BTOL. 8 NO, 31 A THIRD GENERATION HEIFER in the herd of Robert Wenger, Quarry ville Rl, is looked over by Robert and his father, Paul Wenger. Robert began his herd with a 4-H animal and now has a herd of six milking cows and three more to freshen this fall. He also has five younger heifers. The heifer above is the grand daughter of his first cow. L. F. Photo. Farm Calendar : July 8 — 1:.30 p.m. — County I 4-H Demonstration day at ' Penn Manor High School ! cafeteria, j 1:30 p.m. — -iManheim Township 4-H Marry Stit chers cluto meets at the Pro- ' dnotion Credit building, ; . Roseville Road, 8:30 p.m. — County Soil ! Conservation District direc tors meet in the court house, Lancaster. July 9 -1.1 — District 4-*H leadership school at Her shey. July 9 — 8 pjm. — Garden Spot 4-H clulb meets in the • Sunoketoirn Elementary 1 School. July. 10" 7:30 p.m. — * -Guernsey 4 j H cluh meets at • the home Of Ellis Denlin- 1 ger, ' Gordonville Rl, Ball game and doggie roast. ' July 11 — 8 a.m. — County livestock judging practice at the Lancaster stockyards. July-12 — 7:30 p.m. — Boots and Saddles 4-H horse clulb judging practice at the : home of Clarence Sweigart, : Denver R2. July 13 — 10:30 a.m.' — : State Swine field day at the Pennsylvania State Univer - Bit r- * , n. USDAMoves Livestock Office From Lancaster The area office of the Pack ers & Stockyards Division, Ag ricultural Marketing Service, -U.S.D.A., which has been lo cated at the Lancaster Stock Yards for the past 10 years moved to Newark,' N. J., on July 1st. Under a plan 0® reorganiza tion “of the entire field office set nip of the P & S Division, the area head quarters for New England, New York, New Jer sey and Pennsylvania under the direction' of Kenneth P. Grizzell, area supervisor, will now be located at 1060 Broad St., Newark (2), New Jersey. Edward H. Heller, formerly connected with the office here will transfer to ‘Wiashington where he will deal primarily with poultry problems coming under P & S scrutiny, Duane D. Dieber & William P. Riley assistants here will move with Grizzell to "Newark, The P & S office moved here from New York City ten years ago and was under the direc tion of Prank Pitz Roy who (Continued on Page 5) I ; „r;.: ; pvt: Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 6, 1963 Six From Co. Attend 4-H Training School ©ix 4-H members from Lanc aster County have been selec ted to take part in a Leader ship Training- School at Her shey next week. Larry Weaver, New Holland Rl; Paul Welk, Strasburg Rl; Cynthia Bucher, Lititz R2; El aine Stoltatus, Ronks Rl; Be linda Hershey, Manheim, and Robert Wenger, Quarryville Rl, will be among approximately 65 outstanding 4-H members from 13 county organizations attending the three day event, (Continued on Page 5) 4-H’ers Make Exchange Trip Fifteen Lancaster County 4-H members and five adult leaders will embark on an ex change trip with 4-H’ers from Oklahoma next week. The trip will he a return visit to the homes of 15 Okla homa 4-H’ers who visited in (Continu ed on Page ilj State F. F. A. Secretary Almost Missed Voc. Agri. ' 'Robert Wenger, secretary of the Keystone Association of Future Farmers of America, came within a whisker of not taking vocational agriculture in high school. The 17 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wenger, Quarry ville Rl, was an outstanding student in grade school. His eighth grade teacher was con vinced the boy was college ma terial and insisted that he en roll in the academic curric ulum at Solanco High School. Robert and his parents be lieved he had a place on the home farm and made special arrangements with the Solanco guidance department so that Robert could take his academic subjects along with the voca tional agriculture curriculum. Apparently they were justi fied in their efforts. Robert gra duated last month with an outstanding scholastic record, was a commencement speaker, and the following week was tatpped for the second highest state office in the FFA. How about Robert? Is he glad he took the agriculture course? He said this week he Doris W. Thomas Appointed County Extension Home Economist Mrs. Dons W, Thomas has been named associate exten sion home economist in Lanc aster county. Dr. 8.. E. Larson, director of the Cooperative Extension Service, The Penn sylvania State University, says her appointment is effective July 1. She will he in charge hf the adult and 4-H home making programs. Mrs. Thomas was graduated MBS. DORIS THOMAS from the Quarryville high school and received her 'bach elor of science degree in home economics from Hood College, Frederick, IMd. Mrs. Thomas taught home economics six years in the .So lanco Area school district. Be fore that she was with Slater System Inc., one year and with the Lancaster 'County Gas Com pany as home service director two years. She is a member of the $2 Per Year never really seriously consid ered going to college, although he does realize the value of education. He iplans to con tinue farming on a share ba sis with his parents and even tually work into a partnership on the 440 acre home fairnu Robert has a herd of six purebred Holstems in produc tion, three others that will freshen this fall, and five younger animals. Robert, who likes working with dairy cattle has much of the responsibility for the 65- head herd of milking cows, while his younger brother, Earl, who likes machinery, does much of the field work. Earl will be a sophomore at Solanco in the fall. While quite a bit of the East Drumore Townshiip farm is in woodland, the big blapk and white cows have about 100 acres of pasture and another 140 are devoted to crops. All crops on the farm, 50 acres of corn, 40 acres of alfalfa, 18 of clover, 18 acres of -winter oats and : 13 acres of triple purpose grass, go into (Continued on Page 10) Lancaster County Home Econ omics 'Teachers Association, and the National and the Pena (Continued on Page 11) Most Boys Ever In Voc. Agri. A report from the Agricul tural Education Branch of the U.S. Office of Education says that more boys than ever 'be fore are studying vocational agriculture in high school. En rollment in vo-ag usually closely parallels total mem bership in the Future Farmers of America which, for the 19 62- 63 school year hit a new high of 396,812. Membership this past year was 7,820 more 4 than in 1961-62, and about 18,000 over five years ago, according to ,-the Office of Education. Approximately 35 percent of the boys with three or mote years of "vo-ag” enter farm ing on a full-time basis. About (Continued on page 3) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the next live days are expected to average five or more de grees below the normal range of 65 at night to 86 in the afternoon. It will be a little warmer at the begin ning of the period turning cooler about Monday. Less than 0.1 inch of precipita tion is expected to fall as possible showers about Mon day.
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