Soil Conservation District backs county water study proposal
Lancaster County Sol Conservation District passes a Monday night resolution backing the Lancaster County Planning Commission and its comprehensive water study. The plan, costing about 45000 dollars, aims to ensure water supply for crops and livestock and compete with other regions. Continued on Page 16.
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Lancaster County Sol Conservation District
Lancaster County Planning Commission
Planning ‘Commission
Lancaster Poultry and Farm Groups Schedule Meetings
Farm Calendar lists events from January including the Lancaster County Poultry Association annual meeting at the Poultry Center Roseville Road and 230 Bypass, County 4 H leaders council at Farm Bureau Building Duillerville Pike, Miller and Bushong sales force meeting at Host Motel, Advanced welding class at Garden Spot High School, Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative locals 7 and 11 annual meeting at Quarryville Methodist Church, and Solanco Young Farmers meeting with discussions on personnel problems and installation of officers.
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Lancaster County Poultry Association
Poultry Center
Roseville Road
Farm Bureau Cooperative
Duillerville Pike
Miller and Bushong
New Holland Young Farmers Association
Garden Spot High School
Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative
Quarryville Methodist Church
Solanco Young Farmers
Solanco YFA Schedules Farm Labor Class Series
The Solanco Young Farmers group will host three meetings addressing farmers personal problems. The first session is set for next Thursday January 24 at 8 p.m. It will show two short films, Personality Conflicts and The Hidden Grievance, with vocational agriculture teacher William Freda presenting.
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William Freda
Poultry Association Set for Annual Meet in Lancaster County
James T Hall of Penn State will speak on why some poultrymen succeed at the 28th annual Lancaster County Poultry Association meeting. He will cite 1961 farm income ranges from a $18,596 surplus to a $4,101 deficit across 32 farms in 11 counties and share 1962 figures from over 120 farms. Eight new directors will be elected at the Poultry Center on Roseville Road January 21 at 7:30 p.m. Robert G Harnish will review the past year and refreshments will follow.
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James T Hall
Pennsylvania State University
Lancaster County Poultry Association
Pennsylvania
Hall
Poultry Center
Roseville Road
Robert G Harnish
Lancaster County Extension Service to mark 50th anniversary banquet
The Agriculture Extension Service in Lancaster County will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a 4 pm reception on February 12 in the Buchannan Room at the Hotel Brunswick and a 6:30 pm banquet in the main ballroom. Former personnel and past and present executive committee members will be honored with talks by Jane Nolt on Home Economics and Levi H Brubaker on Agriculture, with remarks from Floyd Bucher and Harry Sloat.
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Lancaster County
Wll
Buchannan
Brunswick
Jane Nolt
Columbia Ri
Levi H Brubaker
Rohrerstown
Floyd (Dutch) Bucher
Harry §. Sloat
Witmer Herd Wins DHIA Production Award
Raymond and Louise Witmer of Willow Street R2 were honored by the Red Rose Dairy Improvement Association for high butter fat production per cow. Their 47 purebred Guernseys averaged 621 pounds of butter fat and 12 225 pounds of milk in the 1961 62 testing year at the association banquet Tuesday at the Host Motel. This marks the Witmers second top production honor since 1958.
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Raymond Witmer
Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Association
John Shelly
Keller Avenue
Lititz Pike
Association
Jason Weaver
Witmer
Guernsey
L. F
Raymond
Louise Wit- Lancaster
Willow Street
Red Rose Dairy Improvement Association
Tobacco Market Opens With Slow Buying And Varied Prices
The Lancaster market opened with one major buyer and slow trade as several firms joined later. Wrappers sold 25 to 28 cents and filler 16 to 18 cents, with some reports of 30 and 20 cent top prices for top crops. By midweek P Lorward Co and Consolidated Cigar Corp led on road buying, then slowed. Bayuk Cigars and General Cigar Co had not yet entered the market.
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Lancaster
York County
The
American Tobacco Company
P. Lorward Co
Consolidated Cigar Corp
Bayuk Cigars, Inc
General Cigar Co
Local Soil Conservation Service Names New Farm Planner
Larry Carson of Hughesville Lycoming County begins work with Lancaster County Soil Conservation Service as a Soil Conservationist with USDA after graduating from Pennsylvania State University and serving in the U S Air Force. He recently returned from Germany after duty during the Berlin crisis.
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Local Soil Conservation Service
Larry Carson
Hughesville
Lycoming County
The
Lancaster County Soil Conservation Service
United States Department of Agriculture Agency
Germany
Berlin
U.S. Air Force
Corson
Five Day Weather Outlook Including Cold Snap
Temperatures over the next five days average 3 to 10 degrees below normal, with nights near 24 and afternoons around 39. Turning colder Saturday, the period remains chilly with a half inch or more of melted precipitation possible, beginning as snow Sunday and continuing as flurries.
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Soil Conservation Dist
Backs Co
Water Survey
Solanco Yfa
Solanco
Poultry Ass
Agriculture Extension Service
DHIA
Witmer Herd
Larry Corson
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