22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 17. 1974
FFA Exchange
Visits Manheim
Summer 1974 has been
exciting and challenging for
Carel Gysberts. Carel is a 19
year old foreign exchange
student from the
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ph:
Quarryville, Pa. , !H5 Ma nheim Pike
Phone:7B6-7318 Lancaster. Pa 17WM
Student
Farm
Netherlands, who is
presently living with his
American family Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel L. Martin and
sons Dave and Dan who is
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Iroquois Alfalfa
Buffalo Alfalfa
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now living with his wife.
Carol has become a working
member o! the RDI
Manheim dairy farm since
his arrival on May 31. Carol
has helped with haymaking,
baling straw, driving
tractor, hauling manure, and
general farm labor. One of
the biggest projects Carel
has helped with was the
building of a new 72 stall free
stall bam on the Martin
farm. While Carel was here
he has participated in a
weekend retreat of a church
youth group, the State FFA
Activities Week at Penn
State. He was also at the
Lancaster County Holstein
Field Days, Buck Tractor
Pull, and ‘the Pennfield
poultry plant. Carel hopes to
see more of the area before
he leaves in late August.
Card’s home is in Herveld,
Netherlands which is in the
providence of Gelderland.
Carel lives with his father
Wim and mother Anna. He
has two sisters Diny 23 and
Nelly 17 and a brother Geutt
20. His home is on a dairy
farm with 50 milk cows, 23
heifers, and 30 Friesian
calves. In the Netherlands
the black and white cows arp
Friesian; whereas here in
America they are called
Holstein or Holstein
Friesian. The only crop on
the3o hectare (74 acre) farm
is hay. During the summer
months the first cutting is
stored and the cattle graze
on the fields the rest of the
summer. Hay and pellets are
fed to the cattle during the
winter along with com which
is bought from a neighboring
farm.
When asked why he
wanted to come to America
Carel said, “I wanted to see
how the American farm
worked and I wanted to leam
English.” He also stated that
his sister Diny was an
exchange student to Israel
during April and May of this
year and she found it very
enjoyable.
To date Carel and the
Martin family have found
the experience very wor
thwhile and rewarding. One
of the new things which
Carel has seen and been
impressed by is the bale
thrower on local balers.
After returning to the
Netherlands, Carel hopes to
become a salesman of dairy
and farm machinery. He
plans to do his studhig by
correspondence.
Carel came to America
under the Work Experience
Abroad program of the FFA
Jntemational
is a program of the FFA'
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Berks County 4-H members were
first place winners in the State Horse
Bowl competition held at the Penn
sylvania State 4-H Achievement
Festival held at the Main Campus of
The Pennsylvania State University in
University Park, August 5-7. From left
to right are: Leticia Bauer, RD4,
Reading, Roger Imes, Jr., RD3,
Fleetwood, Sandy Bixler', RDI,
Mohnton, Shelly Wagner, RDI, Bird
sboro, and Leland M. Jinx, Chairman
Growing
Degree
Days
In Lancaster, the average
temperature for the Week
was 69 degrees which is 4
degrees less than the
seasonal average.
Growing degree days for
crops starting at 40 degrees
totaled 3316, or 17 days above
the average.
For crops starting at 50
degrees, the days totaled
2032, 7 below the average.
Rainfall for the week was
only trace, recorded from
April 1, 17.69 inches or .52
inches less than average.
which helps to provide a
practical working ex
perience for students in the
United States and also sends
American FFA members to
other countries for the same
reasons and to promote
international understanding.
DO YOU NEED
USED PARTS
FOR FARM TRACTORS
and
FARM MACHINERY
CALL HARRY STOHLER AT
WENGER FARM MACHINERY
South Race St.
AAyerstown Pa. Ph 717-866-2138
of Extension youth programs
presenting the team with their first
place plaque.
The Berks County Horse Bowl team
competed with 30 other teams
comprised of 120 individuals from all
areas of Pennsylvania. The team will
go on to further competition at the
Keystone International Livestock
Exposition held at the Farm Show
Arena in Harrisburg, November 9-15,
1974.
MARTIN'S MANUFACTURING CO.
Custom
Mode
• FREE STALLS
• BARNYARD FENCES
• SILAGE CARTS in stock
• PIPE GATES 6 ft. to 16 ft.
, (every 6") in stock
MARTIN’S
MANUFACTURING CO.
DISTRIBUTOR OF CENTRAL TRACTOR PARTS CO.
R.D.3 Myerstown Rhone (717) 933-4151
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