VOL. 8 NO. 11 THE ARTIFICIAL BREEDING TECHNICIAN starts his day by cleaning his equipment Here Clyde Bubble cleans and restocks his kit in preparation for a nor mal day on the road. Bubble has been a technician with the Southeastern Penn sylvania Artificial Breeders Cooperative for 13 years and was recently honored by the national association of, artificial breeders for having completed 35,000 services. ' L. F. Photo. LANCASTER FARMING salutes the Future Farm ers of America during National FFA week, February KI SS. This week, we have five articles contributed by chap ter reporters around the county. To the boys and their advisors, the teachers of vocational agriculture ne say, "Congratulations and good luck". Farm Calendar Feb. 18 7:30 p.m. County ; Farmers will confer Red Rose Degrees on 40 members •at the Garden Spot High School, New Holland. 7:30 p.m. Northeast 4-H ; Tractor club meets at the i iLaush Brothers shop in Ste vens. B’eb. 19 7 I's p.m. Corn Clinic in the Garden Spot i High School, New Holland, : sponsored by the Young ; Farmers 7:30 pm Lincoln Com munity 4-H club meets in the home of Mrs Eva Snader, Ephrata R 1 ■ 7:30 p.m Central 4-H Tractor club meets in the , Keener Farm Equipment . shop-on the Manheim Pike, : Lancaster,, ‘WE E K Ccpv) Feb. 16-23 Com Clinic Scheduled At New Holland - Corn growers interested in using chemicals for more pro fitable corn production are urged to attend a forthcoming senes of' Corn Clinics, says Gene Daugherty, teacher of vo vational agriculture at New Holland. These clinics have be come important to corn grow ers who wish to exchange ideas and meet with farm chemical specialists This year’s senes of clinics will be held Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 16, 1963 Annual Meeting Of SPABC Is Next Week A panel of three dairymen will discuss production practi ces at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ar tificial Breeders Cooperative next Thursday night at Leola Arthur Wenger, Manheim R 2 will -discuss milking practices; Louise Witmer, Willow Street Rl, will point out the import ance of records in culling and breeding in dairy herds, and Robert Ulrich, Peach Bottom, will talk about feeding dairy herds. The panel will be moder ated by Victor Pastow, associ ate County Agent Members will elect one dist rict director, five district dele gates and sire selection oommi ttemen. District director re ports will be presented as will reports from management and ithe Lancaster branch manager. Roger Enng, 'field supervisor will present an illustrated talk called ‘‘Herd Building Through Sire Selection” The annual report will show hat the cooperative had 156,- first services in 1962 wh is an increase of 4,364 over previous year or a 2.9 per growth. i 'Lancaster County, the co ,ad 32 r B3o''first services for icrease of 660 over 1961. Ktal revenue for the 1962 idar year was $803,847 Continued on Page 5) w *.»./.» f un,| ' iff i i j r 1 t » I Ride With The Artificial Breeder Sanitation Is Watchword With SPABC Insemmator Editor’s Aote: This is the lirst ot a suites ot articles on Lancaster CouiKy businesses i elated to agi iciiituie. The writer Mill spend a day i idiug with pci sound who serve the farmer but who do not actively engage in the business ot tanning. The ai tides aie an attempt to bring the taimer a report of tiie )ob of service peisonnet before they reach the laun. Other aiticles yy'itt be pnntcd in the tolloyying yyeeks. “I’ll meet von at the Lancas ter Post Office at seven in the morning ” Clyde Bubble said to me on the phone, “Bui if I miss you theie, I will see vou out at the Lab ’’ Thus began my dav with the 'Southeastern PennsvUama Ai tificial Bleeders’ technician Next morning I armed at the post office a few minutes la.te and thought I must haye missed Clyde I burned on out to the SPA'BC laboratory and bull barns on the 230 bypass northyvest of Lancaster Even at this hour the techni cians yyere busy, and “Curly” Brantly, bianch manager, was receiving the day’s calls on the telephone, hut Clyde was not Extension Service Changes Noted By First Co. Agent The challenge for early ex- agent Floyd (Dutch) Bucher tension -workers was to make told county farm families two blades of grass grow where Tuesday night at the 50th an one grew before. The challenge niversary banquet of the Lan for the young county agents is caster County Extension Ser to find what to’ do with that vice extra blade, former county (continued on page 7) Future Farmers Of America, Its - History And Aims And Purposes 7 Emoting B=l=49t 3K ||S| WEEK Feb. 16-33 By: Jay Herr The Future Farmers of Am erica was first established in the United States in 1917. Un der the guidance of enterpris ing local teachers, this marked the first expression of students of vocational agriculture to band together and do things in SCD Directors To Meet With Twp. Supervisors 'Directors of the Lancaster County Soil 'Conservation Dist rict have set April S as a spec ial meeting date with township supervisors. The directors 'hope to enlist the aid of the local supervisors in selling the idea of soil conservation .to farmers whose soil washes onto roads during periods of heavy rains. The meeting wil be held in the basement of .Production Credit ('Continued on Page 5) By Jack Oyyrn ai ound A lew minutes laiei he drove m yvith the gieetmg, ‘ Why did n’t you tell me I yyould had a flat tue on my car this morn ing 7” With this inauspicious start, .ye began a day that took us to the Maryland bolder and onto sey emteeu dairy farms We chatted about the dairy business and reminisced about our days together m vocational agriculture classes at Quarry ville High School as Cly de pit ched in and helped the other 10 technicians perpare the semen kits for the day The first or der of business tor every in seminate! is the thorough cle (Continued on Page 9) an organized way. , The idea of state wide organ izations with each local group ■as an active unit developed. The first national convention was held in November 1928 and since that time, the growth, of the Future Farmers of Am erica has been steady and rap id extending to 'Hawaii and Pu erto Rico. The Emblem The emblem is made up of five symbols, the owl, the plow (Continued on Page 9) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the five day period are expected to average S to 10 degrees below the normal range of 35 at night to 41 in the af ternoon. A trend to milder weather during the first half of the period will give way to colder temperatures later in the period. Precipi tation may total near a half inch (melted) occurring around Sunday as snow pos sibly mixed with rain. More general snow is expected at the end of the period. ear
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