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VOL 18 No. 15
DHIA officers elected Monday night for the coming year
are: seated (I. to r.) Nathan Stoltzfus, secretary, and Robert
Kauffman, president. Standing are James Kreider, vice
president, and Jacob Houser, treasurer.
Officers Named
At DHIA Meet
The Lancaster County Dairy
Herd Improvement Association
held its regular quarterly
meeting on Monday night at the
Farm and Home Center, and
elected officers for the coming
year.
Robert Kauffman was
reelected to his second term as
president, James Kreider was
elected vice-president and
Nathan Stoltzfus was elected
secretary. Jacob Houser was
named to his eleventh con
secutive term as treasurer for the
local DHIA
Two new directors were
present for the first time at the
meeting, which was the first this
year. They were Calvin Byler,
They’re Wheelin’ & Dealin ’ at E-Town High
Paradise, and J. Mowery Frey,
Jr, Lancaster.
Annual prizes for top DHIA
production were discussed during
the meeting The board decided
to retain the present practice of
awarding prizes only to those
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Farm Calendar
Monday, March 5
7pm- Annual Ortho Dinner
meeting, Meadow Hills Dining
House Lancaster.
7:30 p m. - Penryn Community
4-H Club Organizational meeting,
Penryn Fire Hall
8 pm. - Lancaster County
Poultry Association meeting,
Farm and Home Center.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3, 1973
AFBF President Predicts ...
Good Beef Mart,
Lower Feed Cost
“Lower feed prices should
come out of the administration’s
cut-back in the feed grains set
aside program,” William J. Kuh
fuss told a group of newsmen
Thursday afternoon in
Harrisburg Kuhfuss is president
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, headquarted in Park
Ridge, Illinois, and representing
some two million farm families.
He is also part owner with his
brother of an 800-acre beef and
grain farm in Mackinaw, 111
Kufuss is on a national
speaking tour, and was passing
through Harrisburg on his way to
address a Pennsylvania Far
mers’ Asssociation group Friday
night in Chambersburg. The
press conference was arranged
by the Harrisburg office of the
PFA.
Kuhfuss pointed out that over
30 million acres would be going
back into production this year as
a result of the cutback in
set aside acreage re
quirements. And he predicted
that the increased production
would result in lower feed prices
This planeload of area NFU members left
Lancaster Municipal Airport Monday
later this year, provided there is
a good growing season
Beef prices should remain
strong for the next year or two,
Kuhfuss predicted, because
NFU Group Flies
To Midwest Farms
A planeload of National Far
mers Union members left Lan
caster Municipal Airport last
Monday morning abroad the
NFU’s own 580 Convair. All the 48
southeastern Pennsylvania
farmers in the group, were
participating in a three-day
leadership training program.
The group will be scattered
throughout various locations in
lowa and South Dakota, staying
with NFU host families there.
Forney Longenecker, Lititz R 3, is
the coordinator for the local
program
Longenecker said the flight is
part of a continuing program of
Every Tuesday is a day of
reckoning for students in the
farm management class at
Elizabethtown High School
Tuesday is the day vo-ag teacher
Elvin Hess displays a weekly
summary of the futures on a
projection screen at the front of
the room And it’s the day
everybody in the class sharpens
his pencil, strains his brain, and
tries to make a killing in futures
“My goal in conducting this
class.” Hess said, “is not to teach
the students how to gamble in the
Vo-ag teacher Elvin Hess,
Elizabethtown High School,
conducts a class in the
futures market every
Tuesday.
consumers are buying more and
more beef “Even though they’re
veiling about the price,
housewives are still going to the
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leadership development. During
their visit, the members will be
exchanging ideas with host
families and conducting
recruiting drives for more
members The NFU pays ex
penses for participants in the
program The group returned to
Lancaster on Thursday
Participants from Lancaster
County included Roy Steffy, Roy
Garber, Clarence Keener, Jr,
Ronald Herr, Ronald Kline. Jay
Rohrer. Mervin Sauder, Cletus
Weber, Vincent Becker, Harold
Esbenshade, Amos Roland,
Forney Longenecker, Mark
Osborne, Jay Wenger and Clair
Delong
morning for a three-day visit to lowa and
South Dakota.
futures market What they’re
really doing is learning how to
use futures as a hedging tool ”
Hess’ main teaching aid in the
class is a summary of the prior
week’s activity on the futures
markets He clips the summary
each week from the market
pages of LANCASTER FAR
MING, makes a transparency of
it. and projects it so everyone can
see it
The class started the project on
January 23, each student starting
with an initial investment of
$lO,OOO The money, of course, is
strictly imaginary, and so are the
paper profits and losses each
student tallies up every Tuesday
But the enthusiasm for trying to
outwit the piarket is quite
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