Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware VOL. 23 Wo. (^? Representatives of PennAg Industries Association looked on recently as Governor Milton Shapp proclaimed Wednesday, Sept. 20, Pennsylvania Agribusiness Day. Also at the signing with Shapp, center, was Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Kent W. Shelhamer, left. To Shapp’s right is PennAg president William Ryan, Pittsburgh, representing the Association’s 400 agribusiness member firms from across the state. Standing, left to right, are: Robert L. Weindel, Harrisburg; D. Jay Wolgemuth, Mt. Joy: Kenneth G. Beachley, Camp Hill; George W. Robinson, Kreamer; John J. Hess, 11, Paradise, and PennAg executive vice-president Donald W. Parke, Ephrata. Kim Weaver Solanco beef show ByKENDACEBORRY QUARRYVILLE - Kim Weaver, Quarryvilie R 2, took her 4-H steer Ace to the top to be named grand champion of the Solanco Fair’s beef show Thursday night, after placing first in the heavyweight division of the 4-H classes. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Weaver, Kim showed a Limousme-Angus crossbred steer weighing 1225 pounds that she had purchased from Sam Wylie, Chester County. She is a member of the Lancaster County Beef and Sheep Club and a senior at Solanco High School. The reserve champion of the show was shown by Troy g (Turn to Page 47) In this issue The new support price for manufacturing milk will he at 80 per cent parity. See page 63. An agronomist with DeKalb Hybrids has called for the resurrection of the cultivator. See page 100 for details. A horse plowing contest was held in Lancaster County. Please see page 118. Southeast 4-H dairy show 22 Homestead Notes 50 Kendy’sKollumn 50 Joyce hupp 50 Ida’s Notebook 53 Farm Women Calendar 55 Jr. Cooking Edition 56 Home on the Range 56 Classifieds 64 Dauphin DHIA 98 Leipnon DHIA 101 Leader dogs 106 Cumberland DHIA 108 Swedish IF YE HI Keith Eckel, a Lackawanna dairyman and tomato grower told members of the Pennsylvania news media this week that his migrant workers are being pressured into unwanted services by Susquehanna Human Services, an arm of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. With Eckel were Pennsylvania Farmers Association president Eugene Thompson and information director Richard Prether, right. Rutter’s Guernseys win at York Fair YORK The Rutters of York added considerably to their show circuit trophies and ribbons when the York Fair’s Open Guernsey Show ended here on Wednesday night. They captured every championship title from reserve junior on up to grand. One of the few honors which eluded them was the Best Female Bred and Owned by Exhibitor class, which was won by 11-year old Brian Lehman, also of York. Other top contenders in the show included Honeycrest Farm of York, Rohrbaugh’s Guernseys of New Freedom, and Hobaugh’s Guernseys of York. The Rutter family, which has shown its Guernseys (Turn to Page 26) Lancaster Farming, Saturday,. September 16,1978 The Rutters of York made a clean sweep of the championship ribbons at the York Fair on Wed nesday night. Shown left to right areleo Rutter, Cindy with the grand champion, Tina with the Agribusiness Day proclaimed HARRISBURG - A day to honor Pennsylvania agribusiness has been set aside by Governor Milton Shapp. A proclamation which he signed here recently named Wednesday, September 20, 1978, as Confrontation shaping up between PFA and social services agency By DIETER KRIEG CAMP HILL - The Pennsylvania Farmers Association on Monday came out in complete sup port of one of its members and directors, a Lackawanna County dairyman and vegetable grower who claims he is PennAg convention Pennsylvania Agribusiness Day. In signing the proclamation. Gov. Shapp noted that the Com monwealth’s agricultural sales last year totalled some $2.4 billion. The farmers who being harrassed by a social services agency. At a morning press con ference held here at the Penn Harris Motor Inn, with a dozen news media representatives on hand, PFA president Eugene Thompson informed listeners that the largest of Pennsylvania’s farm Reading Fair honors Elwood Ohlinger family By DIETER KRIEG READING A Berks County farm family which prides itself on working, worshipping, playing, and participating in community events together was in troduced this week as the Outstanding Farm Family for the 1978 Reading Fair. The selection had been made Sept. 5 during a recognition banquet sponsored by the Agricultural and Hor ticultural Association of Berks County. The dinner was held in the Fleetwood Grange Hall with Penn sylvania Agriculture Secretary Kent Shelhamer as guest speaker. The selection of the reserve grand champion, Timy with the junior champion, and Todd with the reserve junior champion. $6.00 Per Year produce Pennsylvania’s food depend on a very complex network of suppliers and marketers. Without that agribusiness network, farmers simply would not be (Turn to Page 18) organizations is requesting a congressional investigation into “questionable activities of the Farmworkers Cor poration and its sub contractors. Thompson also said that PFA has filed complaints with Penn sylvania Governor Shapp and the Commonwealth’s (Turn to Page 41) Elwood Ohlinger family, Mohrsville Rl, as the Out standing Farm Family for 1978 might best be desribed in the words of his spon soring Grange, the On telaunee Grange 1617. Master Ray Davis and lecturer Carol Etchberger wrote the following in an introductory letter: “We feel the Ohlinger family is the best representative our Grange could wish for because they are what the Grange is all about - a farm family in terested and involved in all phases of community af fairs.” Aside from their 454-acre Hum to Page 35)
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