I
. Periodicals Division
Vol. 20 No. 8
Ken Longenecker, JID, Lititz, has
been spending many hours for the
past few weeks, walking his steer and
4-H’ers Ready Steers
T-'
For Pa. Farm Show
' Although the Pa. State'
Farm Show annually offers
many'attractions, perhaps
the most, popular event
throughout the years has
been the 4-HBaby Beet Show
and Sale.
For the youngsters who
participate in the com
petition the show represents
the climax of a year of hard
work and effort in preparing
their steers for showing.
Com, Tobacco
Roundups Held
“This is the best tobacco
crop I’ve seen in Lancaster
County in the past two or
three years,” L. C.
Whitemore told a group of
tobacco growers on Wed
nesday at the Farm and
Home Center. Whitemore, a
local buyer for the American
Tobacco Company, was one
of the two judges at the
annual Lancaster County
tobacco roundup. The other
judge was Maurice
Hostetter, a buyer for A. K.
Mann Tobacco Company.
“Every contestant here
can be proud of the tobacco
he brought in,”
added. “The weight isbettef;
than it’s been in the past four
years. If this is an indication
getting it in the correct stance - a fete
quite important in competition.
This past week,.in Lan
caster -County, some 36
youths took Jo the barns,
armed with buckets,
brushes, combs and other
parphenaha to begin the
final preparation of their
steers for the state com
petition. Aided by the ad
ditional time off for the
holidays, these young 4-Hers
spent hours washing and
combing their animals,
of the average Lancaster
County tobacco, we’ve got an
exceptionally good crop.”
Roy M. Rohrer, Strasburg
Rl, won three of the six
classes, including the
champion wrapper tobacco,
in his 38th year of tobacco
competition.
Eugene Rohrer, Strasburg
Rl, showed the champion
filler, Michael Rohrer,
Strasburg Rl, had the
champion binder, and
Timothy Hostetter,
Manheim Rl, had the first
place long wrapper.
There were 114 entries in
the six classes of this year’s
contest.
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Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 4, 1975
clipping underlines and tails.
And when they-finished the
beauty treatment for the
day, it was exercise time,
which meant a hour or so
walking their steers to insure
muscle tone was of the best
degree.
Most of the youngsters
bought their steers early last
spring in either March or
April. For the first few
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Nelson Martin has served his FFA chapter as vice
president and news reporter throughout the past four
years. See story page 20.
Agriculture 1975
Some Predictions
by Dick Wanner
Many farmers and
agribusinessmen will
remember 1974 as a year of
sharp jumps in the cost of
doing business and equally
sharp drops in returns.
Economically, it was a year
to live through, to survive if
possible, and most of us -
farmers and non-farmers
alike - breathed a sigh of
relief as 1974 slunk out the
back door.
But then, we have to ask
about 1975: Will it be worse?
Can it be worse? Might there
be a ray of sunshine poking
its way through the clouded
fiscal outlook of 1975? To
answer those questions, we
called on a number of people
who’ve done a lot of thinking
about the prospects for their
particular areas of business.
We asked them to crawl out
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register • 85
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 32
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 66
Home onihe Range 71
Organic Living 75
Farm Women Calendar 73
Junior Cooking Edition 70
Keystone Degree Winners 42
Chin Forest Sheep 58
Chester Co. DHIA 76
York Co. DHIA 15
Lebanon 4-H Pig Show 31
Youth Feature -
Nelson Martin 20
FARM SHOW
Schedule' 60-65
Exhibitors 13
Floor Plan 12
Calendar of Judging,
Sales, Contests 25
on a limb and tell us about
1975.
The feeling generally
seems to be that 1975 is going
to be another tough year. It’s
take sharp management to
make a profit in the next 12
months, but there are profits
to be made in the farming
business. While input'costs
Farm Show Opens -
Have Your $ Ready
For years now, the Penn
sylvania Farm Show has
been one of the very last big
farm shows with completely
free admission. But times
change, and with them the
Farm Show. This year, for
the first time, there will be a
$1 parking fee for visitors to
the largest agricultural
event in the Northeast.
Farm Show Director
Wellington Smith explained
the change by saying that the
Farm Show appropriation
from the State legislature
was being stretched thinner
and thinner by inflation, and
this was one way of gaining
some revenue from the
throngs which visit the show.
Does he think the parking
fee will discourage visitors
from attending the Farm
Show? “I’m sure people
aren’t gomg to stay home
from the Farm Show just
because they’ve got to pay a
dollar to park,” Smith told
Lancaster Farming this
week in his Harrisburg of
fice. “One thing we will be
able to do is get a better
count of the people who
attend.”
Smith, a former Crawford
County commissioner, has
been Farm Show director
$2.00 Per Year
are expected to remain high,
there’s a chance that some
prices may fall. Feed costs,
particularly, might edge
downwards if spring plan
ting intentions are high.
Possibly the best portent
for 1975 is that there are no
major clouds on the horizon.
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since 1972. His'efforts at cost
cutting have earned him
quite a bit of praise from the
secretary of agriculture’s
office. “But we’ve cut down
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Keystone
Degree
Winners
Outstanding FFA mem
bers throughout the state are
honored every year with
Keystone Farmer Degrees.
Degrees are presented to the
top two percent of the state’s
FFA members on Wed
nesday of Farm Show week
during the annual Penn
sylvania FFA convention in
the Forum of the Penn
sylvania FFA convention in
the Form of the Penn
sylvania Education Building
in Harrisburg. Some 95 FFA
members from Lancaster
Farming’s five-county
coverage area will receive
Keystone Degrees this year.
Biographies on these out
standing youths from
Lancaster, Berks, Chester,
Lebanon and York Counties
begin on page 42.