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The article this week was
contributed by Glenn Weber,
teacher of agriculture at
Manheim Central High School.
Show You Care
The Future Farmers of
America organization serves as a
laboratory providing students the
opportunity to refine and develop
knowledge and skills related to
personal development taught in
the agriculture classroom. Since
the historical beginning of the
FFA, millions of Americans have
benefited from the educational
training in leadership, com
munications, citizenship, service
to others, social skills, and
management of ' financial
resources.
As a result, many of these
former FPA members have
become leaders in business,
industry and government. Others
have assumed responsible
positions in their local com
munities.
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Thoughts
in Passing
Their FFA experiences have
proved to be immeasurable in
preparing them for their FFA
activities and want to make sure
that youth-today and tom
morrow-faave the same op
portunity they had. With this
concern for die nation’s youth
and its agriculture, these former
FFA organized the
National FFA Alumni
Association to promote and
support the FFA organization
and its activities, to promote a
greater knowledge of
agriculture, and to provide a tie
for those who wish to help youth
as they were helped in the FFA.
Since the alumni was organized
on May 12, 1972, over 33 states
have chartered associations and
the national membership is now
well over 10,000 members.
The alumni’s potential to
promote and strengthen our FFA
program at the local level offers
many exciting possibilities. Local
alumni chapters can help educate
others in agriculture and
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generate support resulting in
greater community involvement
and thereby strengthening their
agriculture program. For
example, several local FFA
alumni chapters are cooperating
with the agriculture teacher in
the occupational experience
program and in placing of
graduating seniors in the
business community. Alumni
chapters have also sponsored
chain animals for FFA members,
assisted in class field trips,
served as judges in FFA contests,
and provided educational
resource speakers for the
agriculture instruction. Alumni
chapters can give physical, in
tellectual, and financial
assistance to their local FFA
chapter.
Opportunities for assisting the
local chapter are as limited as
one’s imagination. Alumni
members will receive a
newsletter that will keep them
up-to-date on new developments
and activities of the FFA, the
alumni association, and
agriculture education. But most
important, alumni members will
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have the satisfaction of Joining
together in a united effort to help
educate others in agriculture-to
build confidence in today’s FFA
members and provide in
spiration-to shkre experiences,
ideas, and goals with fellow
alumni members and students of
agriculture.
The FFA Alumni Association
needs your support now. Take a
few moments to do the following:
Join the FFA Alumni
Association. All former FFA
members, honorary members,
current and former teachers of
agriculture are eligible.
Choose a person to lead the way
in forming an FFA affiliate in
your area.
Suggest a few people for him to
contact that can help him with
the organization.
Membership and additional
information concerning the FFA
Alumni can be obtained by
contacting the agriculture
teacher in your local high school.
Hog Farmers Warned
On Uncooked Garbage
A recent multiple outbreak of
hog cholera in New Jersey has
been tentatively traced to the
feeding of garbage that was
carrying hog cholera virus.
To prevent a similar occurence
in Pennsylvania, “It is im
perative for swine owners to
properly cook all garbage, table
scraps or other unprocessed
material fed to swine,” said Dr.
H. S. Forney, acting director,
Bureau of Animal Industry,
Pennsylvania Departmeht of
Agriculture.
Feeding of raw garbage to
swine is prohibited within the
Commonwealth. It must be
cooked at 212 degrees for a
minimum of thirty (30) minutes.
This destroys any residual virus,
parasitic larve and other
potential infectious disease
organisms which may affect
swine and endanger the entire
swine industry.
Dr. Fomey reported, “Hog
cholera does not affect humans,
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U you are proud of the FFA, if
you want to help youth, if you
want to join with others with the
same golds and ideals, then the
FFA Alumni Association can help
to satisfy those desires.
The Pennsylvania State FFA
Alumni Association extends an
invitation to all potential
members to the first annual
dinner meeting at the Gettysburg
Senior High Cafetorium on
Thursday, December 7, at 6:30
p.m. National FFA Alumni
president Gus Douglass, West
Virginia Commissioner of
Agriculture, and one of today’s
most dynamic leaders in our
nation’s agriculture, will address
the group concerning the en
thusiastic growth the National
FFA Alumni has experienced
recently.
A special program featuring
the FFA Alumni Association will
be presented by the Manheim
FPA Chapter on December 4 on
the WGAL TV Program
“Noonday on Eight”.
but is highly contagious among
swine. Full cooperation is
mandatory to prevent this
disease from being accidentally
introduced into the Com
monwealth.”
All licensed garbage feeders
have been warned to properly
cook the material being fed or
they will be forced to discontinue
the practice of feeding garbage.
Individual farm owners must
also be sure they thoroughly cook
all table scraps, containing un
cooked pork products, before
feeding to swine on their
premises.
Pennsylvania achieved Hog
Cholera-Free status from the
USDA on July 19, 1971.
First Beneficiary
Ida M. Fuller of Ludlow,
VT., was the first beneficiary
of monthly social security
payments. She received
check No. 00-000-01 for $22.54,
dated Jan. 31, 1940.
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