, Vot 10 No. 32 Financing Big Question on Lancaster Co. Fair Officials of community fails in Lancaster County arecyriag the proposed new Lancufer Comity Fair now uhderi discussion with a .“kfait and see” attitude, .Monday - meeting at the Farm and Home Center to give themahswers to three major questions: 1. Bow much is it going to coetito build? Where is the money going to come from? _ 3. And -is it going to -jeopardize the local com munity furs? FFA Week Award Winners ■■ 5t#eFFA Week drew to a on Thursday afternoon Pat Penn-Styte..Many, of the .* FF&r members frpm Lan-.; cfister County and Jthe „ surrounding areas brought homei-awards and medals. Lancaster and' Lebanon Cohhttes dominated the : Laild Jlkiging Qmtest with Lancastermembers cap- 430H1 Medals, two Silver, three Bronxeand-one HonoraUeMention. Lebenpft-County students "received one Gold Media, two Bronze. j James Bucher, Charles - Coates and Steve Holt' all from Lancaster County, will represent at the National Land Judging Meet the Man Who Wants Mcflale’s Joh Jack Kooker wants to help Pennsylvania farmers, especially* dairymen. He wants to he Pennsylvania’s next secretary of' agriculture, the post now held by'the controversial James A. McHale. Kooker says he’ll sell, his 300-acre Berks County farm, if he has )to,- to do a 'good- job as secretary of agriculture. “I’ve already talked to' Governor Shapp about replacing McHale,’’ Kooker told Lancaster Farming one rmoming last week in the -office of his farm home near Blandon. “I don’t think McHale is doing enough for Pennsylvania farmers. He’s in Washington a lot, but he’s not talking about our problems. He’s more in terested in knocking ,Earl Butz than he is in solving our problems.” ' “What has McHale done for the price of milk? Meanwhile, although most regular exhibitors from the county who were in terviewed this week by Lancaster Farming said they were “interested” in the proposed county fair, many also are apparently concerned about whether the grounds would be centrally located, and whether omot it would mean elimination of local fairs. N - County agricultural agent Max Smith sent letters to. agricultural leaders in the county, including officers of various farm and home Contest in Oklahoma. Individual and team competition award placings are as follpws.- s , Agricultural Mecha^oatlonv John . Swartzentruber, Gold, O. J, Rpbcr& ehester County, John will represent Pennsylvania at the National FFA contest in Kansas. ■' Michael Randalf, Bronze, 0. J. Roberts,’ Chester 'County. ' Michael will represent Pennsylvania at the Eastern States Ex position in Springfield, Massachusetts... AgricultuialSakaraiansb^ ■ Alyce Dery, . Gold, Govehior Mifflin, "Berks County. AlyceVittrepresent Pennsylvania at the National Nothing. The Pennsylvania Milk Marketing* Board held price hearings last November and December, and we still don’t know whether or not they’re going to raise the price to farmers. . In This Issue FARM CALENDAR 10 Markets 2-4" Sale Register 39 Farmers Almanac S Classified Ads 42 Editorials " 10 Homestead Notes 26 Home on the Range 29 Organic Living 22 Farm Youth Calendar 24 Farm Women Calendar 31 Lebanon County DHIA 18 Lancaster County DHIA 14 Adams County Dairy Princess , 28 Fair Schedule 11 Chester County Dairy Princess 13 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 22, 1974 Lancaster Farming Special Report associations and representatives from all existing Community Farm Show groups, inviting them to a public meeting Monday at 8 p.m. at the Farm and Home Center, Lancaster to discuss the pro’s and con’s of a county fair. Smith said this week that the county event is a movement from some farm show officials and agricultural leaders in the county. He declined to say what actual groups or in dividuals bad started the ball rolling for Monday’s FFA contest in Kansas. William Abrams, Gold .Governor Mifflin, Berks County. . ; Agronomy Louis Jbrdani Gold Red Lion, York County. * Dean 'WSler,,. Honorable' Mention, Garden .Spot, . Lancaster Comity. Parliamentary Procedure Team. - .Northern Lebanon High School - Ist Place - Glen Ulrich; Dennis Wenger, Shawn: Hernly, , Arthur Sweinhart, Chester Michael, Fred Bold, CHfFßerger, and Larry Gross. The team will receive money'for a trip. 2nd Place - Kehnard-Dale (Continued on Pare 7} If I vtere secretary, I’d try to do something about milk