B—-Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 20,1965
Student Teacher* Train At The
Garden Spot High School In All
Phases Of Agricultural Program
The Garden 'Spot High Zerby from Penn’s Valley in
School in New Holland is one Centre County, and Elmer
of eighteen schools in Penn- from Penn Manor High
sylvania that is presently ap- School, Millersville.
proved in terms of adequate Zerby has been accepted at
facilities and activities for Warwick High School, Litite,
training student teachers in and will replace Robert Hen
vocational agriculture. It is ney who is resigning as the
currently the only school in vocational agriculture teacher
Lancaster County engaged in as of March 1.
this teacher program. The in- Elmer hopes to accept a
training teachers have full re- teaching assignment in Lan
sponsibility for the vo-ag pro- caster or in one of the sur
eram. in and out of school, rounding counties,
and for FFA work. The pro- Bale Gerber, now teaching
uram covers a ten-week per- vocational agriculture at Done
iod January 4 to March 12. gal High School, Mount Joy,
This year’s student teachers went through the Garden Spot
are Clair Zerby and Robert teacher-training program last
Elmer. Both are graduates of year. ______
Pennsylvania high schools, __ZZZZZZI.
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Thursday night at the Solan
co High School in Quarryville.
Between the two locations an
estimated 200 dairymen heard
the A.B.C. management report
that the cooperative was in
sound financial shape and Well
equipped to serve the needs of
member-dairymen throughout
its service area.
Harry Roth, assistant man
ager and director of breed
programs, told the group how
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Roth also discussed the eval
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method being used to evalu
ate the breeding sires is the
herdmate comparison test. Al
though this method has shown
itself effective in the long run
it has some drawbacks in its
initial stages. The results on
a single farm baas are likely
to be misleading to the in
dividual dairyman because he
is seeing only'the limited num
ber of cases that occur on his
farm. But from the breeder’s
point of view, with many sam
ples to consider, the system
has advantages which former
evaluating methods did not
provide.
At the two meetings in the
county, members were elected
to the Sire Reporting Com
mittee. In District 4 the fol
lowing countians were elected
representing the five major
dairy breeds: Ayrshire, James
Martin, Stevens Rl; Brown
SWiss, Aaron Martin, Manheim
Rl; Guernsey, Jesse B'almer,
Lititz iR4; Holstein, Donald
Bby, Gordonville RH; Jersey,
Ivan S. Zimmerman, East Earl
Rl.
District 5 committeemen
elected were- Ayrshire, J
Cleon Huber; Brown Swiss;
none; Guernsey, Melvin R.
Stoltafus; Holstein, Roy H.
Booh; Jersey, Robert W. Ul
rich.
Elvin Hess, Jr., Btrasburg
Rl, was reelected to a three
year term as District Dire’ctor.
Certificates of merit were
given to those members who
completed the 1964 testing
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STUDENTS BEING INSTRUCTED BY STUDENT TEACHER
at the Garden Spot High School are left to right, Ken Zimmerman,
Amos Reiff. The three boys are students in vocational agriculture.
year with a standing of 25 per
cent above the Pennsylvania
DHiIA average. In District 4
these farmers were: John E.
Esh, Gordonville; Ivan G. Mar
tin, Ephrata; Amos B. Lapp,
Gordonville; Stanley G. Grein
er, Manheim; Henry E. Ketter
ing, Lititz; Red Rose Research
Center, Lancaster; Paul B.
Zimmerman, Ephrata; Hiram
S. Aungst, Elizabethtown; Sam
uel A. Dum, East Petersburg;
Benjamin D. Hershey, Kinzer;
J. Richard Keller, Manheim;
Harry S. Aungst, Marietta;
Donald E,' Etoy, Gordonville;
Kenneth A. Skiles, Narvon;
Leon W. Hess, Gordonville;
Ezra M. Martin, Ephrata.
Dairymen from District 5
receiving certificates of merit
were: Furry H. Frey, Lancas
ter; J. Mowrey Frey, Lancas
ter; Vincent H. Hoover, New
Providence; John M. Harnish,
Lancaster; Parke H. Ranck,
Ronks; Christ K. Lapp & Son,
Gap: Raymond & Louise Wit
mer, Willow Street; C. Kreider
& C. Akers, Quarryville; Levi
A., Esh, Ronks; Clair M. Her
shey, Willow Street.
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New Water System
Possible Tax Saying
Farmers installing new wa- der tbe recent guideline pro
ter systems can benefit from cedures announced by IRS,
increased supplies of water- PW fall under Subdivision
and from tax savings under 1 of Group II and are to be
recently adopted Internal Rev- depreciated over a 10-year
enue Service rulings. period.
■ This applies both to “first I® l addition, pump expendi
year” depreciation and to in- tures are entitled to a special
vestment credits, according to “first year” depreciation of 20
the national Water Systems P er cent - Tbe e ® ec i fc '°* 1S
Council. The result is a tax allowance is to accelerate the
break for farmers interested basic 10-year depredation.
in modernizing their water since pumps have a usefu i
systems and increasing water jj£ e 0 £ OVM - eight years, - the
supplies for farm production council says that purchaser
purposes. of water systems would be en-
The Council advises that titled to the full 7 per cent
expenditures for new pump- investment credit
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