The National Future Farmer Owned and Published by the Future Farmers of America Ranching Is His Business FFA Pilot Hog Program New Machinery For 1958 Kodiak Bear Hunt Februarv-March. 1958 ra®x!Z7 <i ¥RAC¥ION GROWS rn\A lAflTH THE load; New Fast-Hifch with Traction-Control and "Pilot Guide" give you round-gaining ground grip . look-ahead farming! . — It's new . different . unequalled just pull a handy lever! Several lever IH Fast-Hitch with Traction- Control settings match weight transfer to any and "Pilot Guide"! ThisIH weight trans- field condition. "Pilot Guide" shows fer system continuously keeps just the proper range of weight transfer and plow- right amount of pressure on tractor drive ing depth. wheels to beat slippage. Unlike hydraulic traction devices Unlike other devices that abruptly which rob engine power when needed lighten the load to match traction, IH most, the mechanical action of Traction- Traction-Control Fast-Hitch gives you Control Fast-Hitch keeps every horse- traction that grows with the load! You power harnessed to the load. New Fast- keep plowing full-depth when others Hitch retains Back . Click! . and shallow out. Go! hitching — gives full control of culti- To add up to a ton of "wheel weight," vator with one hydraulic cylinder. WWTi^^S^m^ Ground-gripping traction that grows with the load New "Pilot Guide'' for IH Traction-Control puts power of new Farmall " 450 (above) to better Fast-Hitch. Just glance at this handy device to use . pulling new McCormick' 4-furrow Fast- check plowing depth, and determine whether Hitch plow in hard, root-bound sod. you have the right amount of weight transfer. Send coupon TODAY! TDT Your IH dealer will gladly demonstrate new IH Fast-Hitch with Traction-Control and "Pilot Guide" r for Formalls 230, 350, 450, and International - International Harvester Company 350 Utility tractors. Call him, TODAY! P. O. Box 7333, Dept. NFF-3, Chicago 80, III. Tell me how new IH Fast-Hitch with Traction-Control can put SEE YOUR power to better use on my form. Send informotion on: D FormalUSO D Formoll350 D Farmall230 (4-5 plow) (3-plow) (2-plow) INTERNATIONAL a International 350 Utility |3-plowl HARVESTER Name , International Harvester producti pay for themselves In use — McCormick Form . Equipment and Farmall Tractors . Motor Trucks My IH deale ...Construction Equipment — General Office, Chicago 1, Illinois Paul Blood, left, keeps a close check on feeding schedules with employee Henry Schneider. Farmers you look to as leaders look to Firestone for farm tires North Platte Valley farmers know Paul insists on the tops. too. That's why he Blood for his vast sheep and cattle feeding always specifies Firestone. operation and his extensive work in de- In Scotts Bluff County, and all over the veloping commercial feeds. He handles country, leaders in farming look to Fire- 70,000 sheep and 7,000 cattle annually. stone for better farm tires. As Paul Blood Mr. Blood has served as president of says, "Firestone tires always give extra both the North Platte Valley and the work, but the biggest difference for me is Colorado Lamb Feeders Associations. He the customer ser^'ice. My dealer. Merlin selects only top-grade feeding stock and Barker, is on the job with fast service when it comes to farm tires and service he when I need it most." FIRESTONE . FIRST IN FARM NEEDS Builder of the fii-st practical pneumatic tractor tire BETTER RUBBER FROM START TO FINISH Enjoy the Voice of Firestone on ABC television every Monday evening Copyright 195S, The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company CHAMPION GROUND GRIP® February-March, 1958 The National MAGAZINE STAFF EDITOR Lano Barron Future Farmer Owned and Pnhli^lied bv ihc Future Farmers of America ASSOCIATE EDITORS Wilson W. Carnes Cedric A. Lafley FEB.-MAR., 1958 Vol. 6, No. 3 EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Nancy East Peggy Million ART EDITOR EDITORIAL CONTENTS John Prezioso .41jout the FFA . How to Buy a Dairy Heifer . 44 Even Insects Have Doctors . 48 CIRCUI-ATION MANAGER A "Rolling" Success 14 Pole Barns? 50 Is Business .... 20 Floyd D. Dugan Ranching His Common Problems in Register- FFA Pilot Hog Program 22 ing Livestock 52 A Chapter Good W ill Tour 2.S ASSISTANTS CIRCULATION IValional FFA Week 24 Sports and Fiction Margaret Donnelly Shooting the "Wright" Way . 25 Shirley Hanchey Classrooms in the .