Farm Show opening ceremonies attract thousands
HARRISBURG - For the
first tune in the show’s
history, the Pa. Farm Show
opened its doors to the public
on Sunday afternoon.
Thousands of people poured
through the doors to take
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part in the state’s largest
agriculture show.
Governor Richard
Thornburgh visited the show
for a short time on Sunday
afternoon, and his wife,
Gmny, helped out with the
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This was the Thornburgh’s
first Farm Show.
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will grow.”
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ticularly impressed with
farm families’ faith and
dedication She said she
enjoyed watching the
animals being p’-ervared for
show ai.fi all the precom
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mthe air
during the opening
ceremonies, Mrs Thorn
burgh unveiled the Pa
commodities logo.
“The Pa Department of
Agriculture wants to give
farmers the best shot
possible through better
markets,” she said
Secretary of Agriculture
Penrose Hallo well said the
logo lias met with positive
response when the idea was
presented to area merchants
and produce growers.
“We have been waiting for
its introduction here at the
Farm Show, but Penn
sylvanians will be seeing the
new logo within one or two
weeks,” Hallowell said.
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new logo, according to
Hallowell, will be a more
sound financial and
economic outlook for far
mers. This, he said, will help
to preserve farmers and as a
result, farmland.
Secretary Hallowell
thanked Mother Nature for
the slight scuff of snow snd
lots of sunshine that greeted
the opening day visitors He
told the crowd this year’s
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Governor Thornburgh and Secretary Hallowetl
visit with Laura Karina, Indiana. The Karina’s grow
some of Pennsylvania's finest Christmas trees in
their nursery.
No gentleman farmer, this. Bucks County
Dairyman and State Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell showed how it’s done, twice a day every
day. And he hardly creased his pinstripes.
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show is dedicated to the
59,000 farm families in the
state.
It featured over 4200 head
of livestock and poultry, and
thousands of other entries
competing for $llO,OOO in
prizes. Visitors saw hun
dreds of machinery and
commeru-d erhrb'to and
t.sr J o'" the famous
Far-") ~IhaLea rjtatoes
and milk shakes
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