44—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec 14, 1974
Twin Valley Inducts
The Twin Valley Future memorize the National FFA
Farmers recently accepted Creed and recite it at well as
eleven new members into the participate In an informal
chapter. New member, initiation. The evening of the
called Greenhands, had to Greenhand Ceremony, a
Madison Silos Division Office, P.O. Box 271, Madison, Wis. 53701
MADISON SILOS
Oiv. Chromalloy
American Corp
1070 Stemmetz Rd
Ephrata. Penna 17522
Phone 733-1206
LOCAL DEALERS
MESSICK FARM LANDIS BROS. INC.
EQUIP. INC. Lancaster 393-3906
Elizabethtown 367-1319
FRANK SNYDER
859-2688
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SUPPLY
CALEB WENGER Centerport, Pa
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CARL L SHIRK
Lebanon 717-274-1436
creed contest was also held.
All new Greenhands were
eligible to participate in the
contest, with the winner
receiving an FPA jacket.
The creed contest was
judged by the Senior Future
Farmers. Participants in the
contest were David Barth
and Garence Jennelle with
David Barth receiving first
place in the contest. New
members accepted were:
David Barth, Clarence
Jennelle, Keith Arters, Dave
Corfee, Bill Devlrte, Paul
Cerra, Ray Cylcewski, Ron
Taylor, Tony Lipko, Barry
Haller, and Randy Thomp
son.
In other recent FFA news,
two Farm City Week ac
tivities were held for all the
.students at TVHS. FFA
.members organized a straw
Poultry Producers
Visit Lancaster Co.
A tour group of Pakistani
Poultry producers were in
Lancaster County on
Tuesday, December 10 to
visit local installations of Big
Dutchman Poultry Equip-
ment. Hosting the tour were
Art Ruhl and Carl Nitz,
salesmen for Hershey
Equipment Company in New
Holland.
After touring Weaver’s
Food Company in New
Holland, the group visited
the farm of Robert Hamisb
in Conestoga where they saw
his newly equipped broiler
operation complete with Big
Dutchman equipment, that
included an automatic air
inlet system.
The tour ended at Coffee
Street Estates the farm of
Donald C. Hershey near
Millersville. Coffee Street
Greenhands
stacking contest which was
held at lunch time on the
athletic fields at TVHS.
Students had to stack 15
bales of straw on a wagon
neatly and then unload them
and neatly stack them on the
ground. Two students
competed as a team in this
event. The winning team of
Robert Deeds from section
11-5 and Melvin Houck from
section 12-4 loaded and
unloaded the bales in 1
minute and 35 seconds.
The following day at lunch
students again in teams of
two competed at two man
sawing. So each team cut
through about the same
thickness, and telephone
poles were used. The win
ning team was Paul Cerra of
section 9-6 and Tony Lipko of
section 9-6. Both contests
Acres is a 50,000 bird
operation that has a layer
house complete with a Tri-
Deck layer cage system and
a 50 case per hour Staalkat
egg packer.
The group, which was led
by Mohammed Yousef from
Pakistan, will be touring
more poultry farms in the
northeast region throughout
the week.
YOU CAN COUNT ON US
AGRHEQUIP. CARL L. SHIRK
R.D.2, Farmersville, Ephrata, Pa. 5 Colebrook Road, Lebanon, Pa
717-354-4271 717-274-1436
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455 South Cedar Street, Lititz, Pa. East Mam Street, Honey Brook, Pa
717-626-8144 • 215-273-3131
M. S. YEARSLEY A SONS GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE
110-114 East Market Street, West Chester. Pa. Robert Fulton Highway. Quarryville. Pa
215-696-2990 717-786-7318
HENRY S. LAPP LANDIS BROTHERS
RDI Cams. Gap, Penna. 17527 1305 Manheim Pike, PO Box 484,
717-442-8134 Lancaster, Pa 717-393-3906
ERB A HENRY EQUIP., INC.
'22-26 Henry Avenue, New Berlmville, Pa
215-367-2169
were well received and
participated in by studenta
and teachers. Other events
planned were canceled
because of the extreme cold
weather.
FFA members recently
enjoyed a hay ride at the
farm of Chester and Howard
Stoltzfus. Recreation
committee chairman Mike
Aikens planned the activity
which 25 members and
guests participated.
Following the frigid hayride,
members enjoyed equally
frigid hotdogs.
Members would like to
thank Darrel Stoltzfus for
driving the tractor for the
hayride and those ad
ministrators and faculty
members who assisted with
the Farm-City Week Ac
tivities.
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RD2
Lititz, Pa.
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Farm
Thoughts
A year-end reflection on
the overall Importance of
agriculture in all our lives.
Agriculture generates some
16 percent of the U.S. Gross
National Product and 4
gsrcent of the Canadian
ross Domestic Product.
While the farm segment of
the total population has
decreased over the years,
Sperry New Holland, a
leading farm machinery
manufacturer, projects
agriculture and agribusiness
are responsible for the
employment of 16 million
workers in the U.S. In
Canada, more than 230,000
non-farm people have jobs
directly related to
agriculture and many
thousands more work in
industries making products
used by agriculture.