—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24, 1972 8 8 Twin Valley Students Participating Eight vocational agriculture students from Twin Valley High School will journey to the Penn sylvania State University on June 28 for the annual three-day FFA Activities Week and Summer Convention of the Pennsylvania Association of Future Farmers of America. Over 1,200 vocational agriculture students and FFA members from across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will participate in this event, as band or chorus qjembers, officer candidates, official county delegates, or contestants in one of the 18 contests. Two Twin Valley FFA members will participate in the 80-member State FFA band. Beth McDonnell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll McDonnell, Elverson RDI, will make her second appearence in the band. Thomas Carskadon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carskadon, Morgantown, will make his first appearance in the band. Beth plays the bell lyre, Tom plays the saxophone. 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To be eligible for either the band or chorus an FFA member must secure the recommendation of his band or music teacher, his vocational agriculture teacher, and his local school ad minstrator. Final selection is made by the band and chorus directors. Four Twin Valley students will participate in two of the 18 contests held in conjunction with the convention. Ronald Smoker, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Smoker, Honey Brook RD2, will be a participant in the livestock judging contest. Ron, who was the Chapter Star Greenhand, will MOUNTVILLE FEED SERVICE R. D. 2, Columbia DUTCHMAN FEED MILLS, INC. R. D. 1, Stevens STEVENS FEED MILL, INC. Stevens, Pa. PARADISE SUPPLY Paradise Leola, Pa. FOWL’S FEED SERVICE R. D. 2, Peach Bottom H. M. STAUFFER & SONS, INC. Witmer be required to judge eight classes of livestock, including market classes of steers, wethers, and swine, containing four animals per class; breeding classes of heifers, ewes, and gilts con taining four animals each; and a class of 10 feeder steers which must be placed according to U. S. Standard Grades. Other Twin Valley contest participants are: Nevin Mast, Chapter president, Robert Evans, and Jeffrey Boltz. They will compete as a dairy judging team. They will be required to judge seven classes of dairy cattle - four classes of four cows each, from among the five major breeds, and three classes of heifers or young cows. In ad dition, these students will have to give oral reasons on one class; they will have to explain why they placed the animals in class first, second, third, and fourth, in terms of the good and bad points of each of the animals. This is the first year the dairy judging contests is on a team basis and also the first time that con testants have been required to give oral reasons. The eighth Twin Valley par ticipant will be Frank Stoltzfus, former Chapter president and former County president. Frank will serve as an officer candidate, Lancaster Farming Ads Pay Move-up, trade-ui o l Keep up your production schedule by tradmg-up nowon any model John Deere tractor-new or used during Up-Time No finance charges until March 1,1973. With low down-payment John Deere Finance Plans, your working capital keeps right A. B. C. Groff, Inc. New Holland 3544191 Shofzberger's Elm 665-2141 hoping to be elected to one of the 11 state elective offices. Students will also have several educational experiences. On the way to Penn State they will tour Heislers Cloverleaf Dairy at Tamaqua where they will see processing and bottling of milk and the manufacture of ice cream. They will continue to Penn State through part of the anthracite coal regions of Schuylkill County. Students will be able to see for themselves the splendor and destructiveness of strip mining and some of the results of strip mining. The FFA members will also tour the Benner Springs Fish Hatchery of the Pennsylvania Fish Com mission. John Deere Up- Time now on the tractor of your choice-new or used— penny in finance charges 'til March 1,1973. i, save-u| without in FFA Week At Penn State, the students will be able to attend one of 10 educational programs ranging from hearing the champion FPA public speakers and parliamentary procedure teams to seeing some of the current research in cattle, crop, and deer management being conducted at Penn State. Students will also be able to talk to the heads of the various departments of the College of Agriculture con cerning their future education and what Penn State has to offer. 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