—Lancatter Farming, Saturday, June 14. 1975
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THE OLD
Summer arrivci this week!
Summer boffin* Juno2l nt 8:27 PM EDT... Bernard Baruch
died June 20,1901).. . First quarter of the moon June 16 ...
Fireflies around now . . . Avcraffe length of days for the
week, 15 hours, 19 minutes (lonffcst days of the year now)
.. . Battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775 .. . First U.S. base
ball match, Hoboken, N.J., June 19, 1846 . . . This month is
always the weather vane for the summer. Summer copies
June.
Old Farmer's Riddle: Why arc a man’s trousers so short?
(Answer below.)
FFA Activities Week
Planned for June 17-19
A record enrollment of
over 1800 FFA members,
including 228 girls, are
preregistered for the annual
FFA Activities Week to be
held June 17 to 19 at The
Pennsylvania State
University. Twenty young
women will compete for the
title of Pennsylvania FFA
Princess.
Preregistration shows 106
more members planning at
attend than last year. In
volved will be 1,537 students,
62 state delegates, 73 band
and 47 chorus members, and
some 250 teachers and
supervisors of vocational
agriculture.
Making his state FFA
president’s report June 18
will be Gary R. Butters of
R.D.I, Morris. James C.
Fink of the Department of
Education, Harrisburg, will
present his state FFA ad
visor’s report at the same
general session in the
Recreation Building, star
ting at 8:15 p.m. The first
day’s general session June 17
will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the
Recreation Building.
Of 19 contests, 224 students
will take part in dairy cattle
judging, 177 in livestock
judging, 167 in land judging,
88 in forestry and 63 in
floriculture. The other
contests are agricultural
mechanics, agricultural
salesmanship, agronomy,
chapter procedure, dairy
foods, horse judging, in
terview, meats, nursery
landscape, poultry judging,
two contests in public
speaking, small gasoline
Banned in Britain
U.S. hog producers can
change that “banned” to
“welcome” since the United
Kingdom lifted its 20-year
embargo on American pork
on April 1. Reason for the.
about-face is that no case of
hog cholera called “swine
fever” in England has
been reported in the 50 States.
over the past year. The hog
industry is hoping that other
countries that have barred
U.S. pork products will
follow Britain’s lead. Before
the U.S. hog cholera
eradication program began
in 1962, the highly contagious
disease was costing U.S.
producers more than $5O
million a year.
JUNE 16-22, 1975
Ask the Old Farmer: I’m sure you re
member Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound, which was made quite
some time ago. But do you know the
words to the old song that begins (or
ends): “All Hail to Lydia Pinkham /
Saviour of the human race”? H. M.,
Lynn, Mass.
The stuff used to be made in your
town. The song was sung to the tune
of the hymn, “I will sing of my re
deemer." I will sing of Lydia Pink-
engine operation, and
tractor driving.
Co-chairmen for FFA
Activities Week are Dr.
Norman K. Hoover and
William Williams of the
Department of Agricultural
Education at Penn State and
Charles F. Lebo of the
Department of Education,
Harrisburg.
New officers of the State
Association of FFA will be
announced at a final
assembly starting at 9:30
a.m. June 19 in Schwab
Auditorium. Awards to
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ham / And her love for the human race. / How oho nello her
readable compound, / And the papero all publioh her face, /
Oh Lydia Pinkham, Pinkham, Pinkham, / All the papero
puhlioh your facet
Homo Him.l When tylns liumllm, wot tho utrlnu flf»t After It <lrle», th*
liumllei ore tied in lluhtly in poMllilo . . . Hiddlf omicer; ileenino Bn
Ivga utlok nut tiy Iwo feet.
OLD FARMER’S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England: First part of week cloudy and cool; end of
week heavy showers.
Greater New York-New Jersey; Mont of week partly cloudy
and warm; some showers latter part.
Middle Atlantic Coastal: Week boffins cloudy, then partial
clearing and hot; showers in west at week’s end.
Southeast Coastal-Piedmont: Hot and partly cloudy all week.
Florida: Partly cloudy and very warm to start, then incrcas
inff cloudiness; rain latter part in south.
Upstate & Western N.Y.-Toronto ii Montreal: First part of
week clear ifhd warm; scattered showers end of week.
Greater Ohio Valley: Partly sunny and hot at flrst, then some
thunderstorms in central and cast.
Deep South: Generally clear and very warm throughout week;
some showers alonff Gulf.
Chicago & Southern Great Lakes: Occasional showers flrst part
of week; end of week partly cloudy and very warm.
Northern Great Plains-Grcat Lakes: Clear to start, then rain in
west; end of week partly cloudy and showery.
Central Great Plains: Cloudy with intermittent showers all
week.
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contest winners - including
trips to regional and national
contests • will also be made
at this assembly.
Educational demon
strations and tours will be
among the features un
derway at 1:15 p.m. June 18.
Included will be research
facilities of the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Penn
State, a discussion of
programs and career trends
in agriculture, and reports
on Pennsylvania Game
Commission activities by
representatives.
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Southwest Desert: Clear and warm all week except for showers
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Pacific Northwest: Cloudy all week with rain to start and
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California: Cloudy all week in north;/dear to start in south,
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