A iso Maryland , New Jersey and Delaware VOL 23 No. 33 ■ten Sechrist and Leroy Bowles ■died in poultry judging, placing ■t and third, respectively. Both are ■m Red Lion Area High School. ■John Zimmerman Dairy showmanship Ron Good Small engines Ann Murren Public speaking The first-place FFA dairy cattle juding team for 1978 comes from the Oley Valley Chapter. Wendy Shaw led the trio. Her brother, Steve, left, and Scott Hauseman were also on the team. State FFA contests held By DIETER KRIEG UNIVERSITY PARK - Future Farmers of America from all over Pennsylvania exhibited their talents and skills heire on Tuesday* "Wednesday and Thursday. The event was State FFA Activities Week, a com petitive and colorful gathering of blue-jacketed vocational agriculture Senate Bill 522 gets mixed reactions By KENDACE BORR Y HARRISBURG - Pa. Senate Bill 522, which in one aspect deals with land that the Pa. Dept, of Transportation had decided to sell since it is not needed for roads no longer planned, has just passed the Pa. House of Representatives at the beginning of this week. Shop around for lower fertilizer prices By JOANNE SPAHR LITITZ - If you are going to need fertilizer in the upcoming weeks, it might pay to shop around. Ac cording to several fertilizer blenders in Lancaster Farming’s coverage area, the cost of various raw Denise Krause Public speaking Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 17,1978 students. Penn State University hosts the annual extravaganza, sponsored jointly by the College of Agriculture’s Department of Education and the Penn sylvania . Department of Education, Harrisburg. More than 2000 students, advisors and guests par ticipated in the 3-day affair. Among them were more according to Noah Wenger, Representative. But, the bill left the House in con siderable changed form. According to Wenger, the Bill now basically deals with, the disposal of land that orginally had been pur chased by the state to build roads. Now these roads are no longer on the planning materials has dropped due to suppliers’ backlogs. And, in some cases, these price ■reductions to blenders will be passed along to customers. In some companies prices had already been lowered as of June 1 and, with other fertilizer blenders reduc tions began this week. Still other blenders, however, report that they are not In this issue Penn State’s Extension agricultural economist H. Louis Moore explains how the Commodity Futures market and hedging work. See page 100. Farm Calendar 10 Editorials 10 Homestead Notes 42 Jr. Cooking Edition 44 Farm Women Calendar 45 Home on the Range 46 Ida’s Notebook 48 than 400 girls. That’s significant since girls weren’t “admitted into the FFA until just a few years ago. At the 1977 FFA Ac tivities Week, 351 girls took part in the ceremonies and contests. The major events for the more than 1600 participating students included 23 state contests, the selection of stage, and Penn Dot is looking for a way to settle what is the be done with the land. “When the bill came into the House,” Wenger ex plained, “the main thrust of the bill dealt with fee-simple legislation, which would give Penn Dot the authority to buy whole properties rather than aware of the cost-change, and that their prices.will remain steady. “There’s no secret about this drop in raw materials,” says one competitive fer tilizer blender. “If you read the trade journals, you can find it in there.” That particular blender offered a five per cent reduction on all farm fer tilizer. My Thoughts 52 Kendy’sKollumn 55 Joyce Bupp 57 Dauphin DHIA 59 Classifieds 60 York DHIA 90 Carousel parlors 98 Commodity futures explained 100 Strawberry round-up 106 Northampton dairy princess 112 Market hog shun 117 IWofP'i fairs 123 Sandy Weaver and Barbara Herr of Garden Spot High School placed third and sixth, respectively, in the land judging contest. officers, and the crowning of a new Pennsylvania FFA Queen. - The lucky young lady who won that coveted hpnor for T97&-79 is Allyson Fleck of Hollidaysburg, Blair County. Runnerup was Cheryl Byers of Crawford County Vo-Tech and Miss Congeniality was Chris Heaney of the Folcroft (Turn to Page 14) just take possession of the right of way needed for roads. There have been considerable changes in the bill.” Wenger further stated that the House put amendments on the Bill so that now it deals mainly with the selling of formerly-purchased land. (Turn to Page 24) Another company noted that farmers should see an $8 to $l2 per ton downward change in top dressing grades. This company also noted that there was some decrease in nitrogen. A different company (Turn to Page 37) Robert Dehoff Agronomy $6.00 Per Year Sam Long Livestock judging Axel Linde Farm management Ramon Hunt Meats judging
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