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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1963
Page
1
Lancaster Farming salutes the Future Farmers of America during National FFA week February 16 23. Five articles from chapter reporters across the county mark the event and salute the boys and their advisors teachers of vocational agriculture with congratulations and good luck.
County Farmers confer Red Rose Degrees at Garden Spot High School New Holland. Northeast 4-H Tractor club meets at Laush Brothers shop Stevens Heb. Corn Clinic at Garden Spot High School New Holland under Young Farmers. Lincoln Community 4 H club at Eva Snader home Hohrata Rt. Central 4-H Tractor club at Keener Farm SBquipment shop Manheim Pike Lancaster. Farm and Home Planning session Morgantown Fire hall. Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeders Cooperative annual meeting at Leominum Oh Page 4.
Corn growers are urged to attend a series of Corn Clinics led by Gene Daugherty at Garden Spot High School New Holland. The programs will be held in over 600 communities this year, 350 more than last year, with a meeting in our County on Tuesday February 19 at 7 30 p.m. in the Vocational Agriculture Department.
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeders Cooperative schedules its annual meeting next Thursday night in Leola. Dairymen discuss milking practices cattle records culling breeding and feeding with panels led by Arthur Wenger Louise Witmer and Robert Ulrich. Roger Emig presents herd building talk. reports include 1962 first services 156 562 up 2.9 percent and Lancaster County 32 830.
A diary style account follows Clyde Dubble and SPABC inseminator staff as they route from Lancaster to the Maryland border visiting seventeen dairy farms. The narrative recalls Quarryville High School days and the daily prep of semen kits at the SPARC laboratory.
The 50th anniversary banquet of the Lancaster County Extension Service highlighted early extension work. Former county agent Floyd Dutch Bucher recalled the challenge for young agents ages 18 to find tasks for the extra blade of grass growth.
Jay Herr describes the FFA's origins in 1917 with local teachers guiding student groups, the rise of statewide units, and the first national convention in November 1928. The movement spread to Hawaii and Puerto Rico. its emblem features five symbols including the owl and the plow.
Directors of the Lancaster County Soil Conservation District schedule an April special meeting with township supervisors to enlist aid in promoting soil conservation to farmers, targeting fields whose soil washes onto roads after heavy rains. The session will be held in the basement of Production Credit.
Five day forecast shows nights near 15 to 25 degrees and afternoons around 41 with a dip later. A milder start gives way to cooler temperatures and a chance of about half an inch of melted precipitation around Sunday with possible snow at period end.
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