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The National Future Farmer Owned and Pnblished by the Futnre Farmers of America Fhoio by Bob E. Taylor Jnne-Julv, 1957 How to do MORE of the FINEST WORK you've ever seen Now, the more traction you need . the more you get! Here's new horsepower . and power put to better use New Traction-Control Fast-Hitch with Pilot Guide gives ... in new Farmall 350 and 450, and International ' 350 you traction that automatically grows with the load. Yes, Utility tractors. You boost pull-power up to 45^7 on-the-go you jilow faster, do better work than ever — without wheel with Torque Amplifier. You get power for spacing rear weights! It's so easy . just set a handy lever to shift as wheels. Power for steering. Power for live 2-way Hydra- much as a ton of traction-gaining weight to drive wheels. Touch control. Direct power for completely independent This weight transfer is mechanical ... no engine power is pto. Power from your choice of fuel — gasoline, diesel, lost to hydraulics . mounted plows don't dip and dive. distillate, or LP gas. Special FREE Booklet! Get yours today! International Harvester Co. Seehow "power put to better use" helps you P. O. Box 7333, Dept. NFF-6, Chicago 80, III. do up to 20'^f more and better work! Try Traction-Control Fast-Hitch, TA, Hydra- I Please send me a copy of the picture-story, "Traction in Action." Touch . all the reasons why Farmall and I'd like to try Farmall "traction in action" on my form . International tractors give you more useful, I I with NO obligotion. Please arronge. profit-making power! Your IH dealer will gladly demonstrate — call today! Name Student -State INTERNATIONAL International Harvester products pay for themselves in use — McCormick Farm Equipment, Farmall and International Tractors . Motor Trucks My IH dealer is_ HARVESTER . Construction Equipment — General Office, Chicago 1, Illinois — — Scott Moser, left, reviews soil conservation problem Farmers you look to as leaders with "Pic" Bittner, Salisbury, Pa., Firestone Dealer. look to 'J1f#$tOttf' for farm tires Pennsylvania's "roof garden" is well teer fireman in Salisbury, for good named. The rich, rolling plateau that measure. makes up Somerset County lies a half- Like most of his neighbors, Scott Moser mile high. Here the Allegheny Mountains likes Firestone Farm Tires. His farming cradle a green land whose high farm over tough, rolling terrain calls for dairy and yields have rewarded Penn- extra pulling power — and the toughest sylvania farmers every year since 1768. tread in the business. That's why you find Firestone Grips' Some of Somerset's greenest acres lie Champion Ground where Scott Moser farms — just outside Tires on Mr. Moser's tractor. Salisbury borough. For over forty years, Says Scott Moser, "We simply can't Mr. Moser's successful, diversified farm- beat those tough Firestones. Practically ing has even included a late winter crop. all of our farm tires are Firestone That, of course, is Somerset County's always have been and always will be!" famous maple syrup. Scott Moser is equally diversified in public service. He was local soil con- servation chairman for many years found time to serve as township road BETTER RUBBER FROM START TO FINISH supervisor — and still fills in as a volun- Builder of Ike first practical piieamalic farm tire FIRESTONE'S FIRST IN FARM TIRE NEEDS! CHAMPION GROUND GRIP Copyrisht ISoT. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, 0. June-July, 1957 MAGAZINE STAFF EDITOR Lano Barron The National ASSOCIATE EDITORS Wilson W. Carnes Cedric A. Lafley Future Farmer Owned aii(l Published bv the Fulurc Farmers of America EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Valeria Gillis JUNE-JULY, 1957 Vol. 5, No. 5 ART EDITOR John Prezioso CIRCULATION MANAGER Floyd D. Dugan EDITORIAL CONTENTS CIRCULATION ASSISTANTS About ilic FFA Sports and Fiotiou Margaret Donnelly Marilyn Zandy In Menioriaiii 10 Light Tackle for Little Fis^ .... 40 North Star of the Wt-st 16 Swimming Wild .... 41 Caniptiine in (ieorgia 18 Manners Made Easy 42 BUSINESS MANAGER Director at 17 20 Sportrait 44 V. Stanley Allen Haldwin's Bulldozer Bovs 28 Fishing Contest 45 As the FFA Story Unfolds 30 Departments ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Our FFA Foundation 34 Biggest Greenhand 39 Rosalind N, Pazzato A Fellow Told Me . 6 Reader Roundup 3 REGIONAL ADVERTISING Features Free for the Asking 12 MANAGERS Looking Ahead 15 Now Machinery Preview 24 Photo Roundup 22 John Hensley 25 + 25 = 100 32 The First One Doesn't Have a Bill Howard A Stitch in Time 38 Chance 46 Charles R. Ocker Charles (Tex) Ritter Jimmy Willis ADVERTISERS INDEX Apparel. Hohliies Douglas Fir Plywood 38 DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Future Farmer Supply Service. 