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FF Star Farmers to Get Awards
At 1956 Pennsylvania Farm Show
HARRISBURG, In recog
nition of exceptional achieve
ment as a farm boy, Jamais H
(Speed, Jr, of Blaars Mills, Coun
ty, will (be proclaimed as the
"State (Star Farmer of Rennsyl
vama” toy the Future Fanners of
Amer'i'ca at their mid-winter
meeting during the 1956 Pennsyl
voma Farm Show
The honor, lushest which can,
Connie to an FFA boy at the State
Bevel, will he conferred upon him
January 11 toy the FFA State
president, Robert L. Walk, of
Strashurg, (M) 1. In addition to
winning the top Statewide honor,
James has been designated as Star
Farmer for the „,south central
region of Pennsylvania.
Four Regional Star Fanners
Names of four other regional
Star Farmers also were announc
ed today
Young Sneer was salaried for
the high FFA rank by the Key
stone FFA Advisory Council (be
cause his achievements in sciho
tlarship, agriculture and leader-!
Ship gave him the highest score
among all nominee-' for the FFA’s
Keystone Parmer degree. He is a
1955 graduate of Juniata Joint
High (School at iMiifflintoiwm and
was 17 years old last April.
According to H. C. Fettero"®,
FFA advisor and chief of agricul
tural education in the Depart
ment of Public Instruction, James
teamed $13,176 from his farming
program in four years and, after
paying expenses, had a net worth
of more than $5,200. Starting as
a freshman with two cows and.
one calf, he expanded his farming
program until this year his pro
ductive enterprises have included
a dairy herd of four purebred,
cows, two purebred heifers ahd
two purebred calves, as well as
iseven purebred Hampshire soiws
and eight pigs, more than 150
White Rock capons, two acres of
born and thirteen acre's of oats.
Effective January 1. 1956,
frames and his father will became
tequal ‘partners in operations of'
IBha farm-, James already owns
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(During his high school career,
young Speed was captain of the
baseball team and took the lead
ing part in class plays his Junior
and senior years. In the Future
Farmers, he was president of his
Chapter and of the Huntingdon-
Juniaita-Mifflin county area, and
participated in local, regional and
- (State contests, winniijg honors for
(farm records, dairy herd records,
and in public "peaking He is
president of his Youth Fellow
ship and is librarian for his
Sunday School
The honor of being picked as
the State Star Parmer carries
with it an award of $lOO from
the National FFA Foundation. /
‘Representing the 17-county
south central district, young
Speer is one of five FFA boy®
chosen‘as Regional Star Farmers
(because they scored the most out
standing achievements in agri
culture and leadership with hi
(their regions. The other Regional
!Btar Farmers hre -
NORTHEASTERN REGION (16
counties) - Richard Plotbs, 17, of
Forksvtlle, member of the Mt
Laurel FFA Chapter and senior
(at the Loyalsock Joint Hugh
School at Forks Ville. Sullivan
County (Richard has a well-roun
ed farming program, with a da ry
herd of four Guernseys, 200 lay
ing hens and 200 htiby chicks,'
five Dorset sheep and cultivation
(of strawberries and raspberries;
tout m some years has made hxs
largest single source of income
(from his wildlife ivroiect. (He has
been raising ringneck pheasants
for the State Game Commission
at $1 per bird and his project has
been outstanding enough to win
prize money from the Game Com
mission also. He has held offices
in his FFA chapter ends is vice
president of the senior Class and
•rtf the fish and game club. He has
participated in dairy judging and
poultry judging in northeastern
Pennsylvania and has held several
loffiqps in the Juvenile Grange
SOUTHEASTERN REGION (16
counties) - Charles Shoun, 19,
Avondale, RD 1, Chester County,
Avon-Grove Joint High School
FpA. Chapter, West Grove. Now
a senior, he Bias a dairy herd of
five purebred 1 Holstein cows, has
corn, wheat and 1 barley projects,
and for the third year has been
active in soil conservation. He
has held a senes of FFA offices,
starting with his freshman year,
now is president of his Chap
ter and! vice president of- the
Chester County FFA. in 1954 he
won the Southern Chester County
5-acre com contest. ‘He is promi
nent in high school activities and
is president of the YFC Bible
Club.
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John E. Melhorn, Mount Joy,
has been reelected for his sev
enth consecutive term as presi
dent of the Producers Coopera
tive Exchange. The directors,
meeting in Coatesville, reelected
the entire slate of officers.
