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The National nrniii I Owned and Published by the Future Farmers of America June-July-19S8 . — -ii^r-~ &"S?" Your pto-machines outdo most engine-drive rigs with TA and IH Independent pto! Tall, heavy crops needn't stall your pto-machines any in each gear does more than head off trouble. You r:iore! When trouble threatens, just pull the Torque save more crop in any field condition, because you Amplifier lever on a new Farmall- or Internationat*' can pull pto-machines at 8 different field speeds tractor. Instantly, your lower-cost pto-machine from a crawl to over 6 mph! And with IH completely works as if it had a powerful engine. independent pto, you can halt pto for non-stop turns TA slows travel one-third and increases pull-power . start pto whenever tractor engine is running. up to 45' ( — on-the-go! This keeps you baling, com- IH tractors deliver more power to pto machines bining, or chopping at full rpm to avoid slugs and than most extra engines. Now, with TA and IPTO, shift downs. But this shift-free choice of two speeds you get engine-drive performance at a big savings. you're a BIGGER man on a new IH tractor You just pull the independent pto lever to safely trol Fast-Hitch — can help you do up to 20 per make a short, non-stop turn with this Farmall 350 cent more work in a day! Ask your IH dealer to tractor and pto-driven machine. This is just one of demonstrate these great IH tractor advantages on many ways thai IH advancements— like Torque Am- your farm. See how they can make you a BIGGER plifier, Hydra-Touch hydraulics, and Traction-Con- man than ever before! Call, today, for a date! SEE YOUR I K ATIONAL HARVESTER DEALER Inlernalional Harvesler Products for f/iemse/ves — . pay in . use Farm Tractors and Equipment Twine . Commercial Wheel Tractors . Motor Trucks , . Construction Equipment— General Office, Chicago 1, Illinois % .«.>.*-i _^- U.S. Alderman, Alderman Farm.-i, Dayton, Oregon Farmers you look to as leaders look to Firestone for tires Yamhill County's U. S. Alderman is widely known and respected as one of his state's most progressive farmers. On the Alderman farm near Dayton, Oregon, 4.000 totally irrigated acres consistently produce sweet corn, potatoes, beans and strawberries of exceptional quality. Alderman crops are so exceptional, in fact, that the great majority are contracted for well ahead of harvest time. Alderman Farms also enjoys a solid reputation for raising prime Hereford cattle. Alderman Farm methods of planting and animal husbandry are often acclaimed as models of far western agriculture at its best. Running Alderman Farms is a big agricultural job. Big enough to require the services of 30 tractors, 4.5 trucks and two large semi- trailers— a// equipped with Firestone tires. As Mr. Alderman puts it, "With Firestones on our equipment, and fast Fh'estone service, we've stopped worrying about tires. Our farm operation is 100 '( Fu-estone." FIRESTONE . FIRST IN FARM NEEDS TOP PERFORMERS ON AMERICA'S FARMS Builder of the first practical pneumatic tractor tire for tractors, trucks i .'l BETTER RUBBER FROM START TO FINISH and passenger cars Copyright 19.58, The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company y SUPER All TRACTION DEIUXE CHAMPION .Iiine-.Iuly, 1958 . 1 The National MAGAZINE STAFF EDITOR Wilson W. Carnes Future Farmer MANAGING EDITOR Owned and Pnhlishod bv the Future Farmers of America Cedric A. Lafley ASSOCIATE EDITOR JUNE-JULY, 1958 Vol. 6, No. 5 Joe Dan Boyd EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Nancy East EDITORIAL CONTENTS Peggy Million Aljoiit the FFA ART EDITOR Boy Scouts and FFA 16 Do You Know Your Poisonous John Prezioso Snakes Star Fannor Colo 19 42 Those Terrible Termites 44 The McMulIaiis Like it Down on CIRCULATION MANAGER Chickens Wearing Specs? .... 49 Floyd D. Dugan the Farm 20 How to Succeed at Farming. 22 .Sports and Fiction CIRCULATION ASSISTANTS FFA (iocs Overseas 24 Sportrait 33 Margaret Donnelly Shirley Ocker Thcv \^ hii)i)ed the Marketing The Fourth Trait 36 Norma Salvatore Problem 28 Fishing Contest 43 Agriculture or Athletics 48 What Baseball Scouts Look For 46 BUSINESS MANAGER V. Stanley Allen Features Departments Cartoon Contest Winners Your Editors Say ADVERTISING ASSISTANT 14 6 Reader Roundup Rosalind N. Pazzato How to Look at Sheep 2,3 8 Looking Ahead 12 New Harvesting Machinery . , . 26 REGIONAL ADVERTISING The First One Doesn't Have a MANAGERS How to Take That Picture .... 30 Chance 50 John C. Foltz Charles R. Ocker Jimmy Willis ADVERTISERS INDEX Apparel, HoLbies Tractors, Equipment Future Farmers Supply Service DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS 16 International Harvester Tractor 2 Levi Strauss & Co .32 IVew HollamI 5 John Farrar Oliver Corp 3,3 Feeds, Seeds, Fertilizers J. I. Case 37 Chemicals Continental Motors Corp 45 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Ralston Purina .... 