Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 17, 1980 Page: 28 of 40
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4—SECTION 2—THE NEWS-TELECRAM. Sulphur Spring*, Texos, Sunday, Feb. 17, 1980.
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Today's Future Farmers of America
will be tomorrow's leaders in
agriculture. F.F.A. offers young
members the opportunity to work
and learn through on the job train
ing and vaious community protects «**.***„1
all aspects of agri business...the
business that keeps America grow
ing strong. We’re proud to support
them!
1205 Main
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ANNIVERSARY
We are proud of the
FUTURE FARMERS of AMERICA
in Hopkins County. They are growing, learning and contributing
to our community every day.
We salute our leaders of tomorrow!
FUTURE
FARMERS
OF
AMERICA
The future of agriculture is
in your hands. We proudly
stand behind you and con-
gratulate you on your 51st
Anniversary!
STEWART AUCTION SERVICE
"SPECIALIZING IN DAIRY DISPERSALS A EARN-RANCH EQUIPMENT AUCTIONS
RONNY STEWART, Auctioneer
SJAW ROUTE. SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS 754*7
7J4/BI5 9442-A«i4*«ct • 214/M5403G 0*m
UC. NO T.GS41WK15 BRYANT FISHER, Fieldman
ROUTE 1, T ANTIS. TEXAS
214/343 2358
ELTON STEWART, Sale Manager
ROUTE 1 BOX IS. BRASHEAR, TEXAS 75420
Phone 214/512 2389
Owl FFA studies
practical side
Students at Yantis High
School’s Future Fanners of
America chapter are looking
both at the practical side of
farming and the fun side as they
prepare animals for shows and
learn both welding and wood
working skills.
Three Yantis FFA members
were named Lone Star Farmers
last year l Lewis Roach, Ronnie
Denton and Jeffery Rogers)
and two were named American
Farmers (Sidney Walker and
Lane Glenn).
Heading up the meetings this
year are David Sweat at the
helm as president; Ricky
Minyard as VP; Christie Hill is
in charge of recording the
minutes and David Allen is the
Lifestyle on
the farm is
all modem!
Today's tanning is a sophisti-
cated. auTomated induMry.
Many farmers plug into com-
puters lor up to-lhe minule data
on wealher, crops, fertilizers
and grow mg conditions
‘And, lifestyles in the home
are keeping pace with this
highly technological era. Due of
the major trends is toward time
and energy saving appliances
keeper of the coin.
Other officers are James
MePhearson, reporter; Mark
Kenney as sentinel with Diana
Kenney serving as Chapter
Sweetheart.
“We like to take a little
vacation at the end of the school
year,” says chapter advisor
Gerald Walters of the group’s
money making efforts.
The Yantis chapter makes
rottnd hay racks (45 this year)
and wooden feed troughs
(almost 30 to date) which are
sold at area auctions.
“We about break even on the
troughs but we make a little on
the hay racks,” Walters said.
The organization’s members
have been active on the “fall
circuit” showing their animals
in Sulphur Springs, Gilmer,
Tyler and Winnsboro.
Walters said that Karen
Rushing and Allen (Jhamness
have won in the fall circuit with
Holsteins.'
Steve Sterrett has been
successful with his Brahama
bull and Miss Hill, an area
officer last year, has won at all
of those fall shows as well as the
State Fair in Dallas and the
Fort Worth Fat Stock Show
where she had the Grand
Champion Jersey cow.
Last week she was in San
Antonio for a show and will be in
Houston beginning this week.
The 42 students in the course
include two young ladies and all
will be off and running to the
Area VI Cohvention to be held
on Feb. 19 in Tyler. r
Dairy cattle are the most
predominent animals being
studied and prepared for shows
with Yantis students but some
beef cattle are in there too.
Between their wood- and
metal-work money making
efforts, the group also sand-
wiches in time to prepare teams
to judge livestock, dairy
products, poultry and various
types of grasses for competition
at East Texas State University
in addition to selling con-
cessions during basketball
games when the Owls play at
home.
Then too there’s the “bat-
tlewagon” or “portable jail”
which the students have af-
fectionately named their shop-
built-on-a-trailer.
“We’ve got maybe $500 in it,”
says Walters, “but most-of the
materials were scraps that
we've used.1’
The portable shop will carry
tools and a welding machine to
the site for work by the
students.
“Of course we haven’t added
in the cost of the labor in
building it,” Walters said but
the students responsible said
that it was a labor of learning.
Us*-
Future Farmers Of America...
The future is in your hands. Your achievements will deter-
mine our development and leadership of tomorrow. We
proudly stand behind you.
Hopkins County Farm Bureau
233 College
Sulphur Springs
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Future Farmers Of America
Learning by doing is a basic principle behind the vocational agricultural
education program. FFA encourages that principle. We proudly stand
behind our strong chapter.
M&W FEEDS
640 Mulberry Your PURINA FEEDS Dealer Sulphur Springs
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They do woodwork too
James McPhearson, reporter for the Yantis Higto^yhool
chapter of the FFA, does extra duty in the shop as he puts the
finishing touches on a wooden feed trough. The troughs are sold
to area farmers and cattle raisers with the hope of getting
enough money out of them to pay the cost of materials. The
monster on legs behind him is the trailer that has been built in
the shop. When completed, the students will be able to take
welding equipment and tools to the field to do on the scene work.
Chapter Advisor Gerald Walters says that the trailer should be
completed soon.
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The FFA can fix it
Yantis FFA members repair a round hay rack that was
damaged when it was hit by a tractor. The upper portion was
cut off and then David Allen, Gerald Holland and James Mc-
Phearson began the repair job. The Yantis FFA members
make the racks as well as wooden feed troughs that are sold at
area auctions to raise money for their activities. They also raise
money by running the concession stand at Owl basketball games
according to Gerald Walters, chapter advisor.
—Staff Photo
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 17, 1980, newspaper, February 17, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823889/m1/28/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.