a —. Lancaster Farming, Saturday,, September 7, 1963
DROUGHT HURT THE CORN CROP, but the ears are filling out and it will
mature unless we have an early frost, Grant Miller, teacher of vocatonal agricul
ture at Donegal High School, tells a class of junior and senior boys as they in
spected a chapter project this week. The FFA chapter grows 12 acres of corn on
the halves on the farm of Martin Musser, Mount Joy Rl. Left to right are John
Hess and Dennis Drager, both of Marietta; David Becker, Mount Joy R 2; James
Hoffman, Mount Joy Rl; Harold Barton, Marietta; Stuart Emenheiser, Mount Joy
Rl; Miller; Donald Mowrer, Marietta Rl; Lee Stauffer, Mount Joy Rl, and Donald
Drager, Marietta Rl. L. F. Photo.
• Donegal F.F.A.
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»ia tState University will also
toe financed trom the projects.
Bach year the chapter
awards a $25 grant in scholar
ehip aid to a graduate plan
*ms further education, and
this, too, conies from the fund.
3ut finances are only a part
of the value of the projects
Miller considers the projects a
real teaching tool.
This week, as -school began,
•one oif the Pen-Bel 69 tobacco
was ready to top. Miller found
that moat of the boys wanted
to .. top the new variety as high,
as -the older types of tobacco.
The .boys found that Pen
-69 topped as high as
other tobacco has as high as
2# leaves per stalk. One of
the advantages of the new to
bacco is that it can be topped
lower and still have enough
leaves to give the desired
weight.
Each committee chairman
was responsible for ordering,
plants, seeing that they were
transplanted into the field, cul
tivated, sprayed and topped at
the proper time, and each
committee will harvest and
strip its own plot.
The corn project, for which
the boys supply all labor, in
a chapter undertaking. Mar
tin Musser, a member of the
Donegal Union School Board, I
evipplies the ground, half the'
fertiliser, the manure and weed
•pray materials Seed for the
project was donated by a for
mer chaptei member who now
works for the Pioneer Seed
Oom Company.
Work on the project is done
with the chapter’s new trac
tor, purchased last spring with
club funds The chapter also
owns a pick-up truck, which
the graduates use for the an
nual wsetern tour Each year
the chapter trades the truck
on a new one for $3OO.
When the corn is harvested,
the club’s half share will be
stored and offered to members
at market price Thus far a
member oi a member’s father
has bought every crop
Miller believes the projects
are an .-excellent opportunity |
to r teachj.'modern methods and ,
give the boys a chance to trg
some Ideas that mijAt ji£tc<|e
accepted at home.^,-
“The projects have doitite-ai
lot to draw the boys into a* 1
close-knit organization, .bji giv
ing them something to=*osJfe.
on tor the good of the group,"
he said. ' • ‘ 3c
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