FAWN GROVE Southeastern
School Board Director of York
County took the lead in adopting
AGRI-LEARN into the social
studies curriculum for fourth
graders last week.
Written by William Fleet, for
mer vo-ag teacher and now
agronomist for Pioneer In
ternational, AGRI-LEARN was
developed by a York County group
for inclusion in Pennsylvania
schools as part of the larger
nationwide effort entitled
“Agriculturein the Classroom.” '
AGRI-LEARN editor Gail
McPherson praised the Board’s
initiative. As president of Penn's
Agri-Women and secretary of
Agri-Leam Unlimited, she has
been working intimately with the
project for the past two years,
“We began our work planning
for this curriculum study about
agriculture for the regular
classroom before Secretary of
Agriculture John Block called the
first meeting on it in June of 1981.
But we were floundering without
direction as to how to go about
getting our ideas implemented
until that time. At the first
Agriculture in the Classroom
meeting in Washington DC, Emilie
Welsh and 1 met many people from
around the country doing-the same
sort of thing. In fact, our neighbors
in Maryland already had such,a
program piloted and in print. When
we brought home that packet of
Agriculture in Maryland, which
had been developed to fulfill a
mandate • by the Maryland
legislature to teach about
agriculture, all the pipces started
to fall into place for our York
County project
“Of course, we decided from the
start to develop a program, that
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AGRI-LEARN joins fall school curriculum
would be suitable for all of Penn
sylvania schools. The first draft
,was-piloted last spring in eight
school districts in the county with
eight teachers, and then evaluated
and reworked for the edition
available now. We also determined
that the importance of the task
warranted our immediate at
tention, so we have gone to private
sources for funding rpther than
wait for state or federal grants to
materialize. As a result, we are .
still Seeking contributions from
interested persons in agriculture
organizations and agri
businesses.”
_ AGRI-LEARN came off the
presses in time for the Nor
theastern Regional Meeting of
Agriculture in the Classroom on
August 31. Pennsylvania hosted
the' Ip-state meeting at which
delegates learned of the in
volvement of USDA in developing
a state plan of action and resource
guide of materials that teachers
can order for use in the classroom.
According to McPherson,
Secretary of Education Robert
Scanlon and the Pennsylvania
Department of Education have
endorsed the concept and program
of Agriculture in the Classroom.
Scanlon committed the depart
ment to tele-conferences on the
subject this year to get the word
out to all Pennsylvania school
districts.
“For now, >t believed that
Southeastern is the first district to
adopt the AGRI-LEARN STUDY
as part of its curriculum. The next
step is in spreading the word to all
the 17 school districts in this county
and to the rest of state,” said
McPherson. “All the delegates at
the Harrisburg meeting received
copies of AGRI-LEARN. Out of
“I have never made a purchase that has given me such satisfaction
as this system has/’
The first year with this natural air system I faced an unusual situation. Unexpectedly we sold 140 head of milk cows
• vir|iich left me with the wrong kind of corn for shelling and drying. With the cows we would put up 70 acres of silage
ana 7000 bushels of high moisture corn in a blue silo. We finished combining in late December with the corn at 28%
moisture. So we filled our natural air system and took the balance to Agway for commercial drying at 35' per bushel
The power for our natural air system costS' a bushel.
The following figures are actual:
$5180.00 20% INVESTMENT CREDIT
4000.00 FIRST YEAR DEPRECIATION
1960.00 700 BU. GAIN IN TEST WEIGHT @ 2.80/BU.
1300.00 STORAGE ® .10/BU.
3380.00 DIFFERENCE OF 26«/ BU. OVER COMMERCIAL DRYING
$15,820.00 GAINED BY OWNING A NATURAL AIR SYSTEM
I have all of the above figures documented. As you can see, I have paid this system off in two years and have had all my
money returned. I have never made a purchase with such satisfaction as our natural air system.
staters purchased it for use in
' developing their own similar
studies. Evaluations from the
pilots were positive from both
teacher and student perspectives.
We are encouraged that wider
distribution will result in ac
ceptance in all schools within a
Bill Wise
By Laurie Dobrosky
YORK The York Fair an
nually awards one $250 scholarship
to be used for college or a trip to a
national livestock show by a youth
exhibitor.
This year, the York Fair award
was presented to 18-year-old Bill
Wise of Spring Grove. Bill is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wise.
. The award is presented annually
to an outstanding 4-H member
between ages 14 and 19 who has
exhibited at the fair. Hie selection
committee consists of. one
representative of beef, sheep,
swine and dairy, 4-H York Fair
board of directors, and the Ex
tension Executive Committee.
Bill was selected for the award
because of bis participation in beef
breeding and feeding projects,
teen leadership, public speaking,
livestock and meats. He exhibited
two bred and owned heifers and a
cow/calf pair at the 1982 fair.
Bill is presently vice-president of
the York County Beef Club and the
Jefferson Community Club. He is
also pastpresident of the Beef Club
and York County 4-H King.
Managing his family’s herd of
purebred Angus cattle are Bill’s
plans after he graduates from
Penn' State with an animal
production degree.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25,1982—89
short period of time.
The contents of the AGRI
LEARN curriculum focus on en
terprise aspects of modern
agriculture in Pennsylvania with
the following chapters: Life on a
Farm, What the Fanner and
Agriculture. Do for You, What is a
wins Fair scholarship
Other contestants for the award Hoover, Mt. Wolf; Martha Mar
included: Christine Shive, Seven steller, Stewartstown; David King,
Valleys, honorable mention; Bob Airville and Dana Doll, Brod-
Livingston, Dover; Dawn becks; and Chrissy Hoskin,
Raubenstine, Hanover; Lisa Loganville.
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standing youth exhibitor. This year’s winner was 18-year-old
Bill Wise of Spring Grove, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Dennis. Bill is shown here with his Angus heifer calf.
3. AeroDry is a natural air
you don’t have to babysit.
4. For ail its features, AeroDry’s pricing is
competitive with other systems that cost
so much more to operate.
Fanner?, The Many Types of
Farms and the Types of Products
that Come from Them, Farming
in Days of Old and Now, The Wheel
of Fortune and the Farmer, The
Path from the Farm to You, Would
You Like to Work in Apiculture?,
and Planning a Field Trip.
ing system that
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