} '• Vo-Ag T«och«r* ' [(Caotinaui from- Pal* D wfcrjaif'Oiatod to a one-year t«im' ,*« adviser since the chapter president, Robert Wearer, Is a Lampeter-Stras bnt* boy. Ralph Layman ot SOlanco High School Is the third chapter adviser and will complete his three-year term nexrt year. In other business, T. M. MaHn, York-Lancaster area adviser and treasurer of the association, reported on the of the Fair Fund Committee. He indicated the association had a balance ot approximately $l,OOO which could he used, among other things, to purchase educa tional equipment. The group discussed the advisability of buying a Polaroid camera for use in covering major FFA activities. However, it was decided that no further ex penditures Would he made on this year’s budget. The Fair Fund provides $2,000 each year for vocational agricul^ A Report on Hornco Feeds By Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Barkdolt York County, Fo. Cycle Laying Feed Program.” 10 months ago we started our €4OO cage layers on the Borneo “Cycle” Laying Fe ed Program. The results ; below speak for themselv es. From 20 Weeks Of Age To 10 Months 3.76 Lbs. Feed Per Doz. .63% Mortality 186 Eggs Per Hen Housed 65.2% Present Production D. E. U ture use. The unused balance In each year' is then adjust to $2,000. There is no car ryover ot unspent funds. Hog committee chairman Lewis Ayers reported the FFA hog show will add a shewing and fitting contest next year, and it is planned that a trophy will be present ed to tTie winner. He also suggested giving winners in various classes of the show prizes other than money a purebred, registered gilt, for example: or, plaques and trophies. He suggested this might be more meaningful to the boys in the long run. Robert Herr of Garden Spot High School reminded the teachers that the Lan caster County Swine Produc ers Association will again hold a carcass show in con junction with the Lampeter Pair, and that Junior mem berships m the association are still available to FFA boys. There are presently over 1(H) such junior memberships “We’re Having Excellent Results With The Borneo Of Lay CYCLE LAYING FEEDS AND PROGRAM BROUGHT TO YOU FIRST BY HORNCO Fir Eggs CO., lilC. York, Pa. Ph. 854-7867 'ln',thp ‘association, Herr said, and’ are entitled to par* ticlpate in all activities of the swine' association. Henry Glvler, Pequea Val ley High School, reported the annual tobacco show will probably be held on the Fil day before Farm Show, as it Was last year. It will fol low the Specifications set forth in the Farm Show hand book, he said. • Glenn Weber (Continued from Page 1) County boys—Harold Brubak er, Mount Joy, in 1964; John Frey, Quarryville R 2, in 1965. Weber’s agriculture instruc tor, Robert D. Herr of Gar den Spot High School, feels the county stands a good chance -of taking the top spot this 'year also. As of the first of April, 1964, Glenn took over oper ation of the family dairy, and still managed to keep up with his school and FFA activities. Check with your neighbor who feeds Hornco See what Hornco is doing for him. Then call us direct for more informa- tion on ''Cycle Laying Feeds". Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 4, 1965 After graduation, he plans to take over the entire respon sibility for the home farm on a partnership arrangement with his father. • Farm Calendar (Continued from Page 1) 7:30 p.m. Annual mem bership meeting ot Produc ers Co-Op Exchange at Plain & Fancy Farm, Bird in-Hand. December 9 7 pm. Eph rata Adult Farmers Class, field trip to farm of J. Mowery Frey, Jr., Lancas ter 7 30 p.im. Lancaster County Soil & Water Con sv. District holding com munity watershed meeting at Denver Fire Hall, Den ver. 8 p.m. Lancaster Coun "ty 4-H Holstein Club Christmas Party at Clay Elementary Sdhool. Mr. Stanley Barkdoll Airplane Is New Tool To Detect Unclean Streams Water pollution conti ol specialists for the Department of Health have added a new dimension to their stream sur veill'ance the airplane. The Department’s Division of Sanitary Engineering has Chartered a tour-place, hilgh wing, single-engine plane for spotting pollution violations in the Commonwealth's streams Dr. Charles L Wilbar, state health secretary and chairman of the Samtaiy Wa ter Board said that the in itial experimental flights have been highly successful. Wil bar hailed the new “clean streams air patrol” as, “an other tool to aid the Health Department in the enforce ment of the state’s Clean Streams Law.” Sanitary engineers and wa ter pollution specialists nor mally survey the state 3 streams to detect violations of the Clean Streams Law afoot or, on larger streams, by travelling in boats. Despite this close surveil lance, Dr. Wilbar has point led out many extra advantages in aerial surveillance; 1 From the air, the pol : lut'ion control staff can bet? ter see pollution discharges ; which would be virtually in visible from the ground. 2 The speed of ths ■plane makes it possible to cover a significant portion ot the state in one day of flying, 3 Sources of pollution which are inaccessible be cause of natural or man made barriers are readily ob served from the aar. Sanitary engineers " from one of the Departments le gional offices and an engineer from Harrisburg’S cential of fice have taken part in the initial flights At the piesent time the flights aie being carried out about twice a month. Coloi pla\s an impoitant part in the aenal opeiation. An 'oi ange color in a stieani may indicate a possible mine drainage discharge, blade coul'd be evidence ot an oil discharge, and gieen might mean undesnable gio-\\ths o£ aquatic plants caused by w f aste di'sc'haiges In addition, other indica tors ot tiouble may be mill scale trom steel mills, vau ons floating materials and changes in the stieam’s noi mal flow pattern. I‘t is expected that eventu ally the “An Patiol” may bQ conducted on a loutme week ly pattern. At the present time, the staft uses a portable tape re corder and maps to recoid their findings Ground-to-air communica tion and aerial photogiaphy will be tested in the tuture. WHISKEY REBELLION One of the leaser known revolutions in hueltory wias the Whiskey Insurrection in 1791 in four southwestern Coun ties of Pennsylvania—Fayette, Allegheny, Westmoreland, and Washington. Protesting the tax on home-grown rye,whicn whs used, distillled in the shape of whiskey, as Waiter for Salt, sugar and iron, the activists w'aylaid tax colector Robert Johnson, who w(as tarred and feathered After similar incidents,, modified the excise law, les sening the duty, and provid ing for easy payments. . „ *4 ©• l c. ,a _ i a / * i t - * w \Z -?• i z 7
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