prices and other farm in come. And I’d try to do something about dairy imports, too.” Kooker said he currently spends an hour or more every day on the phone trying to do something about - milk prices. He is chairman of the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Advisory Council, a post to which he was ap pointed by none other than Jim McHale, The Milk Advisory Council is, one of about 20 similar commodity councils appointed by' the secretary to advise him on policy matters relating to those commodities. Some other councils, for example, deal with roadside farm markets, apples, mushrooms and so forth. It’s said that politics makes strange bedfellows, a truism nowhere more apt meeting. WiD Speak Lee Henney, a representative from the Pennsylvania State Fair Funds Service, will be speaking at the meeting, Smith said, as well as Wayne Kelly from the Penn State Extension Service at Penn State, who will explain ad vantages and disadvantages ' of some of the farm shows. Reportedly, a number of ag teachers in the county, ate strongly in favor of a county fair. Henry Givler, area coordinator for FFA in Southeastern Pennsylvania, said this week that FFA teachers have discussed the fair and “a lot of them” would Qke to see it,* par ticularly those from areas that.have.no fairs. August Birchler, president of the " Lancaster County Vocational Agricultural ' Teachers, told Lancaster Farming Friday hhwhhi£‘ thaf his, group, had voted earlier to support a' county fair with the idea that it would be,an agricultural event and not a midyray-type affaifC Birchler said- this support was based oh /the idea that a county fair would not necessarily mean that community fairs would go out of existence, that they believed both types could be run in the county. than in the council which Kooker heads. Once a month, a diverse group representing every shade of dairy opinion gather in Harrisburg to ponder the milk market and to make recommendations to Jim McHale and the Penn sylvania Milk Marketing Board. Independent producers, juggers, cooperative members, and farm organizations all are represented on the board. The organizations include the Pennsylvania arms of NFO, NFU, Farm Bureau and the Grange. Kooker was one of the prime backers last year of a move to get an advertising checkoff program started up among independent Penn sylvania dairymen. Farmers defeated the referendum, but' Hooker’s efforts had made him well-known in | Continued on Pace 37) Financing Stanley Musselman, vice president and agricultural loan officer of the National Central Bank, Lancaster, and a former president of the Solanco Fair Board, told Lancaster Farming that financing will be the first problem the county will have to face for a county fair, since adequate land for fairgrounds and parking would have to be acquired. The county will have to decide whether a county fair would serve, a useful agricultural purpose without becoming jifet another carnival, and kit the same time do a better job than the | FARM , ifc -* 1h Yi tfh V l i _ Pro 01; Con? If you. bave, ; for or against a Lan caster county" a chance to voice your opinion after .Monday night's meeting at 8:00 p.m. at the Farmand Hotne Center. The meeting could be lively and interesting,, with farm. and community leaders expressing varying' views .on the subject. The Newest "Exotic" Cattle Breed First came the Charolais to'threaten the en trenched status of- the Hereford and Angus in America, and now we’re hearing from the promoters [Continued oh Page 12 “I want Jim McHale’s job," says Berks County dairyman Jack Kooker. Kooker has already told Governor Shapp he wants to be Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, and he’s busily spreading the word of his intentions. $2.00 Per Year local fairs that now exist, he said. The local fairs are doing a “pretty good job,” and most are growing, Musselman said, adding that the Penn sylvania Farm Show takes care of most of what a county fair would take care of. He also said the county will face a big problem in getting people to assume respon sibility on an undertaking of this type, especially if they are also involved with local fairs in their own com munities. While he did not voice a stand either for or against the county fair, he indicated (Continued on Page 81 by Dick Wanner
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