10®—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2,1978
Maryland wins 6th in poultry contest
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
This year’s Maryland 4-H
poultry and egg judging
team finished a respectable
sixth in the national contest,
held November 16 in con
nection with the North
American Livestock Ex
position at Louisville, Ky.
The team placed third
among 18 competing state
teams in judging market
poultry.
Debbie Jackson, 14, of
Port Deposit, likewise
placed third among all in
dividuals in the market
poultry division, and she was
sixth in judging eggs.
Craig Banks, 15, of
Pocomoke City, placed tenth
in egg judging at the national
contest.
Grange deliberates
DENVER, Colo. - During
their fifth day of
deliberations, delegates
attending the 112th Annual
Session of the National
Grange in Denver, Colo,
voted recently to support
measures which would
restrict the purchase of U.S.
farm land by non-resident
aliens for investment pur
poses. They also called for
reducing or eliminating
favorable tax treatment
presently afforded foreign
investors.
In an effort to further
develop foreign trade the
Grange favors an expansion
of export credits to aid m
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Other members of the
Maryland team were Robert
Dowling, 18, of Montpelier
and Ellen D. Brown, 15, of
Rising Sun.
The Maryland team
members had been top four
individuals in senior 4-H
poultry and egg judging
competition on August 29
during the Maryland State
Fair in Timomum. Miss
Brown and Miss Jackson
were also members of Cecil
County’s state championship
team.
Coaching this year’s
Maryland team in national
competition was Dr. Charles
J. Wabeck, Extension
poultry science specialist at
the University of Maryland’s
Eastern Shore research
substation near Salisbury.
Assisting with the team’s
moving farm products into
protected markets and those
without adequate foreign
exchange. The delegates
also called for a more liberal
Commodity Credit Cor
poration export credit policy
combined with granting
most-favored-nation status
to the Soviet Union and the
People’s Republic of China.
They said that this would be
a means of increasing grain
pre-contest training were
William C. Merka, Ex
tension poultry science
specialist at the University
of Maryland in College Park,
and Thomas 0. Meredith,
Jr., of Cordova, Maryland
egg law supervisor for the
State Department of
Agriculture.
Also, Theodore A. Haas of
Snow Hill, Extension 4-H and
youth agent in Worcester
County, and Janet L. Shank
of Elkton, Extension
agricultural and 4-H agent in
Cecil County.
Maryland 4-H poultry and
egg judging teams have won
national championships at
least five times in the past 42
years. This record includes
victories in 1937, 1949, 1956,
1961 and 1962.
on national issues
and soybean export sales
and help improve farm in
come.
They also support the
passage of a counter-cyclical
bill which would reduce
foreign beef imports when
domestic supply is in surplus
and allow increasesd im
ports when domestic supply
falls below the level needed
to maintain adequate sup
plies of meat to consumers.
auu timing the era from
1928 to 1940, the state’s 4-H
poultry and egg judging
teams never finished lower
than third in national
competition, according to
Wade H. Rice, Upper
Marlboro, Extension
poultryman at the
University of Maryland in
College Park from 1922 to
1961.
Roscoe N. Whipp, Rock
ville, recalls that he was a
member of a Rice-coached
team which won the national
4-H poultry and egg judging
contest in 1937. And he was
the first-place individual m
the contest. Whipp retired in
1973 after nearly 31 years as
a county Extension 4-H and
youth agent in Montgomery
County.
The Grange also called for
a balanced budget and
warned against reducing
taxes without cutting
spending at the federal level.
They also reaffirmed their
support of the Capper-
Volstead Act and expressed
opposition to any legislation
which would repeal the
present provisions of the Act
as it relates to agricultural
co-ops.
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