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RRISBURG - The 63rd
n of the Pennsylvania
Farm Show will kick
a Sunday, January 7,
the annual Governor’s
ipp showing Belgians for the 28th year
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_ For the 28th
Elmer D. Lapp, Kinzer
wUI be taking his
ans to the Penn
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Richard Thornburgh
nosen Bucks County
r Penrose Hallowell,
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The Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture,
in cooperation with the
Pennsylvania State Police
‘and other crime fighting
agencies will be putting on a
demonstration of how to
Preview and Press Tour,
according to State
Agriculture Secretary Kent
Shelhamer, who on Friday
the year after World War II
ended, the horseman has
been making the annual trek
to compete with his favprite
breed of draft horses.
Calling himself an “or-
Secretary of Agriculture.
The appointment requires a
two-thirds confirmation by
the State Senate.
Hallowell, who was active
in the Thornburgh for
Lancaster Farmint, Saturday, January 6,1979
mark farm machinery as a
safeguard against theft.
The agronomy department
of Penn State University
invites farmers to bring
samples of feeds for analysis
on a new machine called the
announced plans for the
afternoon program.
Shelhamer said that the
Governor’s Preview has
become an annual tradition
dinary farmer”, he waShom
on the farm he now owns. His
father had grade Belgians,
he explained, and he
followed in his footsteps.
Today, his two sons help him
governor campaign and
instrumental in bringing
rural votes to the victorious
candidate, says he is excited
about serving in the new
administration. He credits
“lnfrared Spectro-
Analyzer.”
According to information
provided by agronomist
John Baylor, the electronic
gadget provides rapid
nutritional analysis of
at the Farm Show. He noted
that a full afternoon of ac
tivities has been planned for
this year’s event. The theme
for this year’s Farm Show is
with his horses, in what has
sort of become a family
tradition.
Elvin, his older son, helps
with the horses and has Ids
own as well. Evan, the
Thornburgh for having high
goals and standards.
" Hallowell’s experience
and abilities in government
work and his knowledge of
fanning are said to be
forages and feedstuffs. The
- machine will be demon
stratd at the Farm Show by
Penn Staters Dr. John S.
Shenk and bis staff. It’ll be
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Pennsylvania Agriculture:
The Essential Industry. -
Commodity queens
representing Pennsylvania’s
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younger member of the
family, still at home, assists
him as well.
Lapp presently has Iffhead
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among the qualities Thom*
burgh considered when he
chose the Bucks Countian.
Hallowell himself believes
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