Vol. 21 No. 27 Seniors select ways to finance farms I By MELISSA PIPER ■NOVER When yon don’t have a ■ble bank roll, a farm to inherit or a rich ■ how do you get started in forming ■? Well, according to four graduating ■rs who have chosen agriculture as their Kr, “you have to start at the bottom and Brork your way up.” Rude Warner, Lamar MQler, Peter Dave Lees Annual Dairy Issue deadline's June 1 On June 5, LANCASTER FARMING will recognize the area’s dynamic dairy industry with its Annual Dairy Issue. ' \ -- - To be sure you make the Dairy Issue, pWg* submit all advertising and editorial material fay fuesday, June 1. Call us at 717-394-3047 or 717-626- UM. Or write LANCASTER FARMING, Box 266, Witz, Pa. 17543. ''^tsia^eisaaMnaaiaiaaaiaMaNiNNMMaMaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaai LCFA plans big P—R effort % DIETER KRIEG - The first •mzational meeting for a" : Public relations effort * staged at Park City during the week of Oct was held on Wed ®y evening at the Farm Home Center. Ie more than 40 people *Ol divided into groups - elect chairmen and :uss possibilities for j£am ideas. Ruth dzer, chairman of the New hog market to start % dieter krdeg ffiRATA - A new bog is scheduled P® l here at the Green Ifrn Markrton Manorial 'May 31. r* e other markets in this .one will not be "’tied as an auction. Slusser and Dave Lees win graduate from Southwestern York High School early next week and for the four youths, beginning their careers will mean taking one step at a time - venturing only as far as finances will allow, fcut even though the road ahead may seem like a long uphill climb, the seniors are optimistic that agriculture holds a good future in store. LCFA Relations Committee, announced that the next meeting will take place oh August 2, which coincides with the deadline for submitting committee reports. She stressed that everyone involved should make it a point to be in at tendance for that meeting, and if that’s impossible, then a replacement should be sent in h|s name. “We cannot be issued a permit for special programs until definite plans Instead, hog producers simply can the-Market and ask for the paying price that particular day. They can take it or leave It No fee. No obigations. Introducing .this new concept of bog marketing to Lancaster County is £enn Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 22,1976 Lamar Miller Water management of concern By DIETER KRIEG LANCASTER A proposal lor limiting the construction of sewer lines within the County, and some praise for the Amish were beard Tuesday evening at the Farm and Home Center. The meeting, attended by 18 persons, concerned water have been proposed and made,” she said. LCFA will have the entire Park City Mall to work with. Kunzler FFA prize presented By DIETER KRIEG NEW HOLLAND Mike Hartman, 17-year-old senior at Garden Spot High School, practices what he believes in. Like not wasting anything The firm, which kills 4500 hogs perday, is represented in the . area by Kew Emery. _ Dialing for hog prices is not an entirely new idea. Emery, who has been with Penn Backing for two years, .says his employers have “Getting started will mean that things will be tough for awhile but it has to get better,” noted Lamar Miller, a senior from Hanover R 2. “Land is hard to get and the cost of machinery is out of sight, but you can make it in fanning if you’re willing to stick it out,” he added. Miller is an example of those young people Claude Warner resource planning. Tom Kelso of the Lancaster County Planning Com mission conducted the program. Pennsylvania, as Kelso explained it, is currently in the midst of a major water resource planning program parts of which are “quite Aside from displays in cluding a few farm animals there will also be (Continued on Page 20j that might be put to use somehow. On a recent hiking trip, for example, the friendly and outgoing student came across a 32-inch rattlesnake. conducted similar markets in the Midwest. The Idea is now spreading to Lancaster County because the' hog industry here has grown significantly. 'Emery says ap- (Confined on Page 2«| who have set a goal in life and have put forth an extra measure of determination to reach it. Although he lives on a mini-farm with his parents, Tamar has rented some 45 acres near Hanover and raises com, barley, wheat, hay and sweet com. As one member in a partnership, the youth has the op portunity to rent some equipment but also [ConSnoed on Pace 16] controversial” and this meeting at the Farm and Home Center was called to bear some local points of view and suggestions. A major point of concern to Kelso was the fact that the state map showed almost all of Lancaster County as having class I and H soils. While this could be in terpreted as being highly complimentary, Kelso felt it was unrealistic. Others pointed out that the County has its share of other class lands as well, and that these often combine to make viable farming units. After considerable He killed it and then proceeded to skin it and fry it for supper. “There was no reason to just let it lay,” he explained matter-of-factly, as though it’s something In this issue Farm Calendars 10 Women’s Calendar 59 Editorial Commentaries 10 Bicentennial farm 60 UfeontheFarm 18 Chester County Dairy 64 32 Princess Contestants Country Comer SO Homestead Notes so noughts in Passing 73 Cooking feature S 3 “Frontier women” 78 Home on the Range so Public Sales Register 81 Dairy princess 57 Sale Reports 86 panderings $3.00 Per Year Peter Slusser discussion of the matter, Mfflersville area vegetable grower, Amos Funk, drafted the following definition of Lancaster County’s farm land: v ' “We consider most land presently being farmed intensively in Lancaster County as prime agricultural land. Therefore we would recommend the extension of sewer lines be limited to ■areas deliniated in Lan caster County’s Com prehensive Plan. As low, medium, and high density residential, commercial, and industrial development.” {Continued on Page 15] anyone would do without hesitation. Hartman and his friends had, in fact, already had supper - so the meal [Confirmed on Pace 17]
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