—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 5,1977
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Farming always appealled to Glenn Bollinge
By KEND ACE BORRY
LEBANON - If Glenn
Bollinger, Lebanon R 5, had
to pick his favorite part of
farming, it would be driving
the tractors. But he also
likes to drive the other
pieces of farm machinery,
and he likes field work, and
planting the field crops, and
harvesting, and filling silos,
and milking cows. In short,
he really likes farming
although he will admit that
sometimes there does seem
**■ be a few too many heifer
pens to clean.
The American Farmer
degree for Agribusiness
winner grew up on the farm
of his parents, Mr and Mrs.
Robert Bollmger. He still
works on their farm, and
hopes someday to operate it
himself.
Besides being a farmer, he
is also employed by the
Evergreen Tractor Com
pany, Inc , Lebanon, Pa ,
where he is a tractor
mechanic. There he has his
own service truck to go on
service calls, and works m
the shop on tractors, bailers,
and combines. Throughout
the year, he averages bet
ween 40 and 50 hours of work
a week.
After working hours on
that job, however, it’s home
to the Bollinger farm of 315
acres. Basically a dairy
farm, milking ap
proximately 58 cows, he
finds plenty of work to keep
him busy.
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When speaking ot his in
volvement with FFA,
Bollinger believes that any
youth who is thinking of
farming should try to
become as active as
possible. He mentioned the
help his vo-ag teacher
Richard D. Moore, at the
Cedar Crest High School,
Lebanon, had given to him
and said that all his ex
periences helped him grow.
Some projects Bollinger was
involved with included
growing 10 acres of corn at
school, partaking in
speaking contests, being
chairman of several com
mittees, participating in and
winning various tractor
driving contests, and being
assistant vice president,
treasurer, and president of
his chaper, as well as county
treasurer of the Lebanon Co.
FFA
Experience on the farm
aided Bollinger in his work
to become a better farmer.
Helping on the farm and
being in charge of the farm
maintenance he believes
were important factors in
teaching him valuable
knowledge. Other things that
he considers important are
the classes he had on cow
medicines, insecticides and
pesticides for crops, and
other aspects of farming
practices. He enjoyed the
agriculture mechanics
classes, and thinks the skill
he developed in that class
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Glenn Bollinger prepares to work on the John
Deere Side Hill 6600 Combine, giving its 100
hours service check.
contributed greatly to his reading, and stated that
winning the American reading can be an important
Farmer degree. way of learning.
Besides working on his job When thinking about his
and the farm, Bollinger likes future plans with his
sports, with baseball and parents’ farm, Bollinger
basketball being his hopes someday to become a
favorite. He also enjoys partner with his father.
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someday he’ll put a milking raising some beef cattl
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