6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 28, 1974
Review
THE OLD
DEC 30 1974-JAN. 5, 1975
The old year drip. as you raise a toast to your lips.
Make only one New Year’s resolution this year, but stick with
it. . . Last quarter of the moon Jan. 4. . . Some say it’s bad
luck if you don’t take your Christmas greens down now . . .
Average length of days for week, 9 hours, 7 minutes ... Days
are starting to lengthen now . . . Car crossed Sahara Desert
in 3 days vs. camel in 9 days, Jan. 4, 1924 . . . Ring out old
year, ring in new; ring out false, and ring in true.
Old Farmer’s Riddle: What changes
a pear into a pearl? (Answer
below.)
Ask the Old Fanner: Why is the
name “tumbler” applied to an
eight-ounce, straight-sided, flat
bottomed drinking glass? G.C.,
Boston.
claims that the fiat-bo
unsteady lad, or “tuml
Home Hints Broken window glass can be removed easily by first putting
soft soap on the putty. In a few hours the putty will have softened and can
be removed with an ordinary knife Riddle answer The letter L
OLD FARMER’S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: Partly cloudy to start, then cold; end of week
partly cloudy with flurries.
Greater New York-New Jersey: Cloudy and drizzly at first,
then clear and mild; end of week clear, then increasingly
cloudy.
Middle Atlantic Coastal; Week begins partly cloudy and mild,
then showers; end of week sunny and mild.
Southeast Coastal-Piedmont: Early week mild with light rain;
heavy coastal rain latter part, then clear mild weekend.
Florida: Partly cloudy to start, then rain; light rain latter
part, then clearing and cooler.
Upstate and Western N.Y.-Toronto & Montreal: Light ram a:
first, then flurries; some sun and cold, then 3-5 snow in
north by weekend.
Greater Ohio Valley: First parf of week mild with light rain:
end of week flurries, then clearing and very cold.
Deep South: Overcast and cool to start, then clear and cold;
mostly clear and mild but ram in west at week’s end.
Chicago and Southern Great Lakes: Light rain changing to
snow at first, then becoming very cold; week ends rsw with
snow flumes.
Northern Great Plains-Great Lakes: Week begins snowy and
cold, then clear and very cold; end of week cloudy and sea
sonably cold with light snow.
Central Great Plains: Cold snap and flurries at first, then
mostly clear and very cold; end of week sunny and consid
erably milder.
Texas-Oklahoma: Week begins with cold snap, light rain and
■now in north, then mostly sunny but very cold; end of week
cloudier and much warmer.
Rocky Mountain Region: Very cold and snowy to start, then
mostly clear and seasonably cold; week ends cloudy with
2-4" snow in central and north.
Southwest Desert: Partly cloudy and cold to start, then cold
snap with lows in 20s; rain latter part, then clear and warm
days but freezing nights.
Pacific Northwest: Partly sunny at first, then light or freez
ing ram, cold rain continuing to end of week.
California: Most of week clear and mild with warmer temper
atures in south; increasing clouds in south by weekend.
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AILIS-CHAIMERS
There are two traditions about this.
One claims that originally the drink
ing cup or glass was made with a
round bottom and had to be held to
prevent it from capsizing. When a
drinker had arrived at the point
where he couldn’t do this, he was
expected to call it a day. The other
Homed glass was designed to help the
der.”
December, when a bill was
finally signed into law by the
Governor.
There were meetings on
the farm assessment act as
well as on the state’s
toughened conservation law.
Senator Richard Sch
weiker, at the PFA meeting,
told farmers he didn’t like
the fact that dairy imports
coming into this country
were hurting Pennsylvania
dairy farmers. He said he
also didn’t like the fact that
these unports were often
laden with filth.
In April, the Lehigh Milk
Producers Cooperative
board of directors voted to
oust Richard Allison from
his post as president of the
coop. It was the first step in a
long chain of events which
culminated in a board
decision to ask members for
funds to bail out the finan
cially troubled coop.
April was also the month
for FFA banquets and
awards, with many area
youths honored for their
accomplishments during the
year.
A calf bom on the farm of
Dr. Thomas Conrad, Bird-in-
Hand, became the first local
animal resulting from the
newly developed embryo
transplant operation. The
Simmental calf became part
of a growing herd which
Conrad hopes to develop into
a purebred Simmental
breeding operation.
In May we featured
another new beginning, this
one by Howard Miller, a
southern Lancaster Countian
who planted 10 acres of'
French hybrid grapes.
Miller became one of the
ever-increasing numbers of
area grape growers, a crop
that many expect to over
take tobacco in cash value.
This was also the month
that PennAg Industries
Association began probmg
railroad abandonment, an
issue which is of vital con
cern to many of Penn Ag’s
agribusiness members.
A pair of Lancaster
Farming stones on the
search for agreement on
whether or not to hold a
Lancaster County Fair
highlighted our June pages.
The initial meetings were
shot through with
pessimissim, an attitude
which eventually proved to
be justified.
There were more meetings
on tax relief, two of them m
Chester County, and more
news about Lehigh and
Country Belle, financially
Lancaster Pipe &
distributors
Acorn unloaders
bunk feeders
tube feeders
generators
chute hoppers
Self Unloading Silage Cai
Cattle and hog feeders
Automatic roller mills
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April-
A Shockerfor
Lehigh Members
May-
New Beginnings
June-
A Fair Month
ROBERT GUTSHALL
(717) 933-4616
troubled coops.
Sperry New Holland’s
Kenneth Thompson said he
wants to sell balers to
Russia. Berks County’s Jack
Kooker said he wants Jim
McHale’s job - but he didn’t
get it.
June was the month
Lebanon County Agent
Glenn Miller was feted at a
retirement party. It was also
the month a new byline
began appearing in the
pages of Lancaster Far
ming. It belongs to Melissa
Piper, our first full-time
associate editor.
July-
Wheat Harvest Presages
Bumper Crops
Wheat growers in the
Lancaster Farming area
harvested an excellent crop
this year, becoming the first
farmers to benefit from an
excellent growing season.
The Lancaster County 4-H
Dairy, and the District
Holstein show held back-to
back runs at Lancaster’s
Guernsey Sales Bam, with
Maurice Welk, Quarryville
R 2, capturing grand
champion honors at the
Holstein show.
Penn Staters working on
an ambitious dairy herd
health project were featured
in a July 27 article. The
research project is unusual
in that it is funded largely by
private donations from in
dividual dairymen and
agribusiness firms.
Diane Crider, Nottingham
R 2, smiled out from the page
of our July 6 issue in a photo
taken after she was chosen
Lancaster County Dairy
Princess for 1974.
August-
Summer Happenings
The Midwest burned and
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—Model 2012.19” impeller
Model 3013,27" impeller
February 2 - County FFA officers elected this
week were, front row, left to right: Don Weaver,
vice-president; Barry Wissler, president; Jeff
Glackin, recording secretary; Dwight Houser,
treasurer; Bob Buckwalter, sentinel. Back row:
Gerald Phillips, advisor; Nelson Martin, chaplain;
Brian Ober, corresponding secretary; Dwight
Martin, parlimentarian, and Kevin Rohrer,
reporter.
New Negiey-Miller Silos
silo blowers
conveyors
barn cleaners
calf stalls
free stalls
cow mats
barn fans
Ritchie water fountains