i ball field and athletic field.
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Lititz Springs Park
Luxuriant greensward is an- Commission of close to $2OO. the entire ten and a half acres,
ticipated for Lititz Springs One acre of ground was seeded Robert Henney ,is faculty
park l as the result of a Com- this week. Before actually advisor for the group,
inunity Service project of the planting tlie seed, the lads Projects of this type are a
Warwick Chapter of the Fu- plowed, and harrowed, picked pftr t of the total experience
ture Farmers of America. up stone amf debris, and spread gained through the Vocational
fertilizer After sowing the Agriculture Department jat
Ths boys spent several days seed they app ii ed straw mulch Warwick High School. There
this week preparing and seed- over the banks and stee p are presently 42 boys enrolled
jng the park an cooperation place s. in the department, each of
't 1 . e 'J,, 2 ® rin SS ar whom is interested in some as-
Comrrnssion. The boys supplied Last year the FFA seeded agriculture. The pn
all the equipment an<j the, la- the Pierson playground for the purpoS6 M the depart
bor, and the only expense to school district and the year me J is three . lold> the ad^lsor
the park is the seed and ferti- before, 1961. they did a tre- explains . o ne group of students
hzef. This comes to 1175 and mendous job for the school d» Js trainlng to g 0 , back to their
remits io a saving to the Park tnct by Seeding the new foot- locai farms and become farm
SEAL YIELD POWER
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is shown in the official 1962
Pennsylvania Com Club
in Lancaster County by
DEKALB
640
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DEKALB 640 ......20,415 population 153.5 80. \ 4 OUT
DEKALB 640...........19.580 population 152,5 80. (
DEKALB 640. ..20,280 population 151.8 Bu. ? OI " '
DEKALB 640. .19,315 population 150.2 Bu. ) PLACES
RED RIBBON CLASS—I2S to 149.9,Sushels
A Real "High Pressure" Hybrid
for Modern Farming
DeKilb 640 is one of the most versatile of all hybrids. It is bred to stand and produce high
yields, particularly at higher populations. Note the high yields above, and plant population
figures. What’s more, 640 has top rating for its resistance to borers, leaf blight and stalk rot. It’s
toughs talked and one of the best of all “standers.” It produces high quality grain, and because
oi its.fairly tall, vigorous stalk and abundant leafiness, it makes an excellent silage corn. You can
depend on 640 to STAND UP—YIELD UP-and “PAY OFF.’*
DEKALB AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION, INC. OEKALB, ILLINOIS
Commercial Producers and Distributors of DeKalb Corn, Chix and Sorghum,
DEKALBHIORN
BLUE RIBBON CLASS—ISOio 174.9 Bushels
DEKALB £4O ~18,350p0pu1ati0n........... 135.9 Bu. } 4 Qyj
DEKALB 640 ...,16,750p0pu1ati0n...........135.2 Bu. (
DEKALB £4O It,24Bpopulation... ~133.2 Bu. ( 0
DEKALB £40..,,;, 37,315 population. -..128.5 Bu. ' PLACES
WHITE RIBBON CLASS—IOO to 124.9 Bushels ) 1 OUT
DEKALB 640...........18,750 population,.... 103.9 Bu. > OF 3
) PLACES
“DEKALB" is a Registered Brand Name.
Numbers are Variety Designations.
1 I contractor - wanted,. $900,0 to
seed ten and a bait acres, and
the boys did the job for slight
ly over $BOO. They hand-raked
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 13, 1963
Renewing Lititz Springs Park
Members of the Warwick Chapter, Future
Fanners of America shown during their communi
ty service project of preparing and seeding Lititz
Springs Park. Above, Eugene Risser, Lititz Rl,
and James Brewer, New St., Lititz, are shown pil
ing up old straw to be used as mulch on the banks
and steep places after seeding. In picture below,
Cletus Bucher, Lititz Rl, is aboard tractor harrow
ing ground.
operators. A second group is their time equally (between,
training to take jobs an fields shop and classroom. In the
allied to agriculture. A third classroom they study dairy,
group is training so that they livestock, and poultry manage
may go on to various colleges ment, soils, field crops, fruits,
and universities and continue records and farm management,
their education in agriculture. In the shop they are tanghit t&e
Warwick has the highest per- skills of farm carpentry, «le«-
centage of boys graduating in tncity, plumbing, {aim meoh
agricujture who go on to high- anlcs, welding, sheet metal
er education of any of the sch- work, masonry and Painting,
00l in Lancaster County. The knowledge the boys acqif-
The program as such was ire in school can be readily ap
started in this area in 1956 plisd on their home farms and
and has shown steady growth in their farming projects, and
to the present. The boys study- upon graduation can be of
mg Vo-Ag spend nine school s rea *- help when they are seek
periods per week in classroom i n & their careers. They hjarn
and shop activities, and each to live up to their motto which
must have a project or farming is: “Learning to do, doing to
program in operation on their learn, earning ito live and liv
liome farms. The boys spend in S t 0 servC-
AID IN IjITITZ SPRINGS PARK PROJECX. A group of
bojs iu the Warwick FRA are shown picking up stones and
trash and loading them into a (ruck before proceeding with the
seeding of bitilz Springs Park, belt to right; Eugene Saylor,
Litit? R 3; Mahlon Grube, Rothsville; James Brewer ,New St.,
bititz; Eugene Risser, bitit/. Rl; Raymond Henley, bititz R 4.
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