Goddard to Speak at Lampeter Soil Conservation Meet
Hon Maurice K Goddard will be featured speaker at the Lancaster County Soil Conservation District annual meeting on February 23 at 7 30 p m in Lampeter Strasburg High School Lampeter Pa His topic is Water Use and Its Regulation Amos H Funk will introduce district directors and cooperating agencies Harry R Metzler will honor the Outstanding Farm Conservationist of 1955 Wayne B Rentschler will report on district progress A color film Yours Is The Land will be shown Invocation by Rev John A Breneman All are invited to attend
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Maurice K Goddard
Secrrtary of Forests and Waters
Lancaster County Soil Conservation District
Lampeter-Strasburg High School
Lampeter
The
Soil Conservation Society of America
School of Forestry
College of Agriculture
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania Forestry Association
Council of Foresters
American Forestry Assn
Forest Products Research Society
Amos H. Funk
Harry R. Metzler
Wayne B. Rentschler
Conservation District
Garden Spot
John A. Breneman
Willow’ Street Mennonite
New Providence herd buys Golden Harvest Colonel from Witmer
Willard B and Arlene H Delp of New Providence purchase the Guernsey bull Golden Harvest Colonel from Clair H Witmer of Willow Street. The bull comes from McDonald Farms King’s Janora, rated Very Good, with two production records of 12 260 pounds milk and 629 fat and 14 639 pounds milk and 744 fat. Sire Nyala Supreme Commander.
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Peterborough
N.H
Nyala Supreme Commander
County to Host Six Livestock Shows This Summer
Lancaster County will host six major livestock events this summer including the Eastern Polled Hereford Association Show and Sale with banquet at Hotel Brunswick on March 25 and 26, the South Central District 4H Dairy Judging Practice on July 17, SPABS Dairy Show on August 9, County 4-H Roundup on August 10, Pennsylvania Guernsey Breeders Show on August 28, and District 4H Dairy Show Guernsey Sale Pavilion on August 29-30. This marks the first Southeastern Dairy Show, Hereford show and sale, and State 4-H Dairy Judging Practice here, with the 4-H Roundup moved up a month. Governors George Leader and Dan Thornton expected at the Hereford banquet.
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Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Guernsey Sale Pavilion
George Leader
Colorado
Dan Thornton
Thornton
Barn Raising on Landis Martin Farm in Ri Lititz
About 150 Mennonite neighbors moved from Ri Lititz to Landis Martin Farm on Monday to rebuild a barn destroyed by fire. The barn, first built by Jacob Brubaker in 1805, burned in 1897 and again in 1914. an arsonist admitted starting the latest blaze.
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Landis Martin Farm
Lititz
Jacob Brubaker
Two Meetings On Trench Silo Use Scheduled Friday
Lancaster County farmers are invited to two Friday field meetings on trench silos. M M Smith notes strong county and national interest. At 530 AM at Harry Griffith farm Robert C Groff operates. 1:30 PM at John M Groff farm John Walker will discuss trench silo placement construction and management with County Agent Smith covering silage making and feeding.
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Lancaster County
M. M. Smith
Harry Griffith
Robert C. Groff
Quarryville
John M. Groff
Bareville
A. O. Smith Engineering
John Walker
Pennsylvania State University
Smith
Farm Bureau Returns Four Incumbents
In the Lancaster Farm Bureau Co operative annual meeting four incumbent directors were reelected. Board members are Samuel Heisey, Howard Wagner, Mark Hess, and Abner Risser. The co operative reported a $150 000 decline in farm supply purchases, the first year without an increase. A stock dividend of $25 28803 was shared among 5500 members. Afternoon speaker was Kenneth Hood of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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Lancaster Farm Bureau Cooperative
Guernsey
Lancaster
Samuel S. Hei‘sey
Al-Sheridan
Howard D. Wagner
Quarryville
Mark S Hess
Abner H. Risser
Bainbridge
Co-Operative
Charles C. Burkins
Charles M. Wolgemuth
Harry R. Metzler
Keneth Hood
American Farm Bureau Federation
Sale of Work Horses and Farm Goods Near New Holland
A Jonathan Beuler public sale west of New Holland offered work horses at 345 each. Prices ranged from 150 to 250 for cows, shoats at 9 each, iron troughs 3 to 5, and a trotting buggy for 34. Auctioneer Abe Diffenbach presided.
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Jonathan Beuler
New Holland
Abe Diffenbach
Covered Bridge Closes After Safety Survey
Traffic on the Slackwater covered bridge near Millersville is halted after state engineers deem the 100 year old structure unsafe for travel. The closure affects local routes and ongoing maintenance plans are expected to be announced by officials.
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Slackwater
Millersville
Soil Bank Bill Split View From Benson on Senate Action
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls the Senate Agriculture Committee action mixed good and bad. He cites 90 percent parity, dual parity, and dairy and feed provisions as problematic. Benson urges Congress to remove the bad features and push a sound Soil Bank plan before spring planting.
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Walington
USDA
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Eisenhower
Senate
Congress
Senate Committee
Aiken
Senate Soil Bank program gains Senate committee approval
The Senate Agricultural Committee voted 8 to 7 to approve the Soil Bank program restoring mandatory support at 90 percent of parity for cotton wheat corn rice and peanuts.
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Senate Agricultural Committee
Soil Bank
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Goddard
New Providence
County
SPABS
Farm Bureau
Benson
Senate Soil Bank
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