The Republican., 1963-12-19
Regional Winners
In FFBL Program
From Taylor County

Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Austin. Taylor
County, purebred Jersey breeders
were named last Friday as the
regional champions in the Farming
For Better Living program. j. o.
Knapp, acting dean of the College
of Agriculture, Forestry and Home
Economics, West Virginia Univer-
sity, made the presentation at a
noon luncheon held in Morgan
town, honoring past year FFBL win
ners and leaders from Marion,
Monongalia, Preston and Taylor
counties in West Virginia and Gar
rett county, Maryland. The agri-
culture committee of the Morgan
town Chamber of Commerce, host
for the affair, gave the winners a
savings bond
DR.. Francena L. Nolan, assistant
dean of the College of Agriculture.
Forestry and Home Economics and
director of the Department of
Home Economics, gave the main
address. l.. Bus Swisher, a MEM
ber of the agriculture committee
and director of the Farming For
Better Living program presided.
Special music was rendered by Alva
j. (Jack) Horton and Susan Pro-
basco, school of music students.
County winners from the five
counties in the region. who had al
ready been named at the various
county banquets, were presented
monetary awards by j. c. (Chal
Millin, Manager of the area devel-
opment department, Monongahela
Power Company, Fairmont They
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Balm
bridge, Pennington, Marion Coun-
ty; MIR. and Mrs. Richard Warner,
Maidsville, Monongalia County;
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Winters, Egg
Ion, Preston County: Mr.. and Mrs.
Harley Mccartney, Grafton, Taylor
County; Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe
Swiger, Oakland, Garrett County
Garrett County Farming For Bet
ter Living Council received a GER
tificate for 1000 completion, which
was presented by Glenn Snyder, of
the state cooperative extension
Staff.
Breeding certificate awards from
the West Virginia Breeders Co.
operative were presented to five
past year winners by Dale Guthrie,
director The Guthries, who live
in Monongalia County, we're the
1862 sweepstakes winners in the
1862 Farming For Better Living
program.
The Neil Austin family likes
farming and their farming program,
their family activities and their
farmstead show this love for the
land and this liking for farm life
The farming operation is dairy
the Austins have herd of 25 Jcr-
seY cows that last year averaged
8,011 pounds of milk per cows.
Neil is president of the West Vir-
ginia Jersey Cattle Association. a
member of the American Jersey
Cattle Club and a member of the
sire committee of West Virginia
and Maryland The Austins had the
Grand Champion COW at the Taylor
County Fair. nine blue ribbons at
the West Virginia Daisy Cattle
Show, and all Of the youngsters
take an active interest in raising
and exhibiting Jersey cattle at All
competitions and fairs.
The farm shows the result of
intelligent care of the land Ten
years ago., the Austins write, I'VE
we're still moving some broom
sedge in the meadows. Since then
heavy application of lime, fertilizer
and manure has been made and
we have more than tripled the
amount of hay to the acre We are
now able to operate on a much
larger scale. We have more build
ings, a much better arrangement
of fencing, more machinery and
more convenient system of work
ing. The most important thing" MIR.
and Mrs. Austin continue, ''is ten
years ago our children were babies.