2$ lie. 10
The tagging of the 1980 Junior Beef Steer cham
pion, to be announced on Thursday afternoon, will
be one of the major highlights of the 64th Penn
sylvania Farm Show. Last year's winner, “Moose".
\FHA Chapters drop out of Farm Show
I BY DEBRA STRICKLER
I LIUTZ —Three years ago
■the Pennsylvania Depart-
Iment of Education made a
I decision that gravely af
fected the ,Farm Show’s
economics exhibits.
Specifically, it affected the
involvement of a vocational
organization, the Future
Homemakers of America.
The administrative
decision discontinued the
school exhibits at the State
Show. The open and 4-H
classes remained.
As a result of the decision,
PHA members have been
Gasohol Comm,
holds first meeting
EPHRATA - The State
Gasohol Commission, Inc.
held its first meeting
Thursday afternoon on the
Miles and Morton Fry farm
‘near here.
A packed greenhouse
heard half a dozen speakers
address, questions ranging
irom operation of farm stills
to financing multi-million
dollar alcohol facilities.
About ,400 persons from
Pennsylvania, and neigh- t
School exhibits disnnntmned
required to enter their
sewing and food projects in
the open, adult class com
petition.
This decision, according to
Carolyn Kratz, state home
economics supervisor, was
purely an administrative
decision. The Department of
Education needed to put
their priorities in the proper
perspective.
many
home economics teachers
and students were upset
when the state ended a vital
aspect of the FHA and Farm
Show programs.
boring states attended the
organizational meeting. -
The State Gasohol Com
mission, according to Board
Chairman Edmund
Reynolds, will provide a
voice for all parties in
terested in gasohol
production.
He said the group will
distribute information on
gasohol production on the
farm and on the factory
level.
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LmcMtar Farming, Saturday, January 5, 1980
was a 1210 pound Angus-Chianina crossbred ex
hibited by Steve Long, Peach Bottom. Pictured are
Steve’s brother Sam, at halter, and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Long.'
“I wish home economics
teachers could see the
situation from another
angle. They bought their
students’ exhibits to the
Farm Show, they left, and
they didn’t realize what was
involved,’’ states Kratz.
Kratz cites the staff, its
salary, rental costs
security, and transportation
costs as contributing to the
excessive cost of the
program.
Staff members were
required to ftork evenings
and weekends. This meant
tune and half time for their
wages.
It took a staff of at least 25
people to register and
manage the exhibit areas.
Now there are only two
people on our staff. Glen
dean Davis and myself,
noted Kratz.
Mary Gardner, a
Manbeim Central home
economics teacher ex
plained how area teachers
volunteered to assist in the
registration of projects and
other aspects of the school
exhibits.
Their efforts were to no
avail. Hie Department of
Education upheld its
decision.
Carolyn Kratz offered a
second major reason for the
withdrawal of the school
exljihits.,.
She maintains the school
exhibits were not a state
wide FHA project.
“I’d estimate 70 per cent of
the participation came from
FHA Chapters in the Lan
caster - Lebanon County
areas. A few entries were
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Bucks-Mont broiler growers
iced by chicken cartel
BY DICK WANNER
SOUDERTON - A
complicated snaggle of
government and
a kind of chicken cartel have
frozen sales to a major
market for broiler growers
who were selling their birds
through the Montgomery-
Bucks Farm Bureau- in
Souderton.
And the situation doesn’t
look like its going to get
much" better soon, according
to Robert Day, part-owner
and secretary-treasurer of
Maple Lodge Farms,
Canada’s largest in
dependent processor of
chickens.
Maple Lodge lias been
buying U.S. chicken fot a
till h «k «. v. A * * Xm
To run January 6-11
in Harrisburg
HARRISBURG The 64th annual Pennsylvania Farm
Show opens at the Farm Show Complex here on Sunday at
Ip.m.
. The 1980 Show will continue through Friday January 11.
Doors will be open daily from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.
The Complex is located just off Interstate 81 on
Cameron Street.
The Show this year honors the Commonwealth’s 59,000
farm families, including 5000 in Lancaster County. Show’s
theme is “Pennsylvania Farm Families Producning the
Finest Quality for Your Table.”
Underlining the family farm connection is the scheduled
unveiling at the Show’s Sunday opening of a new Penn
/Sylvania Farm Product symbol.
. The logo and slogan will be presented by Governor
Richard Thornburgh during ceremonies which are open to
the public.
In past years, the Sunday opening ceremonies were
closed* to the public and a ticket was required for ad
mission. This year no ticket will be required.
The farm logo will be showcased all week long at Farm
Show. It will be used throughout the coming years to
identify and promote Pennsylvania farm products.
Unlike last year’s show, all classes of livestock will be at
the 1980 Show all week long.
Special Farm Show pull-out
- About 4200 farm animals including dairy cows, beef
cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry will be on display.
Exhibitors will compete for ribbons and cash awards in
numerous classes.
There has been some cutback in the number of livestock
to be displayed at the Show. Commercial exhibitors also
were cut back by as much as 10 percent of their last year's
exhibit space.
Farm Show Director Hugh Coffman said Thursday
there were no major problems with the reassignment of
space to commercial exhibitors.
He said 245 commercial exhibitors were setting up pn
the Farm Show floor at that time. AH will be agriculture'
related exhibits.
Canadian questions legality
number of years from
Montgomery-Bucks and
suppliers in other states
including Delaware, New
Jersey, Indiana and
Michigan. Day said
Canadian chicken growers
just do not produce enough
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Farm Show sheep showman,
20; Four Keystonesoris each, 24; Typey dairy heifers, 25.
SECTION B: Top swine showman, 2; Ask the VMD, 6;
Schuylkill DHIA, 7.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Joyce Bupp, 18;- Pa.
Honey Queen, 22; Lancaster Keystone FFA’ers, 29.
SECTION D: Adams Keystone FFA'ers, 6; Chester FFA,
15; Cumberland FFA, 18; Farm Show pullout, 21;
Lebanon FFA, 36; York FFA, 47.
SECTION E': Evening Farm Show events, 12; Farm Show
* y rather v 2O;
BYCURTHARLER
starts on page D2I
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In this issue
$7.00 Par Van
broilers to meet consumer
demands.
Michael Zapach, who
heads up Montgomery-
Bucks, said the co-op
members have been selling
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