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and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
VOL 22 No. 32
Irangers
amine
ricalture
gTTYSBURG
shmg Pennsylvania’s
Marketing Board Would
lower retail prices of
i as some consumer
ps believe, State
Store Secretary Kent
alhamer said at the
og of the 54th annual
jylvama State Grange
lership school, on
lay.
the contrary, he said,
action would eventually
to higher consumer
s and “would bring
i” to the state’s dairy
iky
nsylvania, he pointed
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ib earns
te award
jin FFA
NHEIM, Pa. - Earl
Manheim R 4, the son
r. and Mrs. Clarence
,ind a member of the
leim Central FFA
ter, was recently
id winner of the state
ode proficiency award.
Diversified livestock
taction Award co
ned by A. O. Smith
store Products, Inc.,
Kington Heights, SI.,
Keystone Steel and
i Division of Keystone
Mated, Inc., of Peoria,
one of 19 agricultural
liciency awards
taed annually by the
M FFA Foundation,
Indents who apply for
hrd must be involved
Restock production
Pose combining more
®«type of livestock
sbeef and hogs or beef
*ep.
'> who is a former
11 Region vice
raises ap-
Jntely five steers and
W hogs per year.
5I s winning of the
taency award in
hified livestock
Nion is the
Mion of five years
® the vocational
classroom and in
tajrvised agricultural
Clonal experience
at Manheim
“High School.
• state winner, Geib
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For the first time since the inception of the
organization, the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation
bestowed Industrymen of the Year awards to an
individual in each of the three divisions of the
organization. A. Eugene Bailey (left rear) received
the Broiler Industryman of the Year award, GH»n
Poultry industrymen honored
By JOANNESPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. - The
bestowing of three of the
most highly prestigious and
coveted awards within
Pennsylvania’s poultry
industry climaxed a day
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Family farms threatened again
EDITOR’S NOTE: Earlier
tbis year a group of in
vestment firms attempted to
bay up huge tracts of land in
the Midwest. It was known
as Ag-Land Fond I and was
disallowed by die American
Alfalfa looking good hut seeds scarce
By DIETER KRIEG
RUSSELLVILLE - After a
short first cutting, alfalfa
stands in southeastern
nice comeback ' and
prospects for decent crops
are looking pretty good.
That’s the verdict of Chester
County Agricultural Agent
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 25,1977
long poultry conference and
banquet held at the Host
Farm Resort last Thursday
by the Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation.
Before an audience of well
over 200 producers and allied
government after farmers
and farm organizations blew
the whistle on die scheme.
More recently, a new threat
to family has been
discovered in California.
According to California
Glenn Shirk, who adds that
“the absence of excess
moisture" in May could be
interpreted as having been
beneficial to the crop.
“Alfalfa has made a
tremendous comeback," he
asserts.
New vehicle code bypasses fanners
HARRISBURG • Penn
sylvania’s Secretary of
Transportation, James
Wilson, issued an order this
week which will allow for
mers to operate their farm
implements as they have in
the past. Earlier, the rules
Kime (center) was named Turkey Industryman of
the Year; and Robert Shelly earned the in
dustryman honor in the egg division. Seated in
front of the men are their wives. Left to right, they
are Lillian Bailey, Evelyn Kime, and Betty Shelly.
industrymen, A. Eugene
Bailey, division manager of
the broiler meat division of
Pennfield Corporation, was
named broiler industryman
of the year. Hie honor of Egg
Industryman of the Year
Grange Master Chester
Deaver, “nothing illegal has
been found in the scheme so
far, but in my opinion it’s
morally wrong.” The
following account of the
situation is reprinted from
Hie situation for alfalfa
seed is not so good, however.
A scarcity is expected this
Summer and it’ll likely last
for a year - possibly several
years - according to some
sources. Penn State
University’s Extension
and regulations for farm
equipment were to be
revamped as part of a
package program which
overhauls the entire Penn
sylvania Motor Vehicle
Code. The new rules of the
road - as they apply to
was bestowed upon Robert S.
Shelly, president of
Producers Pride, Inc.,
Worcester, Pa., and the title
of Turkey Industryman of
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the National Grange’s
newsletter, “View from the
Hill.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
new proposal to accelerate
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agronomist, John Baylor,
told a group of Chester
County farmers meeting
here on Tuesday that seed
supplies are at an all-time
low. “An August seeding of
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motorists, truckers and
pedestrians • go into effect on
July 1. Segments of the law
which deal with farm
equipment, however, will
remain unchanged from the
1959 regulations or as they
have since been amended.
$4.00 Per Year
In this issue
Farm Calendar 10
Editorials 10
Letters 10
Medicine and Mgmt. 16
Life on the Farm 36
Homestead Notes 42
Ida’s Notebook 43
Joyce Bupp 44
Home on the Range 45
Women’s Calendar 46
Doris Thomas 48
Chester Dairy Princess 50
Lane. Dairy Princess 52
My Thoughts 53
Berks Dairy Princess 54
Leb. Dairy Princess 56
Freezing feature 58
Classifieds 62
Lebanon DHIA 90
York Dairy Princess 94
Chester DHIA 95
Children’s page 96
Priceless land 103
Sale Reports 105
Public Sales Register 106
Raspberries
small crop -
over shortly
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. - If you
have a hankering for
raspberries, but haven’t
gotten around to buying any
as yet, you’d better burry out
and purchase a quart or two.
According to growers, the
majority of this year’s crop
will be gone by next weekend
with only a few stragglers
remaining.
Normally a short crop, this
year’s supply was reported
to be even smaller than usual
due to freezing temperatures
early in the year and dry
weather later in the Spring.
Growers affirmed that
demand for this juicy fruit
was high, as well.
Clarence Eckman, of Eck
man’s Fruit Farm,
Conestoga R 2, told Lan
caster Fanning last Tuesday
that many of the canes and
tops of his stalks froze during
last Winter’s severe tem
peratures and for this
reason, didn’t push out as
many berries.
Fortunately for growers,
rains came at Just the right
time to alleviate a dry spell
that could have caused the
berry -size to be small this
year. According to Rudy
Grab, of Amos Funk’s Farm
Market, MQlersville Rl, the
moisture was timed nicely,
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According to Warren
Lammb, Berks County
legislator and member of the
House Agriculture Com
mittee, the measure un
dertaken by Smith is only
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