Youthpower Project Will Plan Nutrition Education One of the keys to good ces:ing, distnbuton, end living—a ba.ic understand- marketing to a problem mg of nutrition and its im- _,brought forcefully to the at portance to vigor and achie- tention of the public by vemcnt —will be the focus of numerous studies of teenage a statewide Youthpower Pro- diet deficiencies In genera', .icct developed for high bring out such alarming facts school-age boys and girls, it Mr. Wilson said, the studies was announced today. as there C. M Wilson, chairman of the newly organized Penns vania Youthpower Commit tee of the National Food Conference, revealed the ov erall outlines of the program in which Pennsylvania Farm ers’ Association is taking the lead. A Pennsylvania committee, made up of leading youth, educator, and civic groups and cooperating representa tives of the food industry throughout the state, has been recommended by the National Food Conference, an informal committee of food industry trade associations and firms, Mr Wilson said Its objective to be carried While teenage boys are out in many of the 50 states, not so badly off as girls, 20 is to make avadable study percent of boys are low m materials and project outlines calcium; ten percent in iron to high school teenagers for and vitamin A; 20 percent m use in classroom, extra-curn- thiamine; and 40 percent in cula, and club activity C (University of the 1959-60 school year. New Hampshire study; The Youthpower Project, Breakfast sets the pattern Mr. Wilson said, is the co- for the day, and 15 year-olds ordinated response of a unit- who skipped breakfast gen ed food industiy, including erally do not make up, later associations and firms repre-in the day, for *fcie foods sentative of production, pro they missed, resulting in a Is Your Dairy Program Complete? Do You Handle Your Roughage To the Best Advantage? Do You Feed Your Cows On The Basis Of Their Capacity To Produce? Do You Feed The Right Kind Of Grain Ration And The Correct Protein Level? Do You Enjoy The ECONOMY OF BULK DELIVERY? For Helpful Suggestions Ask Any Miller & Bushong Rep- resentative Or 'Call Lancaster EX 2-2145, Collect. i,Ut: stock. Manufacturers of Poultry and Livestock Feed Since 1875 14 per cent of teenage boys and 28 percent of girls (16 to 18 age group) often go without breakfast (Cereal Institute stuudy); 50 per cent of teenage girls receive inadequate a mounts of protein and iron (University of California study); After age 12, intake of ad olescent girls in total calor ie;, protein, calcicm, iron, thamine, riboflavin, and Vita min C declined sharply be low recommended levels, and the trend continued downward i n adult life (University of California study), Miller & Bushong, daily shortage of nutrents (Montana Experiment Station study). These reports and many others resulting in similar findings, Mr. Wilson said make perfectly evident the need for a program of this type directed primarily at the high school age group within Pennsylvania. Statewide Meeting Planned , Wilson said that the 1959- 60 Youthpower Project calls for active study of nutrition and its importance in the school, homo and outside ac tivities of teenagers to be capped by a Pennsylvania Youthpower Congress to be held at Harrisburg January 25 At this meeting, partici pating boys and girls nomin ated to attend by local school authorities will meet to de velop ideas carried out in community programs, to hear leading scientists, nutrition authorities, and to take part in a variety of special events now being planned. National Youihpower Congress According to present plans, Mr. Wilson said, Pennsylvan it will send eight boys and girls to a National Youth power Congress to be held in Chicago, February 11-13. 1960. At this meeting a w de range of problems facing modern teenagers will be dis cussed and studied by the youngsters under supenvsion of leading educators -and scientists, in an all-out effort to better equip boys and girls for the tasks that lie ahead. * c/» Rohrerstown. Pa. Ph. Lancaster EX 2-2145 F6l-HSC ON THE MERITS OF HIGH- cow’s produtcion increases, PRODUCING COWS feed costs rise at a slower A recent stuay or 1958 111 rate than returns above feed inois Dairy Herd Improve- costs. For example, Johnson ment Association records sa y s > feed costs per cow av shows that ten cows averag- eraged one-third more for ing 10,239 pounds of milk a cows producing 10,239 pounds’ year can give the same re- m ilk a y ear than for cows turn over feed cost as 34 producing 5,311 pounds But cows producing 5,311 pounds, returns above feed costs were With reference to this study nearly SVa times as high for Extension Dairy Specialist the high producers Ralph Johnson of the Univer- siiy of Illinois says high pro- Over fat sows nave more ducing cows eat more feed trouble farrowing than those than low producers, but as a on the thin side. A SALES AND SERVICE X * r HAVE YOUR FARM MACHINERY i SERVICED NOW! Mann & Grumelli Farm Serv. Quarryville, Pa. L. H. Brubaker Inc L. H. Brubaker Nissley Farm Service Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12. 1959—! Be Sure for ’6O Be ready to go next spring... forsure... by doing part of your spring equipment buying now. 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