9 Deere & Co 51 Wm. Paul Gray Allis Chalmers Grasselli Chemicals Dei.l.-Du. 52 Pont 18 Nitrog<'n Division-Allied Chei: Transportation, Travel NATIONAL OFFICERS cal & Dye Corp 29 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. 3 Albers Milling Co 34 Cushnian Motor Works. Inc.. 6 PRESIDENT Oyster Shell Products Corp. 49 The Texas Co 6. 13 Howard Downing, Kentucky AC Spark Plug Div. - General Motors VICE PRESIDENTS General 7 Triumph Corp 10 Jerry D. Rulon, Indiana Butler 8 Chevrolet Div.-General Motors 1 Leon e. Smith, New York McCulloch 12 Royce Bodiford, Texas Association of American Rail- Jerry W. CuUison, Arizona Sheffield Division-Armco Corp.. ,31 roads 14 STUDENT SECRETARY National Ruinbird Sales & Engi- Dodge Truck Division-Chrysler neering Corp .35 Corp 15 Nathan Reese, Oklahoma Dept. of the Army 39 International Harvester Truck. 17 United States .Steel Corp.-Agri. King Edward Hotel 45 Extension 41 Hotel Claridge 48 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Greenwich Book Publishers ... 49 Hamilton Hotel 48 CHAIRMAN OUR COVER—Photo I)y Bob E. Taylor W. T. Spanton MEMBERS In vocational agriculture training both the classroom and the field arc used to equal advantage. Here, a group of Arizona Future Farmers are H. F. Duis E. M. Howard following up classroom studies with a visit to the field. H. N. Hunsicker Walter Jacoby THE NATIONAL FUTURE FARME7R is published bimonthly by the Future Farmers of E.J. Johnson America, Inc.. at 810 Rhode Island Avenue, N. E., Washington. D. C. Entered as second- R. E. Naugher class matter at the post office at WashinKton. D. C. Acceptance for mailing at special provided for in section 3 1.40(e). G. F. Sullards rate of postage Single subscription is .SOc per year in U. S. and possessions. Foreign subscriptions $1.00 A. W. Tennev per voar. Single copies. 10c in U. S. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Send both old and new addresses to Editorial Offices, THE NATIONAL FUTURE FARMER. Box 29, Alexandria. Virginia. The National FUTURE FARMER — — — -^ ait-tfrnvt^fimir^ -T-** -y^—- •xw»*t..'«r«RMif««a»?>»»<'- w c J i ''y^^SSt^a OW ''-!^4K?^ HRK' ^ Here's why Comparison of drying rate of unconditioned, crimped end smooth-roller crushed hay as made at on eastern university. crushing conditions Crushing brought moisture level down to permit baling within 7'/2 hours on same day hay was cut! hay best University studies show smooth-roller crush- split. Crimping, thus, conditions the hay only partially. ing steps up hay's drying speed faster than Smooth-roller crushing crimping. Gentler action preserves leaves and Hay passes between two large smooth rollers which sub- blooms to make richer hay. ject stems to an even pressure from butt to bloom— even when stems go through sideways. Moisture escapes One of the greatest advances in the farmer's battle to through ruptured skin along entire leiigth of the stem beat the weather at haying time has been the develop- making for faster drying. ment of the technique of hay conditioning. Conditioning speeds drying of the stems — wliich in Crushing "tenderizes" stems unconditioned hay dry only half as fast as the leaves. By Another advantage of crushing is that it makes stems bruising or abrading the fibrous, wax-coated skin of the softer and more pliable. Crushed hay is thus more tender stems, conditioning lets the trapped moisture escape. as well as leafier . more palatable to livestock. As a result, stems dry faster . baling can be started "440" Mower-Crusher has extra- sooner before leaves become wUted and are easily The New Holland rollers; both driven. It conditions hay com- stripped and lost. large smooth pletely for fastest field curing . preserves nutrient- Although either of the two most commonly used meth- rich leaves and blooms. New Holland Machine Company ods of conditioning will speed drying, recent studies have Division of Sperry Rand Corporation. New Holland, Pa. shown a considerable difference in their effectiveness. Crimping rm New HOX.X.AND Stems are "crimped" at intervals: moisture escapes only at those points along the stems where the skin has been 'Fitst in Gf-sQslatid Fai-mlng" " Show this new Texaco COLOR FILM Now tliat scliool is out, what are you going to do with the "free months" to your farm group! ahead? No doubt many of you will plunge right into farming activities at home. For others, it's not that simple. Part-time farming or no farm at all has cut down on the opportunity for an adequate farming program. Have you thought about working on a good f;irm for farming experi- ence? The only place where experience in farming can be acquired is on the farm. This subject was tossed around by a panel at the North Atlantic Regional Conference of workers in agricultural education. The panel was composed of former FFA members, vo-ag teachers, and farm- ers.