Poughkeepsie Journal from Poughkeepsie, New York • Page 14B

fir" 1 GEORGE R. HARRISON, left, director of occupational educational education for BOCES, receives a eck for $343 89 from Mrs. Clara Evers, Clinton Corners, secretary treasurer of the now terminated Dutchess County Chapter, Dairy Farmers of America. Attending th epresentation were David Osofsky, Pine Plains, and Stanley B. Willig, Stanfordville, directors of the chapter.

BOCES Is Aided By Contribution From Former Dairy Farmers Group The lone dormant Dutchess County Chapter of Dairy Farmers of America has bowed out with a formidable gesture in behalf of agricultural tram years secretary treasurer ing of youth in the county. the dairy group It has presented the balance Roscoe Williams, execu te George R. Harrison, old line type of farm produc BOCES's director of occupa Hon and. management training tional education, by Mrs. Clara 'gone Evers, Clinton Corners, for Williams said that the new ocational education complex under way off Salt Point Turn In its treasury $343 89.

to theUive officer of BOCES. declaredPlke ln southeastern Hyae raric Dutchess County Board of'the motor "will be of big help township will contain three Cooperative Educational Serv ito us We hae none now andjSpaces lor agriculture. ices (BOCESptoward the pur chase of a farm diesel motor, such as used on tractors, for the growth in use of the diesel One of the added ones will motor makes it desirable for be horticulture but whether the third will be a. farm produc us to have one so that young demonstration and study pur people can receive training." poses in the countvwide aen The BOCES department has cultural mechanization class, i superseded the old ag classes: mined. The check was turned over I in the central schools, with thei Mrs Evers announced two lion management class or some other type has not been deter months ago that directors of the chapter, formed in 1955, had resolved to donate the money in the treasury to BOCES to aid in the education of future farmers.

"We did a lot of good," she said of the organization. "It was thi smaller farmer we wantea to help. Many of them have gone out of business due to rising costs and the difficulty of getting good farm labor." The national office of the DFA was dissolved last October. 10 Area Men Are Received By Dairy Group BRATTfcEBORO, Vt. New York, the largest dairy state in the Northeast, ranked second nationally in the number of new members received by the board of the Holstein Friesian Association of America, at its' last meeting.

The 141 individuals and firms including 10 from the Mid Hudson Valley represent the second largest state group join ing the worlds largest dairy breed society. Forty six states were represented on the roster of new members with Wisconsin exceeding the New York mark Jby 20. Pennsylvania was third with 122. New Vork members approved by the board included: from Dutchess County, Lester Lando, Pine Plains, and Kenneth W. Trevena, Amenia; Columbia, Chris Bortugno and Chris Bor tugna Stuyvesant Falls, Alexis J.

Braley, Chatham, and Dominic and Ronald Genito, Hudson; Greene, Laurence H. Cooke and John Hull, both of Oak Hill; Orange, David 0. Hulle, Middletown. The goal of every member of the association is to attain the title of "breeder" which in live stock circles suggests the dairy man who excels in improving the genetic base of his herd This is accomplished by superior management and comple mented by the breed official performance programs that evaluate production and func tional conformation of each ani mal. Farm News In The Valley MB Poughkeepsie Journal 5unday, reDruary is, iwu 70 Dutchess County Farmers Hear Of New 'No Till' Field Corn Along The Farm Trail By Herbert J.

Thomsen Mr. Frost And The 4 Many tributes have been paid the late Benson Frost Rhinebeck. since his unexpected death One of them overlooked was the fact he was instrumental in the creation of Dutchess County's 4 program. I was talking about this the other day with Haden H. Tozier Jr.

an authority on the subject since he was the county's first 4 agent. When he came here, in 1925, $2,000 had been raised to start club work. Of that sum, $500 had been contributed by Mr. Frost. $1,000 by the Dutchess County Agricultural Society of which he was a director and which operates the annual County Fair, $100 by the late Charles W.

H. Arnold, who was judge of the County and Children's Courts, and $400 representing contributions from several individuals. Hayden was interviewed by Mr. Frost and others and hired at $150 a month for half a year, providing his own car The proposition was (hat if the program warranted, the Board of Supervisors would request to budget funds. The program proved worthwhile, of course, under the young dub agent and eventually Mr.

Frost, Judge Arnold and the late John E. Mack appeared before the supervisors and the board budgeted $3,500, become available in the fall of 1925. Mr Frost was elected chairman of the first 4 Executive Committee and served in that capacity for several years. In 1942, he proposed construction of a 4 building at the County Fairgrounds, then Springbrook Park, owned by the Rhinebeck Realty Co. with which Attorney Frost was associated.

They'd sell an acre for $400 Anthony Duke, who recently' had acquired possession of then Briarcliff Farms at Pine Plains, agreed to head up a campaign committee provided Hayden Tozier wrote a personal check for the $400 The plot actually proved to be 1 10 acres and Hayden still has the canceled check for its purchase. The campaign raised $11,000 and a building was constructed. It was destroyed by a 1949 fire. That didn't deter Mr Frost's enthusiasm Not long after, he arranged a meeting with Hayden, Samuel II Morrison, Millbroo'c, Malcolm Grahame, Salt Point, and Paul Rosenthal, Pine Plains, proposing a new, larger. structure with a cafeteria and a couple of livestock sheds nearby.

