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Althoughhis company has beep
operating at aloss for thc past eight ■
of.
Valley Cattle Gdrapany^
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Cheryl 'Rousseau,', Bast
-Broad' St., New Holland,
assumed the position of
Environmental Agriculture
teacher at Garden Spot High
School on Monday, JulySth.
A native of Riverside,
Rhode - Island, Miss
Rousseau recently received
a Bachelor of Science in
Botany from the University
of Rhode Island, and is
certified to teach
agribusiness, natural
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Sandy Ginder
Outstanding Youth In Floriculture
Attractive and vivacious Sandy Ginder, is one FFA
member who is developing her talents and stalls in
floriculture to the fullest degree.
, Sandy, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ginder,
RD3, Elizabethtown, graduated this spring from Mt. Joy Vo-
Tech and Elizabethtown High School.
At the Vo-Tech school, Sandy- was enrolled in -the
floriculture class under the direction of Daniel Helwig. The
course is designed to prepare students for work in wholesale
and retail floriculture operations.
Sandy was an active FFA member, representing the Vo-
Tech school in many floriculture contests. The contests
usually involve designing,,arrangements and corsages and
judging arrangements and plants.
Last year at the FFA State Days, Sandy was third in the
floriculture contest and received the honor of competing at
the Eastern State Exposition in Springfield, Mass., where die
captured first prize in individual competition and first place
in team competition.
This spring at the FFA State Days, Sandy placed fourth in
the competition.
She has hot confined her competing to FFA however, but
has-entered several local contests between schools in Lan
caster County and has won first place in many, including the
Creative Women’s Day contest sponsored by the Lancaster
- • 'll Kim IWIIIg CilUiv
isn’t worried.about the future of the
beefbusiness. Jn fact, he says, “I wish
we had-10,000 head right now."
Cheryl Rousseau
Lancaster, Farming, Saturday, July 13,1974
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Convene in
Lancaster
Some. 250 members ofthe
Pennsylvania - Young Far
mers Association will be in
Lancaster County on July V
to 20 for their annual con
vention.
Convention headquarters
will be Lancaster’s Hilton
Inn. There will be business
meetings and banquets both
days of the convention, as
well as tours or area farms
on both Friday and Satur
day.
Friday’s tour will include
Len-Lyn farm, owned by the
Galen Course family .at
Schoeneck, the manure
dryer at Pennfield Corp’s
layer operation near
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Jr. Women’s Club.
Sandy is also active in the youth group at Chiques Church
of the Brethren and participated on the Elizabethtown Rifle
Squad.
Sewing is one of her favorite bobbies and she has designed
and made many of her own outfits.
Sandy is oneof the increasing number of young women that
have begun to participate in the FFA Chapters over the
State. When asked how people viewed her choice to join an
organization primarily comprised of boys Sandy explained
that FFA represented an organization where she could use
her skills in competition.
"At first,” she said, "people asked me why I chose to join
FFA.” Sr
“They wanted to know wfiy I was in Future Farmers, but
after everyone got used to me they were very friendly and
helpful.”
Sandy participated in the co-op education program which
meant going to school in the morning and working in the
afternoons. Sandy worked at a flower shop and put in almost
25 hours a week.
Her work experience and dedication in learning the field of
floriculture led to her being named the Outstanding Senior in
Floricultureat the Mt. Joy Vo-Tech School this spring.
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They Use “Byproducts” for Feed •. .
Pa.’s Biggest Feedlot
Aims to get Bigger
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biggest regret fight
'now is that we don’t have
10,000 steers on feed instead
of just 1200,” Jerry Hatcher
tolcLLancaster Fanning this
week Hatcher is president of
the Lebanon Valley Cattle
Co., NewmanstownßDl, and
oversees the operation of
what is reportedly Penn
sylvania’s biggest cattle
feedlot. As Hatcher spoke in
the air-conditioned comfort
of his well-famished, roomy
office, a truck pulled away
from the feedlot bearing
a load of cattle. Every one of
the animals on the truck was
sold at a $l5O loss.
“We’ve been operating at
a loss for the past eight
months,” Hatcher said as
the trud:pulledoot-“9«t It’S
going to get a lot better. It
>has to'gefrhetterrbecause'if
it doesn’t, the cattle industry
wiped out. A .whole mdastiy
cah’tcontihueproducing at a
loss or even at a break-even
P without going under.
The cattle industry isn’t
going to go under. People
In This Issue
Farm Calendar 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 46
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 20
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 30
Home on file Range 33
Organic Living 12
Farm Women Calendar 34
4-H Calendar 19*
Extracting Honey 39
Special Women’s Page 32
Buck Tractor Pull 41
Uke beef and they’ll buy it. In
the next few months, I’m
convinced that cattle feeders
are going to return to
profitable operations.”
Hatcher raised his hand,
bis thumb and forefinger an
inch apart. “And when the
rest of the industry is
making this much money,”
he said, a broad smile
creasing his face, “we’ll be
making this much.” The gap
between his thumb and
forefinger widened to a good
TRENDS
Tobacco Exßprts. DNomestic Use Rise
Exports and domestic Cise of U. S. tobacco for the
1974-74 marketing year not only are surpassing the
previous season’s levels, but also are exceeding
1973’s total tobacco-output-Thus, carryover-of
tobacco stocks will be about 8 percent below Tast
year’s 3.3 billion pounds and the smallest amount
since 1947, according to figures released by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The big gain came in cigarette production, which
was up about 5 percent. Cigars, snuff and smoking
tobacco continued their decline of recent years. For
the year ending June 30, large cigar and cigarillo
consumption may fall about 4 percent below the 7.1
billion of 1973-74. Small cigar output is off 40 percent,
but chewing tobacco production may gain a little.
Disappearance of cigar binder and dark air-cured
tobaccos in the current marketing year may gain a
Lancaster Farming Fhoto
Sandy Ginder has demonstrated her talents in
floriculture by capturing first place in floral design in
pppipsWipn?*
three inches. While the
gesture could hardly be
incorporated in a balance
sheet, it certainly conveyed
Hatcher’s enthusiasm for the
beef business and for his
company’s position in that
industry.
The Lebanon Valley Cattle
Company had its genesis
some 30 years ago, when
Kirk Foulke opened a feedlot
behind the Pennco Distillery
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$2.00 Per Year
by Diek
Wanner