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Two dairy issues
fly through Senate
BY CURT HARLER
HARRISBURG - It was a
busy week for dairy business
on Capitol Hill as Hie Senate
passed unanimously its Milk
Security Fund legislation.
Dairy month’s coming
LITITZ This year
Lancaster Fanning again is
planning to celebrate June
Dairy Month with the
broadest and most complete
dairy coverage in the East.
We are extending a special
invitation to dairy groups,
DHIAs, and other producer
organizations, to submit
articles and news on
dairying for our dairy issue.
In addition, we’ll be
featuring a month-long
senes of dairy recipes m our
Home on the Range pages in
Section C. It’s certain to be
the state’s largest and most
fantastic collection of tasty
dairy ideas, from
milkshakes to cheese dishes.
Legislative roundup
And senators waited until
the final possible day to
confirm the latest
nomination to the Penn
sylvania Milk Marketing
Board.
We’ll have a special dairy
month gift as a token of our
appreciation to all those who
submit recipes used on our
dairy pages.
To be sure your favonte
group, firm, or club ac
tivities can be included in
our June 7 Dairy Month
special, please submit all
news by Junes.
Paid advertising matenal
is due by Friday, May 30.
Callous at 717/394-3047 or
717/626-1164. Or, write
Lancaster Farming, Box
366, Lititz PA 17543 and jom
in a milk toast to the state’s
largest and most dynamic
industry: dairying.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 10,1980
In addition, work con
tinued in both the Senate and
House on other important
farm legislation.
The Senate. voted Wed
nesday afternoon 49 to 0 to
approve SB 1287, the Milk
Security Fund.
Senate Agriculture
Committee Chairman
Patrick Stapleton had said
he would entertain no'am
mendments to SB 1287.
There were none.
Stapleton’s reaction came
not as a statement, just a big
smile.
Leonard Zemaitis, wat
ching the Hill for Penn
sylvania Farmers Union
said his group is giving the
milk security fund its
greatest priority.
“We back SB 1287 as it is
written,” Zemaitis said.
“We fear any attempt to
ammend it later will scuttle
the bill.
“It would confuse non-
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Welfare dumps farms in PDA’s lap
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG - The
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture became the
proud new owner of ten
Welfare farms on Wed
nesday.
Governor Dick Thorn
burgh signed the executive
order transferring the farms
lock-stock-and-barrel to
PDA through an inter
department agreement.
Before PDA realizes.-the
over 10,000 acres of land,
buildings, livestock
and equipment, the transfer
will go through the state’s
General Services Depart
ment for a paperwork
review.
Jim Wiggins, the press
-secretary for the Depart
ment of Public Welfare said
the department is commited
to seeing the land leased to
private farmers, and that
they wanted out of the far
ming business.
This fact was made known
by Welfare Secretary Helen
O’Bannon on March 3, 1980,
when die announced her
department was going ahead
with-a plan to phase out its
institutional farming
programs.
On March 14, furlough
notices were sent to 120 full
time state employees who
operated the farms
associated with the 10 state
hospitals or mental retar
dation centers.
According to Kirk Wilson,
the assistant press secretary
at the Governor’s office,
these 120 employees are now
either placed in positions in
either Welfare or PDA, or
they are attempting to place
them somewhere within the
state government. He said
that 57 employees have
stayed with Welfare, and 46
have accepted PDA
positions, leaving only 17 to
be placed.
FFA contests held through area
MANHEIM Jay Garber,
R 3 Elizabethtown, walked
away with top place honors
in the county FFA agronomy
judging competition held
Wednesday at Manheim
Central School.
From hay samples, weed
samples, photos and various
other displays, the students
classified and placed the
categories.
The agronomy com
petition was only one of
many 'area FFA com
petitions taking place
recently. In addition, there
were; dairy products
judging competition, see
page C2B; ag mechanics
competition, see page Dl4;
land judging competitions in
both Lancaster and Lebanon
counties, see pages A 26 and
A 32, respectively
Approximately 32 students
from- area schools par
In the Governor’s order, it
, was announced that the state
is planning to phase out of
farming altogether. The ten
farms that are now under the
wing of PDA will be
gradually and continually
turned over to the private
sector, but a deadline for
completing this transition
has been set for June 30,
1981.
The order goes one step
further and says the leasing
of the land and buildings will
be done giving preference to
people who are just getting
started in farming. This
should help them over the
financial hurdle of buying a
farm.
What will happen with the
farms from now until next
June? Wilson stated PDA
will be in charge of main
taining the farms and get-
Tobacco seedbed
sprayings begin
BY DICK ANGLESTEBV
LANDISVILLE .
Spraying of tobacco seed
beds to protect against blue
mold moved into high gear in
Lancaster County this week.
The seedbed spraying
program should begin when
the plants reach the size of a
dime and continue through
, the completion of tran
splanting, according to John
0. Yocum, agronomist and
tobacco researcher at Penn
State’s Southeast Field
Research Lab, Landisville.
“The fungicide spray
should be applied every five
days to a week,” Yocum
said.
“In the event of rainy
weather in which the
protectant is washed off, the
ticipated in the afternoon
agronomy' judging. Also
placing in the competition
were: 2.Barry Geib,
Manheim Central; 3. Glenn
Hartz, Grassland Chapter;
4. Mark Weber, Grassland;
5. Les Kreider,
Elizabethtown.
Final rap up on all the
competitions will be held at
In This Issue
SECTION A: Editorial, 10; Soil stewardship, 26;
Draft horse, 36.
SECTION B; Estate planning, 2; Dairy expo, 10;
Mothers day, 14; Classifieds, 15,
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Ida’s notebook, 5;
Home on range, 6; Joyce Bupp, 8; Ladies have you
heard, 9; Jr. cooking, 12; Hidden view farm, 18;
Custom rates, 27; Sheila’s shorts, 33.
SECTION D: Amer. farm project, 7; Milk check, 10;
Farm talk, 15; Apple blossoms, 16.
/ $7.00 Per Year
ting them ready to lease next
year. “They’ll look at the
present farming operations
and put on the touches
needed for leasing,” he said.
This time period, he ad
ded, will give PDA the
chance to make an efficient
transition from government
operations on the in
stitutional farms to private
farmers running them
This leasing plan is giving
some people butterflies in
their stomachs.
The Pennsylvania State
Grange has been the
foremost supporter of
keeping the instutional
farms in PDA, but said Dave
Weinstock, the farms are
more valuable as working
farms than in leasable land.
The PDA plan for leasing
involves only the land and
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application may need to be
increased to every three
"days.”
The recommended spray
for seedbeds is a fungicide
containing ferbam.
Blue mold fungus disease
already has been found in
seedbeds in Tennessee,
Kentucky and the Carolinas.
Also, it has been found in
fields in Florida and
Georgia.
“If a bed problem moves
into Virginia or Maryland,
Lancaster County growers
should make a particular
effort to protect their
seedbeds,” Yocum said.
“If the blue mold gets that
far north, it could easily
blow into here.”
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-Penn State Wednesday, June
11.*
While not all of the county
schools participate in each
competition, the county-wide
forum gives the students a
chance to pit their minds
against those from other
schools. A healthy spirit of
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