3&—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 12, 1977
Lebanon Co, Extension holds 60th dinner meeting
By JOANNE SPAHR
MT. ZION, Pa. - For 27
years Jacob M. Smith,
Annville R 2, has been
working closely with the
Lebanon County Extension
office, and on Tuesday
evening, at the Extension
Service’s 60th annual
meeting, he was honored for
his support of that
organization. Marion
Deppen, assistant director of
the Capital Region,
presented a certificate of
recognition to him. Smith
served on the executive
committee of the
organization in 1950 and has
been closely lined in other
capacities since then.
Deppen was also called on
to give the Capital Region
administrator’s report. In
that report he noted that
Lebanon County farms
produce enough milk for
400,000 people, enough eggs
for 300,000 individuals, and
enough poultry for 200,000.
Individual staff members
also gave short reports of the
past year. Greg Solt, county
agricultural agent,made
note of a dairy project he has
started in the county in the
past few months. Stemming
from extensive research he
did at Penn State University,
Solt believes that calves can
be successfully fed once a
day, and with the help of
several fanners from the
county he has set up a pilot
project to corroborate that
fact
“At last report, there were
15 animals on test, and so
for, farmers seem happy
with it,” he said. “If this
works'out, Lebanon County
could beat the nation to the
punch, so to speak, because
this research hasn’t been
published in journals, as
yet”
At Penn State, this
program of feeding the
calves fermented colostrum
once a day did prove suc
cessful, but as Solt observed,
the test herd at the
university is different than
an actual on-farm herd. He
will be able to judge how the
program has succeeded by
this Summer.
Dennis Hoke, county
agricultural agent, spoke on
Johnsongrass control. He
said that the county-began to
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Jacob Smith, (second from left)
receives a certificate of recognition
from Marion Deppen, assistant
director of Ex
tension Service, for his support of the
focus in on this problem last
season, and that a demon
stration plot was set up with
the aid of a county farmer
and a chemical company. He
also noted that the county
agricultural Stabilization
Conservation Service is
initiating a cost sharing
program for Johnsongrass
control, and that the Ex
tension Service will hold a
training meeting to teach
proper cultural practices
and use of herbicides for
control of this weed.
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Pat Krall, 4-H agent, told
of the county’s pilot 4-H
program for the mentally
retarded children. That
program meets during
school days in the Cedar
Crest Middle School with the
children doing two beginning
projects. Miss Krall also
expressed the hope of
starting a club for children
with Cerebral Palsy.
Aletta Schadler, Lebanon
Co. Extension director,
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organization over the years. Looking
on are Alletta Schadler, Lebanon
County Extension director, and Alfred
Brandt president of the Lebanon
County Extension Association.
spoke briefly on Lebanon
Co.’s new nutrition program.
The county now has two
nutrition aids who go into
homes and teach families
how to get the most
nutritional value from foods.
Following the staff
reports, Dr. Jerome K,
Paste, associate dean of
Penn State University, and
Dr. James E. Van Horn,
professor of agriculture and
home economics Extension,
presented a program on the
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life of Evan Pough, first
president of the agricultural
college of Pennsylvania. The
program began with slides
on the background of Pugh’s
life, and concluded with the
acting out of Pugh’s speech
to the Cumberland County
Agricultural Society,
Carlisle, in 1860. Paste, who
researched the subject off
and on for a period of two
years, played the role of Dr.
Pugh. This particular
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over 40 times in the past
year.
At the close of the meeting,
the results of the voting for
this year’s officers were
announced. All incumbents
were reelected with Alfred
Brandt, Lebanon R 2,
president; Richard Kreider,
Lebanon Rl, vice president;
Clair Gerberich, Jonestown
Rl, treasurer; and Orpha
Bomberger, secretary. '
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