—Unatttar Farming. Saturday. Jan. 24, 197* 64 Farm & Home meeting featuring colonial fashions , 4-H grad. UNCASTER - A former outstanding Lancaster County 4-H'cr who went on to become director of Korea’s 4-H program from 1968-72, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s annual meeting of the Lancaster County Farm and Home Foun dation. He is Darvin Boyd who presently resides in Akron and works as a associate legislative research analyst for the Majority Caucus of the House of Represen tatives at Harrisburg. He will speak on the "Challenge of Commitment at Home and Abroad.” The meeting, which will be held at the Farm and Home Center, Lancaster, on Thursday, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets must be or dered in advance and should be purchased no later than Monday, Jan. 26. They’re available at $4.50 each from Foundation directors of the Center itself. The Center is located at 1363 Arcadia Road, just east of Pa. Route 72 where it joins US 30. Their phone number is 394-6851. Miss Gloria Longenecker - Miss Lancaster County for 1976 - will provide musical en tertainment at the annual meeting of the Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation. Scheduled to take place Thursday evening at the Farm and Home Center, tickets must be ordered by Tuesday, Jan. 27. Additional attractions to this year’s program include From Local Ag Teachers: By RONALD ALTHOFF you want to plant and the Solanco FFA Instuctor space that is available for a Many local FFA Chapters garden. In some instances are now selling vegetable certain vine type vegetables seeds. (cucumbers, pumpkins) Before seeds are ordered, may need to be eliminated a garden plan should be because of insufficient complete. Sometimes this space. Try to visualize the plan is simply correcting the mature height and spread of mistakes you made last the vegetables in order to year. For the beginning plan for proper row spacing, gardner it is planning crops Distance between rows also for the complete growing depends on the type of season. A good plan should cultivation that will be used, include which vegetables EVERY WEDNESDAY IS DAIRY CT DAY AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. New Holland, PA If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from 100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price Mostly fresh and close springing Holstems Cows from local farmers and our regular shippers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite, Gordon Fritz, Blame Hotter, Dale Hostetter, H D Matz, and Jerry Miller SALE STARTS 12:30 SHARP Also Every Wednesday, Hay, Straw & Ear Corn Sale 12 ■ 00 Noon. All Dairy Cows & Heifers must be eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts. For arrangements for special sales or herd dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact Abram Diffenbach, Mgr 717-354-4341 Norman Kolb 717-397-5538 music by Gloria Ungcnecker, who’s the current Miss Lancaster County, and a showing of colonial fashions by Lan caster County Farm Women Societies. Since its opening in 1966, nearly half-a-million people hove attended a broad variety of functions at the Farm and Home Center, which was constructed, and is supported entirely by funds from fanners ami the business community. In addition to the Center itself - which was the first of its kind in the state - the Foundation also operates a scholarship fund to assist college-bound Lancaster Countains who are aiming at careers in home economics, agriculture, or nursing. In addition to the dinner and Boyd’s presentation, the gathering will also hear reports from Foundation president, Jay Landis, treasurer George Lewis and building manager Howard Campbell. A brief business meeting at the end of the program will include the election of seven new directors. Narrow rows are easy to hoe, but it’s difficult to find a garden tractor that wUI fit between the rows. To obtain needed sunlight tall vegetables need to be placed in a position so they do not shade low growing types of vegetables-By planning, you can use the same space to grow two or three crops in succession in a single season. When you take out an early crop, plant another one as soon as soil preparation is completed. When your plan is completed, you will have a more correct estimate of the seeds and plants needed to produce your dream garden. Before you buy any seeds, consider the pros and cons of both seed catalogs and isplay racks in stores. Most catalogs offer you a wider selection than store racks, but when you buy from FFA members you also help your local chapter to raise some funds for FFA activities. New varieties and hybrids are constantly being developed. Try them you might like them. Well-known varieties aren’t necessarily the best. Some varieties are susceptible to a number of plant diseases, but because it is a familiar variety, gard ners continue to plant it. Regardless of where you purchase seeds, buy only what you can use in one season and check the seed packages for expiration dates. Buying too much, is not only expensive, but it depletes certain varieties early in the season. Buy early to avoid the spring rush. A well planned garden, usually means a garden with a better appearance. Proper planning also makes caring for the garden easier. We have barely begun, to explore: the ways in -which our abundance can advance the cause of peace and freedom around the world. J. F. Kennedy American agricultural abundance can be forged into both a significant in strument of foreign policy and a weapon against domestic hardship and hunger. J. F. Kennedy THE WEAVERLINE WAY FEED SILAGE EASIER-FASTER Model 224 - 30 Bu, Cart - 33” w. TIME PROVEN OVER THE YEARS! For simple, trouble-free feeding action, you can’t beat the Weaverline battery powered feed cart. Fingertip control and the automatic safety clutch make it both safe and easy to maneuver. It’s available in 24- or 30-bushel models to suit your specific needs. RYDER SUPPLY CO. Area com growers elected The Lester Brothers o( Lincoln University were recently named members of the DeKalb Yieidmasters Club for producing 177.47 bu. of com per acre in 1975. Their yield, based on 15% percent moisture, was mechanically harvested from a solid block measuring 1.246 acres. An impartial third party verified the high yield which was recorded from a field of DeKalb XL -64a. Forest Lester planted the crop on May 15 in 38 inch rows and harvested an estimated stand of 22,500 plants per acre on Nov. 3. Grain test weight was 58 lbs. per bushel. Two Northampton Co. farmers were also recently named members of the DeKalb Yieldmasters Club for producing top com yields in 1975. They are; Nick Cihylik, Treichlers - 215.96 bu. per acre with DeKalb XL-64a; and the Fulmer Brothers, Nazareth - 172.96 bu. per acre with DeKalb XL-64. All yields were mechanically harvested from a solid block measuring one or more acres, calculated on the basis of 15% percent moisture and verified by an impartial third party. Cihylik planted his crop on May 21 in 30 inch rows and harvested an estimated stand of 30,000 plants per acre. Grain test weight was 56% lbs. per bushel Robert Fulmer planted the crop on May 13 in 36.7 inch rows and harvested an RRB.P.O. BOX 219 CHAMBERSBURG, PA 17201 PHONE (717) 263-9111 to club estimated stand of 10,300 plants per acre on Nov. 6. The purpose of the DeKalb Yieldmasters Club is to promote an exchange of ideas and information among the nation's leading grain producers and to recognize them for their outstanding a c - complishments as well as their important role in helping feed the world. Through the sharing of such information, the program also encourages fanners to adopt management and cultural practices that will aid them in obtaining maximum profit from each acre. Each year, farmers throughout the country submit more than 1,000 corn, sorghum, wheat and silage yields to the club. I Continued from Page 54] merely noted on the ap propriate date, along with the animal’s identification. A more convenient system is a “heat expectancy chart.” Dates are listed in vertical columns of 21 days each and the chart includes a full year. It is easy to tell which animals should be in beat on any given date merely by noting which ones were in heat on the corresponding days in the column to the.’ left. These heat expectancy charts can be obtained without charge from any of the artificial breeding organizations. Model 223 -24 Bu. Cart 33” w. Facts
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