m GREENMOUNT - At a special meeting sponsored by the Maryland and Penn sylvania Polled Hereford Associations, Frank Darcey, president of the Pa. association introduced the new officers of the Junior association. Randall Becker, Dover, will serve as the 1980 president. And, as vice president, the association selected Paul Hartman, Gettysburg. Jane Sikorski, Emmaus, and Blake McCleary, MR. FARMER! For More Profitable Crops Use Alpine Liquid Plant Food Alpine contains pure food grade nutrients for faster & higher availability than conventional fertilizers. Alpine offers ease of handling, low cost and can be applied directly on plants for quick absorption or directly on seeds without burning of leaves or damage to roots. Alpine contains a PH of 7.0 plus many minor trace elements. Alpine will not freeze, rust, corrode or settle out. MARCH BASE PRICE $2.55 a gal. of 9-18-9 delivered. VOLUME DISCOUNTS UP TO 20< a gal. HAROLD WOLF rd m Centre Hall, PA 16828 814-364-1349 CLYDE BARTHOLOMEW RD2 Orangeville, PA 17859 717-784-1779 Junior Polled Hereford Assoc, elects officers Biglerville, will serve as secretary and treasurer respectively. Also introduced were the new year’s directors, Jerry McCannon, Schellsburg, and David Shultz, Mechan icsburg, serving a one year term, and Nancy Carson and Aaron Weilerstein, both of Philadelphia, serving two •year terms. On the Junior’s future agenda is a beef field day, scheduled for June 14 at Douglassville. Alan Ott, director of youth activities Pennsylvania Distributors GARY REPLOGLE R.D 4'80x264 Bedford, PA 15522 814-847-2851 for the American Polled Hereford Association, and Erskme Cash, coordinator of purebred beef cattle at Penn State will be the guest speakers. The new officers, along with 114 members of the Pa and Md. associations, heard ' from Robert Scarth, vice president of education and research for APHA, con cerning a management tool called ‘ ‘Guidelines’ ’. Scarth noted the problem for most breeders is to find bulls that will sire progeny JIM LANDIS R.D 1 East Greenville, PA 18041 215-679-2682 DICK WILSON R.D. 1 Stewartstown, PA 17363 717-993-6101 i ALPINE superior to the present calf crops. He noted that the genetic heritabihty, or the chances that a certain trait is passed from parent to offspring, for weaning weight is 30 per- -y The 1980 Junior Polled Hereford Association officers are, from left, Randall Becker, president; Jane Sikorski, secretary; and Blake McCleary, treasurer. Not pictured is Paul Hartman, vice-president. NOW CONTRACTING FOR SPECIALTY CORN AT PREMIUM PRICES Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1980—€31 cent. The milk production of the dam has a significant influence on the actual weight of the weaned calf, he said. The chances that the calf will have the same birth GIGANTIC SELECTION IN Lancaster Farming's CLASSIFIEDS Staley CORN-DERIVED PRODUCTS FOR FARM, HOME AND INDUSTRY For information call A.E. STALEY MFG. CO. Morrisville, Pa (215)295-5011 . weight of its parents is 40 percent inherited, along with its yearling weight. The Guidelines program helps breeders to test the performance of their bulls and cows, and aids them in selecting for specific traits, Scarth added. Ge emphasized the fact that ease of calving can be linked to the birth weight, however he pointed out sire selection should be most influenced by the weaning weight records. The workshop was held last Saturday, at the Greenmount Fire Hall, west of Gettysburg.
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