Kearns chosen Star Agribusinessman
ELVERSON - Tom
Kearns, son. of Mr. and Mrs.
James Kearns of Morgan
town, has been chosen as the
Berks County FFA Star
Agribusinessman for 1978-79.
Tom has served as Berks
County FFA secretary for
the last year, as well as
treasurer of the Twin Valley
FFA Chapter.
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Tom was presented a $5O
Savings Bond as County Star
Agribusinessman at the
County FFA banquet He
was chosen from among the
Star Chapter. Agribusiness-,
men of other local chapters.
Tom served as treasurer
of the Owen J. Roberts
Chapter before his family
moved to Twin Valley. He
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has participated >a public
speaking contests in both
Chester and Berks County,
as well as serving on the
Parliamentary Procedure
teams of both chapleis He
has the Penn
sylvamz Association of
Farmer Cooperative In
stitute at -Shippensburg
twice. Tom exhibited dairy
Beacon Milling
Company, Inc.
cattle at uaial iou.l Idas -
Kunbeiidii i- .lUlmvu ,uid
Allentown i well <iv the
Southeast! i n I’enns.v ivama
FFA Uau v Show
Tom served on Chapter
dairy judging teams at the
Kutztown and Allentown
Fairs and the Pennsylvania
All-American Dairy show.
He participated in the state
FFA agricultural mechanics
contest at Penn State in June
of 1977. In 1978 he par
ticipated in the state dairy
showmanship" contest Tom
also represented the chapter
in the tractor driving contest
at the Kutztown Fair. At
tendance at the NationaF
FFA Convention in Kansas
' City last November was one
of the highlights of Tom’s
Senior year.
Another highlight -was
when he recieved the
Keystone Farmer Degree at
the Pennsylvania Mid
Winter Convention. At the
state project book contest
Tom took first place out of
175 books' m the Work Ex
perience Category. Tom’s
maior projects were dairv
heifers, field com. veal
calves, vegetable garden
and working for the last six
years on Cream Valley
Farms, a 450 acre dairy
farm on which his respon
sibihtys are milking, raising
calves plus all aspect of field
.work.
Tom’s plans after high
school are to run for state
FFA office in June and to
become a herdsman on a
dairy farm until he gets his
own farm.
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since WITH NO APPRECIABLE WEAR' 1975 Tenderfoot floors are still going
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Beam, Max compete
in poultry judging
ELVERSON - Two Twin
Valley FFA members
participiated in the recent
Tri-County FFA Poultry
Judging contest sponsored
by Weavers Poultry and
Weaver’s Quahty Eggs of
New Holland and Lancaster.
Twin Valley students in
this contest were Mike
Beam, son of Mr. and Mrs,
Paul Beam of Honey Brook
and Ed Max, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Max, Honey
Brook R 3. Poultry judges
had to complete nine skills
required of poultry
producers
Each contestant had to
judge a class of four laying
hens and give a set of oral
reasons on this class, place a
Seed case settled
NEW YORK - Michael-
Leonard, Inc., Grant Park,
111., has paid $2,125 to settle a
case involving alleged
violations of the Federal
Seed Act. The act,* ad
ministered by U.S.
Department of Agriculture
officials, is a truth-in
labeling law designed to
protect fanners and con
sumers who buy seed.
Clyde R. Edwards, seed
official with the depart
ment’s Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS),
said the firm, in agreeing to
the settlement, neither
admitted nor denied the.
charges.
Stoltzfus receives
ELVERSON - Dons Mast,
chainnan of the Twin Valley
FFA Dairy Chain Calf
committee announced the,
award of this year’s calf to
Roger Stoltzfus, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Stoltzfus of
Elverson Rl.
Roger is a junior
vocational agriculture
student at Twin Valley High
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class of 4 pullets (chickens
just starting to lay eggs)
judge a class of 10 produc
tion hens as to keep or cull by
sight only, sight judge 10
pullets for keep or cull,
identify 20 poultry diseases
or parasites, grade a class of
eggs for internal quality by
‘ candling them, grade in
ternal quality of a class of
broken out eggs, grade
exterior quality of eggs and
grade a class of 10 chicken
carcasses. The first eight
places in this contesT were
captured by Garden Spot
(New Holland) students.
Weaver’s also sponsors the
National FFA Poultry
Judging .Contest at Kansas
City in November.
The case involved seven
shipments of Kentucky
bluegrass and lawn seed
mixtures to Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Florida,
Maine, Minnesota, and
Virginia in 1975 and 1976. The
alleged violations, while not
the same for all shipments,
were false labeling as to the
test date and percentage of
seetL that would germinate;
presence of noxious-weeds
seeds in excess of what’s
allowed; failure to label the
name and rate of noxious
weed seeds; failure to test
for germination within five
months before interstate
shipment; and failure to
keep required records.
dairy chain calf
School. The chain calf was
originally provided by
former chapter President
Nevin Mast. The calf Roger
received came from Doris,
who had received the last
chain calf. Roger will show
his calf and within three
years return another to the
chapter, to be awarded to
another FF A member.
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