6 Tractor. E(jui])nient Santa Distributing John Farrar Fe Co 38 Bike Web 39 International Harvester Tractor 2 Levi Strauss and Co 42 New Iloiland ^lachine Co 7 I'elers (Cartridge 43 N: :oii..l Rain Bird 32 Browning Arms (Company .... 44 Continental Motors Corp ,32 NATIONAL OFFICERS John Deere 47 Feeds, Seeds, Fertilizers, Allis-Chalmers 48 (".heniieals PRESIDENT Transi)orlatioii John M. Haid, Arkansas .Vllied Cheniii'al and D_^e (^o, . 5 Ralston Purina 13 Co Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 3 VICE PRESIDENTS Albers Milling Co 36 Hotel Hamilton 8 Moorman Mfg. Co .37 AC Spark Plug 9 Victor Cappucci. Jr., Pennsylvania Oyster Shell Products Corp. ... 39 Rogerric Knutson, Montana Chevrolet 11 Jerry Ringo, Kentucky Association of American Rail- James Quincey, Florida General roads 12 Dodge 14 STUDENT SECRETARY Official FFA Calendar 10 The Texas Co 27 American Steel and VI ire 15 International Harvester Truck. 29 Jerry Litton, Missouri Siran-Steel Corp 21 Willys Motor Inc 35 ^ evcrhaeuser Timber Co 23 Marvel-Schebler .38 Butler Mfg. Co 31 Hotel W olverine 39 -Aliiininum Company of Anieri<"a .33 Cushnian Motor Works Inc. ... 43 National Agricultural ("ollege.. 38 Triumph Corp 45 BOARD OF DIRECTORS COVER 1 OUR „, . , H I t' T^ CHAIRMAN — I'lioto l)y Bol) K. laylor for instruction W. T. Spanton FFA memhers are not confined to the four walls of a classroom in vocational agriculture. Here, two members are absorbed in follouing each MEMBERS step of a demonstration being given by their FFA Advisor. E. M. Howard H. N. Hunsicker E.J. Johnson H.M. McDonald THE NATIONAL FUTURE FARMER is published bimonthly by the Future Farmers of R. E. Naugher Amerira. Ini-.. at SIO I;hoi)._- J^lan-i Avenue, N. E., Washington. D. C. Entered as second- ilass matter at the post oltire at W'ashington.D. C. Aceeptance for mailing iit speeial A. W. Tenney rate of postage provided for in section 34.40(e). W. G. WeUer Single subscription is 50c per year in U. S. and possessions. Foreign subscriptions 81.00 I)er year. Single copies, 10c in U. S. CH,\NGE OF AnDEE.S.S: Send both old and new addresses to Editorial Otnces, THE NATIONAL FUTURE FARMER. Box 29. Alexandria, Virginia. The National FUTURE FARMER from ihe land that ieel^ you! Each year of late, our farms have pro- penetrate . loss of humus that stores Today many easy-handling, low-cost duced near record amounts of food, up extra soil moisture that crops need. fertilizers rich in nitrogen are available feed and fiber. In doing this, they are everywhere. It pays to use them! using up soil nitrogen faster than any Many farmers have used legumes to other plant food, mainly because many try to build nitrogen balance. For some Nitrogen Division, long-time leading major crops need more nitrogen than livestock farmers, this may work. For supplier of nitrogen to the fertilizer any other plant food. As methods of cash crop farmers especially, today's industry, is continuing to improve its easy- measuring nitrogen in the soil and in low-cost nitrogen fertilizer is faster, facilities for supplying low-cost, for all plants improve, we're beginning to see easier and less expensive. to-use liquid and dry nitrogen how fast soil nitrogen disappears. methods of application. Yes, when you grow crops without For example, it takes about 160 enough nitrogen, you take a big bite NITROGEN DIVISION pounds of nitrogen per acre to grow 100 out of the land — and out of crop ])rofits. Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation bushels of corn. At least 100 jjounds of But successful farmers who grow high- New York 6, N. Y. • Hopewell, Va. this nitrogen is in the corn ears— about yield crops year after year know the Ironton, Ohio • Omaha 7, Neb. • Columbia. Mo. Raleigh, N.C.« Columbia 1, S.C. • Indianapolis 20, Ind. one pound per bushel. Last year we answer. Year after year, they apply Kalamazoo, Mich. • St. Paul 4, Minn. • Atlanta 3. Ga. grew more than three billion bushels of plenty of high-nitrogen fertilizer. San Francisco 4, Cal. • Los Angeles 5, Cal, corn, thus removing 1,500,000 tons of nitrogen from our soil. All the fertilizer used on corn provided only 420,000 tons of nitrogen. Manure and legumes added a little. So we took Arcadian a million tons more nitrogen from our Grow mm corn land than we put back. Loss of nitrogen also brings loss of organic matter— the humus that makes our soil easy to work, easy for crop roots to HIGH-NITROGEN FERTILIZERS^ FOR PROFITABLE FARMING June-July, 1957 A Fellow Told Me... THERE'S BEEN CONSIDERABLE discussion of late about girls, mothers, and WIVES reading J he National FUTURE FARMER. FOR ALL OFFICIAL Glad they think enough of us to read our magazine . and while we're on the subject of "ladies," perhaps you'd like to meet the fairer ones of our magazine staff.