— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 23,1971
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Garden Spat Young Farmers Study Farm Record Systems
By Mrs. Charles McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
The Garden Spot Young
Farmers meeting was held at
tiie Garden Spot Senior High
School Tuesday night with Vo
ag teacher, Don Robinson,
speaking on “Farm Record Fil
ing Systems ”
Young Farmers’ president
John Campbell called the meet
ing to order and conducted an
election of officers. New offi
cers will be announced at the
annual banquet February 19.
James Hall, a science teacher,
will speak at the banquet
Tuesday’s meeting, the first
in a series of six meetings on
basic records and how they can
be used, was attended by about
50 persons from townships sur
rounding New Holland. Wives
•f the members were included
in the meeting,'.since many
wives keep the farm records.
Robinson -said am organized
filing system is essential. ■■
First, we must-decide'what ket, telephone and perhaps a 1
records to 'keep. Records are fpr market report' and a
necessary for 'income tax pur- typewriter if you can use it. ‘
noses, to obtain credit, for
government subsidies such as Andy Stoltzfus exhibited his
gasoline tax refunds, to allow our drawer filing cabinet of
for a division of profits or to fs^ ls3 records from which Suc
re ake an accounting to the land- pessful Farming magazine used
lord, to measure progress from ideas Robinson considered
year to year, to improve busi- Stoltzfus’ record system very
ness efficiency and to budget ine
family living expenses.
From these records, it can be
determined which enterprises
are profitable and if there are
unprofitable ones.
He advised investing in at
least a two-drawer filing cabi
net. Suit the number of filing
units to your needs. He had on
exhibit two 28 inch deep filing
units with a smooth 30 inch
by seven foot door across the
top to form a roomy, conveni
ent, inexpensive desk.
Basic equipment for the farm
office should include a desk,
two chairs, filing cabinet, a
good lamp, book shelves, calen
dar, pencil holder and sharpen
er, bulletin board, adding ma
chine or calculator, waste has-
Don Robinson, Vo-ag teacher at Garden Spot High
School, makes a point at Tuesday night’s meeting on farm
records.
Help Us Serve You
If your organization didn’t make our farm calendar
this week, it’s not because we don’t like you or your or
ganization.
We may have missed it in the rush. Or maybe you for
got to tell us.
Either way, we’d like to extend our farm community
service to you.
To get on the Farm Calendar, remind us by calling
394-3047 or 626-2191 or by writing to Lancaster Farming, 22
E Mam St, Lititz, Pa. 17543. And help us serve you better.
Garden -Spot Young. Farmers discuss
farm record-filing systems'. In foreground,
left to right-, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Yoder,
Robinson also exhibited vari
ous kinds of filing folders, di
viders, labels and an inexpen
sive storage file. He said papers
should be stapled together in
stead of fastened with paper
clips, as they become bulky and
cling to other papers when
papers aie removed from the
1 file. He suggested having a
handy index to the file and
numbering all things on file and
cataloguing them by number so
as to have everything readily
accessible He advised keeping
a wastebasket handy and throw
ing away everything possible so
as to have an active file. Trans
fer permanent reference ma
terial to a storage file.
The location of the office is
Robert Martin, Mr. and'Mrs.
- Eberly. ‘
''costs, cash and non-cash, cost#,
important. Some people fmd used one can 'determine what also pro-rated 'cosfe-Allcosts
them more convenient itt a,-amount Of fertilizer to use.--' . should be takeri
room in the barn but others Hoine, business and : tionr to get mi accurate picture
prefer them in the house, es- tion records canlbe kept bn file, of your farm operation,
pecially if the housewife keeps “under - business categories' . They.will "have, at
the records and takes phone might ,be; bills- unpaid, bills the, succeeding meetings ?anu
calls. ' paid, income and receipts, ac- ary 26, February 2, 9 and 16 an<J
. . , count books and inventories, March 2 and will have .discus-
Graphs were used to point banking an< j borrowing, taxes, sions on keeping production
out that it is possible to use insurance, business manage- records, automatic record keep
too much fertilizer to b© profit- ment and organizations. In ing_ systems, farm business
able By checking the rise in in- some cases the last one may record analysis, linear program
come on a given enterprise with take considerable space. ming and management Simula
increased amounts of fertilizer Under production would tion.
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