Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 17, 1980 Page: 30 of 40
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6—SECTION 2—THE NEWS-TELECRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas. Sunday, Feb. 17, 1980
Congratulations, FFA, On Your 52nd Anniversary!
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Radial saws used too
Scotty Almon demonstrates the use of the radial saw to Randy
Baxley in Cumby High School's FFA wood shop. The FFA
students plan the projects and then execute them, resulting in
"some well made household items," according to James
Warren, chapter advisor.
—Staff Photo
How to use surplus energy
in the milkhouse and parlor
lhe energy required for milk
cooling and water heating often
makes up 50 to 75 percent of the
total electricity used on dairy
farms, according to the Food
and Energy Council
The average 50-cow dairy
operation may use about 8,000
kilowatt hours of electricity for
water heating
Milk must he cooled from
about 05 as it comes from the
cow down to about 4(1° to keep
in storage To accomplish this,
heat must be extracted from the
milk
Heat must be added to water
used in dairy sanitation. Water
from the well may be 5(F. while
the temperature required in the
milkhouse or parlor needs to be
110° to 140°.
Techniques have been avail-
able for many years to utilize the
excess heat from the milk to pre-
heat the water entering the water
heater, according to Vernon
Meyer, extension agricultural
engineer at lowi State Univer-
sity.
When energy costs were
lower, there was not much inter-
est in purchasing the equipment
necessary to do this.
Installing a heat exchanger
makes it feasible to take heat
from the milk cooler and com-
pressor unit to heat water
needed for washing. The equip-
ment simply converts an air-
cooled condenser unit to a
water-cooled unit.
A heat exchanger can be
added to most present equip-
ment or purchased with a new
bulk tank. In addition to using
the surplus heat, efficiency of
the milk cooler is improved five
to 10 percent.
The estimated savings in your
electric bill per month with elec-
tricity at 4t a kwh is S26 when
100 gallons of hot water are
used each day
The water can be used di-
rectly from the unit or, as is
more common, it may be stored
in an insulated storage tank until
it is needed in the conventional
water heater
FFA Week Is February 16*25
We are proud of the youths of Hopkins County.
Member FDIC
The 36-member North America chapter is on a win- visor Larry Spradlin.
Hopkins Future Farmers of ning streak according to ad- “The boys are doing pretty
well this year,” Spradlin said.
“We had the Grand Champion
CONGRATULATIONS
FUTURE FARMERS of AMERICA
On Your 52nd Anniversary!
We are proud of these groups of young people and
we know they will make great leaders of tomorrow.
Sulphur Springs
Livestock Commission
North Hopkins
FFA officers
The officers tor the North
Hopkins Future Farmers ot
America, from left to right,
Mark Massey, vice-
president; Glenn Hahn,
secretary; Randell Jetton,
sentinel; chapter
sweetheart, Julie Drum-
mond ; Mike Massey,
treasurer; and Tim Vaughn,
^student advisor, help to keep
The North Hopkins FFA one
of the busiest in the county.
President Terry Virgel, was
absent the day the picture
was taken.
-StaH Pholo
Angus female at the Hunt
County Show and the Grand
Champion Holstien.”
'The chapter also has a heifer
that finished first in the Waco
Livestock Show, took Grand
Champion in the Dekalb Show
and recently a first place
showning at the Ft. Worth Fat
Stock Show.
Chapter members also
captured two first place ribbons
in the Holstien heifer division at
the Dekalb Show and some
second and thrid place ribbons
in the Ft. Worth Show with
barrows.
“We are planning to attend
the Houston Show, the Pitt-
sburg, and the Quitman
Livestock shows as
well,"Spradlin said. “And i
hope we can pick up some more
ribbons.”
Besides attending livestock
shows and whining ribbons, the
North Hopkins FFA chapter is
preparing for the various
leadership contests coming up
in April according to Spradlin.
"These are a bunch of hard
working boys,” Spradlin said.
“They are going to continue to
do well in several different
fields.”
Next month the chapter will
be staging its annual FFA Stew
and Auction to raise money for
the chapter.
“The boys have put in a lot of
time builSihg hay feeders, gun
racks, cabinets and other farm
and ranch equipment to sell at
the auction and they still have
to cook all the stew,” Spradlin
said.
The next big project for the
chapter will be the annual
parents and sons awards
banquet scheduled for April.
“We hope to be able to have
one of our boys receive the Lone
Star Farmer award this year,
but we will have to wait and
see,” the advisor said.
This is Spradlins’ third year
as the North Hopkins FFA
advisor and he feels the chapter
is getting better and better all
the time.
“I have a really good group of
Greenhands coming up,’”
Spradlin said. “And I expect
they will add additional life to
an already active chapter. We
are doing some diversification
in lifestock right now getting
into barrows and chickens
which should add even more
dimension to our chapter,” he
added.
North Hopkins trains hard
to maintain winning ways
Roy Holder 885-2455 or 885-7612 David Fowler
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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/m1/30/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.