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Wagner, enologist, author and editor was the featured banquet speaker at the Eleventh Pennsylvania Wine Conference, Feb. 6 and 7, 1979, in Hershey. Wagner is one of the ‘pioneers’ of the ‘new’ pastern wine industry. His address concerned “Eastern Wine Growing - Problems and Prospects.” Other program topics included two panel discussions on “Vinification of Seyval for Different Styles of Wine” and ‘‘The Economical Selection and Use of Equipment in the Small Winery.” The first panel concerning Seyval wines was followed by a blind tasting and evaluation and discussion of four types of Seyval wine by members of the audience. Ms. Lis§t van der Water of the Wine Lab, St. Helena, California, talked about two areas of vital im portance to the winery in cluding “Practical Methods of Determing Microbiological Spoilage of Wine” and “Services Available to Small Wineries Through a Consulting Laboratory.” XL-72b Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10,1979 A new concept .in managing vineyard pests was presented in detail by Dr. G. L. Jubb, Jr., Associate Professor of Entomology at the Erie County Field Research Laboratory of Penn State and Thomas Oboum, Erie County agricultural Ex tension agent. Dr. Robert Beelman, Associate Professor of Food Science described how to use freeze-dried malo-lactic bacterial cultures for Sheep and lambs hit record low HARRISBURG - In ventory of sheep and lambs on Pennsylvania farms on January 1, 1979 at 75,000 head was a record low and down six per cent from a year earlier, according to the Pennsylvania Crop and Livestock Reporting Ser vice. 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Additionally, ladies attending the' meetings were invited to attend the program spon sored by the Ladies Auxiliaries of the State Horticultural and Vegetable Associations. 103 per 100 ewes one year and older in 1978 compared to 104 per 100 m 1977. Sheep and lamb numbers in the United States on January 1, 1979 totaled 12.2 million head, down one per cent from the 12.3 million head on farms a year earlier and the smallest inventory since records were begun in 1867. The inventory value of all sheep and lambs January 1, 1979, jumped 38 per cent from a year ago to $876 million. The 1978 lamb crop of 8.02 million head was seven per cent below the previous year. The nation’s 1978 lambing rate was 94 per 100 ewes compared with 97 per 100 in 1977. 113
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