, 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
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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
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“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
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by Dick
Wanner