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
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Stems enter rolls butt first foi
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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
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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
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corn project will be continu-
C; B. Hoober
INTERCOURSE
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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
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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,”
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