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The combines were btfsythis week as farmers took advantage of the sunny
weather to get much of the wheat harvested.
Lehigh County 4-H’ers win
regional livestock judging event
NEW TRIPOLI - Seventy
4-H Club members from
eight southeastern Penn
sylvania counties competed
near here this week in a
livestock judging contest
featuring beef cattle, swine
and sheep. When the scores
were talked, two Lehigh
County girls were the top
individual winners and their
county came out on top in
Lane. 4-H picks top stitchers
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER - The
largest showing of seam
stresses in over three years
turned out to have a close
encounter with fashion
competition on Thursday
when 110 Lancaster County
4-H stitchers took part in the
that county’s Fashion
Farm Calendar 10
Editorials ' 10
Letters to the editor 20
Homestead notes 42
Farm Women Calendar 44
Jr. Cooking Edition 45
Home on the Range 46
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both junior and senior team
divisions.
Gail Snyder, 18, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Snyder,New Tripoli
Rl, and the reigning queen of
the Pennsylvania Hereford
Breeders Association, was
the top individual in the
senior division, collecting
385 out of a possible 400
points.
Revue. The climax to a
Summer’s-worth of work,
this year’s revue theme was
“Fashion Encounter”, a
take-off from the currently
popular movie, “Close
Encounters of the Third
Kind.”
Out of the 110 girls who
participated, only 18 were
In this issue
Ida’s Notebook 48
Joyce Bupp 50
My Thoughts ' 51
Fashion reviews 52,
Kendy’sKollumn 54
Chester 4-H beef show 55
Life on the farm 56,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 22,1978
In the junior division, top
individual honors belonged
to Jane Sikorski, 13,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Sikorski of Emmaus
R 2. She spearheaded the
county team with 272 points
out of a possible 300.
Held at the Carl Snyder
farm, here, the contest was
organized by New Tripoli
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selected for special
recognition. Eight senior
seamstresses and several
juniors will now go on to
regional competition which
is set for the Farm and
Home Center this Thursday.
For many of the award
winning seamstesses, this
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Lehigh lasses 58
York DHIA 90
York 4-H Holsteins ’ 100
Dauphin DHIA 104
Michigan tour 108
Poultry queen contest 116
Doris Thomas 119
Wheat harvest nearing end,
moisture content still high
By KENDACE BORRY
LITITZ With farmers
estimating that the wheat
harvest is now between 60
and 90 per cent done in the
Lancaster Farming area,
they are still calling the
quality average to good and
the mositure content high.
Rural crime assessed
By LAURIE KNOWLES
Lititz Record-Express
LITITZ Most persons
think of crime as a disease of
the cities, where cars are
stolen and houses are rob
bed, but many farmers in
beautiful, supposedly crime
free rural areas are finding
that that diease is spreading.
Just how quickly the crime
problem is spreading is
difficult to estimate. While
Farm Safety Week declared
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
President Jimmy Garter, in
a special proclamation, has
designated July 25 to 31 as
National Farm Safety Week
in America. The theme for
this year’s observance,
“Manage to prevent Farm
and Ranch Accidents,”
marks the 35th annual ob
servance of National Farm
Safety Week.
Sponsored jointly by the
The first place senior livestock judging team from Lehigh County consisted of,
left to right, Gail Snyder, Diane Krause, and Sarah Fretz.
The first place junior livestock judging team consisted of Lehigh Countians
Jane Sikorski, Bonnie Wessner and Melissa Fretz.
From Ephrata, Glenn
Wissler reported that he
thought the wheat looked
pretty good, estimating that
about 60 per cent of the
area’s crop had been har
vested by Thursday night.
He said moisture levels
varied from about 12 to 16
farmers in some areas find
the problem rapidly getting
out of hand, area police have
had a few cases to support a
tremendous growth of crime
in rural areas.
The reason is simple,
according toTony Dobrosky,
of the York County Ex
tension Office. He considers
that farm crimes like stolen
equipment parts and van-'
National Safety Council and
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, the observance
emphasizes the need for
farm safety as a means of
reducing costly accidents
that hamper agricultural
productivity and cause great
personal loss to thousands of
farm families annually.
“All Americans, and a
sizeable portion of the rest of
the world’s people, depend
$6.00 Per Year
per cent and reported that
some farmers were getting
50 bushels per acre from
their fields.
From the Marietta area in
Lancaster County, J. Harold
Frey noted that wheat was
“just about all done”. He
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dalism to have much higher
incidences than are ever
reported to the police.
“The farmer knows what’s
happening, but what can he
do?” he explained. “He
doesn’t think the police can
’ do much about it after the
! fact, and for the most part,
, he’s right.”
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upon American agriculture
for much of their food and
fiber,” the President noted
in his proclamation.
“Anything that diminishes
the ability of farmers and
ranchers to meet these vital
needs is of great concern.”
“Farm safety leaders
believe that most farm
accidents could be prevented
with greater care in cen
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