—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Sept. 11. 1976
96
Lester Erb, left, has good reason to
smile. He has just been presented
with a Distinguished Service Award
from Hoffman Seeds, Inc., Landisville,
for his achievements as a sales and
service representative. At right is
Trophies for their achievements in h. Mellinger, Quarryvilie; Robert L
sales and service were presented by Yohn, Narvon, and John C. Polhemus,
Hoffman Seeds, Inc., Landisville, to Bigierville.
Alvin F. Smoker, Intercourse; Ernest
Hoffman
LANCASTER - Lester
Erb, Elizabethtown, a long
time sales and service
representative for Hoffman
Seeds, Inc., has been named
to receive the firm’s highest
honor - the Distinguished
Service Award.
The selection of Erb, based
upon his outstanding service
to farmers in the area during
the past year, caps a 35-year
career with the Landisville
seed company. In 1972 he
was one of the first to receive
the company’s Hall of Fame
Award.
“Lester Erb has long been
Increase slows
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Non-Communist nations’
farmers in Asia and the Near
East sowed eight per cent
more acres to high-yielding
varieties of wheat and rice
last year than in the
preceding year - a sharp
drop from the 18 per cent
increases in both 1972-73 and
1973-74, according to a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
study.
The study said the fer
tilizer crisis of 1974-75
probably contributed to the
slower rate of expansion.
Ivan' D. Kaufman, Hoffman sales
manager. Out of more.than 500
Hoffman representatives' in seven Scott Glascock of Cooksville, Md., brushes up his steer for competition
states, only two have been named to held last week at the Timonium Fair.
receive this award. f" 1 ~ 1 1 ”■ ■
Seeds gives awards
an outstanding Hoffman
Seed Man,” commented
Ivan D. Kaufman, sales
manager, in presenting the
award. “His contributions as
a sales and service
representative, and in
dedicated service to fanners
in his area is especially
noteworthy.”
The presentation took
place in ceremonies at the
Lancaster Farm and Home
Center where Hoffman
representatives from
throughout the area par
ticipated in a luncheon and
program kicking off the 1976-
1977 sates year.
The Economic Research
Service (ERS) study points
to a possible dropoff in the
rate of adoption of high
yielding varieties in some
countries as the amount of
available land diminishes.
Good water control and
adequate supplies of fer
tilizer are important for
maximum yield. The report
notes, however, that new
varieties are being
developed for more en
vironments. And these could
widen potential for area
expansion.
Also honored at the
meeting for sales and ser
vice achievements were:
Alvin F. Smoker, In
tercourse; Ernest H.
Mellinger, Quarryville;
Robert L. Yphn, Narvon;
and John C. Polhemus,
Biglerville.
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Another northern
Baltimore County resident,
Steven Wilson of Parkton,
had the reserve champion
dairy steer - a 1,085-pound
Holstein.
All six of the dairy steers
in the auction sold in a
narrow range of $4O to $43
per cubic weight, with an
average of $4l.
There were 48 beef steers,
37 lambs, and 22 market pigs
in the sale of 4-H and FFA
livestock at the Maryland
State Fair. Excluding sales
of champion and reserve
champion animals, the sale
averages were as follows:
beef steers - $54 per cubic
weight; lambs - $57 per cubic
weight; swine - $55.50 per
cubic weight.
The nation’s egg farmers
could breed enough extra
hens in just nine months to
increase egg production 20
percent or 30 percent, ac
cording to John R. Pedersen,
economics vice president of
the United Egg Producers.
That’s enough extra eggs,
for example, to supply every
man, women and child in the
usually hungry African
nation of Chad with a dozen
a day.
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