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Vol. 17 No. 42
Ireland has become one of Kendace Borry's favorite
places. Kendace is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Kenneth
Borry, Mount Joy R 2. She returned from Ireland last
Saturday, after spending more than two weeks in the country
as part of the 4-H Irish Exchange Program.
4-H’er Enjoys
Trip to Ireland
Kendace Borry says she’d
move to Ireland in a minute.
Kendace just returned from the
Emerald Isle, where she’d been
on a two-week 4-H youth ex
changes visit. She fell in love with
the country, the people, the way
of life.
She had a ball. Or, as the Irish
say, Kendace “gave it a good
crack for a fortnight or so”.
Kendace is the daughter of Mr
and Mrs. H Kenneth Borry of
Mount Joy R 2. She was part of
this year’s 4-H Irish Exchange
program, and went to Ireland
with a group of 32 American 4-
H’ers. Kendace was the only
Pennsylvanian among the group,
and she was one of only two of the
Americans to stay in northern
Ireland.
“I just loved Ireland,” Ken
dace said. “The people are so
relaxed and friendly I just
couldn’t get used to it. Here,
everybody’s always rushing
around, trying to get things done.
The people I was staying with
didn’t seem to worry about
schedules.
“I felt guilty about getting up at
10:30 in the morning, but that’s
when all the women got up. The
men got up around eight o’clock
to work in the fields. A lot of
American farmers don’t feel
right unless they’re up by six.”
Kendace’s host family, the
McKennas, own a 65-acre dairy
and poultry farm near Monaghan
in northern Ireland. There are
ten children in the family and
Jimmy McKenna, the oldest son,
was in the U.S last year as a part
of the 4-H youth exchange
program.
The McKenna farm operation
consists of broilers, turkeys and a
dairy herd. The dairy animals
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Farm Calendar
Sunday, September 10
Penn Ag Convention, Le Chateau,
Poconos, September 10-12.
Monday, September ll
Fulton Grange meeting, election
of officers, Oakryn.
Farmfest-U.S A. World Farm
Show, Vernon Center, Minn.,
September 11-17.
4:30 p.m Lancaster County
Vocational Agriculture
Teachers Association
meeting, Solanco High School.
Tuesday, September 12
8 p.m. Farm and Home
Foundation Board of Direc
tors meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
8 pm. Rural Home Loans
Seminar, Farm and Home
Center.
York Fair, September 12-16.
Saturday, September 16
sth annual Harvest Fair,
Schaefferstown, September 16
and 17.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9, 1972
Operation Update
“We’re trying to make FFA
more relevant, most flexible and
more meaningful for all students
of vocational agriculture. FFA
has very strong traditions going
back to 1917, the year we were
founded. We want to build on
those traditions. We want to get
the FFA more in tune with
today’s vo-ag programs. That’s
what Operation Update is all
about.”
Speaking was Dennis Sargent,
the very earnest 21-year-old
national secretary of the FFA
Sargent was in Lancaster this
week to participate in a two-day
meeting aimed at examining the
future of the FFA. More than a
hundred chapter and state of
ficers from Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Delaware and New
Jersey gathered at Lancaster’s
Hilton Inn for Operation Update.
Also present were a number of
vo-ag teachers and staff mem
bers from the state and national
FFA.
In an interview with LAN
CASTER FARMING, Sargent
explained that there has been
R&T Slates
Tractor Pull
The R&T Tractor Pull
Association has scheduled a
tractor pull contest for next
Saturday, September 16.
Weigh-m will begin at 8.00
a m , with the first pull scheduled
for 10:00 a.m.
The classes will be: stock -
5.000 lbs ,7,0001b5.,9,0001b5.,and
12.000 lbs., super stock - 5,000
lbs., 7,000 lbs., 9,000 lbs., 12,000
lbs., and 15,000 lbs.; modified -
7.000 lbs , open - 9,000 lbs
There will be a $lO entry fee per
pull, and winners will share in a
$2200 purse. Pulls will be con
ducted according to state tractor
pull rules
Pequea Valley
Slates FFA
Meet, TV Show
Pequea Valley FFA Chapter
will hold a meeting in the high
school ag room on Tuesday,
September 12, at 7:30 pm. Ac
cording to vo-ag instructor
Gerald Phillips, all present and
former vo-ag students eligible for
FFA membership are invited to
join.
This includes any FFA
member under the age of 21,
Phillips also said that the
chapter will present a TV
program on WGAL-TV, Channel
8, Friday, September 29.
The show will be aired on the
“Noonday at 8” program, and
will be concerned with safety at
harvest time.
FFA Striving for
More Relevance
some feeling in recent years that
FFA programs aren’t really
keeping up with new directions in
vo-ag education “Agricultural
education is no longer concerned
just with production
agriculture,” he said “Vo-ag
Campbell Takes
FFA Milk Prize
Robert W Campbell, Narvon
R 2, started with nothing but a
dream a few years ago With a lot
of toil and sweat, he changed that
dream into a 27-cow Ayshire herd
and a going dairy operation.
His efforts have won him the
FFA proficiency award for dairy
production in the North Atlantic
region. Bob is one of four dairy
award winners in the country,
and he’ll be going to Kansas City
in October to attend the annual
FFA convention and to find out if
he’ll get the national proficiency
prize.
“I started out by working one
summer for a farmer,” Bob
recalled, “and when it came time
to settle up, he asked me how
Robert W. Campbell, Narvon R 2, has been named the FFA
dairy proficiency award winner for the North Atlantic region.
He will be going to Kansas City in October to compete for the
national award.
$2.00 Per Year
students are taking courses in
horticulture, ag mechanics,
product inspection and
processing, agribusiness sales
and service and a whole raft of
other courses
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much I wanted. I said I didn’t
want any money, but I’d take one
of his heifers He said OK and
that’s how I started.”
Bob is a 1971 graduate of
Garden Spot High School, and is a
member of Grassland Chapter
FFA He is now farming about 45
acres in his dairy operation, and
he’s helping his grandfather to
farm another 103 acres
Bob’s average annual
production per cow is about 9500
pounds of milk at 4 5 percent
butterfat “My best cow is
milking around 13,800 pounds,
and the whole herd is gradually
moving up as I get better at being
a dairy farmer,” Bob said.