Vol. 17 No. 13
Lucinda was the start of it ail. Greg
Landis, Lancaster County FFA president,
began his FFA project program with seven-
Greg landis A look At
Lancaster County's FFA President
If versatility was the sole
criterion for the selection of an
FFA president, 16-year old Greg
Landis would win hands down.
He wrestles, writes, farms,
hunts, fishes, races, plays in the
band, does well in school and
raises animals. And that’s just a
sprinkling of the many things
that keep young Greg going from
dawn to dusk. Oh yes, there is one
more thing. Greg Landis is
president of the Lancaster
County Future Farmers of
America.
Greg, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jay E. Landis, RD6, Lancaster,
Compbell Hospitalized
Howard E. Campbell, manager
of the Farm and Home Center,
underwent heart surgery this
week at the Lancaster General
Hospital. His many friends and
acquaintances wish him a speedy
recovery and hope to see him
back behind his desk at the Farm
and Home Center as soon as
possible.
FFA Week February 19-26
is a junior at Penn Manor High
School. He has lived on a farm all
his life and probably will stay on
the farm for years to come.
Greg’s mother and father would
like him to attend Delaware
Valley College upon graduation
but at this point Greg is not too
sure he wants to go. “You have a
year yet to decide,” his mother
gently reminded him. Greg just
smiled and and said, “You are
right ” There doesn’t seem to be
any communication gap in the
Landis family.
Life on the Landis farm begins
around daybreak and Greg has
his own chores and own animals
to attend to. First and foremost is
his seven-year-old cow, Lucinda.
She was one of Greg’s first FFA
project animals and the affection
Greg feels for her is obvious.
Greg feeds silage and grain in the
morning, cleans stables, hauls
manure and builds calf pens after
school
His father says that Greg does
everything he doesn’t have time
to get done. “Farm life is never
Youth
With a
Purpose
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 19,1972
year-old Lucinda three years ago and since
then has expanded to seven animals in
addition to crop projects.
boring ... it’s a kind of freedom
you can’t get anywhere else,”
says Greg.
At Penn Manor, Greg wrestles
for the JV wrestling team, runs
on the cross country team, writes
See pictures on page 18.
for the school newspaper and
plays in the band. He hopes to
have a 10-1 record in wrestling by
(Continued on Page 21F
Melvin R. Stoltzfus, (right), newly re-
elected president of the Farm and Home
Foundation Board of Directors, welcomes
58 Lancaster County FFA Members
Get State Project Book Awards
Lancaster County FFA
members received 58 medals in
the state project book evaluation
contest at Penn State last week.
Lancaster County had 12 books
in the single enterprise contest,
34 books m the multiple en
terprise contest and 12 books in
the supervised work experience
contest. The cgunty won eight
gold medals, 20 silver medals,
and 17 bronze medals in state
competitions
Winners by category included- ,
Pennsylvania Farm Account
Books Robin Cinder, Ephrata,
silver.
Two Enterprise Books Roger
In This Issue
Across the Editor’s Desk 15
Ag Teachers Report 13
Editorial Page 10
Market Section 2,3,4
Sale Register 30,31,32
Women’s News 24,25,26
Elsewhere, see articles on
celery growers meeting, Farm
and Home Foundation board of
directors reorganizational
meeting, cattle breeders
meeting, dairy conference, and a
feature on the Lancaster County
FFA president.
Second Poultry Meeting Planned
The second of three educational
meetings for poultrymen will be
held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
February 24, at the Farm and
Home Center.
Topic of the meeting will be
“Pennsylvania Standards for
Eggs and How They Relate to
Federal Standards to be met
Under the Egg Products In
spection Act” and “The
Economics of Egg Shell
Damage.”
E. J. Lawless, chief of the
division of poultry and eggs,
two new directors, Dr. Robert F. Eshleman,
Mount Joy, (left), and Robert H. Kauffman,
Elizabethtown RDI.
$2.00 Per Year
Leaman, Pequea Valley, gold;
Caleb Kreider, Manheim, bronze,
and Dale Martin, Ephrata,
bronze
Three Enterprise Books
Charles Neff, Pequea Valley,
gold; Nelson Weaver, Ephrata,
gold; J. Marlin Becker,
Manhiem, silver; Delmar
Weaver, New Holland, silver;
Mervin C. Groff, Manhiem,
silver, Donald Wenger,
Manheim, silver; Kenneth
Dearoff, Solanco, bronze; Gary
Buchen, Manheim, bronze, and
Thomas Stottlemyer, Solanco,
bronze.
Four Enterprise Books Dale
Nolt, Manheim, gold; Joseph
Lefever, Manheim, silver;
Marlin Smoker, Ephrata, silver;
Wayne Kreider, Solanco, silver.
Richard Bollinger, Ephrata,
bronze, and Clyde Dearoff,
Solanco, bronze.
Five Enterprise Books Amos
Sauder, Manheim, silver, Rick
Pfautz, Ephrata, silver.
Six Enterprise Books Dale
Weiler, New Holland, silver.
Seven Enterprise Books
David Bitter, Solanco. bronze;
William Hershey, Solanco,
bronze.
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Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, will speak on
“Pennsylvania Standards and
Quality”, and Richard Shockley,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
will speak on “Federal
Requirement in Egg Marketing”.
Hermit Birth, Poultry Marketing
specialist at Pennsylvania State
University, will discuss “Egg
Shell Damage Economics”.
These meetings have been
scheduled jointly by the Lan
caster County Poultry
Association and the Cooperative
Extension Service.