RAZING IS THE GOAL in the quality roughage program Dean has plan
ierd This year he planted 11 acres of Sudan grass which he stared chopping
! cows were on pasture this yea r because the program is not yet m full op
is is the first year that no grain was grown on the farm, but Dean believes
ilk production per acre can be realized if the feed is brought to the cows as
id forage. He uses a self-unload mg wagon and an electric fence to complete
arrangement
ty Hatcheries Place
idem Sample Tests
list in from the second annual Pennsylvania
pie egg laying test show several County hatch
bp 25 % in almost all categories. A total of 48
; the stale entered birds in the contest conduct
ion with the State Department of Agriculture
house records
i Sept. 15, Greid-
Farms, Mt. Joy
ixth with its pen
omb White Leg
ie Return-Over
ision of the test,
mrns from the
iiltry Farm, Eph_
eleventh in the
was won by Guy
i Sons, York E 2
10X White Log-
Hatchery, Doylestown, plac
ed first with 266.8 eggs per
bird. Greider Hatchery was
fifth with an average of 256.0
Keystone’s Leghorn finished
32th with 246.6 eggs per hen.
• The contest pitted the pul
lets against each other in
nine different categories in
cluding Income over feed and
chick -nost. 'Egg Production
per pullet housed. Days to
50 % production, Mortality.
Per cent of large eggs, Feed
conversion efficiency, Alub
men quality and per cent of
blood spots in the eggs.
Keystone Hatchery entry
placed m the upper quarter
in four of the divisions and
in the second quarter in two
other divisions
o's Hatchery.
finished in
followed by Wm-
r ', Cochranville,
® over feed cost
* test
i 6 pei -pullet-hous
'ialldce Hy-Cross
I Leaders
i Meet
Smith, newly
i H club lead
main speaker
J dieting of the
■“uniy 4-H club
JJ n ol, scheduled
0ct °ber 22 in the
of the
ln g, Lancaster.
'Professor of Fa-
a I the Penn
ilat(‘ University,
P. Lang
' loUrod after
1 Si> Slate leader
"oik
n S open to all
, ni °i' club leaders
J r Pose of adopt
l° n and by-laws
' brined council,
i. County Agent
er nam urges all
« 0 come to the
suggestions for
J of the 4-H club
'hcsiimonts will
Greider birds placed in the
first quartile in four divisions
and in the second quartile in
three others.
The entry from Longeneck
er placed twice in the first
grouping and four more times
in the second group
County Council
Plans 4-H Party
A county wide 4-H Hallo
ueen party sponsored by
county council will be held
October 24 at the Leola fire
hall beginning at 800 pm
The program will feature
folk games, a costume con
test, and a refreshment peri
od
All 4-H club members are
invited to come in costume
and complete for prizes. Jud
ges for the contest will be
Mrs. Harold Frey, Stevens;
Mr. Milton Brubaker, Lititz;
and a representative from
Lancaster Farming. A dona
tion of 35c per person or 50c
per couple will be collected
at the door.
Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, October 17, 1959
FIVE - DAY
•WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures will aver
age 3to 6 degrees below
normal during the next 5
days. Normal 7 temperatures
locally are a low of 46 at
night rising to 66 during
the afternoon. Weather will
be warm Saturday turning
colder Saturday night and
Sunday with a warming
trend beginning Tuesday
or Wednesday. Scattered
showers are expected Sat
urday and again on Tues
day or Wednesday, but the
total amount is not expect
ed to exceed 14 inch.
Poultrymen
Planßanquet
H Grant Hurst, French in
structor at McCaskey High
School, will be the main
speaker at ihe annual ban
quet of the Lancaster County
Poultry Association October
29
Mr Hurst is well known in
this area for his humorous
and inspiring talks to groups
of adutls as well as youths.
The program, scheduled to
begin at 7 00 p.m in the Blue
Ball fire hall, will also fea
ture musical entertainment
by Sandy and Terry Good
and Elizabeth Moseman, all
of Lancaster R 7 and group
singing led by Glenn G Herr
of Lancaster R 7
Special guests at the ban
quet will include Roy B.
