special assignments within the
bureau.
The 57-year-old Lancaster
County native assumed the duties
of the $20,629 post, effective
December 13.
Bom at Kinzer, Dr. Denlinger
did his undergraduate work at
Franklin & Marshall and
received his doctorate in
veterinary medicine from the
University of Pennsylvania. He
maintained a private large
animal practice at Paradise for
20 years before joining the
Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Denlinger lives with his
wife at R.D. 1, Ronks. They have
one daughter and five grand
children.
agricultural agent, was honored
for his 35 years of service to the
local farm community. He was
guest of honor at the annual 4-H
Gaby Beef and Lamb Club
Banquet at the Farm and Home
Center.
Elam Bollinger was elected
president of the Lancaster
County Holstein Breeders
Association.
Fred Crider was named
president of the Lancaster
County Guernsey Breeders
Association.
The Lancaster Livestock
Exchange bought the 22.9 acre
Union Stock Yards from the Penn
Central Railroad. The price was
over $BOO,OOO.
Robert L. Kauffman Jr., Peach
Bottom R 2, was elected president
of the Lancaster County DHIA.
Nathan Stoltzfus, Gap Rl, was
March
sod waterways on area farms.
In 1972, about 250 Lancaster
County farmers spent close to
$150,000 on REAP - funded
conservation practices.
The terminated program also
made partial payment toward the
cost of animal waste storage
facilities and numerous other
water control and erosion control
measures, in addition to wildlife
habitat programs.
In addition to the REAP
program, the administration
gave the axe to the year-old
Water Bank Program that was
intended to help preserve
migratory waterfowl areas.
“These two programs are
among those selected after a
review of federal programs to
identify those of low priority that
can be reduced or eliminated
without serious economic con
sequences,” a Dept, of
Agriculture spokesman said.
Officials said Tuesday that
payments under the two
programs are no longer
necessary because farmers can
afford to do the work themselves.
In another cost-cutting move
the administration on Wednesday
ordered the Farmers Home
Bred Heifers Wanted
Qualified heifers are being
sought by the Pennsylvania
Holstein-Fresian Association for
shipment to Spain. Do you have a
bred, Registered heifer that
would be good foundation stock
for a new herd?
The heifers must weigh at least
1,000 pounds and must pass the
inspection of the Holstein-
Fresian Association of America
and the Spain buyer. She must
have been bred at least three
months and not more than seven
months as of shipment date
(February 1 from Richmond,
Virginia). The service sire must
be a Registered Holstein bull.
Two different groups of heifers
elected vice-president, while
Henry E. Kettering, Lititz R 3,
was named secretary.
Lancaster County 4-H’ers
raised $750 toward retiring th«
mortgage on the new National 4-
H Center Building in Washington,
D.C.
A contingent of 10 members of
the Lancaster County Farmers
Association traveled to
Washington to talk about farm
problems with Congressman Ed
Eshelman.
Lester Stehman, Manheim R 2,
was named 1972’s Outstanding
Cooperator by the Lancaster
County Soil and Water Con
servation District.
April
The annual Lancaster County
Holstein Tour was held on April
11.
Fulton Grange adopted a
resolution opposing the building
$2.00 Per Year
Administration to quit making
emergency loans to farmers in
disaster areas where storms and
other bad weather have inflicted
severe losses to crops, livestock
and other property.
The unexpected order,
disclosed by the Agriculture
Department, virtually rules out
chances of new loan relief to
farmers who have lost crops
during severe harvest weather
this fall
“This action was taken to
counteract inflationary presures
and to adhere to a $250 billion
budget,” said the department’s
brief announcement The $250
billion level is the federal
spending ceiling Nixon is striving
to enforce.
The administration has been
alarmed at recent sharp in
creases in emergency loans
made by FHA, estimated by
some budget sources at a
potential backlog of between $2OO
million and $6OO million for the
fiscal year ending June 30.
are being considered: group A,
the dam and grand-dam must
have completed one complete
lactation of 305 days or less of
11,000 pounds of milk with a 3.5
per cent or better test in the same
lactation; group B, no production
records are necessary on the dam
or maternal grand-dam, thus
using some heifers from the
dairyman who is not on official
DHI test. A Registered Holstein
sire is required.
If you have an animal you think
would qualify for this shipment,
contact one of the following by
Wednesday, January 3,1973: Jay
Landis, 872-8818, or Nathan
Stoltzfus, 442-4291.
1972
of an atomic power plant in the
Solanco school district.
The Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation district held
its annual FFA public speaking
and 4-H conservation exhibits
contests. A 1 Lutz Jr, Millport
Road, Lancaster, won the exhibit
competition, while Michael
Martin, New Holland, won the
speaking contest.
Hendrink Wentink, assistant to
the president of Pennfield Corp.,
was elected vice-president of the
Associated Poultry and Egg
Industries.
The Cocalico Watershed
Association was formed, and
eight directors named. A
waterjack dam on the Lititz
Cocalico Creek was one of the
first projects tackled by the new
group.
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