VOL. 15 NO. 21
The two winners of the Conservation
FPA public speaking contest this w eek ai e
shown with their awards following the con-
Wngnar Wins FFA Spaeth Contest
Maik Wagner, Manor FFA
Chapter, Penn Manoi High
School won the Conseivation
FF\ public speaking contest
Wednesday night at the Emm
and Home Center on “Oui En
dangered Nation, Tragedy of
Modern laving ”
Wagner will compete later in
the regional contest at Lebanon
National Ayrshire Group Holds Auction
Some 46 top animals fiom 37
farms around the countiy weie
auctioned olf Thuisday night at
the 197 C National Ayi shire Con
vention Grand National Sale at
the Guernsey Sales Pavilion
While a iaige ciowd attended
the auction, most of them appeal
ed to be rneiely obseiveis and,
except for a lew animals, bid
ding competition was light
Bunging tne top dollai was
Fan dale Oem.ni Commanclei,
the fust bull calf to sell at pub
lic auction having a full sistei
with a ?x 305 dav lecoid of 32
250 pounds ol milk
The calf war. consigned to the
sale by Fairdale Faims, Ben
nington, VI Tne young bull is
i elated to Fail dale Betty Gem,
which proo.iced the 32 250
pounds of milk on the Meudith
Faim, Topslitld Mass
Top bied heifei was Elk-Ayi
Koondike’s Loraine, bom in
September 3967 The heifer
biought $2,300. She was con
signed by Charles Lane, of
Woodstock, Conn.
(Comt.ruied on Page 9)
test Wednesday night. They are Mark
Wenger (left), hrst place, and Jacob Mus
ser second place.
Jacob Mussei, Grassland FFA
Chapter, Garden Spot High
School, New Holland placed
second with “That Unwanted
Gift ”
Both spoke on the threat that
pollution and unwise use of
r. £ .tuial resources poses toi the
nation and woild
Also speaking were Carl
Bidding is shown underway on a top bred heifer at the Grand Ayrshire Sale, Lancaster
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 18. 1970
Weaver, Grassland FFA. and
Fied Edwaids, Solanco FFA
The contest judges weie Wil
liam Counts, assistant supenn
tendent of county schools, Oival
Bass, district conservationist
and Kenneth Depo, uiban duec
tor, Soil and Watei Conservation
Distuct Depo is graphic arts
tc-acher at Donegal High School
Speakers Explain Farm
Coops to Area Youths
Faim cooperatives ate of value
to farmers to the cUent they
piovide services and mu ease
fanner income, sevetal lepte
scntatives of cooperatives told
youths at the Youth Institute on
Coopeiative Business this week
at the Farm and Home Centei
The coopeiatives also em
phasized they have employment
oppoi tunities foi capable pel
sons with faim backgiminds
Boyd C Gaitley, public iela
tions director Intu State Milk
Pioduceis’ Coopeiative descnb
ed a coopeiative as ‘a voluntaiv
faim organization foi the =lll
- of the farmei bv pi ov idmg
a seivice 01 by inci easing the
faimei’s income We have to be
haid today If it doesn’t piovide
these, we should buiy it ”
He also said, “Working to
gethei is the only way you’ie
going to survive Let’s be honest
about it ”
Stating that “the powei today
is m the market he also
cautioned, “But when vou tiy to
maiket it (faim pioduce) yom
self you have doubled yoiu ev
posiue” Individual faimeis
don’t have the capacity to be
both pioduceis and maiketeis,
he said.
Gaitley made the comments
piecedmg a panel discussion in
which foui young peisons ques
tioned lepiesentatives of five co
opeiatives Dunng the panel
discussion, othei coopeiative
lepiesentatives continued the ex
planation of the coopeiative con
cept, how it woiks, its goals and
objectives
The cooperative repiesenta
tives were Gaitley, Maik Hess,
Lancastei county unit managei.
52.00 Per Yew
Agway, Inc David Yodei gen
eral manage!, American Bleed*
eis Coopeiative. Carl Blown,
manager, Farm Ciedit Associa
tion, and S A Hoi ton, manager.
Mount Joy (milk) Faimers Co
opeiative
The youms quizzing the ««-
opeiative panel weie Avernl
Royei, Ruth Birbakei, Matthew
Young and Lmtoid Mai tin
In explaining the cooprvative’s
icle Hess said, T wondvi what
the farmei would get foi his
milk if he maiketed it the same
wav faimeis maikel tobacco’
As you bioaden vom scope of
seivice to faimeis, we believe
coopeiatives ha’e the ability to
give faimeis the gieatest value
foi the dollai he spends ”
(Continued on Page 9)
Farm Calendar
Saturday, April 18
12 00 noon Faim Women So
cieties 3 end 10, Lincoln
Lutheian Chinch
Monday, Apiil 20
1 30 830 p m Southeastern
DHI\ supeivisois confer
ence, Citv-County Building,
Lebanon
8 00 p m —Oigani/ational meet
ing foi Lancastei County
1970 Daily Puncess Pio
giam, Faim and Home Cen
tei
Tuesday, Apiil 21
9 30 - 11 30 am—Pattern Al
teration Woikshops, Berwyn
Red Cioss Building, Chester
County
6 15 pm—“ Sew Smait,” Chan
nel 33
7 30 pm —Lincoln Community
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