16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October IS, 1966
Cloister FFA
Retains County
Judging Title
For the second consecutive
your, the Cloister Chapter of
Future Farmers of America
was named the top-ranking
school in the annual intra
county voca'ional agriculture
judging contest held recently
in conjunction with the Lam
peter Fair.
The Future Farmers from
Ephrata High School topped
the opposition with a score
averaging 497.38 points, nearly
two points' better than their
title-winning score last year.
Runnerup chapter was War
wick with an average of 486.4
points.
High individual scorer in the
cdunty was Earl Hertzog, Clois
ter, with 6383 points. Runner
up was Charles Harding, also
Cloister Chapter, with 611.3
points.
Heitzog also was tOp scorer
in dairy judging, with Randal
Kline, another Cloister Chapter
membei placing second.
Top judges in livestock were
Jacob Stoltzfus, Pequea Valley
Chapter, and Daiyl Bollinger
of Cloister Chapter.
Judging results were;
CHAPTERS
1. Cloister, 497 38 points. 2,
Warwick. 486 4,3, Grassland,
480 81, 4, Gaiden Spot, 463.53.
5 Penn Manoi, 462 54; 6, Pe
quea V alley, 447 84, 7, Man
heim, 444 18, 8, Solanco, 4213:
9, Elizabethtown, 419 5
INDIVIDUAL
1. Earl Heitzog, Cloistei.
638 3 points, 2, Charles Hard
ing, Cloister, 6113, 3, David
Mei key. Cloister, 610.2; 4, Ter
ly Kauffman, Cloister, 600.8, 5,
Jacob Stoltzfus, Pequea Valley,
597 9. 6, Ronald Mull, Cloister.
594 0. 7, Dennis Mahler.
Grassland, 5916; 8, Victor
Wood, Pequea Valley, 590.1. 9,
Randal Kline, Cloistei, 586 9.,
10, Irvin Schannauer, Cloister,
583 2
DAIRY
1. Bail Heitzog, Cloistei, 325-i
6 2, Randal Kline, Cloister,
323 6 3, Ii vm Schannauer,
Cloister, 321 0,4, Charles Raid
ing, Cloistei, 320 0,5, Terry ■
Kauffman Cloister, 317 8,6, j
Three Upcoming Short
Courses Announced
Directoi of Penn State Unii
veisity shoit couises Dr Fied
C Snydei announced three
courses that mil be offered on
■the mam campus during De
cember
On December 5-7, Faim In
come Tax and Social Security
subjects will be presented
These will include farm in
come and expenses, peisonal
deductions, investment tax
ciedit, social secuuty 'changes,
and others
A course on Cleaning and
Sanitizing Dairy Equipment
will be offeied December 6-8
Subjects will include milk,
quality, legulatrons on clean
ing and sanitizing, water prob
lems as related to cleaning,
and a study of cleaning com
pounds
Decembei 7 and 8 will fea
ture the second short course
in Wills and Estate Planning
Subjects to be discussed are
Inheritance and Estate Taxes,
Tow to Transfer a Farm, Fa
thei-Son Pai tnershrps, etc.
Farmers, agricultural busr
nessmen, insurance agenits and
others who advise and counsel
farmers on estate planning are
invited to attend
Registration fees for each of
these courses 'is $lO for state
Residents, and $l5 for others:
Victor Wood, Pcquea Valley,
31 r.B: 7, David Mcrkoy, Clois
ter, 311.1; 8, .Linford Martin,
Grassland* 310.0; 0, Ronald
Stauffer, Cloister, 308.1; 10,
James Ludwig, Grassland. 304.-
0.
LIVESTOCK
1, Jacob Stolt/fus, Pcquea
Valley, 336 0; 2, Daryl Bolling
er, Cloister, 335.1; 3. Kent
Fritz, Warwick, 318.6; 4, Abe
Fisher, Penn Manor. 317.1: 5.
Dennis Mahler, Grassland. 313.-
8; 6. Barry Nickel, Pequea
Valley, 313.6; 7, Eatl Hertzog,
Cloister, 312.7; fi, David Wein
hold, Grassland, 312.2; 9, Ken
Leaman, Garden Spot, 311.8;
10, John Weaver, Grassland,
311.5.
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Grassland responds well to
nitrogen ‘fertilizer during wet
years, but In dry years . . .
what? The question has long
discouraged fanners from fer
tilizing grassland in the North
ern Great Plains whore rain
fall is erratic.
Recent ARS research indi
cates, however, that nitrogen
applied to grassland remains
in the soil during a dry year,
insuring efficient use of mois
ture when rains come.
ARS soil scientist J. F. Pow
er at Mandan, N. Dakota,
found that up to 65 percent of
Hornco Beef
Possible Cost.
th« soluble nitrogen applied to
unirrigated teat plots was
available to gran the follow
ing season.-
Power established brome
grass on fine, sandy loam, and
fertilized with calcium nitrate.
Irrigated and unirrigated plots
each received the following
treatments: 180 pounds of ni
trogen per acre in early spring,
before plant growth began: 90
pounds per acre in early
spring plus 18 weekly applica
tions of 5 pounds each during
the growing season; and 10
pounds per acre during the
summer in each of 18 weekly
applications.
Soluble nitrogen content in
the irrigated soil declined rap
idly as the nitrogen was ab
sorbed by growing plants. In
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the uninrigated toll, ho
soluble nitrogen r content
maimed relatively, stable
ing periods of drought, it
rose beyond the level attr
able to applied nitrogen,
sibly because nllrogen-pi o,
ing bacteria increased m
soil.
Plots that received all n
fertilizer in weekly appluMtu
retained nitrogen best. \
best were those that reteii
half the totaKfertilizer in i
spring, and Half in wed
applications. -
Where does the food clot
go? A big share goes to lab
Of the total cost of movi
food from the farmer to {
housewife, wage earnei s
the food industry get au t
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