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Vol. 20 No. 23
The three top speakers in Monday's
FFA area public speaking contest at
Brownstown Vo-Tech were, left to
right, Jeff Rutt, Solanco High School,
FFA Students Compete for Area
Speaking, Parliamentary Awards
Seven schools were
represented in an area FFA
public speaking and
parliamentary procedure
competition held on Monday
at Lancaster County’s
Brownstown Vo-Tech school.
Students from Chester and
Lancaster County schools
vied for spots in the Eastern
Region contest set for next
month at the Lehigh Com
munity College in'Allentown.
The parliamentary
OHIA reports mean cutting, assembling and typing
lor Mrs. Lois Risser of 564 Lampeter Rd., Lancaster.
Mrs. Risser has been doing the monthly reports for 16
| years.
third place finisher, Dolores Nolt,
Garden Spot, second place, and David
Nolan, Owen J. Roberts High School,
winner.
procedure team from
Garden Spot High School’s
Grassland Environmental
Chapter took top prize in the
competition. The Solanco
team finished second,
followed by Ephrata High
School’s Cloister Chapter
group. The teams from the
Octorara and Oxford
chapters finished fourth and
fifth, respectively.
The winning team con
sisted of Dean Weiler, acting
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 19, 1975
as president, Richard
Martin, vice-president,
Nelson Eberly, secretary,
Derrill Nolt, treasurer,
Linford Weaver, sentinel,
Lynn Stoltzfus, chaplain, J.
Alvin Wise, student advisor,
and Rick Groff, reporter.
The team was coached by
Clifford Day.
The second place Solanco
team, coached by Dr.
William Fredd, consisted of
Tom Jackson, president;
Tim Smeltz, vice president;
Lee Landis, secretary; Ken
Tucker, treasurer; Merle-
Ressler, reporter; Bruce
Kreider, sentinel; Gordon
Herr, student adviser; and
Dewey Atkins, chaplain.
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The Lady Behind
Lancaster County’s
Dairy Herd Reports
by: Melissa Piper
Production records have
always been an important
tool to dairy farmers and
while the informaiton con-
tained on the Dairy Herd
Improvement Association
registers have remained
relatively the same, the
mettled of reporting them
back to the farmer has
changed over the years.
Mrs. Jay (Lois) Risser, 564
Lampeter Rd., has been
compiling, typing. and
assembling the Lancaster
DER Head Vows No
Pressure on Farmers
by Dick Wanner
“Farmers are not major
polluters of air and water.
That’s why they’re at the
bottom of DER’s (Depart
ment of Environmental
Resources) list of
priorities,” Dr. Maurice
Goddard, Pennsylvania’s
Secretary Environmental
Resources told Lancaster
Farming last Thursday
night. “And I can’t see any
time, in the next ten years at
least, when DER will require
any farmer to erect fences to
keep cattle out of his
stream.”
Goddard was the featured
speaker at the 20th annual
dinner meeting of the Berks
County Conservation
District in the new Berks
County Agricultural Center
in Bern Township. He talked
about the DER program to
the more than 200 people at
the meeting, and afterwards
answered this writer’s
questions about the effect of
DER regulations on far
mers.
“We do not want farmers
to get permits for plowing,”
Goddard emphasized. “We
want them to get con
servation plans that will help
them solve their soil erosion
problems.”
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-6
Sale Register 65
Fanners Almanac 8
Classified Ads 24
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range _ 41
Organic Living 45
Junior Cooking Edition 43
Sale Reports 71
Country Comer 38
York DHIA 48
Lancaster DHIA 52
Lebanon DHIA 12
County DfflA report for the
past 16 years, a job which is
not enviable by many farm
women,
Although most dairy
farmers are familiar with
the DHIA testing procedures
that occur in their barns
during the morning or
evening hours, many de not
realize that numerous steps
go into the final report which
appears in this publication
each month. For this reason,
Lancaster Farming paid a
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Asked when these plans
should be put into practice,
Goddard replied, “It doesn’t
really matter. We want
farmers to have plans for
their farms by July 1,1977. If
they have plans and if
they’re working on putting
them into practice, that’s
really all we care about. I do
hope that farmers will get
plans as soon as possible.”
How far does DER want to
go in curtailing soil erosion
from farms, we asked.
“We’ve never really defined
Jay Bomgardner
Award Winning
Livestock Judge
When it comes to receiving
awards for outstanding work
with livestock, Jay
Bomgardner is a young man
who is well experienced.
Jay, who lives on a farm
with his parents at Annville,
Rl, Lebanon County, has
been an active 4-H member
for the past six years. He has
been involved in the Ellgrove
Community Club as well as
being a member of the
Lebanon County Livestock
Club.
As projects, Jay has taken
baby beef, swine fattening
and broiler production. He
Jay Bomgardner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Bomgardner, AimviHe Rl, has been an active 4-Her
for the past six years. Along with his project work, Jay
enjoys doing farm work and showing livestock.
$3.00 Per Year
exactly what is an ac
ceptable soil loss,” he said.
Would three to four tons
per acre per year be ac
ceptable to DER? “Yes.
Definitely. We couldn’t
expect anybody to do better
than that. There’s no way
we’re ever going to stop all
erosion. There’s also no
doubt, though, that we have
a problem right now and we
should be doing something
about it.
“Actually, we’d rather
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has shown his steers and
swine at the 4-H Round-up,
the state Farm Show and the
Lebanon Fair.
Although Farm Show
competition is quite keen,
Jay has shown'his steers to
third and fourth places in his
classes and has also shown
purebred Hampshire swine
in the breeding swine
classes.
Jay is well known in
Lebanon County for the
many grand champion
steers he has exhibited and
for his outstanding showing
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