Maryland Hog producer named ‘All-American ’ ~ COLLEGE PARK - Thlj gear’s fifth Pork All- American for Maryland Is Paul L. Sbortall, Jr., who operates a (rain and hog farm about two miles east of Easton on the upper Eastern Shore. His father, Paul L. Shortall, Sr., still produced grain and broilers in the Miles River Neck area northwest of Boston. The home farm also had a dairy operation in former years. The younger Sbortall got interested in swine addle he was an FFA member at Easton Senior High School. He now produces 800 to 900 feeder pigs per year of Yorkshire crossbred heeding. Nearly all are marketed through the two Eastern Shore feeder pig auction sales held regularly Denton and Eden. “ Maryland’s new Port All- American and his wife are the parents of a nine-year old girl and a boy, 14. Their son, Keith P. Shortall, is a 4- H member. Keith won the youth division of the Talbot County Com Club contest for 1975 with a yield of 157.51 bushels per acre - bettering his dad’s marie in the adult division of the same contest by more than 9 bushels per acre. wocs^sni SAatfßoooa NOW is the time to PLAN, Budget and Select YOUR STORAGE, DRYING and HANDLING SYSTEM. Paul L. ShortaU, Jr., is in his second year as feeder pig committee chairman for the Maryland Pork Producers Association, Inc. And he was re-elected for a third three year term on the board of directors at the association's annual meeting last month in the Tidewater Inn at Easton. ShortaU received his Pork All-American citation from last year’s winner, Franklin E. Feescr of Taneytown. The award carries with it an expense-paid trip for ShortaU and his wife to at tend tills year’s American Pork Congress on March 9- 11 at Indianapolis, Ind. Also at last month’s meeting in Easton, the MPPA presented its fifth annual James R. Ferguson memorial award trophy for superior production of feeder pigs to J. Quinton Johnson of Salisbury, a Duroc breeder and former president of the state pork producers association. The MPPA service award was presented to George B. Roche of ColesviUe (Mon tgomery county), a market development and promotion specialist for the Maryland state Department of Agriculture in Annapolis. Roche has coordinated arrangements for the annual EARLY ORDER DISCOUNTS NOW AVAILABLE HERSHEY EQUIPMENT CO., INC. 215 DILLER AVENUE NEW HOLLAND, PA Porkecue Cook-Off contest each year since 1U inception in 1971 at the Maryland Stale Fair. And he helped to establish in Maryland the three-year voluntary nickle check-off program of the National Pork Producers Council which led to passage of a compulsory check-off in a statewide referendum on Nov. 14. 1975. - Aimed at promoting and strengthening the pork in dustry, the compulsory nickel check-off program went into effect in the Old Line State mi Jan. 1, 1976. Named as Maryland's new pork queen was Sandy Gladtaill, an 18-year-old graduate of Damascus high school. Miss Gladfaill is currently attending the Maryland Medical Secretarial School in Hagerstown. She has been an active 4-H and FFA member, involved in sewing, cooking, camping, crocheting, knitting, ice skating and raising swine, beef and poultry. Several breeds of hogs are raised on her father’s 1,506-acre farm near Damascus. John E. Strawbridge of Stewartstown, Pa., was presented the 1975 Maryland State Fair carcass award. And Donald E. Morrison of CONTACT US FOR YOUR COMPLETE GRAIN HANDLING SYSTEM The Systems Company , Phone (717) 354-4576 Award winners comprised the new state pork queen’s coterie following last month’s twenty-first annual meeting of the Maryland Pork Producers Association. The event was held Jan. 29 in the Tidewater inn at Easton. Shown are (left to right): J. Quinton Johnson of Salisbury (Wincomico county); Paul L Shortall, Jr, of Easton (Talbot county); Sandy Giadhill. 18, or Damascus (Mon- Dayton received a special as association treasurer, booster’s award for long- Other MPPA officers were time participation in pork also re-elected. They include promotion activities. Franklin E. Feeser of Morrison has served the past Taneytown, president; year as MPPA Newsletter William C. Malkus of editor. And he was re-elected Cambridge vice-president CORPORATION ‘ Lancaster Farta to*, Saturday, Ftb. 21.1976 tgomery county); George B. Roche of Colesvilie (Montgomery county); John E. Strawbridge of Stewartstown, Pa. (Harford county, Md.), and Donald E. Morrison of Dayton (Howard county). Strawbridge is a purebred Hampshire and Yorkshire breeder with farming operations on both sides of the Mason and Dixon Line. for the Eastern Shore; Russell G. Watson of Brandywine vice-president for the western shore, and J. Gordon (‘‘J. G. ”) Warfield, Jr,, of Marriottsville, - secretary. 9