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Vol. 20 No. 35
I In This Issue |
I FARM CALENDAR 101
{Markets 2-6
I Sale Register 671
[ Fanners Almanac 8
r Classified Ads 25-26
Editorials 10
. Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 42
I Junior Cooking Edition 44
Country Comer 38
Thoughts in Passing 54
I Youth Calendar 40
YorkDHIA 47
I Swine Tour 9
[ AFS Students 12
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 12, 1975
Surplus going abroad
Predicting a record
harvest of nearly six billion
bushels of wheat for this
year’s growing season,
Secretary of Agriculture,
Earl Butz, affirmed rumors
that much of the surplus
from the United States farms
would find its way to Russia
before fall.
The secretary parried
Wheat coming up short
LANCASTER The small
grain crop in southeastern
Pennsylvania is not turning
out to be as big as was ex
pected earlier in the year
at that’s the indication
given by the area’s growers
ana handlers interviewed
Thursday.
KUTZTOWN A spec
tacular bam fire near here
completely demolished a
bam Wednesday afternoon,
presumably the result of
lightning. Owned by Shupp
and Nolfe, a landscaping
contractor in the area, the
structure contained some
small equipment, a tractor,
horses and hay.
Y ork Countian honored
DELTA A York County
dairyman, whose DHIA
rolling herd average on 50
Holsteins has exceeded 700
pounds of butterfat since
1969, received the distinction
of being the “Outstanding
Young Cooperator” for
Inter-State Milk Producers
Cooperative. Competing
Judy Stoltzfus is a
vivacious young lady who
has enjoyed her work and
activities in 4-H for the past
seven years.
The 17-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs.' Henry
Stoltzfus, Mt. Joy Rl, Judy
recently returned from the 4-
H Leadership Congress held
at Penn State.
A delegate to the con
ference two years previous,
Judy was invited to attend
by: Melissa Piper
By Dieter Krieg
Fire destroys bam
By: Dieter Krieg
Active 4-H member
by: Melissa Piper
Butz hones to see
questions from a number of
newsmen before speaking to
a group of agriculture of
ficials from 12 northeastern
states in Camp Hill on
Tuesday.
Adamantly denying that
the selling of United States
wheat to Russia two years
ago was a disaster for, the
farmers, Butz acknowledged
that with the over abundance
The situation in this part of
the country differs
significantljrv from reports
received elsewhere. In the
Midwest, for example, a
farmer described the crop
outlook: “things'have never
looked better for this time of
year.” While this still holds
true for com in the Com
All horses were reportedly
saved, and there were no
injuries. No livestock of any
kind was lost according to
persons involved in fighting
the blaze. Over 60 firemen
were on the scene from
companies in Kutztown,
Trexlertown, and Tooton.
The property is located at
against 18 other couples
representing outstanding
young dairy farm families
from Inter-State’s
marketing area, the contest
was won by S. David and
Barbara Stewart, whose
dairy farm is nestled in the
hills of southeastern York
County, near the Peach
Bottom Atomic Plant.
Judy Stoltzfus
the function this summer as
a student to the leadership
school. The school itself is
designed to acquaint the
older 4-H members with
leadership roles in order to
spark new membership in
their area clubs.
The Lancaster County
miss attended two separate
workshops along with the
leadership activities. One
which was of particular
interest to Judy was the
poster making workshop.
of wheat expected to be
harvested this season, much
of' the surplus would most
probably find its way across
the Atlantic.
Stating that wheat was one
of the largest sources of
exchange, he noted that it
helped to pay for imports
that America received every
year. "
“I hope we do sell the
monwealth, the small grain
crops, especially wheat,
apparently came up short.
Robert Hood, of the White
Horse Grain Company in
Chester County, termed this
year’s harvest as being “a
little disappointing it
looked much better than
what it is turning out to be so
Kutztown R 1 and was visible
from busy Route 222, slowing
traffic to a crawl at the
height of the fire.
Cause of the fire was not
immediately known,
however a severe electrical
storm had passed through
the area just prior to the
blaze. Firemen from the
Judging in the contesf,
which was held last month at
the Hunt Valley Inn, north of
Baltimore, was based on (1)
an on-the-farm inspection of
facilities, buildings and
equipment; (2) interviewing
to determine the contestants
knowledge and opinions of
agriculture; (3) community
service; and (4) public
“The poster designing
workshop was fun but also
valuable information for
gaining new members.”
Judy has put her artistic
talents to work, by designing
posters for her club as weU
as State activities.
Also during her stay at the
Congress, Judy attended a
workshop on video taping
and television which proved
quite interesting to the 4-
Her.
“We were allowed to see
$3.00 Per Year
surplus wheat,” Butz
commented, “it will help us
in importing goods to this
country.”
Speaking on food prices,
Butz noted that some prices
were already craning down
on the market.
“Cattle - beef prices are
still high but will decrease
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far.” He added, however,
that it was still a little early
to give a sound judgment.
His company handles 50 to 75
thousand bushels of wheat
per year, but hasn’t received
much yet this season
because of interfering
weather.
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three communities were
unable to save the structure.
There was no immediate
estimate available on the
dollar value of the loss,
however, the entire struc
ture and its contents, with
the exception of the horses,
were destroyed.
Picture: of blaze appear
on pageB.
speaking.
A recipient of both the
Keystone and American
Farmer Degree, the 32-year
old dairyman said he started
farming because that’s “all I
ever knew, and just had to do
it.” He has been active in the
business ever since
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and do all phases of video
and television work which
was quite interesting and
new to us,” Judy explained.
- As another venture into
artistic work, Judy has been
a member of the Mt. Joy
photography club for the
past three years. As a third
year member, Judy will be
responsible for helping to
plan and assemble a slide
presentation along with
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