the high, degree of Importance
the boys attach to their family
ties. This is not true in most
big cities, he said.
Paul Trimble and 'Clarence
Bauman, both state FFA offi
cers brought greetings from
the state association, and Don
ald Fogel, immediate past pre
sident of the state association
gave an inspirational talk on
the values of FFA work.
toot
Slolancd FFA .
Awards Degrees
To Three Men
Three honorary chapiter far
mer degrees were conferred by
members of the Solanco Fut
ure* Farmers of America chap
ter at the group’s 26th annual
parent and son banquet Thurs
day night at the Solanco Sch
ool.
Ralph Downey, head of the
music department in the high
school was honored for his as
sistance through the years in
helping boys prepare for FFA
band and in furnishing musical
programs for FFA functions.
The two sponsors of ithe an
nual truck essay contest at the
school, Benjamin Warfel and
Benjamin Herr, also received
the degree.
Bernard Gmgerich, safety
director for Herr's Motor Ex
press, Quarryville, awarded the
truck essay contest prizes to
two junior students First pri
ze, $l5O to be used for a steer
or heifer, was donated by
Herr’s and won by Charles
Craig, Nottingham, R 2. Second
prize of $75 to be used in a
farming program of the win
ner's choice was donated by
Warfel and won by Jerry Mc-
Coy, Peach Bottom
The family is the greatest in
fluence on Future Farmers in
the York-Lancaster area, ac
cording to Thomas M. Malm,
area supervisor of vocational
• Co. Dairymen
(Continued from Page 1)
Joe S Taylor, * extension da
iry specialist from PSU, said
Pennsylvania cows on DHIA
testing are not up to the nat
ional DHIA average. “There is
no excuse for inefficient produc
tion.” he said since 600,000 of
the 850,000 cows in the com
monwealth are bred artificially
and have similar inherited ab
ility ito produce. “We have too
many traditions to overcome in
the feeding of dairy cows ”
We have not yet reached the
point of diminishing returns m
high gram feeding rates, Tay
lor said We have to learn to
feed the fresh cow and not
worry about teed being the
cause of swollen udders He
s|iid research repeated at many
experiment stations has shown
that udder swelling is an in
herited characteristic and can
not be effected by feeding.
,He said records show that
dairymen can expect an extra
$lOO return over feed cost per
cow for every 100 lbs. increase
in butterfat average
‘With last summer’s drought
causing a shortage of forage,
Taylor cautioned dairymen to
go no lower than one pound of
hay or hay equivalent per hun
dred pounds of cow body wei
ght per day or butterfat pro
duction would be hurt. He said
production can be maintained
satisfactorily on a pound and
a half per head per day, but at
this rate it is important ito sup
ply extra vitamins and miner
als in the gram ration.
Taylor said dairymen in
Northern Pennsylvania are
feeding a ration of 1,250 pou
nds of shelled corn, 540 pounds
of soybean meal, 200 pounds of
molasses, 50 pounds of dical
cium phosphate and vitamins
at the rate of 60,000 units of
A and 120,000 units of D per
ton. Four county dairymen on
a panel moderaited by Taylor
said they feed almost this mu
ch corn, but weie “a little bit
afraid” of the high corn rate
The dairymen were Clarence
Keener, J Robert Hess, Hairv
S Mumma, and J. Rohrer Wil
ma r
The piogram was sponsoiecl
by the county extension asso
ciation.
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agricultural. Malin conducted a
study off FFA members in ,tlie
two counties in which the boys
were asked to tell what forces
had the most influence on their
thinking.
Of the 1,745 Students com
pleting the survey, nearly half
of the boys listed the family as
having the greatest.impact on
decision making. Along with
the 767 boys who checked the
family, another 352 felt their
friends were the most import
ant influence in their lives. A
total of 205 listed school, tea
chers and books as most im
portant, and another 154 list
ed television and radio.'Anoth
er 126 selected Church and
Sunday School, while 74 said
newspapers, and magazines.
Thirty two mentioned the mov
ies, and the other 22 boys in
the survey named various oth-
er things including two who
listed girls as the most import
ant influence on their thinking
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getting some of their milk pri
ced under the class 111 section
of the New York milkshed'Fed
eral orders.
Taylor said he believes that
dairymen will be faced with
three alternatives. We will have
quotas, or payments not to
produce, or we will “fight it out
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trol Commission has done iness, he said, “but there’la no
much more good than harm to place for the dairyman to go.’*
the producer, processor and H e said the present criticism
consumer, Taylor said. He told 0 f the PMCC is mismanage
the delegates, “I believe Ithe nient, "I do not believe there
PMCC has prevented disaster- jg anything wrong wllbhr the
ous price wars in the dairy in- commisson that good- manage
dustry. Without the commis- men t could not correct. Why
sion, the law of the jungle should we do away witfc the
would prevail.” PMCC when the rest of the Un-
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