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. The DeKalb corn project ed by many schools in the includes over 1,000 schools in area because of the good rec the top corn growing states, ord keeping experience this It has been in operation for program gives. Company rep eleven* years. This DeKalb resentatives said. NS AND WINDROWS IN ONE LOW-COST OPERATION, AND USES - < * r fndtti systen New 816 Mower-Conditioner r» eliminates troublesome feeding reel 111 ! design, with the special new IH flick-bar system means fewer moving parts ... less to go wrong.,. less to fix. •tOne-trip operation saves time and money; re* Quires fewer machines, less fuel IH Balanced-Head mowing action •Efficient rubber and steel conditioning rolls • ;Lays down swath or windrow ii Exclusive adjustable wheel for row crops in 7 or 9-foot models - • Smooth, super-quiet operation Come in and see this revolutionary tool m International Harvester Sales and Service EPHRATA , " ' | 733-2283 rnoMM nick-bar & Messick Farm Equip. - ELIZABETHTOWN - 367-1319 . 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