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FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-6
Sales Register 84
Fanners Almanac 8
Classified Ads 37
life on the Farm 10
Homestead Notes 46
Home on the Range 49
Junior Cooking Edition Sfl
Sale Reports 91
Country Comer 46
Farm Women Calendar 50
Neppco Convention 57
| Crop Stats 62
Farm Progress Show 62
LManheimFair 20
A cloud of black smoke rose several hundred feet
into the air when disaster struck the Joseph 801 l
farm last Tuesday afternoon.
Wins contest in Ohio
By Melissa Piper
EPHRXTA - ' Three
Ephrata High School youths
recently captured first place
at the American FFA Dairy
Cattle Judging Contest held
m Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 4.
The youths, Kerry Boyd,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Boyd, Ephrata Rl; Harry
Leininger, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Leininger,
Ephrata Rl, and David
Hhldeman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Christ Haldeman,
Reinbolds Rl, comprised the
team (Cloister FFA) which
competed against a total of
113 other teams.
This year marked the
second time that an Ephrata
team bad captured first
place in the contest at
Columbus. Members
representing the school took
find in 1971 also. Along with
Ooister FFA Team
receiving a trophy, the team
was awarded a $lOO prize.
Solanco Youth Tops
the Field
Joe Winters, Solanco High
School, was the top in
dividual judge at the event.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Winters, Kirkwood
Rl; the youth helped the
Solanco team place 7th in the
event.
Other members of the
Solanco team included Bruce
Kreider, Quarryville R 1 and
Marshall Trimble, Drumore
Rl. The team was coached
by Dr. William Fredd.
Ephrata’s win at
Columbus was not the first
for the youths this season. In
April, the team placed first
at the Penn State Dairy
Club’s invitational contest
and placed third at the State
FFA Judging contest. At the
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct 11,1975
Barn fire trips zone alarm
By Dieter Krieg
PENRYN - Volunteers
from six fire companies
battled a bam fire near here,
at the Joseph 801 l farm, on
Tuesday afternoon.
Believed to have been
started by an electric heater,
the blaze, which engulfed
and destroyed the entire
upper portions of the
structure, was visible from
as far as Lancaster about
ten miles south of here, a fire
official said.
Bumper com crop seen
By Dieter Krieg
LANCASTER - Reports
from various sections of
Lancaster County indicate
that this year’s com crop is
going to be a good one,
possibly better than last
year’s.
Paul Howard of Red Rose
"Feeds, Quarryville, says his
company has been receiving
the new crop for about two
weeks now and according to
what he sees and what
Dairy market sets records
LANCASTER - “Last
week was good news week
for area dairymen,” Dr.
James E. Honan, general
manager, of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative, told
a group of officers and
delegates for Inter-State’s
District 7, here Monday
night.
Within one week, reported
Honan, the Pennsylvania
Milk Marketing Board
Atlantic Rural Exposition,
held in Richmond, the team
placed second. Before their
victory at Columbus, the
youths captured first place
in the FFA Dairy Judging
Forum held in conjunction
with the All American Dairy
Show. Lewis Ayers, ag in
structor at Ephrata High
School, coached the team.
Ephrata Wins
County Title
Fbr the fourth consecutive
year, the Cloister FFA
(Ephrata) took first place
honors in the County Judging
Contest held earlier this fall
at Solanco Fair. Over 400
FFA’ers from Lancaster
County took part in the
contest.
John Weiler, Ephrata
FFA’er was also the top
individual judge.
•s.
The fire started at about
12:15 pjn. with what was
described as an explosion
and it spread to the roof and
bay mows within minutes. A
spectacular column of black
smoke rose straight into the
air for several hundred feet
before the fire alarms bad
even gone off. Fifteen
minutes later most of the
bam, located on Fairview
Road, 3Vi miles northwest of
Lititz, had already been
consumed by flames.
farmers tell him, “we’re
going to have a really good
yield down here.” He
described the crop as being
of the “bumper” variety.
Not only are the yields per
acre very good, farmers all
across the county also
planted more acreage -
which has caused some of
them to go around inquiring
about the possibility of
putting up more storage
bins.
climaxed three years of
hearings with a new order
for the Philadelphia Milk
Marketing Area; Secretary
‘of Agriculture, Earl Butz,
raised support levels back to
80 percent parity; and Order
4 milk prices hit their highest
mark in history.
“It’s certainly great to
share with you some good
news,” Honan said. “Too
long has the dairyman been
Members of the award winning
dairy judging team from Ephrata High
School look over some of the many
trophies they captured this season.
Participating on the team were (from
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PfHNSYLVANIA STATUWUVEJtSITY
Lost in the blaze were 3,500
bales of hay, 500 bushel of
shelled com, three tons of
soybean meal, a bin wagon,
and a weed sprayer. There
were no cattle in the bam at
the time, and the livestock
area itself was untouched by
flames,
Boll’s son, Richard, who
operates the farm, told us he
was just coming home for
lunch from a neighbor’s
field, where he had been
Moisture content is
favorable in most areas too.
Howard told us that it was
“considerably lower” than
anticipated, ranging from a
low of 23 per cent to a high of
28. The full-season com is
also down in moisture, and if
favorable weather is with us
from here on in, it will mean
that com will be drying
pretty well, and yields will
continue to be good.
Pennfield Corporation’s A 1
the victim of the cost-price
squeeze.”
Honan credited those
dairymen at the meeting for
helping to bring about the
good news. Those in at
tendance, he said, were
instrumental in organizing
the trip to Washington, D.C.
last November, which
brought national publicity
for the first time to the
dairyman’s plight. About
left) Harry Leininger, Dave Haldeman
and Kerry Boyd. The team placed first
in competition at the North American
Dairy Show held recently in
Columbus, Ohio.
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cutting silage, when be
discovered the tragedy.
“The fire was in a bin wagon
of shelled com when we got
home,” he said.
The elder 801 l was in his
home about a half mile
away. He said be heard what
sounded like an explosion
and immediately looked out
the window. It was then that
be noticed the fire at the
bam.
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I .andia told us that his
customers give him the
impression the 1975 crop
“will be as good as last
year’s or just about.” Dave
Heistand of Heistand
Brothers, Elizabethtown,
agreed word for word with
the crop estimate made by
r .anids. The report from the
New Holland area is that
com over in that section is
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1,400 Inter-State members,
made the trip.
“That trip,” he said, “soon
resulted in (Secretary of
Agriculture Earl Butz)
raising the support level to 80
percent parity and adjusting
it again last week was no
coincidence.”
That first increase in dairy
supports this year came in
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