4 Garden Spot FFA Members Cited By DeKalb The DeKalb Seed Corn As- Boclatlon held ite corn award* banquet in the Holiday Inn on April 4 to honor vo-ag students with DeKalb corn projects who had made the best record on a corn grow ing analydd sheet supplied by DeKalb. The F.F.A. mem bers in attendance from the Garden Spot Chapter were: Bob Weaver, Bill Houser, Larry Breneman, and Larry Herr. In contrast to most corn contests ■which are based on yield checks on a spot basis, the DeKalb project empha sizes. cost, fertilizing, popu lation and recognition to corn enemies. The yield is com puted, but project recogni tion is not based on top yields, but yields calculation is a factor in the top score The two students from the Garden Spot F.P.A. Chapter HOW THE FUCK-BAR OPERATES: per minute. o Crop f ticks directly into spirafed rubber-to-steel rolls from inte gral mower. p n Stems enter rolls butt first foi full-length, tangle-free con' - ditioning. _ Kauffman Bros. MOUNTVILLE 285-9151 Cope & Weaver Co. new providence 786-7351 on the total score were Bob Weaver and Bill Houser* with a score of 99. They re ceived a special wall plaque. Five other, boys received pins and certificates for adequate records. At the banquet, nine schools from this general area were in attendance. The Garden Spot F.F.A. Chapter from Lampeter JStrasburg High Sbhool was the top school based on the overall record of its entrants. There were seven boys from this chap ter thht had a score 0 f nine ty and above. In this project each Voca tional Agriculture student plants a variety of DeKalb corn He then compares it to another hybrid by keeping records of all field operations and costs. After harvest, the young farmers determine what it costs them to produce a bushel of corn. 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Average Farm Prices Hold Steady In April HARRISBURG The av erage price received by Penn sylvania farmers lor their products in April was un changed from a month earli er, despite an 8 percent de cline in hog prices, according to the State Crop Reporting Service. The April average, how ever, was S percent feigher than a year earlier. In the nation, April prices were down 2 percent from mid-March, but the average was 9 percent above April ’65 level. Prices paid by tamers for commodities and services rose two-thirds of one percent over the com parable period last year. Hog prices in the state av (Continued on Page I<s) corn project will be continu- C; B. Hoober INTERCOURSE 768-3501 Ltaesater Saturday, May T; SECOND SECTION Angus Sales Up 18% Assn. Says The demand for registered Angus beef c«ttle has been booming in recent months, according to a recent an nouncement from Glen Brat cher, secretary of the Amer ican Angus Association at St. Joseph, Missouri. In the first six months at the national organization’s 1966 fiscal year transfers of ownership were u'p 18.5% over the same period of 1965 For the first half of the 1966 year cattle men transferred the owner ship of 184,369 head of pure bred Angus, an increase of 28,8»58 over the 155,'511 head sold in the same months of the 1965 fiscal year. Prices paid for registered Angus in recent months are higher, too, Bratcher said In the past six months 40,- 365 head were sold in 490 auction sales for an average price of up $59 per WE USE QUALITY PAINT AND IT DOES STAY ON!!! Aerial Ladder Equipment Used To Paint Your Farm Buildings C. RALPH MILLER Spray-on and Brush-in Painter R. D. 4, Manheim, Pa. head over the same period' a year ago. The average tor 38,233 sold from October through March, 1965 tra* $4ll. This is an increase in gross income of $3,281,540 for cattlemen selling Angu« in those auction sales. The average for 13,440 bulls sold in the past six months was $570. This com pares with an average of $478 paid last year for 14,. 786 bulls The average price paid for cows and heifers was $4121, up from an aver age of $369 paid for the first six months of 1965. These increased prices *f« reflected in registration to tals, Bratcher declared. In March, 196 G Angus registra tions were up 8% wrer March ot 1965, the Crsi monthly increase since last fall “For the first six month* ot the current fiscal year reg istrations are only 3,175 head behind the total for the same period of 19GS,” (Continued on Page II) For Prices Contact Ph. 665-3388
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