A32—Lancaster Far Ming, Saturday, May 10,1900
BY SUSAN KAUFFMAN
Staff Correspondent
QUARRYVILLE - The
traveling trophy for the
Lancaster County FFA Land
Judging Contest returned to
the Cloister Chapter this
week after a two-year ab
sence. In 1978 Solanco
captured the trophy and in
1979 New Holland took the
trophy.
This year the Cloister
Chapter took the top five
Individual places thereby
easily commanding the team
placings.
The Roy Eager farm,
Quarryville Rl, hosted the
county land judging contest
this past week with 34
students from five schools
participating in the contest.
Five trenches were dug over
the farm area at various
sites. Contestants evaluated
the individual sites in live
parts including slope,
stoniness, texture of the
surface soil, depth of top sod,
depth of sod- (topsod and
Students survey the trench on the Roy Eager farm that was used in Tuesday’s
land judging.
Cloister FFA captures
subsoil) and internal
drainage all of which were
covered in the first part.
Natural limiting factors
for agricultural use such as
slope, topsod depth and
drainage were judged m the
second part for scoring each
site. The third area for
evaluating each site called
for the contestants to
recommend one category for
best land use such as row
cropping, pasture or wddhfe
and recreation. The fourth
segment included checking
six of a possible sixteen
conservation practices
needed on each site. These
practices ranged from
contouring to tile drainage to
development for wildlife
food and cover. The fifth
area for evaluation was
identifymg-specific hazards
at each site for constructing
a homesite with basement, a
septic tank and disposal field
and lagoon construction.
Team standings after the
contest luiud Ephrata
first, Solanco-second, New
Holland third and Manheim
Central fourth.
Indivudual standings were
as folows: 1. Stanley Hor
ning, Cloister; 2. Dennis
Saylor, Cloister; 3 Avery
Copenhaver, Cloister; Tim
High, Cloister; 5. Marvin
Horst, Cloister; 6. Phil
Aliment, Solanco; 7. Marvin
Weiler, Cloister; 8. Matt
Arrowsmith, Solanco; 9.
Harry Witmer, Penn Manor;
and tied for tenth-Emie
Frey, Solanco and Lori Pox,
New Holland.
Judge for the contest was
fonper'Solanco teacher and
co-author of the book “Land
Use and Managment”
William Fredd. Tom
Johnston of the Soil Con
servation District was on
hand to award the first place
individual plaque to Stanley
Homing. The County FFA
provided a plaque for the
second place individual
Dennis Saylor.
land judging trophy
p placing individuals . the land judging competition were
place, Stanley Horning; second place, Dennis Saylor.
, t*r
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cph.. ~apv - which captured top nonors at the Lancaster
County FFA Land Judging is shown. From left are: Tim High, Marvin Horst,
Marvin Weiler, Dennis Saylor, and Stanley Horning.
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