Brubaker Prepares for 1964 Pennsylvania Farm Show
Daniel A Brubaker of Ephrata plans to exhibit at the 1964 Pennsylvania Farm Show after winning a record number of ribbons over 24 years. He is arranging 25 bushels of apples plus plates trays and dozens of apple varieties, and will also show corn barley wheat tobacco honey and edible nuts.
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Daniel A.brubaker
Ephrata Ri
Pennsylvania
Brubaker
Daniel A. Brubaker
L. F
April teachers seek state funds for county agriculture program
Lancaster County Teachers Vocational Agriculture group agrees to apply for a $2,000 state fund to support farm work and 4-H clubs formed last November. The move follows intense debate within the Agriculture Teachers association.
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Lancaster County Teachers Vocational Agriculture
Agriculture Teachers
Farm Calendar and Society Meetings Listed
Farm Women 7 meet in Paradise Elementary School. State Farm Show in Harrisburg January 13 to 17. Conservation District Directors meet January 13 in Lancaster Court House at 3 pm. Fulton Grange 66 meets in Oakron January 3 at 3 pm. Manheim Young Farmers meet January 16 to 30 at Manheim Central High School. Lancaster County Pomona range installation January 18 at Farm Bureau Cooperative building Diller Wile Road Lancaster.
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Farm Women
Paradise
Embers of Society
Pennsylvania State Farm Show
Cameron Rand McClay
Harrisburg
Country Soi Conservation District
Court House
Lancaster
Fulton Grange
Grange Hall
Oakron Nh
Manheim Young Farmers
Manheim Centraligh
of Beers
Lanaster County
Pomona Range
Farm Bureau Co
Diller- Wile Road
Farm Show section features schedule and FFA winners
The annual Farm Show section spans pages 13 to 20 and includes feature stories on the show, Lancaster County FFA Keystone Farmer Degree winners, and the complete Farm Show schedule. Readers are advised to lift the section out and take it to the Farm Show.
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Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County
Fulton Grange Urges State to Build Susquehanna Bridge
Fulton Grange 66 asks Governor and State Highways to construct a bridge over the Susquehanna River in southern Lancaster and York Counties. A resolution notes extensive surveys and a lack of nearby crossings, citing defense needs and regional growth, and mentions a nearby state park project.
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Fulton Grange
State
Susquehanna Bridge
Fulton Grange #66
State Highways Department
Lancaster
York Counties
Grange
Oaklyn
Susquehanna River
Holtwood
Lancaster County
York County
Cattle Feeders Clinics Listed in Rohrerstown Pa
A livestock clinic for cattle feeders will be held January 30 February 6 and February 13 at Rohrerstown Elementary School. County Agent M M Smith explains three evening classes start at 7 30 pm each week focusing on housing feeding management marketing health investment labor engineering and veterinary medicine.
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Cooperative Extension Service
Rohrerstown
M M Smith
Fisher Wins Four Classes At County Tobacco Show
Fisher, Melvin S. Pusher of Strasburg Ri, won four of six classes at the Lancaster County tobacco show held Thursday at the Farm Bureau Cooperative building in Lancaster. He grows eight acres of tobacco on shares using Improved Hill Island seed and favorable rainfall aided his yield. Eu gene M. Rohrer and Glenn B. Schultz beat him in two classes, with Rohrer winning the champ ion filler hand and Schultz edging Fisher in the under 26 inches class. Schultz placed third in the Future Farmers of America filler class behind Kenneth Martin and Tilden Taylor. Donald Herr of Lancaster, a 17 year old FFA member, won the wrapper class and led the PFA champions. Herr is a junior at Lampeter Str asburg High School with two acres of Pen-Bel 69 tobacco. Judges were Raymond Erb and Vincent Hurst.
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Melvin S. Pusher
Strasburg Ri
Lancaster County
Farm Bureau Cooperative Building
Lancaster
Fisher
Eugene M. Rohrer
Glenn B. Schultz
Pequea Ri
Schults
Farmers of America
Kenneth Martin
Denver Ri
Tilden Taylor
New Holland Ri
PFA
Donald Herr
South View Road
Tobacco Ass'n Re-elects Three in Lancaster County
County tobacco growers met at the Farm Bureau Cooperative in Lancaster to re-elect three of four officers for another year. The group, tied to the annual county tobacco show, named Marietta Al as vice president Harold Ends president J C Stahman Lancaster RG and Marlin Cassel secretary Manheim RJ Leroy Funk Washington Boro Ri elected treasurer replacing Willis Hackman Elizabethtown R3. Henry B Engle of the USDA was noted as tobacco researcher at the Pennsylvania State Field Research Laboratory near Landis.
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Farm Bureau Cooperative
Lancaster
Low
Marietta
Harold Endsdent
J C Stahman
Lancaster RG
Marlin Cassel
Manheim
Leroy Funk
Washington
Boro Ri
Willis Hackman
Elizabethtown
Henry B Engle
USDA
Pennsylvania State Field Research Laboratory
Landis
Ed Osborne Appointed to State Agriculture Stabilization Committee
Edison W Osborne of Fulton County farms 500 acres and operates Jersey cattle. He was appointed to the Pennsylvania Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee by Secretary Orville L Freeman, succeeding Charles M Long. Osborne runs a 131 head Jersey herd.
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Edison W Osborne
Fulton Two
Pennsylvania Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L Freeman Osborne
Jersey
Charles M. Long
Manheim Ri
ASC
Osborne
Five Day Weather Outlook Warm Spells With Cold Days
The five day forecast calls for average nightly temperatures near 24 and daytime highs around 39. Expect cold Saturday and Tuesday with milder intervals otherwise. Rainfall may total over a half inch as it melts, slowing Sunday and part of Monday and again near period end.
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Philadelphia
Points
Saud Bridge
Atry Conti
Hill Island
Raymond Erb
P. Lomilars Co
Vincent Hurst
Bayuk Cigars, Inc
Tobacco Ass’n
Ed Osborne
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