\ir 54 Kodiak Bear Hunt 32 Sportrait 56 BUSINESS MANAGER Departments V. Stanley Allen Features ADVERTISING ASSISTANT TAPs Are Tops 18 A Fellovt Told Me 6 Jim's Cents 27 Reader Roundup 8 Rosalind N. Pazzato 25 Loans 40 Looking Ahead 12 Make "58 a Safe Year 41 Photo Roundup 26 REGIONAL ADVERTISING Drink Milk 41 The First One Doesn't Have a MANAGERS !Ne« Machinery for 1958 42 Chance 58 Charles R. Ocker Charles (Tex) Ritter Jimmy Willis ADVERTISERS INDEX Apparel, Hobliies DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Future Farmer Supply Service 6 Anna Elizabeth Wade 56 Tandy Ij<'alher Co 53 Edv«ard Lurie 56 John Farrar Levi Strauss and Co 55 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 56 Feeds, Seeds, Fertilizers, Brotherhood Mutual Life Insur- Chemicals ance Co 57 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Hulston Purina 9 Wm. Paul Gray Tractors, Equipment i:ii Lilly and Co 11 Moorman Mfg. Co 15 Inlernational Harvester Tractor 2 I'niled States Rubber Co 18 New Holland Machine Co 5 American (\anamid 30, 31 Massey-Harris- Ferguson . 16, 17 NATIONAL OFFICERS Oyster Shell Products Corp. 36 Continental Motors (^>rp 28 Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. 37 Allis-Chalmers 34, 35, 60 PRESIDENT The iNitragin Co 38 Wisconsin Motor Corp .57 Armour Fertilizer 41 Deere and Co 59 Howard Downing, Kentucky Du Pont-(^rass<'ili Chemicals . 45 lUatchford Calf Meal C 46 VICE PRESIDENTS American (inerusev Cattle Club 46 Transportation Jerry D. Riilon, Indiana Olin Malhicson (Chemical ('orp. 47 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. .3 Leon C. Smith. New York Albers Milling 53 Co AC Spark Plug 7 Royce Bodiford, Texas Jerry W. CuUison, Arizona Cushman Motor Works, Inc. , 12 General The Texas Co 13 STUDENT SECRETARY McCulloch Motors Corp 8 Triumph Corp 14 Butler Mfg. Co 10 Chrvsler Corp 19 Nathan Reese, Oklahoma National Hain Bird 12 Chevrolet 29 (ireenviich Book Publishers, Dodge 33 Inc 36 Hotel Holienden 36 Sheffield Division of Arnico International Harvester Truck 39 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steet Corp 51 Perfect Circle Corp 49 CHAIRMAN OUR COVER Photo by L. p. Watson W. T. Spanton Farm mechanics instruction is an important phase of the vocational agricul- MEMBERS ture program. Here a vo-ag teacher is demonstrating the art of arc weld- H. F. Duis ing to a class of FFA members who will later use the skill on their farms. E. M. Howard H. N. Hunsicker E.J. Johnson O. E. Kiser THE NATIONAL I-'UTURE I-'ARMER is published bimoiUhly by the Future Farmers ot R. E. Nuugher America, Inc., at 810 Rhode Island Avenue, N. E., Washington, D. C. Entered as second- G. F. SuUards class matter at the post office at Washincton. D. C, .\cceptance for mailing: at special A. W. Tennty rate of postage provided for in section 34, 40(e). Single suljscription is -SOc per year in U, S. and possessions. Foreign subscriptions ,?1.00 IJer year. Sinjrie 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 — p.. -* fj^Svfevf'- Mower-crusher gets curing off to fast start Rolabar rake forms fast-drying windrows Hajliner 68 ties uniform, quick-drying bales Crop dryer and wagons dry 10 tons overnight -in-a- f New haying- system reduces farmers' dependence Baling begins in the mid-afternoon. Bales are on weather . saves nutrients for top-quality hay. stacked directly on crop drying wagons which are Both of these requirements are met by New then hitched to an automatic crop dryer — which HoUand's Hay-in-a-Day system. overnight brings the hay down to the proper mois- ture content for storage. Hay-in-a-Day is made possible by the use of a team of machines that work fast, promote quick The result is green, leafy hay rich in nutrients drying and handle hay gently. It helps a farmer the kind of hay that can reduce or even eliminate move hay from standing crop to storage in as Uttle costly supplemental feeding. For complete details, as 24 hours. write for our free Hay-in-a-Day booklet. New Mowing and crushing in one early-m.orning opera- Holland Machine Company Division of Sperry tion makes it possible to rake by early afternoon. Rand Corporation, New Holland, Peiuisylvania. New HOXiXiand 'Rt^t in Gi-assland ratmJng" February-March, 1958 A Fellow Told Me... After 25 Years opportunity to use ALL OFFICIAL Goodbye Hank! I appreciate your giving me this FOR your column, for by the time you read this you will have a new Editor. Perhaps for the sake of the younger readers. Hank. I should tell them just who you are. Hank lives only in the figments of the imagination FFA MERCHANDISE of the staff of The National FUTURE FARMER. To them he is Mr. Average Future Fanner. Not a national officer. Not a greenhand. But all the FFA members wrapped up in one. He is the one we think of when we write or edit for your maga- zine. He is you, the reader. Chris- tened Hank . well, that seemed to suit him. Hank was with me when your maga- zine began, if not in person, then in your Editor's mind. He was there help- ing me make the thousand-and-one lit- tle decisions that resulted in the na- tional magazine you have today.