In 16 months, $100,000 was raised and 4 Club Hill really was on the read to development The cafeteria building was purchased at Boonville for a token payment of $1 and fixed up for use by 4 boys and girls at a cost of $1,650 So Mr. Frost was responsible in large measure for the start of the 4 as well as the Boy Scout movement in Dutchess. What a tremendous tribute1 He saw many 4 H'ers develop into outstanding farmers, and Boy Scouts grow up to become foremost community leaders and business and professional men. Apples For Good Health Readers will recall occasional references to the health factor involved in feasting on apples which flourish in profusion here in the Mid Hudson Valley. I think the first was credited to Prevention Magazine, a periodical devoted to the theory that correct habits can prevent body fai'ures Among other things, it contended tests were showing that eating apples reduced cholesterol.

Now here's a note from Dorothy Hewlett, senior nutritionist with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. She reports Dr. Hans Fisher, chairman of'the Department of Nutrition at Rutgers University, has found that in animals given pectin which is abundant in apples there is a much reduced incidence of atherosclerosisatherosclerosis There also is improvement in weight control which is a problem accompanying aging along with a slowdown of the, destructive change of, blood vessels caused by hardening ot the arteries No onlv that, a study was made of 500 students at Michigan Stale University. They ate two or three apples a day and averaged one third fewer colds and other respiratory infections at the college health center Over a threetyear period, the apple eating volunteers enjoyed significantly better general health with respect to skin disorders and gasti intestinal ailments! allergies and mouth infections. Tnere.is a continuing project going on at Eastman Dental Center, Rochester, where Dr Basil Bibbey, director, is evalp uatiiVfc the role of, fresh apple eating The note concludes, "Apples supply quick energy.

Apple juice or cider metabolism leaves behind an alkaline residue which aids recovery from colds and virus infections." Pass the bowl of apples, please. Dutchess and Ulster County farmers have been reminded that signups are under way for participants in the 1970 feed grain and wheat programs at their respective Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Services. Farmers may enroll through March 20, in Dutchess, at the ASCS office in the Farm and Home Center, Monday through Friday from 8 a m. to 4 p.m or at these places this week only on Tuesday at Milton AU leys, Laurangeville, on Wed nesday at the Red Hook Farm ers Cooperative, Red Hook, or on Thursday at the Millerton Agway, Millerton. The signup at the three places are from 1 to 3 pm.

Enrollment Dates Set For Grain, Wheat Programs In Ulster, farmers of that county may enroll at the ASCS County Office, 54 John St Kingston. Meanwhile, In Dutchess, the initial enrollment for the agri cultural conservation program closes Feb. 28, with signups taken daily at the Millbrook office, with a special signup slated by appointment for Sat urday, Feb. 28, from 10 am. iu a in.

Ulster farmers were urged to stop at the Kingston office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 Monday through Friday, to enter the ACP program. The Initial enrollment period in Ulster expires March 31. "Nd till" field corn was one of the subjects at a Cooperative Extension conference attended by more than 70 Dutchess County farmers at the Farm and Home Center. How many of them will try this newer development which through use of a new planter permits sowing of seed corn without plowing the land, remains to be seen.

Two of the county' livestock farmers who devote hundreds of acres of land to corn were among the speakers and indicat ed their satisfaction with their present program and equipment. The Importance of corn In the county was emphasized by Don R. Rogers, Extension agri cultural agent1 agronomist, chairman of the session and also one of the participating speakers. He said at the outset that the same 600 corn growers in Dutchess planted a total of 25,000 acres of the valuable crop, with an estimated figure of $100 an acre expended In the pre paration of the sou, planting, harvesting and storing. adds up to a $2 5 million program.

The program opened with a panel discussion of new planting techniques. Participating were Kenneth Piester, dairy and agronomy specialist of the Col umbia County Cooperative Extension; James Place, manager oi Smithfield Farms, Amenia; John Cassman, partner In the operation of Dutchfield farms, Amenia, and Prof. Joseph Campbell, equipment specialist with the State College of Agri culture's 'Engineering Department. Piester offered a slide pre sentation of no till corn plots in Columbia last year, showing their progressive developments to "a good crop He said the system lowers costs because of elimination of plowing and cul tivation, controls water and wind erosion, preserves water content of soil, offers new rota tion and increased land use and in dry years better controls moisture because of ground cover. The agent producted charts showing a plowed area produced 117 bushels of corn per acre; a no till planting on sod, 115 bushels; on corn stubble, 114 bushels and on rye field, 101 bushels.

In one operation, the no till seeds, sprays and fer tilizes, with the planting mech anism having "some give" to ease problems on rough ter rain. Place noted that upwards of 130 acres of corn were planted at Smithfield Farms in 1969, Thattalanter with the1 practice there requir ing only two, trips over a tieid, for plowing and seeing. He said the'Dlowine Diamine operation can average 20 acres a day "and is a pretty simple operation the way we work it out." There was a yield of 158 bushels an acre jrom tne ncn soil of the farm in 1968 but the average was down to 140 in 1969 an off year. At Dutchfield, Cassman said, 460 acres were planted to corn last year "but we never were satisfied with the plant population," around 27,000 to an acre. The farm uses a plateless planter permitting seeding of "rounds" which are a little cheaper than regular corn.

The yield was 168 acres in iwh, around 145 in 1969. Prof. Campbell observed, "I think we are coins to have plows around for some time." He estimated tnat iu years there will be a trend toward rntarv tillatre. with tractors be coming much larger, with more horsepower available. Rogers said he foresaw "technology moving fast in this area" Speakers on various corn fertility and growing, harvesting and storing subjects were Prof, Shaw Reid.

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