* Looking over the 1956 tobacco crop is a foursome that is making records m the -southern end of the County, from left to right, Jackson H. Owen of the Solanco High School vo-ag department; Donald # * * Raymond Deiter, New Providence, Wins County Gilt Project Honors By Ernest I. Neill Honored at a countywide meeting in Ephrata Monday night, Raymond Deiter, 16, of the Ne'w Providence neighborhood, has decided that his Sears Gilt Pioject may be the starter ot a hog feeding project in the hills of southern Lancaster County Raymond, the son of Mr and Mis Roy Deiter, was awarded his Sears Yorkshire gilt in 1954, a gilt that originated in the herd of Albert Cutler. “She was a very easy feed er,” Raymond told of Susie, “but she got fat too quickly.” As the accompanying pictures show, Susie has put on con siderable poundage under the sympathetic hand of her young owner. “I liked the project,” he told at the farm,' “and gained a lot of experience through-it. I nev ei had tried hogs before, and we Shank’s Garage 216 NEVIN STREET. ' LANCASTER a ♦♦ ♦♦ a I HERR THE PIMP MAN | 211 N. Aim St. Lancaster, Pa. Ph. 3-3694 Brother, Father, Instructor only had two before that I can ’emember I plan to build a fence in the orchard and put in fattening hogs. Maybe at the shop, I can build a self-feeder and waterer.” The shop he spoke of is the Raymond Deiter, honored this week at Ephrata for his work in the Sears’ Gilt Award project. vocational agriculture depart ment of Solanco High School in Quarryville, where Raymond is a memltfr of the junior class and belongs to the Groundhog chap ter of the Future Farmers of America His instructors, Jackson H. Owen' and Luther D. Peck, gave e ncouragement to Ray "mond, to the extent that instead of quitting school at 16 to begin farming as he planned, he be came so interested in vo-ag that H • • PUMPS FOR EVERY FARM HOME AND INDUSTRIAL NEED Deiter, 9; Roy Deiter and his son, Ray mond, 16, who this week was recognized for his work in the Sears Gilt project. (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo) he wanted to stay in school Such he has done, with the en couragement of his father and mother. - His interest in school ex tends farther, for he’s, a pit cher on the Solanco baseball team and, when spring train ing fell right at the same time as spring farm work, Ray | mond would often walk 10 miles to his home northwest 1 of Quarryville. .Susie produced 14 pigs m her first litter, and these will be marketed this fall, netting Ray mond about $l5O, he figures. There were problems with the in st litter Susie went dry. Her pigs were bottleied two or thiee days, at first in the warm kit chen of the Deiter home ater as they gained strength, .they be gan to feed themselves, and went back to the barn with Milk saver as a starter, then Eastern States Pig Primer and corn. This was during Raymond’s fieshman days in high school. For a sire, Raymond used a purebred Yorkshire boar lur mshed by Jim Hastings of Knk woodr To show what a change this Sears project has meant to Ray mond, he told. “After high school I hope to start farming, and hogs will be included It de pends on how eveiything else goes.” Land around the Deiter farm is rolling. It’s in the Smith ville Hills, land that demands good care to prevent washing and erosion. Due to conserva tion practices, the land doesn’t wash too much. “We keep gut ters wherever we can,” the father and son explained, “There was some washing when we came, but now we’re plowing some of that same land.” \ Susie has meant much to this high school junior. She stood second in class at the Southern Lancaster County Fair in Quar ry ville, second in fitting, third, in judging for her class. As his FFA project, Raymond is glowing a half acre of corn, two acres of tobacco, maintain ing the sow and eight fattening pigs all Yorkshires. One field has been in corn eight years, and still produces a top-notch crop On each acre, 150 lbs ot ammonium nitrate are applied, and rye grass is used as a cover crop. Of the 100 acres on the Deit er farm, 60 are tillable. There are five acres of tobacco, 16 of corn, 10 acres of wheat, orchard for pasture and about fou r acres of meadow. Wheat yielded 175 bags this year 35 bushels per acre at least. The Deiter family moved tb the Smithville area eight years This Is Susie Friday Aug. 24, 1956 Far grown from her size a couple years back, Susie here shows why she has become an outstanding project for her owner, Raymond Deiter. (see accompanying story) (Lancaster Farming Staff Photo). ago from a 140-acre farm near Bunker Hill in Strasburg Town ship Here farming was really learned. ' Raymond has two sisters and a brother, Ruth 19, who has gone two years to Solan co; the twins, Donald and Dor othy, 9, who aie in Providence Township Elementary School. Raymond himself attended Bunker Hill School two years, Rising Sun two years, and he completed the eighth grade at Clearfield before transferring to Quarryville. Crops this year have been ex cellent for the Deiters Clovei yielded well after the first crop was sprayed by army ieep Two cows are maintained for family use. 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