Vol. 19 No. 44
Discussing the role of farmer
cooperatives at Tuesday’s PAFC
meeting in Lancaster were, left to
Lancaster County’s Fair
Season
Lancaster County’s busy
fair season begins this week
with opening ceremonies at
the Southern Lancaster
County Community Fair,
and the Elizabethtown
Marketplace on Wednesday.
Activities get underway at
the Solanco Fair on Wed
nesday morning with the
judging of dairy cattle. At
6:30 p.m. there’ll be a baby
parade and at 7:30 p.m.,
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture James A.
McHale will officially open
the 1974 Solanco Fair.
Penn Jersey Harvestore
Celebrates 10 Years Service
Penn Jersey Harvestbre
Company is celebrating their
10th Anniversary of services
to southern Pa., New Jersey
and Delaware this year.
Penn Jersey which is
located on Rt. 322 Vh miles
west of Blue Ball, began
operation in 1964 when
Charles Enloe and Howard
Anderson both of New
Holland purchased the
company from Elmer
Knipmeyer. ~
Until 1970 the Penn-Jersey
Harvegtore Company was
located on 309 Diller Avenue
in New Holland and when
expansion seemed inevitable
the company moved to its
present location on Rt. 322
outside of New Holland.
Charles Enloe and Howard
Anderson were originally
from Indiana and had work
with feedlot automation
before they decided to move
to “the garden spot” as
Enloe has referred to the
Lancaster County area
right, George Brumbach, Enos
Heisey, William Schaefer and N. Dale
Detweiler.
Starts This Week
McHale’s speech will be
followed at 8:00 p.m. by two
woodcutting contests, one for
FFA members only, and one
for all who want to try their
log splitting skills.
On Thursday, the annual
Lancaster County FFA
judging contest will get
underway, with young
people from every vo-ag
department in the county
pitting their judging skills
against each other. At the
same time as the judging
contest, there’ll be tractor
driving competitions for 4-H,
FFA and open.
In 1971 Penn Jersey had
the honor of being named the
Harvestore Dealer of the
Year which is outstanding
since it represented com
petition with dealers from all
over the United States,
Canada and Europe. The
award was determined by
the market index, service
and sales of the company
Supervisors of the Penn
Jersey Company com
mented that the company
had quadrupled in growth in
the ten years of service and
contributes it to the un
derstanding and help of the
many fanners they have
.dealt with.
Presently the company
has a total of 12 people in
volved with sales and has a
total employment of 30.
To celebrate their 10th
year in business, the com
pany has had several ac
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Sept. 14, 1974
Hogs will be judged at 1:00
p.m. on Thursday, and the
baby beef show will com
mence at 6:30 p.m. At 8:00
p.m., therewill be trail bike
races for three and five hp
minicycles. There will be one
race for youths eight to 12
years old, and another for
youngsters 13 and 16 years
old.
Also at 8:00 p.m. tug-o
war, an annual feature of the
Solanco fair, will get un
derway. There’ll be one
competition between FFA
chapters, followed by an
open contest.
The fat hog and baby beef
sale will commence at 2:00
p.m. on Friday. The annual
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County Star
Agribusinessman
by: Melissa Piper
Keith Feister was sur
prised when he was named
Star Agribuinessman for
Lancaster FFA a few weeks
ago; however to many other
people who have been to Kar-
Run Saddle Shop or horse
shows, Keith’s abilities were
well known.
A senior at Garden Spot
High School, Keith is a
member of the Grassland
FFA Chapter and has been
active on many committees
including the Earnings and
Savings Committee and the
banquet groups.
Keith has taken several
projects m FFA but his main
mterest has been training
and raising purebred Ap
paloosa horses.
Coop Conference Is
Held In Lancaster
Farm cooperative leaders
gathered in Lancaster this
week for a two-day con
ference on educational
programs aimed at im
proving cooperatives. It was
a meeting involving Penn
State Cooperative Extension
Staff as well as vocational
agriculture representatives.
The event began Tuesday
afternoon with a tour of the
Agway Distribution Center
at Elizabethtown, followed
by a look at the Atlantic
Breeders Cooperative in
Lancaster. Monday mor
ning, the group convened at
Lancaster’s Quality Court
Motel and heard first from a
panel of Penn Staters as they
discussed extension struc
tures, programs and
priorities, and how extension
programs relate to farmer
cooperatives.
Next they heard from a
panel of vo-ag specialists,
who discussed the inter
relationship of agricultural
cooperatives and vocational
agriculture. The last panel
was from the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer
Cooperatives, and they
talked about education
programs carried out by
PAFC cooperatives and co
op councils.
There to give the final
message and to wrap up the
whole program was Dr.
James M. Beattie, dean of
the college of agriculture at
Penn State.
“Agriculture’s con
tribution has gone
unrecognized in recent
years,” Dean Beattie told
the group, “but I think we’re
beginning to see a change.
Today there’s a renewed
Keith participated on the
FFA Horse Judging Com
petition at State FFA Days
this summer and received a
Bronze medal.
Although school work
keeps him busy nine months
of the year, during the
summer, Keith heads to
many different shows
around the state and m
Delaware, New York and
Maryland.
This summer Keith took
his yearling filly, Lassie to
seven shows. He attended
the Greater Eastern Ap
paloosa Regional Show is
Syrascuse, New York and
the proceeded to the
Keystone Appaloosa Show at
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interest in agriculture.
College of agriculture
enrollments at Penn State
and other land grant
universities are increasing.
This year at Penn State we
have 2450 baccalaureate
candidates in agriculture
majors. That’s up 99 percent
from four years ago, and we
expect it to go even higher.
There are 800 new freshmen
enrolled in the college this
year.
“What’s bringing these
young people into the college
of agriculture? I think it’s an
increased concern for the
environment and with the
care and management of our
basic resources. It’s also, I
think, an awareness on the
part of young people of the
job opportunities in
production agriculture and
agriculture related fields.”
Beattie pointed out that
some 65 percent of the
students enrolled in
agriculture curricula were
from urban areas, and 20
percent of them were
women, a marked change
from the student mix of
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 24
Sale Register 68
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 32
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 42
Home on the Range 45
Farm Women Calendar 47
Jr. Cooking Edition 46
Berks FFA 53
Growing Degree Days 53
EphrataFair 58
Along with being named Star Agribusinessman for
Lancaster County, Keith Feister has also won
numerous awards at horse shows around the state
and Mid-Atlantic region.
$2.00 Per Year,
several years ago. Some of
the college’s newer
programs include en
vironmental science, and
two-year associate degree
programs m agribusiness,
forest tcnnology and wildlife
management. He said the
college also offers the
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Wanner Wins
Award For
Farm Writing
Lancaster Farming editor
Richard E. Wanner was in
Dekalb, Illinois, this week to
pick up a trophy prize for
newswriting. The Akron
resident was named to
receive Dekalb Seed Com
pany’s Oscar in Agriculture
for a story he wrote in April
of this year. The story was
about the effect conservation
laws are having on Lan
caster County’s conservative
religious groups.
There are three Oscars
awarded each year, one each
to a farm broadcaster, a
farm magazine writer and a
farm newspaper writer. The
panel of seven judges that
selected the winners
represent farm journalists,
agribusiness and education.
The award is generally well
regarded by the farm
writing community.
Wanner joined Lancaster
Farming as editor two years
ago. He is a native Lancaster
Countian married to the
former Judy Kulp. The
couple have two children.