Manheim FFA Students Prep Machinery for Spring
Manheim Central High School vocational agriculture students under Jos eph H McGahen practice tractor maintenance in the school shop. The senior class focuses on preventive care such as adjusting carburetors cleaning spark plugs servicing air cleaner and battery systems with hands on work on tractors brought in by the boys.
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Manheim Central High School
Vernon Martin
Lititz
Martin
John Wagner
Manheim
James Hess
Glenn Metzler
Lee Her‘shey
L. F
McGahen
Farm Calendar Feb 4 12 noon Promotions kickoff lunch
Farm Calendar lists events from Feb 4 to Feb 8 including a promotion kickoff lunch in Harrisburg at noon Friday Feb 4. Others cover meetings of vocational agriculture teachers at Penn Manor High School and farmers groups at New Holland Solanco Plantations.
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Pennsylvania Egg Industry Promotion Campaign
Harrisburger
Lancaster County Teachers of Vocational Agriculture
Penn Manor High School
New Holland Young Farmers Meeting
Solanco Young ‘Farmer
Solanco High
Quarryville
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Farm Bureau Building
Dillerville Road
Lancaster
Wenner Named Executive Director of Pa State ASC
Richard Wenner of Harrisburg has been appointed executive director of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. The announcement, made this week, states he will replace Harry Peters of Scotland who moves to a Northeast area director role in Washington D C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Richard Wenner
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Howard R Porter
ASC
Wenner
Harry A. Peters
Scotland
Washington D.C
Jack Grey Named Deputy Agriculture Secretary
Gov Scranton named Jack R. Grey 42 of York as Deputy State Secretary of Agriculture effective February 1. He will oversee department programs as No 2 under Secretary Leland H. Bull, earning 16127 dollars annually. Grey, a Winburne native, has long worked in Pennsylvania agriculture and led the Pennsylvania Canners Association as President for three years after serving as Executive Secretary. He served 1943 to 1946 in World War II with the U S Army in Europe as a tank platoon leader and administration officer.
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Harrisburg
Jack R. Grey
York
William W. Scranton
Grey
Department
Leland H. Bull
Winburne
Clearfield County
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Canners Association
U. S Army
Europe
Pennsylvania official to lead new farm program post
The individual will be responsible for administration of allotments marketing quotas price supports feed grain and wheat stabilization programs farm storage facility loans and the agricultural conservation program. He will resign as deputy Secretary of Agriculture of Pennsylvania to take the new position.
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Secretary of Agriculture of
Pennsylvania
County Plans $10 000 Water Study For Lancaster County
Lancaster County Commissioners earmark 10000 in the 1963 General Fund Budget to start a comprehensive water resources study. Abram Snyder notes citizen and official input plus a January 17 Ephrata meeting showing broad concern and support from the Soil Conservation District and Conestoga Valley Association. The study would assess agricultural domestic industrial and recreational water needs.
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Lancaster County
Abram Snyder
Lancaster County Planning Commission
Ephrata
Lution
Conestoga Valley Association
Wate Resources Advisory Committee
Amos Funk Keynote At Vegetable Growers Conference
Amos Funk of Millersville was a featured speaker at the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association two day conference at Penn State. He spoke on timing irrigation to boost celery yields and protect from frost, noting irrigating before frost can shield crops at 28 degrees. He advised immediate post transplanting and pre weed spraying to enhance effectiveness, citing five quarts of Vegetex for weed control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Funk
Millersville
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association
Pennsylvania State University
Funk
Two Countians Re-elected By State Association
The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association reelected two Countians in the annual meeting. Paul Rowe of Strasburg will serve a second consecutive term as president and Rudy O Grob of 2063 Stone Mill Road was named to a fourth term as secretary. The election occurred during the association’s annual gathering at the state convention.
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Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association
Paul Rowe
Strasburg
Rudy O Grob
Stone Mill Road
CVA Elects Funk President
Amos Funk was elected president of the Conestoga Valley Association, returning to a post he held for five years before John Kitch's 1961 term. Funk leads the Lancaster County Soil Conservation District and chairs the state soil district directors. Harry Althouse of Denver was elected secretary, succeeding Benjamin M. Continued on Page 12.
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Ephrata
Carl W Fuehrer
Amos H. Funk
Millersville
Water Resources Commission
John H Kitch
Amos Funk
The
Conestoga Valley Association
John Kitch
Kitch
Funk
State Association of Soil Conservation District
Lancaster County Soil Conservation District
Association
Harry Althouse
Denver
Benjamin M
Five Day Weather Forecast With Mild Temperatures
The forecast calls for nights around 24 degrees and afternoons near 39 degrees for five days. Temperatures dip slightly Sunday and Monday before warming again later in the period. Precipitation should be under 0.1 inch as light drizzle at the start.
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Manheim Future Farmers
Future Farmers of America
Jos
Eph H. McGahen
Richard Wenner
Jack Grey
Agri
CVA
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