County FFA Red
Rose Chapter
Holds 3rd Meet
by Robert Wanner,
County FFA Reporter
The Red Rose Chapter held
the 3rd FFA meeting of the
year on May 27, 1968 at the
Garden Spot High School.
The following chapters were
represented at the meeting: Eli
zabethtown, Ephrata, Lampeter-
Strasburg, Manheim Central,
New Holland, Penn Manor, Pe
quea Valley, and Warwick.
Committee reports were giv
en by Lampeter-Strasburg on
the County Parliamentary Pro
cedure and Public Speaking
Contest; Ephrata on the Area
Parliamentary Procedure and
Public Speaking Contest; Penn
Manor on the Area Meats Judg
ing Contest; New Holland on
the Area Tractor Driving Con
test; Ephrata on the Area Dairy
Product Contest; Penn Manor
on the Area Land Judging Con
test; Elizabethtown on the Area
Interview and Salesmanship
Contest; Warwick on the Coun
ty FFA Swine Show and Sale.
Under old business the sum
mer sports schedule and the
County Star Farmer Committee
selection was discussed.
New business included the
County FFA Picnic The next
meeting will be held at Eliza
bethtown High School on July
22nd at 8 00 p m.
The 1967 cotton crop was esti
mated at a little over 7 6 mil
lion bales.
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Mike Smucker
Smucker Wins
Kunzler Award
Mike Smucker, Ephrata R 2,
son of Mr and Mrs. Edward
Smucker, Monday was awarded
the $5OO Kunzler Scholarship at
an Awards Assembly at the
Garden Spot High School in New
Holland. The scholarship was
presented by Chris C. Kunzlei
Jr, of Kunzler & Co. Inc.
Smucker, graduating this year,
has won three other scholar
ships toward studies in agncul
tural engineering at Penn State
starting this fall They are - $3OO
scholarships from the Lancas
ter County Farm & Home Foun
dation, and the New Holland Di
vision of Sperry Rand, and one
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Distributed By
Producers Base Programs
(Continued from Last Week)
Forfeiture Provision
As an example, who under
stands the forfeiture or surren
der of base’s provision in the
plan? Ans.; Any producer who
delivers less than his base for
two consecutive months (except
those who qualify as hardship
cases) will forfeit that portion of
his base representing the differ
ence between his actual monthly
deliveries and his monthly base
for that period.
Order 4 Base Plan
One of the goals of dairymen
is to achieve level income
throughout, the year. Many pro
ducers want the opportunity to
get as even a monthly income as
possible The Philadelphia mar
ket used to vary the Class I
price by quarters of the year to
tend to achieve this result
There have been growing sub
stantial reasons for eliminating
Class I price changes on a sea
sonal basis One such reason is
the fact that such seasonal
changes in producer Class I
prices resulted in changes in
consumer prices and have been
confusing to consumers Another
reason is that we have removed
for $5O from the Lancaster
Bankers Assn
Phillip Ogline, the Vo-Ag
teacher at Garden Spot, said the
award was based on Leadership
Scholarship and Farming Pro
gram through the last three
years
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 8,1968-41
SECOND SECTION
Class I seasonal price changes,
effective May 1,1967. in the Fed
eral Order 4 market. Therefore,
with the elimination of Class 1
seasonal price changes, it has
become necessary to substitute
another seasonal incentive plan,
the base plan, to maintain an in
centive for farmers to maintain
level production throughout the
year.
A base plan has the advantage
of encouraging production dur
ing the basemaking months and
also allowing the producer to
plan his production during other
months to correspond to his base
volume Usually the base price
is equal to, or greater than, ihe
blend price in other months of
the year; and by keeping pro
f ,
l : ! j
duction Within his base, a pro
ducer can equalize his monthly
income and also not be penal
ized during the base-paying
months by the lower utilization
resulting from surplus or over
base production of other produc
ers.
A summary of the Base Plan
in operation in Order 4 is, as
follows
1. Each producer makes a
base, which will be the total of
his production during a July
through December period. Hus
production is divided by the
number of days of production,
but in no event less than 154
days This provides for a 30-day
period for new producers to
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