6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 1, 1962 IFYE David Lapp Reports Experiences In New Zealand Ed. Note: The following I'' a scries ol excerpts from a letter written bj David Lapp, son ot Mr. and Mrs. John Lapp, W.llO - Kl. Dmid is spend!hr a six-months visit in New Zea land as a lepresentathe in the 4-JHL Club l.inn youth i‘\ilmnsc jiiogriini. The International Farm Youth Exchange or IFYE foi .diort, is a piogram that brings a bettei i elationship between countries It could also be call ed a people to people progiam We. as Ruial Youth Partici pants, not technicians, are SAVE up to 50% on FUEL WITH SIEGLER'S EXCLUSIVE PATENTED HEATMAKIR! L H. BRUBAKER 350 Strasburg Pike - Lancaster Phone Lancaster 3t>7-517f> StiMsburj; GB7-COO3 MONEY BACK CUARANTEE COMING... NEXT WEEK! from... farm BUREAU fc- | . ... i , ,| I ■■. I a new, cxcime (Better Then Ever) SPRING FERTILIZER PROGRAM P.S. Don't miss it .... . it's tops! New Holland 354-214 G v BUR^ Lancaster 394-0541 grassroot ambassadors repre senting the people in our own community and country. We don’t have any special train ing but do receive a week of pre-departure orientation at the National 4-II Center in Washington, DC I call it “brain washing” because we had all sorts of meetings with the Depaitment ot State and the Department of Agriculture, including several classes a day on cultuie of the many peoples of the world We had so many tacts and figures thrown at ns ui a week that I felt like I had R. I). 3, Lititz liititz 62C-7766 Manheim 665-2466 Quarryville ST 6-2126 four years of college slroved at me in one week. IFYE is more than just a six month trip It is an educa tional experience I shall never DAVID LAPP forget Our job on the field is woikmg and learning othei' people s ideas and methods of doing things This is only one phase of our experience The othei begins when we -return home and share our observa tions, experiences and ideas SOUND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES are necessary for success with any Dairy Feeding Program. Essentially, it is a matter of keeping cows; clean and comfortable, supplying ample water and the right feed for maximum production, and protecting health. YOUR MOST IMPORTANT MANAGEMENT TOOL is a pen or pencil use your pencil to keep accurate records of each cow. Good records serve ~ as a valuable guide to every decision you make The FARM BUREAU COWculator takes the guesswork out of dairy feeding! ONLY FARM BUREAU offers this service in Penna. The FARM BUREAU COWculator is a miniature, electronic brain that computes the precise Maximum Profit Feeding level for every cow. in your herd. It accurately computes these important answers to your dairy feeding questions: £ The amount of feed necessary lor maximum profit 0 The pounds of nutrients required for milk production vrith any quan- tity of milk and fat content at any feeding rate, 0 The pounds of nutrients obtained from forage—hay, silage and pas-ture. £ The maximum profit feeding rate bused on current milk price. Start Today... Feed The Farm Bureau Way! Qualified FIELDMEN are anxious fo serve and assist you in designing a PROFITABLE DAIRY FEEDING PROGRAM Lancaster 394-0541 New Holland 354-2146 with the people in the com munity , New Zealand is located in the South Pacific below the equator, just as far south of it as Me are north. However, they are surrounded with warm, coastal waters which gives them a fair and waim climate. They receive an aver age of about 45 inches of ram a year, just 10 more than an Lancaster County. The,lslands are about the Size of'New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania put together They have a population m both Islands of about 2 Mi mil lion people, the same as that ot Philadelphia The North Island is only the size of Penn sylvania, so you see, the neople down here have plenty ot “el bow room” The people are of British origin, theiefore, speak Eng lish (Thank goodness! I can understand them ) Howevei, they find it difficult to under stand me since I’m a Pennsyl vania Dutchman .\ ith an ac cent They call me a last talk ing Yankee I have just completed my stay with my first host family, who lived on the North Is land, along the Tasman Sea at the foot of snow-covered Mt Bdgmout It’s quite bt-auutul MANAGEMENT & EECOEDS scenery looking up and see-* Jng the white mountain, then looking to my xaght and seeing the sea, and standing on warm, ground all the time. My host family owned 240 acres of land. It was all an pas ture which was fenced oftmto different fields, each from 10 to 15 acres an si«e. What I mean when I say “fenced off” is quite different from our idea Around their whole tarm they have box thorn hedges which are quite a nuisance and they find very difficult to control. It grows about 10 to 12 feet high and is full of thorns that are poisonous to some people They aie thick needle-Ilke thornSj one to two inches long. If you're sleepy or- don’t -mind your business and lean agaipst one, you soon wake .up! The only .way they can check them is to trim them by hand or hue a contractor that will do' the trimming His machine is usually an old army truck, with a blade on the side about 15 feet high. This blade whirls around at speeds sometimes aa fast as 600 miles per hour. This chops up limbs and bran ches that aie as thick as six inches. The wheels on the truck are protected by thick (continued ou page 7) n, ( "•»-*I. 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