Matmiofir Saturday/ October 17/ 1959 THE HEART ,pF A DAIRY program is forage, Dean Hoffer believes. He carefully checks the growth of a pew seeding of a mixture of rye and oats to be used this fall as temporary pasture -for his-dairy herd Making every acre produce to its capacity, Dean seeded 25 acre? of this mix ture after harvesting a crop of soybeans and sorghum from this field for silage.'",.' # Dean Roller (From page II the county Holstein breeders sponsored - a ->mgmber&hip drive and contest. A pean won the contest and was present ed with another calf, a pure bred Holstein .which, i s now in the milking 'Stging. The * chapter a gain elected him vfCe. presi dent and the following sum mer, 1956, Lancaster County’; FFA. at the American Institute of Cooperation in ■' Raleigh, North Carolina --- As a senior Dean increased his dairy herd _to 32 cows and H calves-<§nd heifers, and continued with his crop ping system. ', , tlt was during his last year in high school that ;his lead ership ability began to be felt outside they’Manheim chapter As local.? chapter president ho was their candi date for county FFA. presi dent He won a unanimous decision and served in that office for 12 months. Turning his talent to pub lic speaking, he won" the area and district contests and placed sixth in stale compe tition in June with a speech on soil conservation. He was publicly complimenl-- ed on Ins line presentation of i the speech by Pennsylvania’s 1 Governor Geoige Leader. j With bis dairy" herd grown to 38 cows and ~11 head of 1 calv cs and - heifci s,' Dean be- j gan planning his long range forage program -He contm ued to plant some' grain, but i inci eased Ins acreage of tem-| poraiy pasture - I Keystone Degree Awarded 1 The Pennsylvania Associa-, tion FFA awarded him its highest a,\aid. The Star Key-' stone Farmci, m Jariuaiy '5B \ and elected him president at' the convention at Penn Siam! TJmvcvsitv in June ol the, same jcai _ j His leadership activities, had atliacted him to another! group, and during the same year ho suceccdc'd ftom the' post oi pic-ident m (he Man 1 hen i Young Farmers Associa tion to president of the Penn- • sjlvama slate association - 6' the oi gam 'ation Dm mg his tenure as stal. P£ A pu-.uV ,u Dean tiavel ecl m< i c than 9 000 mile and pi evented o\ ei 50 talks to eun clubs, faun orgam zatmu-, and local FFA chan tens A' n/iiu.il delegate fiom Punisv n. 1111,1 to the 1958 Ka lioji.il E’FA Comcnlion, Di.'ii ti' ccl on (lie nonunai lnB c.i'iiijiiiUi <. foi Nalion.il oilier.- Tl< also hoc uno a oi Hit Governor'' Con ni < c lot Chilclicn and i Yoiil'n in preparation for the 3 9(50 White- House* confer ' cnee L ' With all ,his activities away vfrom home Dean still fi "Is time to do most of the wr.k on the 105 acres pn the home farm and the 20 acres of rented land. Dean is sole owner of the 62 head of registered Hol stein dairy animals and the complete line if grassland farming equipment. He owns a ha]| interest in the home farm on which he raised this year 40 acres of mixed hay, 34 acres of soybeans and sor ghum for silage, 11 acres of Sudan grass for green chop feeding, and -25 acres of rye and oats mixture for tempor ary pasture. He still has 20 acres of permanent pasture, but no corn or small grain. With 38 cows-in milk, 13 bred heifers and 11 younger heifers, Dean feels that it is more economical to buy what grain he needs than to raise it He buys corn and oat" and supplements them with n 30 *V liquid protein concen trate gt the rate of 2 pounds -per animal per day. Dean believes ho can reduce this amount of with higher quality hay and silage and a good green chop pro gram Thirty four acres of alfalfa and orchard grass were band seeded this year. Home Improvements Storm Doors, Windows, Jalousies, Awnings, Roofing, Siding, Carpentry, Roof Coaling AUTHORIZED RUBEROID APPLICATOR ALL WORK GUARANTEED Ralph F. Kline <O5 S. Broad St. Ph. MA 6-7474 LITITZ, PA. Phone Lancaster LO 9-0841 Visit Our Stand At Root's Community Market t 20 j cars experience in Home Improvement field Our experience is your safeguard Why take chances? J! & NQ GENTLEMAN FARMER is Hoffer. , His herd- of 38 registered Holstein milk are accustomed to seeing him in the barn in his work clothes. With his many coi ments away from home as state FFA and Y oung Farmer presidents, Dean has hi have gome help with the chores, but when he is at home, the daily routine of cam the milking string gets- his personal attention “I would like to eventual- of the Holstein - Freisian ly work into a zero grazing Breeders -Associations. He is system*’, says Dean, “But it also on the executive corn will take some time to get it mittee of the state associa completely set up.” tion of Young Farmers. “Improvements take time When asked about bis plans with me away from home lor the future pean replied, so much ” Dean explains as “Wejl of course I plan to he points out the atuomatic stay here on the farm. I gutter cleaner installed last would like to increase the winter.. size of the herd .and of course “Next year I hope to com pletely fill the trench silo,. This year we put 34 acres o£ soybeans and sorghum in it and I think it will hold fifty” explains Dean, “But those things have to be worked out.” Active in many Farm Organizations Dean Hoffer would be a busy young man even with out his work in FFA. Some of the organizations which claim him among their mem bership are Manheim Com munity Farm Show of which he is director and vice presi dent, Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Association, Lancaster County .Coopera tive Youth Council, County senior extension club, Coun ty Holstein 4-H club, Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative through which he markets his milk, Lancaster Couni y Farm Bureau, Eastern States Cooperative Farmeis Ex change, Southeastern Penn sylvania Artificial Breeders Cooperative, and the county*, state, and national branches production per animal. I want to develop a better quality forage program and put more soil building' and conservation practices on the land. I have a lot of ideas in my mind, but it js sort of hard to put them into words, and I’m going to be pretty busy anyway this year,” As national officer, this yopng Lancaster county dairyman will visit most of the states in the Union be fore lie passes the gavel on to his successor next fall. 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