•X X JLU\/i I /99 (Contfnuad from Pa|« If
is a member of the Midway Other contestants par-
Church of the Brethren youth ticipating in the contest
group and choir. 1 were; Linda Kreider, 18,
She is a member of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Cedar Crest Medical Careers Irvin H. Kreider, RD2,
Club and Organ Club. Palmyra. Susan Werner, 16,
Mary Ann, whose parents the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
own 160 head of Holsteins, Lewis M. Werner, EDI,
plans to work for her father Fredericksburg; and Rose
on the farm and may go into Brandt, 16, daughter of Mr.
the Brethren Volunteer and Mrs. Bernard Brandt,
Service.within a year. RDI, Fredericksburg.
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Mary Ann Reist recipient of the Miss Congeniality
1974 Award at the Lebanon County Dairy Princess
Pageant.
Master of Ceremonies for Judged for the pageant
the event was Alfred Brandt, included; Mr. Harold
Lebanon, Mr. Brandt is the Brecht, Assistant County
State President of the Agent of Schuylkill County;
Pennsylvania Dairy Herd Mn£ Faye Strickler, Ex-
Improvement Association, tension Home Economist of
Also presiding at the Berks County and Miss
contest was Donna Ben- Betsy Ellsworth, Myer
netch, Lebanon County stown.
Dairy Princess of 1973.
Melissa Piper Named
Associate Editor
Melissa Piper, Sturgis While attending Penn
Lane, litatz, has been named State, Miss Piper was active
Associate Editor with the in many agricultural ac-
Lancaster Farming tivities including the Block
Newspaper. and Bridle and the Editor of
.Miss Piper, who resided in the Ag Hill Action
Columbia County before Newsletter.
moving to Lititz, graduated Having lived on a farm
from Benton Area High noted for livestock and crops
School and received a production, she was active in
Bachelor of Science Degree 4-H receiving numerous
in General Agriculture from awards for her work in
Penn State at the June veterinary medicine,
.commencement - exercises.
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FARM TRENDS
Dorothy Neal, head of the Lancaster County ASC:
office, reminds farmers that July 15 is the last day fo
signing up for the 1974 Wheat and Feed Gran
Program. She said no set-aside acreage and n
conserving base is required this year. You've got t
sign up if you want to be eligible for deficienc
payments (based on target prices), disaste
payments, price support loans and if you want t
protect your crop history for allotment purposes.
Lehigh Names Former Kraftco Official President
The troubled Lehigh Valley Farmers Cooperative
has named Robert P. Barry president. Barry is <
former official of the Sealtest Division of the Kraftcc
Corp., in Philadelphia, and replaces Richard Allisor
who was fired last month. Barry was reported!
picked for the job over three other front runners, on<
of whom was former Pennsylvania Milk Marketing
Board chairman Harry Kapleau.
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According to the Pennsylvania Department o
Agriculture, in 1971 the value of the total agncultura
output in Lancaster County was $211,650,200. B\
1973 the output value had leaped almos
$100,000,000. totaling $311,210,160.
Lancaster County was ranked first in five com
modify categories including dairy products, poultr;
and broiler production, cattle and calves, hogs anc
layers and eggs, in Pennsylvania for 1973.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Crof
and Livestock Summary noted that the county dairy
production totaled $60,703,000. Last year, placing tht
area first in state production.
Total value for the Poultry-Broiler industry it
Lancaster County was $26,072,000; while layers am
eggs registered at $40,707,000. Cattle and Calve
production value registered $95,677,000. last yea
with hogs valued at $7,421,000. Lancaster Count
ranked second in poultry production other thai
broiler and layer production and third in sheet
production in the state.
Corn and grain registered the highest acreage user
in Lancaster County from 1971-9173 with an average
yield of 84 bushels per acre.
Hay followed in second place with an average q
16.8 tons per acre. The total value of all crops in 197
was $74,736,360. approximately $26,000,000. ove
the 1971 figure.
Lancaster Farming, 15.1974—
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