—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 24,1978
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Md.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Maryland’s annual
statewide Farm Visitation
Day has become a national
phenomenon. And this year’s
twelfth annual version on
June 25 promises to be
bigger and better than ever.
If the weather is pleasant,
upwards of 25,000 youngsters
and adults are expected at
the 23 participating
“Welcome Farms” scat
tered through nine of
Maryland’s 23 counties.
Local committees have
These young Holstein cows present symbolic
welcome for the nine dairy farms scattered
through six counties which are participating in
June 25’s twelfth annual Farm Visitation Day in
Maryland. Youngsters, and their parents, who visit
the dairy farms are welcome to pet young calves,
sample milk products, and perhaps even see cows
being milked. Dairy products rank second only to
broilers as the leading source of farm income in
Maryland.
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farm visitation day set for June
been active in the nine
counties, planning details for
hosting the event at each of
the designated farms.
The general plan is that
particpating dairy farms
will offer free cold milk as a
refreshment, at least to
visiting youngsters. In some
cases, free samples of other
dairy products will also be
offered, as well as free
recipe leaflets. Up in
Frederick county, the 4-H
Cow Gals and Guys
organization will attend to
this detail.
Most non-dairy farms will
offer other forms of free
refreshments, such as
lemonade or fruit punch.
Grain reserve reaches
493.3 million bushels
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
There were 493.3 million
bushels of wheat and feed
grain in the grain reserve as
of June 9, according to Ray
Fitzgerald, administrator of
the Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service (ASCS).
Fitzgerald said the reserve,
as of that date, had
346,935,452 bushels of wheat,
23,794,440 bushels of barley,
85,824,397 bushels of corn,
28,651,874 bushels of oats and
8,091,977 bushels of sorghum
(4,531,507 hundredweight).
The figures cited by ad
ministrator Fitzgerald were
based on a telephone survey
by ASCS.
The grain reserve takes
wheat and other grains off
the market for a period of up
to three years, or until
market prices reach stated
levels.
Soviet
grain
studied
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Three U.S. grain study
teams are scheduled to visit
the Soviet Union this
Summer to assess crop
conditions and outlook.
G. Edward Scbuh, deputy
assistant secretary of
agriculture for international
affairs and commodity
programs said the visits
were scheduled under terms
of the U.S. - USSR
Agreement on Agricultural
Cooperation.
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General open house hours
on Farm Visitation Day-are 1
to 5 p.m. Many of the par
ticipating dairy farms will
offer an opportunity for
visitors to stay later and
observe the evening milking.
At the same time Fit
zgerald announced the
telephone survey results,
ASCS released its regular
weekly price support loan
activity report. This report
includes figures on grains in
the farmer-owned reserve
and other data. The data in
the weekly report lags
behind the figures reported
today by the administrator
because of the time taken to
mail the data for the weekly
report to Kansas City for
processing.
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in some cases, milking
operations will already be
under way before the 5 p.m.
closing hour. At least one
participating dairy farm - in
Cecil county - regularly
begins its evening milking at
2:30 p.m.
For the first time in its 12-
year history, Farm
Visitation Day will have
farms open for inspection on
the Eastern Shore, below the
Sassafras river. These will
include three in Talbot
county - all in the Easton
area. They will offer a first
hand look at broiler-growing
grain and dairy fanning.
Southern Maryland farms
will offer the traditional look
at tobacco, grain and
livestock. And the U.S.
Naval Academy dairy farm
at Gambrills (Anne Arundel
county) will again be hosting
visitors, as it has every year
since Farm Visitation Day
began in the state; New this
year will be the chance to
visit a dairy goat farm in
West of Blue Ball, PA on Route 23
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Calvert county, including
goat-milking demonstration
at 5 p.m*
Directions to all
ticipating farms are Listed!'
a free Farm Visitation Day
brochure, available f roi :
Extension offices and
libraries in the nine par.
ticipating counties -
Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert
Cecil, Charles, Frederick,’
Harford, Talbot and
Washington.
Additional information is
available from the office o!
Roy D. Porter, Extensa
coordinator of special:
communications at the
University of Maryland Q
College Park. His telephone
number is (301) 454-3712»
454-4064,
Farm Visitation Day
sponsored each year by t
University of Marylani
Cooperative Extensu
Service and the statewii
Farm-City Committee
major farm organizatioi
Maryland are represented