County 4-H'ers Qualify
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Jane Gregory, Lititz RDI, of the Broken Bit Club, shows
off her horse “Fanny.” They qualified in three events: western
pleasure ponies 12.2 hands to 14.0 hands, western riding horse
and pole bending.
Penn State Gets Pa. Grant to Help
Solve Mushroom Industry Problem
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture Jim McHale re
cently announced the approval
of a three-year contract with
Pennsylvania State University
to design and develop a more
practical system and control for
composting in mushroom farm
ing with increased production
as its goal.
“If Pennsylvania mushroom
farmers are to meet the grow
ing threat of increasing foreign
competition in the domestic
market, new methods of
mechanization are needed to in
crease production rates,” says
McHale.
The research proposal by the
University’s Research Adminis
tration Committee would have
as its principal objective the
development of a ventilation
system to provide constant and
automatic control of phase two
composting, commonly called
cookout, in conventional mush
room production. McHale said
present methods of natural
ventilation require tedious at-
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tention by skilled operators
constantly and are often upset
by variable weather conditions.
“Mushroom growers tell me
that unless the ‘cookout’ pro
cess is accomplished success
fully, the growing mushroom is
subjected to disease and yields
decrease. The design of an au
tomatic forced ventilation sys
tem would eliminate the in
fluence of outside weather con
ditions and could be expected to
provide increased yields.”
Mushroom production ranks
first as a source of cash income
among state agricultural crops
and accounts for more than 60
per cent of the nation’s total
mushroom output, McHale
pointed out. He added, “This
$45,000,000 Pennsylvania indus
try faces uncertain prospects as
the result of growing imports
from Taiwan and Korea.
“Indications are that these
two countries are planning to
substantially increase their
shipments of mushrooms to the
United States. Mushroom farm
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ers of Pennsylvania must be
given every opportunity to
meet that competition,"’ Mc-
Hale declared.
“With farm income already
depressed we want to prevent
anything that will further af
fect it adversly,”
Estimated cost of the three
year development project has
been set at $39,000 and will be
funded by the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture’s
Research Development Commit
tee.
Consider Cow's Growth
Rote Instead of Size?
Body measurements, visual ap
praisal, and weight of beef cows
are of little value in predicting
growth, body measurements,
and carcass chai acteristics of off
spring, a graduate assistant in
animal science at Pennsylvania
State University sa d July 13 dur
ing the North Atlantic Sectional
Meeting of the American Society
of Animal Science at Stores,
Conn.
On the basis nf nearly three
years of studies, Lawrence G.
Bair of Penn State urged beef
cattle producers to select cows
and bulls only on mature size
which many farmers thought
would improve growth rate and
meat quantity and quality.
The experiments at Penn State
question the assumption that
large parental size will auto
matically increase growth rate of
calves, Bair claimed Results of
this and other Penn State studies
indicate that selection of herd
replacements should be based on
growth rate to 12 or 18 months
of age rather than on mature
size.
CHICKEN HOPPING JOHN
4 strips bacon, diced
12 chicken drumsticks
1 (7-oz.) pkg. rice and
vermicelli with cheese
1% cups beer
IVz cups water
1 (Mb.) can black-eyed
peas, drained
Fry bacon until crisp, re
move bacon pieces and set
aside. Fry drumsticks slow
ly in drippings until brown
on all sides. Add rice-vermi
celli mixture and stir until
vermicelli is lightly
browned. Add beer, water
and cheese mixture from
package. Stir to blend. Add
black-eyed peas and stir
again. Cover and simmer un
til rice is tender, about 20
minutes. Garnish with bacon
strips. Makes 6 servings.
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