€—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 17,1968
n \r_ |l„ r ly, the future is here' For the
Jr C(JUOft V alley past seven years, our world has
m/l ] n|„„. not been able to grow much
QViaKeS nans food as it has eaten. And, final-
E* 17C A W 1 ly. the bottomless US sui
ror rr/V WC6K pluses have melted away”
Vocational agriculture stu us a^so P° ird 0ld > ’h®
dents in Pequea High School added, ‘ that it is estimated that
will 30m Future Farmeis of the world as a whole Wlll need
America members throughout 5° percent more food just two
the nation m activities to focus decades from now Meeting
attention on the impoitance of these challenges will be in the
agncultuie duung N 11 on a 1 hands of young agriculturists
FFA Week F<_biuan 17-21 being trained and developed in
such an oigamzation as the
“Challenging Youth in Agu- ffa”
cuituie” is this yeai’s FFA LocaUy> members of lhe Pe .
this? young amuculturists lie quea Valley FFA Chapter plan
trying impart to the nation to have a display in high school.
■ S ample They seek to mform ’STo
the public of the importance of , a " q ®y toua !, to pi .°
the agricultural industry to mote the Ff A during the week
America and to the world, the Membership in the FFA is
value of good citizenship deve- made up of students of voca
lopment, and the role of Future tional agriculture in high
Farmeis of America m helping-school The organization’s acti
meet the challenges in world vities are designed to help de
lood production that faces velop rural leadership and good
America today citizenship and to stimulate the
‘ Because of the many predic- students to better achievement
fions of world hunger m the fu- in their study and work toward
ture, many people have stopped successful establishment i n
listening,” said Mr. Horchler, farming and other agricultural
vocational agriculture teacher occupations
and FFA advisor “Now sudden- The Pequea' Valley FFA
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Ira B. Landis
Ph: 569-0531
779 Valley Road, Lancaster
West Willow Farmers
Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
James High & Sons
Ph: 354-0301
Gordonville
John J. Hess, 11, Inc.
Ph: 442-4632
Paradise
Wenger's Feed Mill,
Inc.
Ph; 367-1195
Rheems
Chapter has 43 members. Offic
ers are:
President, Barry Nickel; Vice tional FFA Week. Although us- practice contour planting, cr.ip
President, Ray Stoltzfus; Secre- ually recognized as a Revolu- rotations, fertilization and other
tary, Gary Wanner; Reporter, tionary War General and our soil conservation and improve-
Jay Smoker; Treasurer, Wendle first President, Washington’s ment methods
Ranck; Sentinel, Robert Wann
er; Chaplain, Paul Clark.
The National FFA organiza
tion has approximately 450,000
members, with 9,000 local chap
ters in the 50 states and Puerto
Rico. Membership in Pennsyl
vania totals approximately 10,-
000
The week of George Washing-
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Standard 38-44, Utility 33 50-
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185-250 lbs 20 50-20 85, US 1-3
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