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In This Issued
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-6
Sale Register 86
Farm Almanac 8
Classified Ads 26
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 50
Home on the Range 54
Jr. Cooking Edition 53
Country Corner 50
Youth Calendar 52
Manheim Fair 5 71
What’s New 78
4-H Features 62
Mum Farm 70
UnionvilleFair 18
Junior Dairy Show 22-23
Ephrata Fair 22-23
Dairymen testify 60
New Holland Fair 28^
Is the Good Year blimp coming in for a landing? No r not quite. Tillage tools
in the Midwest are big, but they aren't quite big enough for a blimp to land
on a disk, even though this photograph was taken to give a reader that kind
of an impression. The famous, 200-foot long blimp flew over the Ag Progress
The soil trembled in Illinois
By Dieter Krieg
MALTA, ILL. The
ground on the James Willrett
farm, near here, was
trembling last Tuesday,
Bulletin
U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture Earl Butz reset
dairy support prices to 80 per
cent of parity on Thursday
and the new support level is
now $7.71 per hun
dredweight.
Dairy support prices had
not been increased since
January of this year when
they were set at 80 per cent
with a value of $7.24 per
hundredweight.
Lancaster Farming has
learned that the September
butterfat price differential
was expected to be an
nounced Friday night, and if
guesses are on target, it will
be the highest in history. A
10.4 cent butterfat dif
ferential per 0.1 percentage
point is forecasted.
The order becomes ef
fective immediately.
Wednesday and Thursday as
equipment manufacturers
from all over the country and
several foreign countries
demonstrated their
machines before crowds
which were expected to
approach the 500,000 mark
Crop damage exceeds *4O million
By Melissa Piper
LANCASTER - While
many crops and pastures
were heavily damaged in the
wake of Tropical Storm
Eloise that swept over the
state last week, corn and
fourth cutting alfalfa
received the storm’s worst
fury.
Most of the losses of
agricultural land and
commodities, were spawned
from some 8-12 inches of
rain, much erosion caused
by small streams over
flowing contributed to an
estimated $4O million worth
of damage in the state.
Although the estimated
amount of damage to crops
involved those ruined by
water, it seems likely that
still more losses may occur
because of the inability for
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Oct 4,1975
for the three-day period.
This was no ordinary
agricultural exhibition it
was the world’s biggest
and there were a number of
ways a visitor got that im
pression. For one thing, the
Good Year blimp does not
com to be harvested without
problems.
Lancaster Receives
Little Damage
Compared to its neigh
boring counties, Lancaster
received relatively little
damage. Heavy rains
presented the worst
nroblems as much of the new
Corn-soybean field day held
By Melissa Piper
MANHEIM - Oversupplies
of soybeans, yields of the
latest commercial corn
hybrids and the ef
fectiveness of insecticides
were the popular topics of
conversation at a corn
soybean field day held
Monday afternoon at the
Show site for severaTfiotTrs onWednesday while more than 100,000 people
observed the latest farming machines in operation on a 1,100 acre farm
near Malta, Illinois. The show is the biggest of its kind in the world, and
hundreds of the visitors came by private airplane.
show up for any old event
but it was here for the Ag
Progress Show, circling
overhead. Visitors who had
not been to such an event
before stood in awe as
hundreds of private planes
landed one after another,
and at times there were
seedings of winter wheat and
barley were effected.
A spokesperson in the
bounty ASCS office ex
plained the damages in
curred, “Com was probably
hit the hardest in this county
as not much of it had been
harvested.”
It was initially estimated
Penn State Research Farm
near Landisville.
Interested farmers from
all portions of Lancaster
County gathered at the
facility to hear Dick Cole,
Mel Johnson and Joe
McGahen speak on the latest
developments in agronomic
practices.
more than 15 airplanes in the
air at one time. Landing at a
rate of up to five per minute,
an entire field of ap
proximately 50 acres was
saturated with light aircraft,
parked wingtip to wingtip in
long rows.
Visitors came by
that much of the county’s
tobacco crop had been
literally “wiped out”, but as
reports came into the office
later in the week, it was
noted that the crop had
escaped much of the
damage.
Many of the small streams
in Lancaster County did
Visitors were invited to
view several plots of com
mercial hybrid com to see
how it had faired throughout
the growing season and of
what value it could be in
their own farming program.
Mel Johnson, representing
Penn State, spoke to the field
day group on the disease
$3.00 Per Year
automobile, truck, bus,
motorcycle, camper,
helicopter, and jet.
Chartering a Boeing 727 jet
and two Greyhound buses,
Penn-Jersey Harvestore,
Inc., of New Holland offered
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overflow, causing some
pasture damage but in an
overall view, the area faired
better than most.
According to officials in
Chester Comity, the worst
problem for the farmers in
that area will be the loss of
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problems encountered with
the various plots and
discussed how well the newly
developed hybrids had done.
Speaking on the new
hybrids, Johnson explained
the varying maturities
represented.
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