26 —Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 12, 1975 Environmental FFA Aids I Continued from Pi|i 1| students a greater awareness of community resourscs and facilities along with the improvement of such," Oglinc stated. “Also it helps create an awareness of the natural surroundings and man’s role in the environment and nature.” Although relatively new, the program has been well accepted by the students who have shown a great deal of interest in working with conservation efforts. The Chapter has put some 175 hours into helping the New Holland Jaycees in the Nolt Pond Community project along with con structing several jack dams, gabion nets and deflectors for the Cocalico Watershed EPTAM FOR WEEDS ON POTATOES AND ALFALFA AAtrex Furadan Sutan Dyfonate Lasso Thimet Available in liquid or granular Liquid N. Applicator Available JONAS S. 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The students have also erected numerous mallard duck nests, squirrel dens, bird houses and feeders in the community in an effort to preserve and protect the natural wildlife of the County. Students, as projects, have raised pheasants and stocked them in cooperation with the Pa. Game Com mission and the Adamstown Rod and Gun Club and have also planted over 2000 seedlings on Outdoor Con servation Labs and com munity projects. For two consecutive years the Chapter has won the FFA BOAC (Building Our American Communities) Award in State Competition and last summer was named the North Atlantic Region Iways tantei 'curve Roy A. Brubaker 700WoodcrestAve Lititz, Pa 626-7766 Winner in National Com* petition. For their outstanding work in soil conservation projects, the Chapter has also won the County and State Soil Con* servation Service Award for two years and last year placed third in the nation. The individual students have also won numerous awards for their work both in con* servation projects and in regular FFA competitions. On Thursday evening, April 10, the Chapter held its first awards banquet to honor those members who had contributed to the success of the program. Certificates of appreciation were given to many in dividuals who had helped the Chapter in their work in cluding: Paula Grubbs, Garden Spot High School, Mrs. Mary Hartman, FFA parent; Mrs. Pat Rhoads, FFA parent; Philip Musser, New Holland Sportsman The "Systems Approach" Hershey Equipment LETS YOU PUT IT ALL TOGETHER HOG SYSTEMS FARROWING DRY CONFINEMENT FEEDING LIMITED FEEDING AUTOMATIC WATERING NURSERY FEEDING SLATS & HEATING ‘GATES & FENCING ■LIQUID FEEDING The Systems Company New Holland, Pa 215 Diller Avenue Shop: Henry Glvler, Vocational Conaultant; Horace Keller, FFA parent; John Hoffert, sportsman; Mnhlon Kurtz, Kurtz’s Fish Hatchery; Ted Fox, Regional Game Protection; Harry Redline, Waterways Patrolman and Linda Ogline, advisor’s wife. Dr. Norman Hoover, professor of agricultural education at Pennsylvania State University was selected to receive the chapter’s Honorary Chapter Degree, the highest form of honor an FFA organization can bestow on a non member. 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