Maryland Hog producer
named ‘All-American ’
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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