Serving and Southeastern Pennsylvania Area?'- Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware VOL 22 No. 31 Four schools dominate FFA Week contests By DIETER KRDSG DIVERSITY PARK - In at might be called the TOpics of the Penn vania FFA, the best vo-ag dents from all across the ite gathered here this ek to compete for “gold,” Ever,” and “bronze” Eiiis. As is true with the E sports event, a few Eimial powerhouses ran py with more than an page share of medals, three Lancaster County tools and one from York (anty split 33 “gold” ■dais between them. meals and Solanco each ■ nine gold medals, New Hand had eight, and Red E came home with seven. Erata earned its “gold” ■dais in dairy foods, land Igmg, meat judging and ■First combined barley I exceeds expectations _ ... . X *!nWlMfllH ■ By JOYCE BUPP ■York County Reporter ■ORK, Pa. - In spite of a Bcr, cold winter and drier Bn normal spring growing ■dihons, the early barley ■p has the earmarks of an B vt average crop, jits some of the nicest. Bky I’ve ever seen,’’ Bed William Sprenkle, of Bcgler and Sprenkle, Inc., ■ k Only a few loads had ®ved at the mill by mid- B k > hut indications pointed BJwly high yields on most Bn count y’s acreage. ■Overall, grain price B°° k just isn’t good,” ■nkle admitted. “Barley ■ be a bright spot if it’s a B° yield ” ■cording to the mill ■ Y Ihe wheat harvest ■already begun in Texas, Ag graduates speak on problems, future SCHAEFFER K k , s County Reporter KV Ng SPRING - The ■ a consensus of various from ■ schools within Berks ■7 this year, seems to be B roethmg has to be ■ with land use ■foment. ■ Art Moss of Conrad K sta ted, “farmers ■ compete with Kf s f°f land at the En J a f‘” Noss > Who B a t rkon his father’s BL graduation, hopes BfervA develop to E h * Jj® land, even know what ■ be 00 to the problem Bfuily {.DhAu nners can Bought the land pinch dairy cattle judging. Solanco excelled in ag sales, dairy foods, farm management, interviewing, land judging and dairy cattle judging. For New Holland, the top events were agronomy, dairy foods, land judging, poultry judging and public speaking. A list of all winners from southeastern-southcentral Pennsylvania is included in this report. The annual competition is held here each Summer on the Penn State, campus and is sponsored jointly by the Department of Agricultural Education in the College of Agriculture and the Penn sylvania Department of Education, Harrisburg. In all 22 FFA contests were I Continued on Pap 20] put prices are well under the two dollar per bushel mark. And while the York market for corn was at $2.40 this past Tuesday, pessimistic predictions are that it, too, could drop to under two dollars by fall harvest. Tuesday’s barley price at Sprenkle’s. West York mill was $1.90 per bushel, a dime higher than outlying mills in the county were paying. The first grain coming off is of the bearded, Barsoy variety. Moisture readings were in the twelve to thirteen per cent range, with bushel weights running at about 47 pounds. Cloudy weather with scattered showers was slowing the eutting efforts [Continued on Page 35| is through plant breeding, he suggested. Yields per acre will have to continue to rise, and better disease resistance may be part of that answer, Noss explained. Norman Manbeck, also graduating from Conrad Weiser, feels little farms won't be able to survive in the future. “They just won’t be able to compete,” he said. The trend will be towards corporations and larger family farms involving more partnerships. “Also, farmers have to continually increase their yields per acre as the population continues to rise and more and more land is consumed for non-agricultural | Continued or Page It) Lancaster Farming. Saturday, June 18,1977 Candy Barker, Pennsylvania FFA Princess for 1977-78, wishes ail fathers a happy Father’s Day. IN THIS ISSUE Farm Calendar 10 My Father 10 Dauphin DHIA 14 Franklin dairy princess 23 1 ancaster hog show 24 1 ’a. Guernsey Queen 26 Vegetable crops 30,34,60 Homestead Notes 42 Ida's Notebook 43 Womens’ Calendar 43 I ’lant lovers' corner 45 Jr. Cooking Edition 46 Home on the Range 46 Lancaster Farming photo by Dieter Krieg My Thoughts 50 Cedar Crest Young Far mers 52 Joyce Bupp 54 Dauphin County dairy princess 56,57 Classifieds 63 lan caster DHIA 90 Grange leadership school 97 Facts for dairymen 99 Berks Women Society 106 Sale Reports 100 I ’nWic Sale Register 110 Candy Barker is new FFA Princess By DIETER KRIEu UNIVERSITY PARK - The Pennsylvania FFA has a real farm girl representing it as Princess for 1977-78. She is 16-year old Candy Barker from Northern Potter High ' School. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Barker, Ulysses, ’she makes her home on her parents’ 250 acre farm. “I love dairy fanning - that’s where my heart and soul belong,” she said in a convincing interview with Lancaster Fanning at the Penn State campus. She is “herdsgirl” at home and milks 48 registered Holsteins morning and evening. Eighteen of the black-and wtdtes are owned by her. After graduation next Spring, she wants to go into partnership with her father Unanimous vote passes farm protection bill HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania House passed HB ill qn Monday and ac cording.' to sep. Noah Wenger of Lancaster County, “the future of far mland in Pennsylvania will be more secure because of it.” The bill was unanimously approved 192 to 0. That should give the bill a real good chance of gaining quick passage in the Senate, Wenger told Lancaster Farming earlier this week. Wenger,, a .sponsor of the legislation and a member of the House Agriculture Committee, said the measure would restrict the right of government agen cies to condemn prime agricultural lands for uses other than farming. Poultry conference set for this coming week LANCASTER - The Pennsylvania Poultry Federation reports that advance registrations for the 1977 Pennsylvania Poultry Conference and annual banquet on June 23, 1977, at the Host farm here, are far exceeding last year’s com't. The Federation attributes this to its new format - three separate conferences (broiler, egg, turkey) as well as a hatchery seminar in the morning and the engagement of speakers on controversial subjects. The egg industry will be provided with an opportunity to hear about a new approach in forced molting which includes some data not yet released for publication and a hard look at what the current $4.00 Per Year and continue in the profession she has loved ever since she was old enough to walk. The blue-eyed and blonde haired princess begins her days at 5:30 a .m., does the milking, prepares for school, and then returns to work at the farm. Her mother, Bonnie Jean, and three younger sisters - Carmie, Cookie, and Georgie - help with the bam work, while Mr. Barker is occupied with his 175 tillable acres. Her responsibilities other than milking include keeping the breeding and registry records up to date and ar tificial insemination. She learned the latter technique a year and half ago and has been providing that service (Continued on Page 37] He said the bill also would establish a committee to make determinations and recommendations on such proposed condemnations. “With farmland diminishing at an alarming rate in the Commonwealth, the need for this legislation is clear,” Wenger said. “Indeed, in Lancaster County recently we had a case in which a township authority wanted to con demn a productive farm in order to expand a sanitary landfill. That farm was saved from acquisition through the personal in tervention of myself, other members of the House Agriculture Committee and [Continued on Page 32) expansion in the industry will bring in the future. Other topics include a look at some new ideas in egg marketing and a new update on nutrition. The. broiler industry will be provided with some new information on processing and proper environment and ventilation with housing. The turkey industry will learn how a local retail market is built and the cost-benefit ratio of controlled en vironment in housing. Both the broiler and turkey groups will hear a discussion about their future, the water quality effect on growth and what the future availability of propane will be. In addition to the three | Continued on Fage 32}
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