1 VOL23Wo.# t . _ If after pubhc heanhgsr.the^ 1 Board of the Warwick Township Would becomeane Several municipalities in . 2 of,, &ich fr . %4ricL -. . * ■&' nearby that adopted an district ordinance “recently was Mount JoyTojwrishipr . The/ Bpard of Si|)emsors ; thereaaopted the ordinance ihis Summar- aecording. to . John chairman of the Mount Jojnr’; Township Planning Comm- ?: ission. Max Smith, county agricultural Extension! agent, -described Warwick Township’s situation as “unique” in that “it’s the first time a group of fanners in one area has banded together to sign an going, viable major com ponent of the economy ” All of which means the farmers within this"district have voluntarily agreed to keep their, land in agriculture and not sell to yarning developers. >JSeir intent is “to en tourage the preservation of the most productive farm land ... as a valuable' resource which is lost and not reclaimable once it is developed for building pur poses...” Permitted in the district, would be general fanning operations and related agricultural activities such >s plant nurseries. On-site sale of products produced on the premises also would be Permitted. - Logically, the family home Would be an allowable living - “mt in the district, and Provisions for resident fwner subdivisions also have "* en outlined in the ofdin- • 4 nce. According to the or “hiance, a special exception *Pay be granted for a fanner »subdivide a tract of land, Providing he has more than hrenty acres, to be used as (Turn to Page 30) . Team coach Tony Dobrosky, left, and assistant Merrill Crone, right, pose with their award-winning 4-H livestock judging team. Members are, left to Top livestock judges keep on winning YORK - York County’s 4- H livestock judging team has been bringing home high honors ever since they won the state title at University Park in August. At their most recent test of skills, in Timonium, Md., Lamar Witmer wins Manheim Holstein show By DIETER KRIEG MANHEIM Lamar Witmer,'. who is a dairy fanner in the strictest sense of the word, won the Holstein show at the Manheim Fair on Thursday night. Saying that cows are a relatively inexpensive in vestment, - 'compared to farmland and machinery, the 22-year old Witmer said he has put all of his resources in dairy cattle. He owns2o headand keeps them in a rented barn and pasture. After just \Vz years in business, the young 'man decided to give show ring competition a try. He came with a 4-year old-daughter of Paclamar Triune Complete Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 14,1971 Brenda Werner wins $ 1 OOP scholarshi\ they placed fourth with a total of 2470 points. The contest was held during the Eastern National Livestock Exposition. Sixteen teams, representing states from as far away as the Midwest, competed in the annual and a 5-year old daughter of Ravenglen Reflection Adonis. Both cows stood first in their class. The 4-year old was chosen senior and grand champion. It was the. first time the Manheim youth had hi this issue Farm Calendar 10 Editorials 10 Horse show activities 21 Manheim steer show 28 Egg scramble settled 24 Manheim hog show 37 Lifeonthefarm 42 Classifieds " 46 Homestead Notes 82 Jr. Cooking Edition 84 right, Tim Beck, Brenda Werner, David Wise, and Harris Wright. Ail are York Countians. contest. The \top7piacing team was from Minnesota with a team score of 2530 points. A recent major victory for the team came in Richmond, Va., oh Sept. 23 when the team competed at the competed in the Manheim Fair’s Holstein show. Witmer runs his own dairy -operation without ties to his parents’ business, he said. But he still helps from .time to time'With, the work at the Farm Women Calendar 85 Home on the Range 86 4rH Horse news 95 Manheim sßfcep show 98 Certified Angus program 102 Ida’s Notebook 110 4-H leaders honored 112 Joyce Rupp 113 York 4-H queen 114 Kendy’sKollumn 115 Eastern United States livestock judging contest. The team, composed of Brenda Werner, Hanover R 2; Tim Beck, Seven Valleys B 2; Harris Wright, Abbottstovm HI; and David (Turn to Pace 32) home farm. On Thursday night, for example, he showed iourHolsteins for bis father, Harold, of Manheim R 3. Those entries, Ifte his own, did well. The elder Witmer was awarded rib bons for first-place junior calf, first-place . junior yearling, second-place 2- year old, and third-place 3- year old. Witmer’s grand champion is classified Very Good - 86. She. is credited with' an Excellent mamn\ary system and is currently milking dose to 100 pounds a day, said her owner. She had an 18,000 pound record as a 3- year'old. (Turn to Page 34) $6.00 Per Year Potatoes / harvested, prices low By KENDACEBORRY LHTTZ A look around the Lancaster Fanning area finds most potato fanners finished or, rathe process of “just -finishing up” their potato harvesting, reports show this week. A com bination of good weather resulting in very good digging conditions found most farmers getting their potatoes out of the ground slightly' earlier this year than hut year. From Lancaster county, farmers repocj&edjuat about completed in their potato digging, of va vfcry good crop with an excellent growing season. Noah Kreider, Jr., Manheim; who said he finished with his 325 acres about a week ago, said he thought that the yield this year was slightly above average with the quality excellent. thatrheknew oT np real problems that were giving farmeres problems digging, although he noted that the prices seemed below average this year, in tact, calling them poor, he said that this is not a good potato selling year. - “There are too many potatoes, and the market is depressed,” he related. “The Delaware, New Jer sey, Eastern Shore,' and Virginia potatoes brought bigger yields this year later in the season. There were just too many potatoes for the beginning of Sep* tember.” “When it was real wet,” he continued, “in the beginning of August, the potatoes couldn’t be dug, and they were brought in from Ohio and Wisconsin. That didn’t help the market situation either.” •From York County, far mers too told of finishing up with their potato harvest, although they seemed to find the quality of the crop down this year. “Not too good” is the way John S. Thompson, Shrewsbury, pot it He went on to say that the potatoes just didn’t chip too good, putting the blame on “too much rain at the wrong time.” He added that he sold bis crop but that it wasn’t die best dial he bad seen in bis fiddsT “The price is off a bit” he noted, “There seems to be a lot of second growth and gf-een potatoes, and again the'problem was the rain. The early potatoes were real (Turn to Pace 30)