Others returned were Mark
S Hess, R 6 Lancaster, vice pres
ident, Paul L Coates, R 2 Coates
ville, secretary; and Elmer F.
Groff, Rheems, treasurer-
Meat Output in
1955 at Record
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ful and relatively low in price.
They seem likely to stay plenti
ful, what with improved produc
tion methods on new'crops and
extensive storage on, old.
“Conversely, practically all
business indicators suggest con
tinued high income for consum
ers which should assure a con
tinued good demand for meat.
With supplies of livestock and
demand for meat remaining high,
the meat packing industry looks
to the immediate future with
more hope than for some time ”
He explained that fixed pro
cessing and distributing costs in
labor and plant facilities in the
meat industry have risen 37 per
cent m the last five years. With
a higher volume of meat pro
cessed, however, the cost per
Unit declines and there is a bet
ter opportunity to improve earn
l mgs.
Profit Showing Dismal
“The meat industry has made
a dismal showing, profit-wise, m
recent years,” Foster noted, add
ing: “Perhaps now, with improv
ed plant facilities and larger
volume of sales to reduce costs,
we shall be able to do better.”
He said the Institute, compris
ing companies which turn out
-more than 85 per cent of the na
tion’s total meat, had worked
diligently during the-year to ad
vance the popularity of meat in
the diet. Pork, especially, receiv
ed great emphasis because it was
in a relatively weaker position
than other meats.
The Institute recommended
that pork processors trim the
fat more closely from retail cuts
to fnJrk-e them more attractive to'
shopping housewives. Numerous
consumer surveys had showed a l
marked preference for lean pork,
Poster said, leading to the first
major change in meat processing
in recent years.
Great Strides in Research
Great strides' also were made
m research >on frozen prepack
aged meats, nutrition, meat pres
ervation and byproducts, the
Chairman added- On the meat
production end, ’Foster said the
1955 total of about 268 billion
lbs topped the previous year’s
record of 25 3 billion. The per
capita consumption of 161 lbs in
1955 whs second only to the 163 3
lbs in 1908-
Most of the rise was in pork,
which amounted to approximate
ly 11 billion lbs in 1955 as com
pared with about 10 billion the
year before. Per capita consump
tion of pork rose from 59 7 lbs
o 66 Is in the year.
With heavy supplies, prices
■m live hogs plummeted in the
ist half of the year to the low
est since before Pearl Harbor
Heavy bunching of hog ship
ments unusually early in the
marketing season accounted for
a share of the decline, Foster
said.
Production of beef edged up
about 2 per cent, from 13 billion
lbs to 13.6 billion, in 1955, and
beef consumption per person
reached a record 81 lbs from
792.
Consumption of pork per per
son in 1956 may rise aboutnl lb,
he predicted, while beef is ex
pected'to be about tfro lbs lower
and veal, lamb and mutton off
small fractions. This would make
for a slight reduction in the per
capita consumption to around
160.5 lbs, but the larger popula
tion factor accounts for the pre
dicted larger total meat produc
tion of 27-2 billion lbs. . *
Lancaster Farming’ Friday, December 30, 1955—3
Harmony in Black and White
One of the most demanded musical groups in Lancas
ter County is the Holstein Quartet, an aggregation from
the Lampeter-Strashurg High School. Recently the- four
some ranked in the top five at the International Live
stock Exposition’s Four-H Club Congress. Here they are
in action at the recent* Production Credit Administration-
National Farm Loan Administration meeting in Mount
Joy. Members of the foursome are Raymond Denlinger,
R 4 Lancaster; John Stoner, R 7 Lancaster; Stanley Long
enecker, Rl Strasburg and Aaron Landis, R 1 Strasburg.
(Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
Ruth E. Herr
Crowned 1956
Apple Queen
Miss Ruth E. Herr, 19-year-old
daughter of Mr- and Mrs Robert
Herr, RD2 Lancaster, Tuesday
night was crowned Apple Queen
olf Lancaster County.
She will represent the County
in the state contest at York Jan.
31- Miss Priscilla Weaver, Bird
m-Hand, last year’s queen, crown
ed the new royalty in ceremonies
at the North Queen Street
Branch of the Lancaster County
National Bank.
Her parents operate a large
fruit farm near Mountville,
•Miss Herr is a graduate of
Manor High School, and is now
a sophomore at the Pennsylvania
State University, majoring in
Secondary education, Spanish and
English.
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