—Lancastar Farming, Saturday, Dec 27. 1975 48 Ag sponsors needed AKRON, PA. - Farms and agricultural business firms are being sought to sponsor 35 Polish agriculturists when they arrive in this country In March, 1976. These young men and women - all bet ween the ages of 22 and 30 - are part of the Mennonile Central Committee (MCC) Exchange Visitor Program for Polish Agriculturists. The Polish exchange program was begun in 1971, according to Doreen Harms, the MCC coordinator in charge of the project. “Next year’s group will be the sixth since the program started,” Miss Harms said. “I think it's helped build a tremen dous amount of goodwill between individuals in our country and young people in Poland.” “The Polish visitors get a chance to work here in agriculture, they get a chance to live with American families and to see our country. Their American sponsors, on the other hand, learn about Polish customs and culture, and they get highly qualified people willing to work for the legal minimum wage.” The program has earned the praise of many agricultural leaders in its five years of existence. For example, Don Parke, Executive Vice President of PennAg Industries Association, Ephrata, Pa., noted that his organization’s Board of Directors had decided to help publicize the program to PennAg member firms as well as to the agricultural community at large. PennAg is a trade IMPORTANT MEETINGS COMING . . . PUN NOW TO ATTEND - LIMITED RESERVATIONS AVAIUBLE - DAIRY CATTLE SEMINAR - JANUARY 12TH THRU I6TH WITHER FIRE HAU Witmer, PA 7:30 to 10:00 P.M, JANUARY 26TH THRU 30TH CENTERPORT GRANGE HALL Centerport, PA 12:30 to 3:00 P.M. For additional information, cost etc. mail attached coupon to P.0.80X 575 I am possibly interested in taking the course please send me more information. NAME ADDRESS TOWN STATE ZIP Check if you wouldlike a free copy of our new catalog. association composed of Pennsylvania agribusiness firms. Mias Harms said they are always on the lookout for agribusiness sponsors as well as good farming operations. “Our visitors come to us with excellent qualifications, and their backgrounds, education and work experience cover the whole gamut of agricultural technology,” she noted. The MCC conducts the program under a cooperative agreement with Poland’s Scientific Technical Institute for Agriculturists (SITR). The SITE nominates the visitors, all of whom have bac calaureate of master’s degrees. Some have PhD’s, and nearly all have spent some time working in their specialties. Exchange visitors have included specialists with training in animal science, agronomy, horticulture, icthyology, agricultural engineering, mechanical engineering and veterinary medicine to name just a few disciplines. During their year in the U.S., visitors ordinarily stay six months with one sponsor and six months with a second. While they may have held very responsible positions in their homeland, the Polish visitors come here expecting to spend a full year as ordinary laborers. The brevity of their stay makes it impractical for them to assume important decision making roles. And, while ail of them have been schooled in English, ANIMAL MEDIC MANCHESTER, PA 17345 OR PHONE (717) 266-5611 The Ag Day Foundation has been established to fund Agriculture Day - the nationwide effort that promotes better un derstanding between rural and urban Americans • according to A. J. Adolfl, President of the National Agri-Marketing Association. The American Ag Day language can often be a problem. Many of the Polish visitors work as farmhands. Of the 34 who came over in March, 1975, 22 were working on farms as their year was coming to a close. Of the remaining 12, the largest single group was composed of those working in greenhouses. Two exchange visitors had jobs as helpers on ag research teams at Cornell and Purdue. Exchange visitors are paid the minimum hourly wage by their sponsors. Sponsors are expected to furnish room, board and shelter, and they withhold an agreed upon amount from the visitors’ wages to pay for these necessities. There is no other cost to the sponsors. They are expected to serve, though, as bridges for their visitors to church and community activities as well as points of interest. Although the Mennonite Central Committee operates the program, Miss Harms said that sponsors of all faiths are more than welcome. For more details on sponsoring an exchange visitor, write to Doreen Harms, Mennonite Central Committee, 21 South 12th St., Akron, Pa. 17501 6r call 717- 859-1151. JANUARY 12TH THRU 16TH QUARRWILLE FIRE HALL East State St Quarryville, PA 12:30 to 3:00 P.M, Course consists of I.. Breeding Problems a. How to check and treat them b. Proper use of Hormones 2. Mastitis a. Causes b. Early detection c. Control and prevention 3. Digestive problems 4. Calf problems 5. Infections, diseases and preventative medicine INC. A g day funded by special means Foundation Committee “PWOrtWp of Ag Day, the dlvldually to their reapective Includes Chainnan Emmett National Agri-Marketing Industry segments In the Barker, Executive Secretary Association calls on all coming weeks so that of Farm & Industrial segments of agri-business to materials may be produced Equipment Institute, 4 ® n agriculture’s story In early 1876. Chicago, Richard Babcock, through advertisements and Individuals and groups President of Farm Journal, “fterlals furnished to all who also wish to have a part Philadelphia; Parke who will use them. The 1975 in this salute to agriculture Brinkley, President of ra(Uo » television and print may send their contributions National Agricultural campaign dramatized to to: American Ag Day Chemicals Association, consumers the 1m- Foundation, 800 W. 47th- Washington, D. C. ; Ray portance of agriculture Suite 516, Kansas City, MO Kremer, Executive Director through the message, 14112 of National Association of “Almost Everything Starts Farm Broadcasters, on a Farm.” The Today Florida; Oakley Ray, Show featured ten minutes President of American Feed on Ag Day. Manufactures Association, “The requests for ad- Washlngton, D. C.; Jim Roe, vertlsing materials were so President of Jim Roe & g* I ®* 4 from 36 states that Associates, Chicago; and Ed funds ran out and materials Wheeler, President of The had to be rationed,” said Fertilizer Institute, NAMA Executive Director Washington, D. C. Ernie Marshall, who con „. _ . . ceived the Foundation idea Ag , Day kaa |j®* n 40 ensure even greater essential, said Adofi, national impact In 1976. r £ Volunteers of the National for aba-Geigy, Greensboro, Agri-Marketing Association- North Carolina, “because over 2,000 professional the fanner must now more communicators and than ever before rely on marketers - will contribute consumer understanding an estimateds2oo,ooo of their is3u “ i“ 4 “me and expertise in vitally effect his production creative inputs. These and in turn the entire people will organize, M ti? ° r» manage and prepare the The 1976 Agriculture Day campaign. 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