B3o—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 9, 1982 Girls scoop Keystone Degrees (Continued from Page B 28) grade, when she joined the Junioi FFA club. Returning to the sam< club in eighth grade, Barb wa; urged by the school’s vo-a* teachers to select the ag progranr as her major course for the nexi four years. Although her projects included her Arabian horse, gardening and field crops, dairying related studies remained foremost in her interest. “When I was a junior, I really began to develop a serious interest in dairy farming,” she relates. And, after graduation in 1980, Barb opted to go to work full time at home for her parents on the family dairying operation. As herdsman, Barb works primarily with the cows, although she’ll lend a hand with the field work in peak busy seasons. In addition to helping with the milking and feeding chores, she’s in charge of calf raising, registration, maintaining herd health and breeding records, and is beginning to take a deep interest in sire selection, especially since the herd had been classified and evaluated recently. Barb’s own herd now totals 15 mature cows of the family’s 45 head of registered Holstein milkers. Personal favorite of Barb’s four-legged holdings is “Boots,” a 5-year-old Bootmaker daughter, and one of her FFA animals for many years. “She won me my first grand championship award,” says Barb in explaining her soft spot for Boots. Winning awards is not new to this pleasant and knowledgeable young FFA woman. She’s toted home a raft of honors with her dairy animals, in both FFA and 4- H showrings. And besides the type trophies, Barb’s made a con siderable dent in the area showing and fitting competitions, and has at least ten fitting awards scat tered around the spacious Kilgore farm home, plus numerous showmanship trophies. _-,»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»jj \ S w v « V v A V V V V 11 RENT-A-BOBCAT I 1 SA V V II and II 11 DO YOUR 11 II OWN THINGS! II 22 2 5 2 | You’ll get tons of work out of a 2 5 | | rental BOBCAT . . like mov- | 2 | S mg dirt or sand, digging a 2 2 S S trench, transplanting a tree or 2 5 | | wrecking a building. Rental 5 5 2 s available by the hour, day, 5 5 S S week or month. Call us today 5 5 22 2 2 AA V V A A V A A S* ** A A V 2 a \ V 5? a\ S w A ■■ A A A A 11 SWOPE & 11 BASHORE. INC. a I RD #l, Myerstown, Pa. 2 S (Frystown) 2 2 Phone 717-933-4138 A A A A A A - ii m || -bobcat 'ff. r r«««<««u««««t«««««<««{<«5 ti “I’ve always especially enjoyed the FFA shows,” she says, “because the whole Red Lion group would attend together. We’d travel together, eat out together, and help each other.” While her 4-H career closed out as of the last day of 1981, Barb still has two more years of FFA showing left to anticipate. Her Keystone award will be the latest in a string of FFA degrees and recognition. She won her first FFA trophy back in the eighth grade club, with a dairy proficiency project. A chapter greenhand degree came as a freshman and during her sophomore year, Barb added the chapter-farmer degree. Her dairy judging knowledge earned her a gold medal in state FFA com petition, and she was a member of the county’s 4-H second place state dairy judging team in 1980. In April, Barb and former vo-ag classmate Melvin Marks will be mairried, and plan to settle on the SAVE TIME...SAVE ENERGY... 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Fran’s FFA projects mirrored the family sheep interest. She carried sheep breeding and finishing, plus beef finishing, and presently owns four sheep and two Hereford brood cows: In addition to her greenhand and chapter farmer degrees, Fran earned honors in the area of sheep production, and an agri-business aware. She was also a member of the FFA parliamentary procedure team. With no immediate plans for a career change. Fran says she likes the parts business, and plans to stay with Airville Farm Supply for awhile. Melissa Peters Although she wasn’t raised on a far, Melissa Peters turned her love of animals into a successful FFA career. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horton Peters, Stewartstown, Melissa credits her Maryland cousins in the FFA program for first stirring her interest in vocational agriculture. 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