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Vol. 20 No. 4
Standing before samples of their
photographic handiwork are the five
winners in this year’s conservation
photography contest sponsored by
the Lancaster County Conservation
Seated are Carolyn Jones,
1131 Country Club Drive, Lancaster,
Winners Announced In 3rd
Conservation Photo Contest
Scenes of beauty mingled
with images of despair at the
Lancaster County Con
servation District office in
the Farm and Home Center
on Wednesday. The occasion
was the district’s third an
nual conservation
photography contest. En
tries were categorized either
beautiful or unsightly
aspects of the environments.
Trudy Nissley
Award Winning
4-H Photographer
by: Melissa Piper
Youngsters from the Mt.
Joy area of Lancaster
County have always been
noted for their outstanding 4-
H work and Trudy Nissley is
no exception.
Trudy, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Nissley,
RDI, Mt. Joy, and has been
active in many phases of 4-H
work that range from sewing
to cake decorating.
This summer, Trudy had a
special interest in 4-H
however, as she was a
member of the Mt. Joy
Photography Club. The club,
which was coached by Dan
Hoy, an employee of
Michael’s Camera Shop at
Park City, won some
prestigious awards this year
including having four
left, and Jane -Dalrymple, 379
Blossom Hill Drive, Lancaster.
Standing, left to right are Jordan
Lambert, 96 Barre Drive, Lancaster,
Judy Simon, 86 Barre Drive, Lan
caster, and Eric Haas, 242 W. Fer
dinand St, Manheim.
Henry Hackman, the
district’s executive assistant
and coordinator for the
contest, called it the best one
so far. A total of 17 high
school students entered the
contest, submitting 47 prints
and 28 slides.
The two first place win
ners, both Manheim
Township High School
seniors, were Judy Simon, 86
member’s pictures sent to
the National 4-H Congress to
be placed on exhibition.
Trudy’s picture which was
entitled “Summer Flowers”
won state honors at the 4-H
State Festival this summer
and was selected to be
placed on exhibit at the
Congress. For the Nissley
family that was an honor but
a greater one lay in store
however when Trudy’s
brother, Darwin also
exhibited a state award
winning photo. In fact all
four photos judged the best
in the state, were froni
members in the Mt. Joy
Club.
Trudy explained that both
her and her brother were
interested in photography
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Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas•
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 7, 1974
Barre Drive, Lancaster, and
Carolyn Jones, 1131 Country
Club Drive, Lancaster.
Miss Simon’s winning
entry in the beautiful
category showed a stem of
bleeding hearts in full
blossom. The Jones girl
captured a first place in the
unsightly competition with a
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Trudy Nissley, RDI, Mt. Joy holds some of the
photographs that her and her brother, Darwin took as
members of the Mt. Joy Photography club.
Still not at break-even point .. .
Prices for Live Cattle
Dip, Then Come Back
A combination of
Thanksgiving lethargy and
blocked roads kicked live
cattle prices down to a two
year low on midwestern
markets this week, but by
Thursday, prices appeared
to be edging back nearer to
the break-even point.
Although that break-even
point is still way above the
current market price for live
cattle. Local auction prices
moved virtually in lock-step
with the Midwestern auc
tions.
Local and national
markets continue to fluc
tuate just under the 40-cents
per-pound mark. Lancaster
County agricultural agent
Maxwell M. Smith said
Friday morning he believes
.the break-even point for
'.most beef producers here is
anywhere from 45- to 55-
cents a pound.
“Corn’s selling for $3.50 a
bushel now, which is about
six-cents a pound. If it takes
eight pounds of com to put a
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 54
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 23
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 34
Home on the Range 37
Organic Living 41
Farm Women Calendar 43
Jr. Cooking Edition 38
York Homemakers 36
Berks DHIA 12
pound of meat on a steer, and
if a farmer feeds com that
he’s paid $3.50 for, it’ll cost
him 48-cents for every pound
of gain he gets on the steer.
So, if he sells the steer for 40-
cents a pound, he loses eight
cents on every pound. That’s
why a lot of farmers are
selling their com instead of
feeding steers.”
Merton McCoy, a Lan
caster cattle dealer, echoed
Smith’s comments about
cattle prices. “The low
market we’ve had in the past
few months has really hurt a
lot of our cattle feeders,”
McCoy said. “Some of them
have told me they’re losing
$l5O on every head they
sell.”
McCoy also noted that the
local auctions seemed to stay
Many Here Begin
Stripping Tobacco
by Dick Wanner
Cold weather this week
sent many tobacco farmers
into their warm, cozy
stripping rooms to prepare
their crops for the buyers
who’ll be out looking around
one of these weeks.
Some of the crop has
reportedly already been sold
at a price of 70 to 75-cents a
pound to buyers from
Maryland and North
Carolina. This tobacco,
thoujgh, was a light-colored
Maryland variety which will
probably be going into either
cigarettes or the export
market.
Thursday morning we
drove through the New
Holland area, looking for the
piles of tobacco stalks and
the smoking chimneys that
go along with tobacco
stripping. All the growers we
talked to had grown Penn
sylvania type tobaccos, and
they were hoping to get 60-
cents a pound for their crops.
Norman Snyder, New
Holland RDI, just outside
Hinkletown, was in his shed
with his son. We talked to
them while they stripped and
baled the leaves from their
improved narrow leaf
tobacco which, Snyder said,
looked to be about one of the
best crops he’d ever grown.
Not far from Snyder’s
farm, we talked to a pair of
brothers who planted ten
acres of Pennbel tobacco this
year. “It’s the best crop I’ve
ever seen in the nine years
I’ve been growing tobacco,”
one brother told us. “Last
year we had 2100 pounds to
the acre, and I think we’re
going to be doing better this
year.”
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right with the prices in the
Midwest. “Prices here
reacted right away. Monday
in Lancaster was draggy,
and Wednesday was nothing.
On Thursday, though, the
Midwestern markets seemed
to put back just about
everything they lost earlier
in the week, and the New
Holland market stayed right
in step with prices out
there.”
McCoy pointed out that a
drop in beef prices has been
a traditional occurence after
the Thanksgiving holiday
and the market seems to
have gotten over that slump.
No big turnaround in live
cattle prices is foreseen by
McCoy. “Some of the small
local butchers will buy
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Noah Wenger, Ephrata
RD2, has 20 acres of Pennbel
hanging in his tobacco sheds.
Wenger figures his yield will
be good this year - at least
1800 pounds of pull . off
tobacco to the acre -
although he did lose about
two acres to the early frost.
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Pennfield
Plans New
Lancaster
Feed Plant
Pennfield Corporation, a
Lancaster-based feed firm,
unveiled plans this week for
a new $3 million feed
manufacturing facility to be
constructed in Hempfield
Industrial Park.
Final plans for the plant
are pending zoning ap
provals from both East and
West Hempfield Townships.
Financing arrangements
with Commonwealth
National Bank have already
been made through the
Lancaster Industrial
Development Authority.
Pennfield president
Robert B. Graybill said they
hope to break ground for the
project sometime before
spring. The plant will em
ploy 15 people and will have
a feed manufacturing
capacity in excess of 50 tons
per hour.
Most of the plant capacity
will be devoted Jo the
manufacture of poultry feed
for the firm’s area
customers.