Vol. 19 No. 21
The top county herd in this year’s Pennsylvania Holstein Show in
Harrisburg last Saturday came from Lancaster County. Shown here with
the winning group, left to right, are Clarence Stauffer, Ephrata, Elvin Hess,
Jr., Strasburg, Russell Kline, Reinholds, J. Mowery Frey, Jr., Lancaster,
William Haines, Lancaster, Arlan Keener, Elizabethtown. Linda Kauffman.
Elizabethtown, Sandra Frey, Strasburg, and Robert Kauffman,
Elizabethtown. Displaying the prize trophy is Neil Bowen, president of tne
FARM
TRENDS
Soybean Supplies Up,
Prices Holding Steady
Soybean production in 1974 could total 1,540
million bushels, just under last year’s record if
acreage intentions and projected yields are realized.
But adding this to the large carryover expected in
September would boost 1974-75 supplies to 1.8
billion bushels, about a tenth above the current
season and a new record. Farmers in March indicated
plans to plant 55 million acres of soybeans this year,
about 2 I A million below the record of last year. Yields
per acre are projected to increase.
Total soybean utilization next season is projected to
increase by about 100 million bushels to 1.5 billion
bushels. Both crushings and exports are projected to
increase by about 50 million bushels each over the
levels expected for the current marketing year. Such
gains would not quite keep pace with production, and
would result in an increase in carryover stocks on
September 1, 1975, to nearly 300 million bushels.
Total soybean disappearance during the current
marketing year is expected to increase about 100
million bushels over last year to 1.4 billion, a new
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“And I Will Give Him the Morning Star”
“... 10, there was a great earthquake; and the sun
became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as
blood;
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig
tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a
mighty wind.
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together; and every mountain and island were moved out of
their places.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich
men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens
by Dick
Wanner
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 13, 1974
Martin, Sweigart Tops in FFA Meets
Pequea Valley’s Galen
Sweigart, Jr., and Ephrata’s
Curtis Martin took higb
individual honors this week
in two separate FFA com
petition*
Tractor Round-Up
Winners Announced
The annual Lancaster
County 4-H Tractor Club
Round-up was held Friday
evening, April 5 at the Farm
and Home Center.
The best two overall
project awards were
presented to Dudley Rohrer,
RDI, Manheim, and Ronald
Zimmerman, Ephrata RDI.
They each received a rosette
ribbon and a wrench set.
Also receiving awards for
outstanding project work
were: David Koch, RD2
Ephrata and Errol Moyer for
their first year projects;
Dale Mylin, RD2 Willow St.
and in the rocks of the mountains;
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide
us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from
the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be
able to stand?”
These words of prophecy from the Revelation of St. John
form a wedge between the state of Pennsylvania and many of
Lancaster County’s conservative fanners • those of the Old
Order Mennonite and Amish faiths. Many conservatives,
believe that the state is the embodiment of the vile, seven
headed, ten-horned beast of Revelations; the blasphemous
Pennsylvania Holstein Association. The calf, yearling and two-year-old in the
courity group were owned by J. Mowery Frey. The three were owned by
Robert Kauffman, Russell Kline and Linda Kauffman. In the sale on Sunday,
a Frey calf brought $1750, fourth highest price at the sale. Highest selling
calf was a Chester County consignment by Linda Weaver that brought
$3400.
Sweigart outclassed other
contestants on Monday night
in the Junior FFA Public
Speaking Contest held at
Ephrata Area High School.
The junior contest is open to
and Scott Augsburger,
Reinholds RDI for their
second year projects; Andy
Augsburger, RDI Reinholds
for his third year project and
Donald Mylin, RD2 Willow
St. and David Haldeman,
Reinholds RDI for their
fourth year projects.
The awards and wrench
sets were presented by Ben
Wenger, president, Lan
caster County Machinery
Dealers Association.
Jay W. Irwin, Associate
County Agent, discussed the
tour scheduled for this
summer and presented the
film “Focus on 4-H.”
all first year speakers,
normally freshmen.
Sweigart nabbed the first
place trophy with his ob
servations on our
diminishing forests. He will
speak again at the leader
ship training conference
scheduled for May 9 at
Solanco High School.
Second place in this event
went to Richard Groff, New
Holland. Steve Hershey,
Manheim Central, captured
third prize while Ephrata’s
Darryl Martin went home
with fourth.
Judges for the contest
were Greg Landis, Nelson
Martin and Earl Stauffer, all
of whom are former state
FFA officers.
Curtis Martin won his
award on Wednesday during
the annual FFA Dairy
Products Judging Contest
held at Penn Dairies. Of the
top six individuals in the
competition, five were from
Ephrata’s Cloister Chapter.
Jay Oberholtzer was second,
Dave Martin was third,
Darryl Martin was fifth and
beast which deceives men so that they worship and obey noi
God, but the beast-state. St. John tells us that God will hea{
vengeance upon those who worship the beast and his image
and those who receive the mark of his name.
But what about the one who resists the beast, who over
comes, who keeps God’s words? Of him, St. John tells us, Goo
has said, “I will give him the morning star.”
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has decreed that bj
July 1,1977, all farmers in the state must have conservatior
plans in operation on their farms so that runoff water do&
not carry soil away from their fields. These conservatioi
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$2,00 Per Year
John Weiler was sixth. Mike
Birmingham put Penn
Manor into the top six with
his fourth place finish.
High team honors went to
Ephrata. Solanco, which won
the contest three out of the
past five years, placed
second. Penn Manor was
third, Chester County’s
Oxford High School team
was fourth, and Manheim
Central was fifth.
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 52
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 26
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 34
Home on the Range 38
Organic Living 14
Thoughts in Passing 41
Owen J. Roberts FFA 40
Lancaster Mennonite Sale 9
4-HNews 12
OctoraraFFA 8