Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas' - A/so Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware VOL 23 No. 10 Farm Show has new look for 4 78 By DIETER KRIEG IARRISBURG - The first fence of the $5.7 million novation project that te will take notice to at t week’s Farm Show are new doors. Over 700 of i> were installed since Winter. tyond the doors are new service areas, meeting ®s, a completely tdeled Small Arena, improved bathrooms, “rrooms, and .even •trs. Overhead is a system and a fire ceiling. Further up is a I[ i new roof, which >”s hard-working cattle, New market started this week, Lancaster Fanning will begin *«Kly publication of the Philadelphia Fresh Fruit and Stable Market. Recognizing the volume of these Pmm°dit ies grown in this area, we hope toe new market “e a welcome addition to our paper. The market can “ound regularly on page 2. FAM SHOW issue 1978 horse, hog, and sheep groomers will no longer be rudely interrupted by drops of water from above. Changes foreseen in Farm Show setup By JOANNE SP AHR HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania Secretary of Agriculture Kent D. Shelhamer would like to see some changes take place in the State Farm Show during the upcoming years. A few of those changes include shaping the livestock competition into a “show of Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 7,1978 r The entire barnyard is represented at the Farm Show, as depicted here by Darlene Huyard with hersteer, left; sheep from Champ Stock Farm; Matt Arrowsmith with his Jersey, and Rhoads preparing for the hog show. In this issue Farm Calendar 10 Editorials 10 Letters 10 Farm Show features 15-178 Vet column 36 Homestead Notes 42 Kendy’s Kollumn 44 My Thoughts 45 Home on the Range 48 Children’s Page 50 Jr. Cooking Edition 51 Joyce Bupp 54 Farm Women Calendar 54 Snoozes will also be more peaceful. Wellington Smith, Farm Show Director, and Charles champions,” as well as giving the existing buildings a facelift, and possibly building a new arena. Keystone Degree given Wed. LJTITZ - For 329 Penn sylvania Future Fanners of America, this Wednesday will be the highlight of four or five years of work in the vocational agriculture program. For, on that afternoon during the FFA mid-Winter convention held in Harrisburg, all 329 will receive their Keystone Fanner degrees, a highly coveted state honor. Ida’s Notebook 55 Farm Women Societies 55 Classifieds 59 Pa. Keystone Farmers 90 Lancaster DHIA 138 Dairy proficiency winner 143 Facts fordairymen 147 Master Fanners 149,168,169 Remembering... 150 Commercial exhibitors list 155 Doris Thomas 159 Sale Reports 179 Itle, assistant, talked with Lancaster Farming late last year about the projects underway here, noting that In order to make the Farm Show into “the” livestock show in the state, Shelhamer theorized that elimination Out of the approximate 13;000 member state organization, only two and a half per cent attain this goal. Based on an application Holstein cow has quadruplets By DIETER KRIEG ELSTONVILLE Quadruplet Holstein calves were bom here on Wed- progress is well ahead of schedule. Renovation is to be complete by October of this year. contest should be held around the Commonwealth prior to January. These competitions would be based form and point system, the degree program evaluates each future farmer in the area of finance, project work, and The nesday, around noon, an event which is said to occur only about once in 700,000 calvings. The multiple birth took $6,00 Per Year One of the major new portions of the gigantic complex is a new beef barn {Turn to Page 35> on the same concept as me 4- H shows in which only the (Turn to Page 32) minimum monetary requirement is at least $5OO earned or invested in a (Turn to Page 16) place on the Marvin Reiff farm, Manheim R 3. Although one of the four (Turn to Page 23)
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