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Show 4-H Chicks, Crops Reward Utah Boys In a manner of speaking, Don Wayman's ben laid the golden egg that turned Into a week's expense-paid trip to the National 4-H Club Congress held recently In Chicago. Living on a farm our Cantladala. thia 17 vear old chalked up a remarkable record In the 4-H Poultry program. Sears-Roebuck Foundation was donor of his award trtp. Now In his sixth year cf Clu work, Don Is completing high school, financing himself with his poultry profits. He raised 950 broilers in four years. He made 31 exhibits and gave three demonstrations, dem-onstrations, receiving purple ribbons rib-bons four successive years. Don was junior leader of a boys' poultry club for three years, I and served as president of his local 4-H Club, led by his mother, Mrs. Naomia Wayman. As state winner of the 4-H ' Field Crops program, Robert if Don Wtymta Robert Zollinger Zollinger, 18, of Tremonton spent a week In Chicago as guest cf Arcadian Products Dept. of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.. donor of his trip to the National 4-H Club Congress. Robert learned many useful skills during his seven years In 4-H, particularly In good farming farm-ing and quality field crop production. pro-duction. Soil on his farm was normally quite dry, so Kobert was alert to soil and water conservation con-servation to help his crop: He raised sugar beets and grains, and broke a production record with his beet crop yield of 33.47 tons per tore, which brought him grand champion honors. The Zollinger family of eight harvested 60,000 bushels of grain in three years. Robert's 4-H Club lender is his father. These 4-H programs are conducted con-ducted by the Utah State Agrfc rultural Extension Servifo with the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture cooperating. |