Visit With The Burkhart Family Prominent 4H performers
Rickey and Rhonda Burkhart aged 12 and 10, with younger Roger and Ronald, showcase traditional Blue Grass music at home in the Burkhart walnut panelled room. The Burkharts practice seven hours weekly and have appeared on radio and TV locally and in Knoxville. They performed before an estimated 40,000 at Long Park amphitheater and are set for a National 4-H Week TV program on October 11. Harold Burkhart and Roy Burkhart run an 85,000 broiler operation producing 4% flocks annually.
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Rickey
Rhonda
Burkhart
Roger
Big Brother
Ronald
Harold Burkhart
Strasburg Pike
Blue Grass
Dad
Sttress
Rickey and
Bionda
Knoxville
Tennessee
Long Park
Roy M. Burkhart
Rickey Burkhart
Solanco Fair Opens Season Next Week
Solanco Fair starts Wednesday September 18 and runs to Friday September 22. Dairy cattle judging on opening day and Baby Beef judging on Thursday. Fat hog and Baby Beef sale on Friday. Other fairs follow in Lampe ter Ephrata New Holland and Manheim with dates listed.
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Selanco
Lampeter
Ephrata
New Holland
Manheim
Farm Calendar Highlights State DHIA Board Meet and Fair Events
The schedule lists the State DHIA Board meeting with Penn State representatives in State College on Tuesday morning, the Farm and Home Foundation directors gathering in the evening, then Solanco Fair events including dairy judging and formal opening on Wednesday, followed by talent contest and queen crowning. Thursday notes NEBA Open House at Headquarters and Scantice Fair swine judging with page continuation.
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State Dhia Board
Penn State
State College
Farm and Home Foundation
Farm and Home Center
Solanco Fair
NEBA
Wheat Program Offers Six Options In 1969
ASCS Fieldman John Kimball explains the 1969 wheat program to about 50 farmers at the Farm and Home Center. The national wheat allotment for 1969 is set at 516 million acres, down from 593 million in 1968 due to a bumper crop worldwide in 1968. The cut necessitates a diversion program.
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Farm and Home Center
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
John Kimball
ASCS
Agricultural Missionary Reports Hondurans Starving
An agricultural missionary recalls Honduran children emaciated by poverty and worm infestations. The account, from a year in Honduras with the Mennonite, United Church of Christ, and Moravian churches, describes efforts to educate in vegetable gardening and community development across 90 villages.
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Garland E. Gingerich
Penn Manor
Yong
Raphaela
Roseta
Honduras
Ily
Central America
Director of
Agricultural Missions, Inc
National Councl of Churches
Agricultural Missions
Mennonite Church
United Church of Christ
Moravian Church
Local FFA Boys Compete At Eastern States Exposition
Four Lancaster County FFA youths from Penn Manor and Ephrata high schools head to Springfield Massachusetts to compete in public speaking dairy cattle judging poultry judging and dairy products judging against peers from states including West Virginia Maryland New Jersey New York and Connecticut.
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Lancaster County
FFA
Springfield
Mass
Nelson Newcomer
LeRoy Eshleman
Claude Miller
Penn Manor High School
David Harting
Ephrata High School
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Vermont
Farm Planks Highlight Farmer Squeeze in Economy
A political statement argues that during seven and a half years of Democratic rule farmers became the forgotten man as the cost price squeeze worsened. It cites farm unit losses, parity ratio declines, and calls for farmer protection, fair incomes, and continued productivity growth to bolster agriculture.
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Republican Party
Democratic Party
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Solanco
Agricultural Missionary Reports
Hondurans
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