Twin Valley
The annual Kutztown Fair
was held this past week and
members of the Twin Valley
Future Farmers of America
participated in it. On Friday,
August 23, the county FFA
dairy and livestock judging
contests were held as well as
the tractor driving contest.
In the livestock judging
contest, contestants had to
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FFA Competes
Judge a class of market
steers, a class of breeding
swine, and a class of market
swine. Twin Valley
President Robert Stoltzfus
finished third in this contest,
with Darrel Stoltzfus, tenth
grade secretary, finishing
fifth. Other • Twin Valley
participants were: Ronald
Smoker, David Hammons,
Melvin Houck, and Kathie
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members participated in
dairy Judging.
In the afternoon the county
tractor driving contest was
held. Each chapter in the
county is allowed one par
ticipant in this contest. Twin
Valley was represented by
its ace tractor driver Robert
Stoltzfus. In the contest,
each participant must
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He then hitches to a man
ure spreader and drives it
through an obstacle course
and then backs it into a stall
with two inches of clearance
on each side. After unhit
ching the spreader he hit
ches to a four-wheeled
wagon and pulls it from a
stall and then must back it
into an adjoining stall with
six inches of clearance on
each side. Contestants are
scored for safety throughout
the contest. In the spreader
and wagon stalls, they are
penalized for having the
implement off-center and
more than two inches from
the rear of the stall.
Throughout the contest, they
are penalized for touching
the sides of the stalls or
obstacle course and for each
time they change direction.
Robert finished first in a
fairly close contest. He,
along with second place
driver James Adam, of
Hamburg will represent
Berks County in September
against drivers from
Lebanon and Schuylkill
County.
The Twin Valley window
display - “SOYBEANS -
FOOD, FEED, FUTURE”
finished fourth in the
vocational window display
class. The exhibit explains
the many uses of soybeans
for food and feed purposes
and in industry. The purpose
of window displays is to
present educational material
in an attractive and eye
catching manner. This week
the exhibit will be on display
at the Reading Fair. Also
this week, chapter members
Terry Murray and Larry
Stoltzfus will exhibit their
dairy animals at the regional
FFA dairy show in
Harrisburg.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Sept. 14,1974
Economics Of
Grape Pickers
In a moonlit vineyard, a
harvester pulls up to a row
and begins beating the vines,
shaking loose the grapes. As
they fall, they’re conveyed
and blown into a gondola
that’s being pulled alongside
by a tractor.
This is one of the latest
scenes in California, where
more than 100 machines now
harvest grapes sold to
wineries.
Machine harvesting of
grapes in California started 5
years ago, and an ERS
prelininary report indicates
that machine owners--at
least in the Fresno-Madera
area-are satisfied with
them.
Growers in the ERS
survey indicated they felt
they should receive a
premium price for
mechanically harvested
grapes. The grapes had
fewer stems and leaves in
them than hand-harvested
grapes, they said, and thus,
more grapes per ton were
delivered to the winery.
Thompson Seedless grapes
were the main variety the
machines harvested, for
they tended to shake more
easily from the vine than
many other varieties.
Much of the machine
harvesting was done at night
when cooler temperatures
aided both the crew and the
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grapes, which shake from
the vine more easily when
the thermometer reads
below 90 degrees.
The 37 machine owners in
the survey operated 54
machines in 1972, and
averaged about 233 acres
harvested per machine. The
short crop that year put
tonnage below normal for
many of the growers.
Capital investment for the
operation ran around $40,000.
The harvester cost about
$33,000 to $35,000, and the
gondolas ran around $3,000
each. Two gondolas were
usually used-while one was
being unloaded, the other
would be in operation in the
vineyard.
About a fourth of the
owners did extensive con
tract work. Another fourth
did some contracting,
usually for neighbors or
relatives.
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