A S UNIVERSITY PARK - Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture, cited outstanding alumni, faculty, and students during the chapter’s annual banquet held recently at Penn State. Alumni honored for at tainments, and taken into membership, were Albert M. Best, Director of Research for Sperry New Holland at New Holland, and Robert H. Hodge, owner of Highland Orchards, Inc., of West Chester. } A graduate of the class of j 1942, Best is president of the ! American Society of i Agricultural Engineers. In ! 1979 he led a delegation of | engineers on a 21 day and 5,000 mile trip to exchange mechanization technology with industrial leaders of J|ama. Sperry New Holland he 1 >* N A , r Jo* Standard Equipment 95018, Grinding Wheel, Wheel Guard, Flange, Sanding Disc, Rubber Pad, Lock Nuts, Wrenches « Box 716, Rt. 322 society honors Best of New Holland has overall responsibility for developing programs to improve existing equipment and for providing data to support recommendations on new equipment. In the class of 1956, Hodge owns and operates Highland Orchards, along with his family. The farm orchards and roadside market are diverse, large, and suc cessful. With the exception of apples and peaches, nearly 100 per cent of the fruit, sweet corn, and other vegetables are marketed at the 600 acre farm. The “pick your own” system markets strawberries, peaches, nectarines, grapes, and other crops. A former Pennsylvania Outstanding Young Farmer, Hodge was named a Master Farmer in 1980. Honored for exceptional SANDER-GRINDER Compact, lightweight and most ver satile for heavy industrial use and home use. BLUE BALI MACHINE WORKS service m research with the College of Agriculture was Earl M, Kesler, professor of dairy science. His research with high-producing cows was described as “setting a standard for other studies throughout the world.” His findings in calf nutrition have led to modem feeding programs used today. Some of his in novative work includes use of waste milk for feeding calves, production of veal with milk replacers, and protein and cneigj levels for high producing cows. Honored for outstanding teaching was James H. Mortensen, associate professor of agricultural education. He is responsible for Penn State’s un dergraduate program for young peole planning to teach vocational agriculture. Cited for achievements with the Cooperative Ex tension Service was Richard S. Adams, professor of dairy science extension. He is considered to be a national authority on feeding dairy cattle for maximum milk production. The large in crease in milk production per cow in Pennsylvania since 1960, it was stated, has been influenced by his teaching and writing. Lon F, Fehr, of Pine Grove, received the senior scholarship award. Fehr is majoring in horticulture. The junior citation went to each of three students, Kathleen J. Schiever of R.D. 2. Harmony; Mane I Weber LITITZ The height you mow may very well deter mine the life of the grass in your lawn. Mowing the Kentucky bluegrass/red fescue type lawn closer than Vh. inches gradually weakens and eventually kills the grass. The end result is a thinned out lawn infested with a variety of weeds. 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Herr- Weber and Weinberger are man, professor of majoring in animal agricultural economics; bioscience. Roland M. Leach, professor Russell C. Lloyd of of poultry science; David R. Perkasie won the sophomore„ MacKenzie, associate scholarship award. Lloyd is' professor of plant pathology; majoring in general and Richard F. Stinson, agriculture. professor of agricultural Faculty members initiated education and horticulture. dose mowing is Close cutting neither looks more attractive nor lessens the number of tunes a lawn must be mowed. Evenness of cut rather than closeness makes a lawn attractive. Close cutting does not permit the lawn to manufacture the food it needs for building strong deep root systems and a dense sod. *669°° GOOD THRU MAY 31 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17,1980—C33 murder on lawns For the Kentucky bluegrass/red fecsue type lawn, the mower should be set to cut the grass at a height of IVz to 2 inches. This includes Menon Kentucky bluegrass. 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