THE FIRST WINNER OF the American Farmer Degree in the Solanco Groundhog FFA Chapter is Lester J. Wiker, R 3 Quarryville. He won the degree for his achievements in leadership, agriculture and for good farming practices (LF Photo) Solanco FFA Graduate Receives American Farmer Degree for 1957 A 21-year-old Solanco High School graduate has been award ed the American Farmer Degree, the first ever awarded a Solanco FFA graduate. The winner is Lester J Wiker, son of Mr Samuel F. Wiker, R 3 .Quarryville. The American Farmer De gree is the highest that can 'be attained by a memebr of the Fu ture Farmers of Araenca and makes (the recipient eligible to be named American Star Farm er of the Year, the ultimate honor possible He will receive his degree dur ing the 30th annual National FFA Convention this fall at Kansas City The Convention as hel4 m conjunction with the American Royal Livestock Show. The degree is based on agn- cultural and leadership achive ments through high school and at least one year of farming after graduation. Among his projects as a vo-ag student were swine, Ayrshire dairy heifers, tobacco, corn, wheat, barley and tomatoes Hus Hampshire swine won sev eral breed awards at the South ern Lancaster County Fair and at Farm Show. He was also a .member of the stock judging team during FFA Week at Perm- State He Is currently operating two farms of 72 and 5Q acres on shares as well as growing to bacco on his father’s farm. In all he helps operate 200 acres, near Quarryville. Feed Additives Fail To Replace Management Farmers feeding medicated sub stances to their animals are warn ed not to depend on these to re place good animal husbandry and sanitation practices by the Am erican Veterinary Medical Asso ciation. Medication added to feed to control certain specific disease conditions may not affect the par ticular problem concerning the animals of any one farm. The visible signs of so many dis eases are so similar, professional diagnosis, backed by laboratory tests, is frequently essential to clear up any particular condition, veterinary authorities said Indiscriminate use of medicated feeds can lead to a sense of false security which may be expensive in terms of lost production, de creased efficiency and actual loss of infected animals. Still working with his Hamp shire hogs, he is cross-breeding them with Yorkshires and has some 80 head on feed. He owns two tractors, a combine, com picker and weed sprayer. He was graduated from So lanco in 1954. He won his Green Hand, Chapter Farmer and Key stone degrees as a member of the Groundhog Chapter under the supervision of Jack Owen, Solanco vo-ag instructor. ’ He held the office of chapter re porter in 1952-53 and chapter treasurer the following year That year he was also county re porter. He received the Senior Plaque offered each year to the most outstanding senior FFA student. Wiker was married June 30 to the former Miss Leah Burkhold er of R 2 Denver 'Flushing' Ewes Increase Number Of Twin Uambs Scientists in Australia demon strated how the lamb crop can be increased if the ewes are “Flush ed” on an increasing feed scale so they are at top thriftiness when bred. The ration of the ewes was reduced six weeks before mating, then two weeks before mating, and for two weeks after, the ewes were given an increasing quantity of feed so that their weight was rising A similar number of control ewes were fed on a normal con stant level program As reported in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the flushed ewes had 63 sets of twins and a lambing percentage of 109. The ewes on a normal feeding program produced eight sets of twins and had a lambing percentage of 91. The percentage of ewes which con ceived in the experimental and control groups were about the same. Feeding is particularly impor tant, the American Veterinary Medical Association said, during the last 50 days of gestation when the unborn lamb is making 75 per cent of its growth and when the ewe’s udder is making its greatest development. Undernourishment in this period can result in pregnancy disease and other ills The more pregnant animals must walk in search of teed, the more energy they require. Ewes allowed to be come fat during early pregnancy are more susceptible to pregnancy poisoning, the Association said. Henning Bans Oklahoma Cattle Due to Anthrax HARRISBURG As a measure of pi election for Pennsylvania’s livestock industry, State Secre tary of Agriculture William L Henning today placed a ban on the importation of all species of livestock from the state of Okla homa where parts of three coun ties are under quarantine due to an outbreak of a highly trans missible livestock disease known as anthrax. Effective at once, the prohibi tion will continue until the Okla homa quarantine is lifted, pos sibly “sometime in September,” Henning declared. In erecting the fence against Oklahoma cattle, swine and sheep, he said “livestock for immediate slaughter consigned to abbatoirs under full-time federal or state inspection service will not be af fected by this prohibition, pro vided they are accompanied by a health certificate signed by the regulatory official of the Okla homa State Department of Agu culture ” Kansas has established a road block against importation of live stock from Oklahoma where more than 600 animals, including 500 cattle, have fallen prey to the dread disease in less than a month according to reports received by Secretary Henning and Dr H A. Milo, director, State Bureau of fer Here’s the Dyna-Line ELECTRIC MOTOR Farmers have been looking for MAIL THIS COUPON for full information and FREE DEMONSTRATION Fidelity Electric Company, Inc. Lancaster, Pa. Poultry men Received More in July For Products; No Feed Cost Change HARRISBURG Pennsylvania poultrymen received more for their products in July than for the previous month and there was no change in feed prices, the State Department of Agriculture said today Egg production in Julj was 272 million eggs, one pei cent below June and three per cent below July of last year The 2,125 mil lion eggs pioduced in Pennsyl vania during the fust seven months of the year is above the Animal Industry No anthrax cases have been diagnosed in Pennsylvania in the past eight years, making today’s embargo action a movement to prevent possible outbreaks of anthrax and heavy financial losses to fai mers Anthrax disease spores, once established, can live in the soil for years, Dr Milo explained Most outbreaks occur when ani mals are on dry, short pastures Death comes suddenly and the animals have an enlarged spleen and veiy dark, uncoagulated blood. 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D. production tor the comparable period of 1956 A Pennsylvania Crop Rcpoitmg Service suivcy showed the avei age price received for commercial bi oilers was 23 cents a pound liveweight on July 15 This com pares with 21 cents for June 15 and 22 and one half cents a pound paid July 15 a year ago Live tui kcys, at 35 cents a pound, brought two cents more per pound than the previous month but three cents undei the July 15, 1956 price Poultrymen averaged 39 2 cents a dozen for eggs, nearly six cents a dozen above the June 15 price and four cents more than the) price received for eggs on July 15, 1956 Feed costs on July 15 were down from a year ago for laying mash, scratch gram, broiler grow ing mash and poultry ration, but showed no change from a month, earlier. The number of layeis on Penn sylvania faims in July was 15,- 144,000, up less than one per cent fi om the previous month but tem per cent below July 1956. LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED ADS PAY Phone STterling 6-2132 5 m ■ m
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