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ing and Records, Dr. Bob
Scarth.
Mid-Year 4-H Clothing Judg
ing, 10:00 a.m, Hunterdon
Co. Extension Office, N. J.
Mid-year 4-H Clothing Judg
ing 10:00 a.m. Hunterdon
Co. Extension Office, N. J.
Monday, March 10
Holly Co-op Annual meeting
10:00 a.m.; Embers
Restaurant; Carlisle.
Ayrshire, Brown Swiss,
Jersey 4-H Dairy Club;
7:30 p.m.; David
Hamish; Quarryville.
Montgomery Co. Ag Week
Exhibits; Montgomery
Mall; Bethesda, Md.
Dairy Day, Schuylkill Co.
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.;
Goodviile Fire Hall;
Cressona.
Tuesday, march 11
N.J. Holstein Assn. Breed
Improvement Seminar;
Andover Fire House; Et.
26, Andover. N.J.,11:W
a.m.
Golden Guernsey 4-H Dairy
Club; 7:30 p.m. at
Raymond Witmer farm.
Pesticide Management
Meeting; 7:30 p.m;
Union Grove School,
Terre Hill.
Lebanon Co. Extension
Annual Banquet;
Schaefferstown Fire
Hall; 7:00p.m.
Sheep and Swine Meetings;
Hunterdon Co. Extension
Center; Flemmgton,
N.J.; 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 12
N.J. Holstein Assn. Breed
Improvement Committee
Grange Hall; Columbus,
N J.; 11-.00a.m
Annual Meeting Farm
Credit Banks of Balti
more; Hyatt Regency;
Washington, D.C.; thru
the 14th.
Farmland Preservation
Regional meeting; Tran
quility Recreation Hall;
8.00 pm.; Tranquility,
Md
Celery Growers Meeting;
130 pm -4 00pm,
Lancaster Farm and
Home Center
Thursday, March 13
Northern Lebanon FFA in
the High School, 7 00 p m
Penn Manor FFA banquet at
the High School
4-H Mall display at the Leb
anon Valley mall thru
Saturday.
Estate planning for every
one at Lebanon Co Ex
tension office; 9.30 a.m
Small fruit and vegetable
meeting at Penn State
Research Lab; Bigler
ville
Cecil Co Holstein Annual
meeting; 7:00 p.m.;
Sandy Cove Camp; North
East, Md
Poultry Manure and Gasohol
7 30 p m at the Farm and
Home Center
Food Buying Clubs, Hunter-
don Co Extension Cen-
ter, 7 45 p m
Hereford Assoc.
GETTYSBURG There tional association will be
will be a special meeting of discussing the guidelines
the Pennsylvania and method of determining per-
Mar> land Polled Hereford formance on cattle
Association members
tonight The workshop will be held
Frank Darcey, president after a sit-down” meal at
of the Pennsylvania associa- the Green Mount Fire Hall,
tion, urges anyone interested located south of Gettysburg
in performance testing and on Business Route 15 The
records keeping to attend the time to be there is 6 pm ,
meal and meeting a nd the cost of the meal is
Bob Scarth, from the na- $4 25
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor:
Agriculture uses only
three percent of the Nation’s
gasoline. Almost everyone
likes to advise farmers how
to save gasoline. But nobody
pays attention to the follow
ing wastage of gasoline:
I have a farm and I farm
it. Three of my neighbors
were farmers. One of them
died. He had a 10 acre field,
adjacent to my farm, which
produced 100 to 120 bushel
per acre com. After his
death, the field was sub
divided into building lots.
The new owners cut their
lawns every week during the
summer. Also their four
teenagers race motorcycles
year round every day four
hours, on these 10 acres, with
their noise terrorizing the
other neighbors.
Another neighbor does not
farm either but lets the
motorcyclists run year
round seven full days a week
on his fields. Only the third
fanner rents its fields for
farming.
USDA and other experts
must estimate how much
gasoline is used in the nation
by the above described ac
tivities. Why doesn’t anyone
condemn this usage?
To estimate for com
parison on 10 acre field how
much gasoline is used in
Com grown by conven
tional method
Cutting grass weekly for 20
weeks
Driving motorcycles 52
weeks by four persons four
hours daily
J. Ccrbulis
R 2 Boyerstown
Friday, March 14
Pa Flying Fanners; Beaver
Falls Holiday Inn; con
tinues thru Sunday
Manheim FFA Banquet,
7 00 pm., Ruhl’s U M
Church
Estate planning for farms,
Lebanon Co Extension,
9.30 a m
Adams Co Manure Handling
tour, 9 30 a m
PEMA Egg Pricing Meet
ing, 600 pm, at the
Sheraton-Conestoga.
Maryland Pork Producers
Membership Meeting;
Tidewater Inn, Easton,
Md 6-30 p m
Saturday, March 15
Guernsey Breeders Blue
Halter Calf Sale, 12 30
p.m.; Guernsey Barn
County Demonstration Con
test; Newark, Del; Ag
Hall; 9.00 a m.
Part-time Fanners Sem
inar, 9:00 am at the
Farm and Home Center
Hunterdon Co Bake-Off;
Extension Center;
Flemmgton; N J , 10 00
a.m
holds meeting
Dear Editor:
After reading the “Lan
caster Farming” for a
number of years I couldn’t
believe the recent change in
your newspaper.
In referring to the real
life pictures of persons
writing those weekly
columns in your paper now
being replaced with
drawings.
Weekly, I sincerely en
joyed reading such columns
by Joyce Bupp & Ida Risser
& others, but the nearness,
that homely greeting that
their photographs conveyed
toils is now gone. You get the
feelmgyou’ve lost someone
& therefore takes the edge
off their writings.
Now Is The Time
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and dairy business is very
useful as fertilizer.
However, the pit can be a
safety hazard because of
poisonous and explosive
gases. When the mixture is
agitated in order to be
removed, these gases are
more plentiful and much
more dangerous. Good ven
tilation above the pit is very
essential. Also, any person
who goes down into the emp
ty pit should be wearing a
gas maks; these gases are
dangerous and can kill a
human being quickly. AU
farmers are urged to caution
their employees of this
potential danger.
However, I know the afore
mentioned are excellent
writers and deserve to have
their true life photographs at
the bead of their columns.
I rt-peat the drawings do
not have similarity of ap
pearances & hence the
readers have lost that
nearness to the editor & all
other writers of columns in
the Lancaster Farming.
Let’s have real people in
our paper.
S.Schrack
R 1 Bernvilie
TO SHEAR SHEEP
Local sheep producers
should be making plans to
harvest their 1980 wool crop.
Most of the ewes have now
lambed and they will be bet
ter mothers if sheared of
their wool. Wool prices are
expected to be very good this
year and shepherds are urg-
ed to give some attention to
this crop. It is not too early in
the spring to remove the
wool, as some folks may
think. Recently sheared
ewes will be more respon- <
sive to weather changes;
they will keep their lambs
out of bad weather better
than ewes with heavy
fleeces. The wool should be
dry when sheared and stored
in a clean , dry place until
marketed. The nearby wool
pools provide a good market
for good fleeces. Get your
wool clip “in the bag” soon.