Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, September 25, 1976, Image 15

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Str.isburg Rl. showed the champion the West Lampeter Community Fair
THIS 10-QUART PLASTIC RAIL WITH
CLARK DAIRY SUPPLY
Rising Sun, MD
VAN-MAR FEEDS, INC. E. W. HOLTON EARL SAUDER, INC.
Shoemakersville, PA Daretown, NJ New Holland, PA
H. JACOB HOOBER HYKES QUALITY FEEDS McCRACKEN’S FEED MILL, INC.
Intercourse, PA York Haven, PA Manhelm, PA
H. M. STAUFFER & SONS, INC.
Witmer, PA
RICHARD B. KENDIG
Special Accounts
Representative
Phone 302-478-3058
R-D. 1, JERSEY SHORE, PENNSYLVANIA 17740
EVERY 100 LBS OF BEACON
MILK REPLACER YOU BUY.
: er expires October 16, 1976.
W. L MUMMERT CO.
Hanover, PA
CHESTER WIEST
Sales & Distribution
Manager
Phone 717-741-2600
BEACONFEEDS
Beacon Feeds, York, PA Phone 717-843-9033
This offer's a
3-way winner.
You get a sturdy
plastic pail.
Your calves get
the nutrients
they need for
good health and
quick growth.
And you make
more money by
selling your milk.
THARPE & GREEN MILL
ROBINSON BROS.
NEW FREEDOM FARM & GARDEN CO.
New Freedom, PA
R. E. RUDISILL
Sales & Distribution
Manager
Phone 717-854-2281
Churchville, MD
Delta. PA
John Strawbndge of Stewartstown showed
a number of blue ribbon hogs at the York Fair
Berks Ag
Center acclaimed
By Frederick E. Bubb
Information officer, SCS,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Have you ever called a
government office, found out
you had the wrong agency,
and then called three or four
numbers before you got the
right office? Or have you had
to drive from town to town to
visit U.S. Department of
Agriculture offices? This
used to be the case m Berks
County, Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the need for
improved service to the
agricultural community,
Berks County officials
looked for an opportunity to
improve government
assistance. About this time
USDA began a program of
encouraging housing all its
agencies in a single building,
called an agricultural ser
vice center. This concept
appealed to the Berks
County commissioners and a
decision was made to build
the first agricultural service
center in Pennsylvania.
Agricultural agencies now
operate with facilities never
dreamed possible. Several
sizes of conference and
meeting rooms are
available, including an
auditorium which seats
several hundred people.
Equipment rooms, ample
storage, space, abundant
parking, and even a lun
chroom are extra facilities in
the building.
Showing great foresight,
the Berks County com
missioners added several
other uses to the building.
Civil defense and county
communications are in the
basement. The lunchroom is
also in the basement and
provides a dual role as food
support for the civil defense
operation. The building
contains all county storage
and shop facilities. Craig
Williamson, of the Penn
sylvania Civil Defense
Council, termed the building
outstanding, attractive, and
at the same time, functional.
The Berks County center
houses the Cooperative
Extension Service,
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service,
Farmers Home Ad
ministration, and Soil
Conservation Service,
USDA. Other agencies m the
center include the county
conservation district, which
operates the reception and
information center, and an
Phone 717-753-3210
Intermediate Education Unit
and County Weights and
Measures Office.
County Commissioner
Vernon K Shaffer, who also
serves on the conservation
district board, states, “I am
pleased and proud to have
been part of the team that
helped make this
agricultural center a reality.
In this day of hunger in the
, world, the farmers of Berks
' County need all the help they
can get.”
The pubbc reaction to the
center has been good. Before
the center, USDA agencies
were located in three towns.
SCS District Conservationist
J. Noms Judy reports that
i more farmers are coming to
the agency offices now.
Berks County fanner Mark
Wolfskill echoed this feeling.
According to Wolfskill,
“Farmers can now visit all
. the agencies under one roof,
saving them time and
gasoline along with the
convenient and free parking.
I think farmers will now
participate in more
programs because of the
accessibility of visiting all
these agencies under one
roof.”
The Berks County center is
one of five agricultural
service centers in Penn
sylvania. Others are in
operation in Erie, Lancaster,
Dauphin, and Washington
Counties. All are en
thusiastically supported by
farmers and agency per
sonnel.
Erie County dairy farmer
Calvin Henry commented,
“Service centers are a
definite advantage to far
mers who use the services of
a number of agencies. The
common phone number and
joint meeting room are a big
help to farmers.”
Another Erie County
farmer, Burdette Sedler,
added: “It is much easier to
get your questions answered
promptly.” He noted that the
modem facilities also benefit
the agency personnel.
0. Bard Judy, SCS district
conservationist in
Washington, Pennsylvania,
spoke for all the SCS district
conservationists in Penn
sylvania who operate in
service centers: “We are
finding that cooperation
between the agencies in
creases greatly-we are
working together more now
than ever before.”
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