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f rpm local A<t Teachers:
Editor’s Note: Hie article this
week was prepared by August
Birchler, agriculture department
chairman at Penn Manor High
School.
The Different Faces
of Agriculture
Talk to an urban housewife and
ask “What is agriculture?”,
she’ll probably say “Oh, that’s a
farmer.” Ask a rural storekeeper
“What’s agriculture?” and he
most likely will show the fields
around his business and say,
“That’s agriculture.”
But really, there is much more
to agriculture than either of the
two people stated. Today, there
are eight different areas of
agriculture being studied in our
high schools. Those areas are:
1. Agriculture Production
Examples of this area would be
crop production, livestock
production, poultry production,
and dairy production.
In crop production, programs
are designed to encourage
students to employ the best
management practices available
for successful production and
marketing of crops such as
forages, grains, and pasture as
well as specialty crops such as
vegetables and fruit.
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In livestock production,
programs are developed to
stimulate students to employ the
best management practices
available for the efficient
production and marketing of
swine, beef or sheep.
In poultry production and in
dairy production the students are
given programs that hopefully
will stimulate them to employ the
best management practices
available for producing and
marketing a quality product.
2. Agricultural mechanics It
is in this area that programs are
developed to help the students
enhance their knowledge and
abilities in the fields of
agriculturally related equipment
and building. This program in
cludes all repair and main
tenance of agriculturally related
equipment, agricultural con
struction, concrete work, and
skills of wooden construction,
along with those skills needed for
the environmental control in
buildings associated with
livestock, crops, processing, and
storage.
3. Agricultural Supplies and
Services—Programs in this area
are basically exploratory - that
is, students are exposed to ex
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periences that will develop those
occupational competencies
needed by the individuals
preparing to enter the oc
cupations of sales and services in
off-farm agriculture. Places of
employment may include:
roadside markets, feed and other
farm supply business, florist
shops, garden centers, and
equipment dealers.
4. Agricultural Products In
this area activities are designed
to teach basic principles and
management decisions involved
in the science and technology of
processing agriculturally related
crop and livestock products
5. Agricultural Resources and
Environmental Science This
area can be divided into three
areas:
a. Soil, Water, and Air
Management The agricultural
students are taught the
management practices that will
improve the productivity of the
soil, prevent erosion, promote the
efficient use of air and water so
that pollution can be reduced.
b. Outdoor Recreation The
students are made aware of the
multiple opportunities that the
land has to offer, kinds of
recreation generally best suited
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August Birchler
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Penn Manor
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c Fish and Wildlife
Management Programs that
will improve the availability of
fish and wildlife, such as con
servation and improvement of
existing land and water habitat,
plus the development of new
areas
6. Ornamental Horticulture
This area of agriculture is taught
in two of Lancaster County’s Vo-
Techs, Brownstown and Mount
Joy.
Subject matter is concerned
with the culture of plants used
principally for ornamental or
esthetic purposes. Experiences
may be organized under such
titles as floriculture, turf
management, greenhouse
operation and nursery operation.
7. Forestry In Lancaster
County forestry in the total
agricultural program has been
decreasing; but, in some areas of
Pennsylvania forestry is a major
source of income.
Schools teaching forestry
provide educational experiences
concerned with the multiple use
of forest lands, including their
management and protection
8. Other Agriculture It is
under this area that programs
are developed and experiences
offered for programs not hsted in
other areas, such as:
a. Home improvement.
b. Careers that require
college education. Examples
would be teacher, vet,
agricultural engineer.
The satisfaction that comes
from doing a good |ob of farming
It’s a great feeling to know that you are the master of
your farmlands . . . that when you treat your soil right,
it will treat you right. Liming is one of the most impor
tant factors in keeping your soil in the highest produc
tive range. A good pasture with a pH of 6.5 or higher,
for example, will make 300 to 400 lbs. of beef per
acre and produce up to $lOO gross income per acre.
This means with the help of lime, profits from pastures
can compare favorably with feed or gram crops.
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Peach Growers Say No
To Marketing Program
Pennsylvania peach producers
turned down a Peach Marketing
Program in a referendum con
ducted by mail late last month.
The votes were counted
Tuesday, June 6, and the final
tally was 57-66, with 28 ballots
declared spoiled. Tellers were J.
Vann Lott, Adams County;
Richard S. Frecon, Berks
County; and C. Everitt
Richardson, York County, all
peach producers
Less than half of the eligible
peach growers participated in the
voting. Eligibility was based on
having orchards with at least 500
peach trees.
The State Horticultural
Association of Pennsylvania had
requested that the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture call
for the referendum which would
have the producers assessing
themselves three cents per
hundredweight of their peach
sales
Peach production in the
Commonwealth averages about
100 million pounds annually and
the marketing program would
have yielded about $30,000 to be
administered and spent by the
peach growers for the promotion
of peaches in the state and for
dues to the National Peach
Council
A similar program for apple
growers has been in operation
since 1967 and was reaffirmed in
1970.
Real vanilla is derived from an
orchid, “vanilla planifoha.” The
vanilla flavor is locked in a
“bean” which develops when the
beautiful flower is pollinated.
This bean-like fruit undergoes a
long curing process before the
vanilla flavor is extracted. Most
children will agree that the best
use of this “exotic” flavor is in
quality vanilla ice cream.
It is a fact today that more
people are employed in off-farm
agriculture than on-farm; yet, it
remains that agriculture has but
a single meaning to a vast
majority of our countrymen
Farming
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