VOL. 23 No. S pfo-tiU meeting fegins Thursday KOCKEYSVILLE, Md. - Be 1978 Mid-Atlantic No- V Conference will be held Bs coming Thursday, inuary 5, at the Hunt BUey Inn, here. ■The conference is spon |red by the Cooperative Intension Services of lelaware, Maryland, lennsylvania, New Jersey, Brgmia, and West Virginia, pd related agri-business Fins, says John Z. Shearer, franklin County Extension prector and ticket coor- Jmator for the conference. I Various university Ipecialists, commercial lompany representatives, Ind no-till com growers will address the expected I (Turn to Page 32) and Southeastern Pennsylvania Arkas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware Pageant captures Christmas spirit By KENDACE BORRY WILLOW STREET - A sense of the true meaning of Christinas can be found at the Boehm’s United Methodist Church Live Nativity Pageant. The final performance of the Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 24,1977 Mcrnj Christmas May you and your family find peace, hope and love this Christmas Dayl program, which is set for 7 p.m. tonight, December 24, is put on by the youth of the church who use their imagination and resour cefulness to capture the spirit of Christmas. The pageant has become a tradition at the Willow Street R 1 church, where it was first performed eight years ago. The idea, originally thought of by church member Mis. Mary Wise, has grown to become an half hour production, with four dif ferent scenes, a musical background, and scripture being read by the Rev. Dennis R. Snovel. The action centers around a slab wood stable which is rebuilt every year for its special use in the pageant. (TurntoPage23) $6.00 Per Year In this issue Farm Calendar 10 Medicine & Mgmt. 16 life on the farm 18 Farm crisis 24 Mushrooms 35 Letters to editor 37 Homestead Notes 42 My Thoughts 42 Farm Women Calendar 47 Joyce Bupp 48 Kendy’sKollumn 48 Ida’s Notebook 50 Plant Lovers’ Comer 50 Classifieds 55 Chester DHIA 82 Mysterious feed additive 88 Fertilizer law 89 Jerry Webb 92 Pest management policy 93 Lebanon DHIA 98 Trade deficit 99 ■ Old tradition remembered 101 Agronomy conference 104 Children’s page 106
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