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Why FFA Week Is
Observed During February « T „ --->'-'V > National FFA Week comes rvi rv vear during the week of the anniversary of the birthday of George Washington. Ajthoi/gh usually considered first as a great ral, our first president, and r, George Washington’s it love was. the farm he called mt Vernon. There he was one ie first in die nation to'practice tour planting, crop rotations, other soil conserving methods. >ably no other man in America is day spent more time seeking agricultural information, ij»r by experimentation on his : farm, or by correspondence agricultural scientists in EngTh* title of America's first ientific farmer” might be apto Washington. It was more a century after Kts death that of the sound agricultural ices he advocated jpund genpractice. • % It is out of deep respect aijd admiration for George Washington! the farmer in whose progressive) ways they seek to follow, that, " re Farmers annually observe National FFA Week-at die of his birthday. era
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