A 3A—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5,1980 Farm Show opens (Continued from Pace Al) The Farm Show cut out all non-agricultural products from the Show. Soms, like the encyclopedia people, had been at the Show for over 20 years. Coffman said he, earlier had feared some of the exhibitors who had indoor space for the first time at the 1979 Farm Show were going to lose their space. But by finding space off the main exhibit floor and through cancellations, all were able to find indoor spaces. Coffman said the Farm Show is a tremendous logistical undertaking. And at past Shows some problems have been more acute than at others. Water, for example, often is taken for granted. But last year when the dairy barn’s water supply dried up in the middle of the Show, it became obvious something had to be done. Coffman said Farm Show plans a $265,000 to $275,000 renovation of the building’s water supply lines. Plans were drawn up in May and the blueprints recently were completed. At present, Coffman said, the financial appropriation for file project is winding its way through the legislature. He said he hoped the funds would be approved so work could start this coming spring. “It will be a major undertaking,” Coffman said. “We plan to tear out the old lines and start new construction of lines where there never were water lines before.” Ke said the lines would be put overhead for the most part instead of below ground as the old lines were. That will afford easier access in case repairs need to be made. For this year’s Show he said he could only hope there would be no water supply problems. Also on the horizon is a plan to expand the existing Complex by 60,000 to 75,000, square feet. Coffman said plans call for a building to be added to the Northwestern comer of the existing buildings. This would be somewhere immediately near the new beef cattle bam. Because of the location of the boiler room there is some question over exactly where the building’s addition will attach to the existing buildings. Monday night’s program will feature for the first time the naming of the Outstanding Pennsylvania Farm Family. The Monday program will be part of Secretary of Agriculture’s Night in the large arena. State Agriculture Secretary Penrose Hallowell will present the farm family award at that time.' The Future Fanners of America will honor 330 young men and women with the Keystone Fanner Degree, the highest state award for FFA. Tuesday will mark the Pennsylvania Auctioneers Contest in the small arena. Anyone intrigued by the auctioneers’ chant will find an earful of calls at the 4 p.m. event. Also on Tuesday evening, the state Folk Dance Festival and Contest will be held m the large arena. This colorful event begins at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening’s highlight is the horse pulling contest which gets underway at 4:30. It will be followed by the 4-H horse and pony demon stration and pull on Thursday night starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday will feature the first ever sheep-to-shawl contest with wool growers demonstrating their crafts from shearing to sewing. COMPLETE DISPERSAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 1:00 P.M. Airydowns Farm, Duane Wilcox, Mansfield, Tioga Co., PA. To be held at Sennett Sales, Inc., Sennett, NY, 4 miles East of Auburn on Rt. 5. 92 HEAD REGISTERED CATTLE Sires Represented: 8 Elevations, 10 Hillhaven Standout Job, 7 Paclamar Astronauts, 4 Arlmda Jet Streams, 3 Penndel Gent Larry, 3 Will Tn-Farm Legacy, 2 Whittier Farms Astro Galaxy, 2 Duncravm Boehms Countdown. Heifers as follows; 12 strictly fresh, 6 milking and bred back, 7 springing first calf very close, 20 first calf due in Feb. 12, recently bred for Aug. or Sept., 9 ready to breed or just bred, 8 yearlings, 4 started calves, 7 small calves. Also 7 started bulls, approx. 5-7 mo. All registered from classified DHtA dams and nearly all sired by top sires, very fancy young cattle. Mr. Wilcox is retiring after 30 yrs. All calfhood vaccinated, vaccinated for shipping fever. Pregnancy examined. Catalogs. Managed by SENNETT SALES, INC. Sennett, NY 315-253-3579 Robert M. Shaylor Sales Troy, PA 717-297-3278 Pedigree-Huck Heints Traditional highlight of the Show is the Thursday af ternoon judging, of the Junior Beef Grand Champion. ’ The abat'd brihgs iri&dht niches to" some young cat tleman who will see the steer auctioned Friday morning for a price expected to break the $6 a pound mark again this year. Youth and vocational exhibits will line the concourse around the large arena. 1 ' Farm Show week is a traditional meeting time for various farm organizations and commodity groups. Many organization dinners are scheduled for the Penn Hams Motor Inn, on the West side of the Susquehanna River along Routes 11-15 in Camp Hill. Solar collector can dry crops UNIVERSITY PARK - Heat from bare and covered plate solar energy collectors is being applied to agricultural crop drying and has potential, as an energy alternative. “Solar energy is well suited to the low tem perature method of grain drying because this method utilizes small ’ air’ tem perature rises oyer extended periods of time,” says Gene C. Shove, professor of agricultural engineering at the University of Illinois. Shove, a speaker at the recent Forage, Com and Seed Conference held at Penn State, pointed out that 1,.-**'' !|i fyj * ' s V^ &&kdl What makes Beacon shine? When we make our feeds, we manufacture them at thirteen locations and distribute them from nineteen in our’Srea, including the middle Atlantic and New England states, plus the mainland portions of Mary land and Delaware We don't operate these facilities as “branches” They’re each autonomous satellite operations that make feeds that match the needs of farm operators m their surrounding areas Therefore, what these satellites manufacture is the freshest, most palatable feed possible The geography and autonomy of our system does not affect our consistency in quality from plant to plant Our Quality Control lab in small air temperature rises allow solar collectors to function with minimum temperature differentials, which allow the collectors to operate efficiently. He emphasized that farm buildings have large areas available for the placement of flat plate solar collectors. They can be incoporated mto the surfaces with little or not change in the design and construction of the buddings. He noted that as multiple uses are developed, flat plate solar collectors will become a viable energy resource for many agricultural production processes. * BEACON We’re employee owned. Thatfs why we shine. York, PA. PH: 717-843-9033 ... 'Thfe-Show-alSO'WilHeatureja wide range of'farm-ac tivities and products .from Master Com Growers Association to the NutFroducers,ffomlhe Rural Electric * Association to the Society of Farm Womens’ Convention, Dairy, potato, swine and Christmas tree farmers all will J have their annual meetings during Show week. Farm Show is the largest free indoor agricultural exhibition in the nation. Only chargesdo anticipate are a $1 parking fee and a few doliar§ pocket money to spend on a baked potato, and locally produced goodies at other farm Commodity booths. It’s a show all farm families should plan to attend and enjoy. Consignment Machinery Sale SATURDAY, MARCH 1 10:00 A.M. Location on Rt. 519, Belvidere, NJ. 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