Greg sees no clouds on By LAUREL SCHAEFFER Like many pf his coun- Staff Correspondent terparts, Greg - has been active in his chapter and on BERNVILLE - Gregory the county level ever since Koenig, Bemville, is a he joined FFA. He has been dedicated 17 year old senior secretary and vice-president of Tulpehocken High School. o £. the Tulpehocken FFA in He is president of his FFA past years and is now ser chapter and a hard working ' v i ng as Berks County farmer as well. Treasurer. YOUR FARM EQUIPMENT IS YOUR LIFE LINE PUT ALL THE DIESEL PROBLEMS IN CAPABLE. RELIABLE HANDS MILLER DIESEL INC. Specializing in Diesel fuel injection pumps and injectors 6030 Jonestown Rd. • Harrisburg, PA 17112 717-545-5931 interstate 81 - Exit 26 Celebrating our 20th year in business. These are our Contest Winners: Ist Place- Pump Overhaul ... 2nd Place-Tune up Bernard C. Gardner , J. Ivan Hanson RD3 - RD 2 Box 291 Spring Grove, Pa. 17362 Palmyra, Pa. 17078 hn recent trials... Seven veal feeing programs were compared... and vMi’te nbt the whiner! ~ Jn total gains, rate of gain and conversion rate, one program stood out above all others. That’s the one on which Jiew Agway Veal Pre-Starter, Starter, and Finisher are based. The group on the winning program started at an initial average weight of 111.1 lbs. And finished at 349.00 lbs. An average gain of 237.9 lbs. With a feed conversion rate of 1.66 pounds of feed per pound of gain. New Agway Veal Pre-Starter, Starter and Finisher are made from top quality products. From top quality protein, 100% derived from Greg has been active in dairy judging and land judging teams, participating in this past year’s Summer convention at Penn State as a diary judging team member, and earning top honors at the county soil judging contest held last year. Of all his experiences in FFA, Greg stated the trip to Penn State was one of the most enjoyable, explaining that the campus and Agricultural Research Centers impressed him a great deal. This year also, when he received his Keystone Farmer Degree. - This young man finds time for all his FFA activities even though he also works full time on a dairy farm, which includes milking every day of the week, morning and evening. To accomplish this and go to school also, Greg starts every day -at 4:45 a.m. getting the feeding and milking finished before he is due at school, and going right to work after classes are over. Farm work is milk products. From 100% animal fat. Be cause Agway knows that protein quality and fat source are where performance is. As the trials showed... quality pays off. Every time. Every veal grower knows that prime veal depends on the quality and vigor of the calves, on proper housing, feeding management and sanitation. Do all of them right, and the new line-up of Agway Veal Feeds can do a superior job for you. For more information on a most profit able way to get into a most profitable market, call your iocat Agway. nothing new to this student. He was raised on a farm and was responsible for feeding the herd for several years while at home. Greg is presently working with a great-uncle, John Luckenbill, and has hopes of eventually taking over the farm when his uncle retires. Fanning has always been Greg’s primary interest and is what he is looking forward to once out of school. “I think people who feel young people can’t get started in farming - these days are wrong,” Greg stated, adding that he thinks it can be done. “There is money to be made in far ming,” he continued, “if you change with the times and keep an open mind to allow for a needed change.” “But,” he added, you have to keep at the profitable end. There doesn’t seem to be any phase in dairy farming that this ambitious young man likes better than any other. “I have always liked field work,” he explained, “better than working with AGWAY Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 18,1978 his horizon cows until I got more in- would like to work in a volved with the milking.” mechanics shop, learning Now he has more interest in how to work on Diesel cows and enjoys tham as engines. much as the field work. The ever present problems Greg enjoys the involving surplus milk in the mechanical end of farming dairy industry has not also. “Hike to see how things dimmed this man’s view on work,” he smiled. 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