—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Nov. 6, 1976 94 From Local Ag Teachers: By ROBERTS. WOODS Garden Spot High School New Holland, Pa. This year, as the month of November rolls around, many FFA chapters across the state of Pennsylvania and the nation begin final preparation before attending the national Future Farmer of America Convention which is held annually in Kansas City, Missouri. The National FFA Association, which consists of approximately 500,000 members, holds the National Convention to honor members across America as well as conduct important legislation affecting the organization. During this week of im portant meetings and ac tivity, many contests of national scope are held to select the most outstanding FFA students and judges in the FFA. One of these contests, the National Poultry Contest, is also held during this week. The National Poultry Con test has approximately 50 state teams competing for the national title. The Pennsylvania state poultry team has three members, two of which are from Garden Spot High School, New Holland, Pa. The three students representing Pennsylvania are Dennis Moose from Mercer High School, Mercer, Pa.; Harry Boley, Garden Spot High School, New Holland, Pa.; and Kenneth Fox, Garden Spot High School, New Holland, Pa. These three students placed top in the State Poultry Contest which Know Where the Activities Will Be? Read the Farm Women Calendar. was held this past summer at the Penn State University. This year the National Poultry contest will include the following areas to be judged: egg grading, in terior and exterior quality and egg breakouts; dressed ready to cook broilers; dressed turkeys; iden tification of poultry diseases and parasites; and evaluation of live laying hens and pullets. After judging the laying hens, oral reasons must be presented to a contest judge which will justify the student’s pladngs. In the egg grading portion of the contest, students must be able to candle eggs to determine any one of five different qualities ranging from AA quality to inedible. Exterior shell quality must be determined by looking for shell irregularities, dirt, or cracks. The final portion of egg grading consists of breaking the eggs out to determine quality which is indicated by the thickness of the white and the ap pearance of the yolk. The dressed bird areas are more complicated. This year judges must evaluate dressed broilers and turkeys to determine various quality grades. These grades run from A grade to no-grade or reject. Requirements such as fleshing, discoloration, tom skin, broken bones, and feathering are used to place quality grades in this class. The disease and parasite identification area of the contest requires that the students be able to identify approximately 50 to 60 dif ferent diseases which affect Robert Woods the poultry industry. The last area of judging involves the selection and culling of five laying hens and pullets. After placing these birds, oral reasons are given to justify the placings of the birds. Birds are placed on size, quality, pigmentation of comb and wattles, and degree of bleaching m the legs and beak. This year the National Poultry contest was made t possible by the support of one of Lancaster County’s fine industries. Victor F. Weaver, Poultry, Inc. of New Holland is co-sponsoring the contest. Weaver’s is making possible the travel, contest expense, awards, and awards breakfast for the members competing in the National Poultry Judging contest. NOW! PREPARE FOR FALL SEEDING CALL US FOR PROMPT SERVICE ON: LIMESTONE - M 5? FERTILIZER Premium Grades. Containing Magnesium and Sulphur for small grain. Available in bags, bulk. Trailer spreaders or custom truck spreading. Remember - Topdress alfalfa this fall & spray for weeds. Fall apply Ammonia for next years corn. ff ORGANIC n pMMmi plant * l [ ANHYDROUS AMMONIA j fQQQ 2313 Norman Rd., Lancaster, PA . Ph. (717) 397-5152 ‘CB’ replacing dinner bell TROY, Mich. - The farm family cowbell that calls all hands to dinner may soon be a thing of the past if two-way citizens band radio sales to Girl has top steer TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmoth County, N.J. girl recently showed the top steer at the New Jersey Baby Beef Show, held here at the State Fairgrounds last month. Christine Ondrosh exhibited her Hereford steer to grand championship honors and later sold the animal for $1.60 per pound. The reserve banner went to Clay Clement of Glouster County. His entry, was a Simmental which com manded a price of $l.lO per pound. A total of 120 head were -shown m the show, with 29 of the animals coming from Hunterdon County. That worked out to 14.8 tons of beef from one county, ac cording to a spokesman reporting on the event. The over-all average of the sale calculated out to 62 cent per pound. farm equipment owners continue to grow. Lloyd D. Robertson, parts sales manager for Ford Motor Company’s North American Tractor and Implement Operations, said that the best available in dustry figures indicate that one in six U.S. farm families now owns one or more CB radio units. Robertson predicted that with the introduction of the new 40-channel units beginning January, 1977', sales rates should exceed current levels. The new units will help prevent future overcrowding, but both the new units and the current 23- channel models will let listeners monitor the The Gehl model 4400 skid-steer loader s full hy drostatic drive means smooth power, low main tenance, fast turning and time saving speed Dual T-Bar controls make operating this little giant so easy you'll have to do it to believe it Water or air cooled engines salso diesel Vane- w ty of optional buckets and attachments (including back-hoe) make the 4400 a year around per former for the toughest jobs Ask, too, about the 25 HP model 2500 Gehl skid-steer loader ZOOK'S FARM STORE N. G. HERSHEY & SON HONEY BROOK, PA 215-273-9730 NISSLEY FARM SERVICE WASHINGTON BORO, PA 717-285-4844 S. JOHNSON HURFF POLE TAVERN MONROEVILLE, NJ 609-358-2565 or 609-769-2565 STOUFFER BROS. INC. CHAMBERSBURG, PA 717-263-8424 NEVIN N. MYER & SONS, INC. CHESTER SPRINGS, PA 215-827-7414 UMBERGER'S MILL RT 4 LEBANON, PA | FONTANA) 717-867-5161 A. L. HERR & BRO. QUARRYVILLE, PA 717-786-3521 BINKLEY & HURST BROS. 133 Rothsville Station Road Lititz, PA 717-626-4705 “Farmers, particularly those with larger acreage* now are discovering tire efficiencies in having base station sets in their homes and receiver-sender units in tractors, combines, other field machinery and trucks,” Robertson said. “These CBs do a lot more than announce that dinner is on the table. They can be used to order additional fuel, seed and fertilizer for machines in the field, call for trucks to remove crop loads, or let a farm wife know that the crews will be in in 30 minutes - even if dinner is not on the table. Actually, the list of added efficiencies a farm CB radio system iti all’ (MM Ssikff {kmsbigi MANHEIM, PA 717-665-2271 AGWAY, INC. CHAPMAN EQUIP. CENTER CHAPMAN, PA 215-398-2553 CHAS. J. McCOMSEY & SONS HICKORY HILL, PA 215-932-2615 WERTZ GARAGE LINEBORO, MARYLAND [3ol] 374-2672 LEBANON VALLEY IMPLEMENT CO., INC. RICHLAND, PA 717-866-7518 CLAIR J. 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