Herr, Lampeter, Pennsylvan
ia Poultryman of the year,
and Miss v'ema Witmer of
Millersville Rl, 1959 Lancas
ter County poultry queen.
Tickets are now avaialble
and reservations should be
made m advance by calling
the Lancaster Poultry Cen
ter, EXpress 7-0339 or by
contacting any director of the
association.
Dean Hoffer Is Elected
F.F.A. Nat l V. President
Dean Hoffer a 19 year old graduate of Manheim Cen
tral High School became the first Lancaster Countain e''er
to be elected to a national office in the Future Farmers of
America.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoficr, Manheim R 3,
Dean assumed the duties of vice president of the North At
lantic region of FFA. at ceremonies m the Kansas City Mu
nicipal Auditorium Thursday night at the closing session of
the organization’s 32nd annual convention.
An interested spectator at
the installation ceremonies
was Joseph H McGahen,
o icher of Vocational Agri
culture at Manheim Central,
and Hoffer’s advisor during
the six years he has been in
Future Farmer work. Attend
ing with him were Kenneth
Boose, Lititz R 2, and Gerald
Greiner, Manheim R 4. Boose
received the American Farm
er degree along with Hoffer
at ceremonies earlier in the
week Greiner, as Pennsyl
vania’s FFA president, is of
ficial delegate for the state’s
11,000 members.
Holler, a 1957 graduate is
one of the youngest vice
presidents in the history of
the organization He was in
stalled immediately and be
gan his duties yesterday by
attending leadership training
conferences Today, he and
the other officers will be
guests at the opening session
of the American Royal Live
stock Show in Kansas City
before returning home.
His duties this year will
require his attendance at
conventions in all the 14
states in the North Atlantic
region as well as tours of
good will to many of the
other sections of the country.
During the year he will
come in contact with many
of the organization’s 381,000
members in all the continent
al states as well as Puerto
Rico and the new state of
Hawaii.
Dean has come a long way
since he btgan his farming
program six years ago as a
freshman in Vocational Ag
riculture at Manheim Cen
tral High School. That year
he carried a program con
sisting of three sheep, 100
laying hens, 400 pullets, and
two acres of hay Even then
he had an ambitious program
mapped out for a 13 ycor
old boy. lie received his
Greenhand degree in the
Manheim chapter FFA and
became active in its activi
ties.
GOOD RECORDS are good business. Dean Hotfcr has
learned that complete and accurate records aio an essen
tial part of successful farming. Here with Dean, center,
are his teacher of Vocational Agriculture, Joseph H Mc-
Gahen, left, and Mr. Thomas M. Malin, York-Lancaster
Area Advisor of FFA. checking some of the farming ac
counts to be sent to the National examining board with his
application for the American Farmer degree.
$2 Per Year
"That was the last year
we had any poultiy on the
farm.” says Dean ‘‘Now ev
erything we grow goes into
the mouths of my dairy cat
tle ”
During his sophomore year
in highschool, Dean increas
ed his cropping program to
include five acres of mixed
hay, one acre of barley, two
acres of oats and two acres
of wheat. His sheep flock in
creased to four head, but his
most significant decision was
to buy 14 young dairy heif
ers from his father
Leadership qualities began
to show themselves during
that year when Dean was el
ected vice president of the
local chapter FFA.
Dean began farming in
earnest during the 1955-’SQ
school term when his dairy
herd grew to 20 cows and 11
calves and heifers. He con
tinued to carry and increase
his grain program, but that
year he included in his sche
dule the improvement of 20
acres of permanent pasture.
He also grew 53 acres of
mixed hay and was weH-'on
his way to the forage pro
gram he follows with his
dairy herd today.
Wins Fair Prizes
At the Lampeter Communi
ty Fair that fall, Dean won
two prizes that were of great
help m FFA. work. The Lan
caster county Ayrshire breed
ers awarded him a purebred
calf on the basis of a written
application The animal is
still in the herd as is one of
her offspring, a heifer bred
to freshen during the winter.
These are the only two ani
mals in the herd that arc not
black and white.
At the same fair he won
fust place in county FFA.
dairy judging which gave
him the opporluniiy to rep
resept his chapter in the
state contest the following
June.
Later that same winter
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