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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1960
Page
1
Lancaster county farmers should use fibrous rooted cover crops to raise soil organic matter. County Agent M. M. Smith reports Garden Spot farms have the lowest organic content in the state due to intensive cultivation. He urges more grass land farming to restore humus, citing Field Brome as a beneficial example.
Darvin Boyd of Ephrata R1 H Pig Club swept four of eight breed championships and one reserve, winning the Grand Championship at the Lebanon Lancaster County 4 H Pig Roundup.
A 21 year old Lancaster area farmer, J Robert Book, son of Mr and Mrs John H Book, has been selected to receive the Golden Key, the highest degree from the National Association of Future Farmers of America. He will receive the award at the national convention in Kansas. Book farms 35 acres of tobacco and operates 15 acres of peas, 22 acres of squash, 25 acres of barley, 35 acres of wheat, and about 100 acres of corn with partner Vin Peifer on Willow Street.
Lancaster County 4-H and agriculture groups publish a dense schedule including horse club roundups at Paul Martin farm Blue Ball and a picnic at Maule home. Meetings of county 4-H councils and vocational agriculture sessions are listed with locations around Warwick and Guernsey.
Two Lancaster county youths, Donald Trimble and Betty Jane Ulrich, were named outstanding boy and girl of Fulton Grange 66 for community service. The Grange presented $25 government bonds to the pair for 4 H activities including sewing and farming. Trimble, a Chestnut Level dairy farmer and Solanco High School graduate, is State Reporter for Future Farmers of America and leads Holstein activities. Ulrich, daughter of Robert W. Ulrich, is active in 4 H sewing, county 4 H council member, and plans to enter nursing.
S O Zimmerman president of the New Holland Farmers Fair Board announces the 1960 New Holland Farmers Fair will run September 28 to October 1 featuring a hay corn tobacco crop show to boost agricultural interest. Robert D Herr of Garden Spot notes the event aims to stimulate the fair's agricultural emphasis.
The five day outlook shows temperatures 4 to 5 degrees above normal with nights near 66 and afternoons around 86. A midweek rise continues through Monday but today remains cool. Expect warm Tuesday and Wednesday with a few scattered showers and thunderstorms and rainfall around 1.4 inches.
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