—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, May 6. 1972
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Blue Mountain FFA Student Wins Area Speaking Contest
The Berks-Lebanon-Schuylkill
County FFA public speaking
contest was held last week at
Conrad Weiser High School
Speakers in the contest were-
Nevin Mast, Twin Valley FFA
oresident, “Soybeans
Miracle Crop to Feed the
Hungry World”, Ronald Myers,
Conrad Weiser, FFA, “Hunger”
Nelson Heagy, Annville-Cleona
FFA, “Neatness Does it Mat
ter 9 ”, Glenn Gingrich, Cedar
Crest FFA, “Agricultural
Machinery Management”, Steve
Bixler, Tn-Valley FFA,
“Pesticides", Eugene Eckroth,
Broiler
Chicks Up
Broiler chick placements
throughout the Commonwealth
rebounded sharply recently to
1,191,000 according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Service,
a joint venture of the Penn
sylvania and U S Departments
of Agriculture
This is a two per cent im
provement oiTbr each of the
preceding two weeks, but still 10
per cent below the same week in
1971
The 10-week average of broiler
chick placements is now running
about even with the same period
a year earlier after being con
sistently ahead of 1971 through
the first quarter of 1972
A substantial portion of the egg
production for the broiler-type
chick hatch in the state continues
to be shipped out of Pennsylvania
and the number is increasing
About 255,000 were shipped in
terstate recently which is 14 per
cent of the total set for hatch in
the Commonwealth during the
same period and up 38 per cent
from a year earlier
Pennsylvania ranks 12th in the
nation for broiler production
Recently 1,598,000 broilers were
slaughtered under federal in
spection with the average weight
4 02 pounmds
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for bigger, better yields
Agnco TCF stands for Total
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it is ... a special, advanced fertilizer
for corn that supplies all the es
sential N-P-K, plus the secondary
elements and micronutrients, your
corn needs for extra yields, better
quality
Because Agnco TCP for Com
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nutrient requirements m diffetent
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Blue Mountain FFA, “Water
Pollution”. These speakers
represented the first and second
place winners from each of the
three counties
Selected to represent the
Berks - Lebanon - Schuylkill
County area at the Eastern
Regional contest were Eugene
Eckroth, first place, Ronald
Myers, second place, and Nevin
Mast, third place These three
speakers competed against FFA
members from 19 other Eastern
Pennsylvania Counties at Lehigh
County Vo-Tech school May 2
Judges for the contest were
Dr Glenn Stevens, Penn State
University agricultural
education department, Charles
Lebo, assistant State supervisor,
agricultural education, Penn
sylvania Department of
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Remember, it takes more than
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Education, Earl Horst, super
visor of instruction, Lebanon
County Vo-Tech School.
Included in the activities at
Conrad Weiser was the area
Parliamentary Procedure
contest, with one team from each
County competing
This contest was won by the
Lebanon County team from
Northern Lebanon County High
School, coached by J Ray Bickel
Second place went to the
Schuylkill County team from
Blue Mountain High School,
coached by Philip Lobaugh, and
third place was awarded to the
Berks County team from
Governor Mifflin High School,
coached by Peter Boyer and
Lynn Stoudt
The area contests were coor
dinated by Harvey Smith, area
vocational consultant for Berks-
What’s new in
herbicides?
AAtrex
4L It pours.
New AAtrex 4L is the brand of atrazine that pours.
This special liquified product controls most annual
grass and broadleaf weeds in corn and sorghum
right up to harvest just like AAtrex wettable
powder.
But with AAtrex 4L there’s no premixing.
You simply shake and pour it directly into the tank.
And apply in a minimum of 10 gallons of water
per acre.
Easier handling. A minimum of agitation.
And less chance of nozzle and screen plugging.
That’s AAtrex 4L And we have it. Ini gal. jugs
and cartons.
Lebanon-Schuylkiil counties
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