Lancaster County Pomona Lancaster County Pomona 71 met April 26, at White Horse Fire Hall with the As soon as all the governmental red tape & details are completed, we will be having an OPEN HOUSE on a farm in Lebanon County showing the NEW MARTIN AG FUEL SYSTEM in operation with trucks, tractors and furnace running on ag fuel. We are also planning to have an inter esting educational meeting in a local auditorium with a few well qualified speakers. WATCH FOR FUTURE ADS GIVING TIME, PLACE, DIRECTIONS & MORE DETAILS Please don’t ask to see the equipment which is oper ating now, before Open House. We are too busy getting ready and setting up production, thank you. MARTIN DISTRIBUTORS, INC. 71 adopts resolutions Salisbury Grange as host. Overseer Leßoy Welk conducted an open meeting. Two resolutions were passed. One urged a con tinuance of Saturday mail delivery. The other urged setting up legislation that would permit smaller municipalities to form waste disposal groups to process methanol. Copies of these resolutions were sent to state and national represen tatives. Legislative chairman, Jesse Wood, reported on -House Bill 2360 on control of noxious weeds, especially Johnson Grass and Multi Flora Rose. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Holloway, Jr. were elected delegates to Penn sylvania University Trustee Election. Everyone was reminded of the Buy a Brick fund. And were invited to Fulton Grange on Monday, June 9 for the annual strawberry and ice cream night. August 23rd is the picnic meeting at Huffnagle Park. Letters are being sent to Penn Dot and the Chester- Delaware Pomona m the hopes of getting some action on the Route 272 Kirks Bridge. Doctor Thomas Regan talked on the prevention of tooth disease. He said basically these diseases are social in nature, due to the increased refmed - sugar consumption. Berks and Bucks hold sheep shearing school LEESPORT shepherds had an op portunity to leam the art of shearing their own sheep last week as Berks and Bucks County Extension Services sponsored a sheep shearing school, here at Berks County Farm Number One, next to the County Ag Center. Instructing the two evening affair was Bucks County Extension Agent Mike Fournier. Fournier taught the Sunbeam or WANTED ★ District Sales Manager ★ Dealers to Sell & Service Equipment ★ Manufacturing Plants DETAILS UPON REQUEST Barrett Borry, R 2 Mt. Joy, demonstrates sheep shearing at the recent Bucks- Berks sheep shearing school. Australian method where the shearer uses his or her legs to hold the sheep during the shearing process. He emphasized the im portance of correct feet and leg placement in correlation to the sheep’s body. The hands are kept free for shearing and keepmg the skin of the animal taunt, making it less likely to ruck the sheep with the shears. Area Fournier also notvd the importance of keeping the front legs of the sheep off the Martin Ag Fuel System produces 160 Proof Ethanol (alcohol) From Corn ■ Completely Automatic - Continuous Flow with safety backup, testing instruments and supplies. ■ No Operator needed - Nothing like it. Patents Pending. ■ Various sizes from 25 to 5000 gallons per day capacity. ■ Very low operating cost - Approximately 50' gal. considering corn at $3.00 bu. and the value of the high protein feed. ■ We provide and prepare federal and state permit and zoning applications plus local service dealer training operations and supplies. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1980—€31 ground, preventing the animal from struggling to get free. Starting on the belly of the animal, the shearing progressed to the hind legs, up over the rump and top of tail. The instructor explained the importance of using long strokes to preserve the value of the fleece, giving a full length to the fibers. Next, he sheared the head and under the neck of the sheep and worked around to the front legs and across the back, Mash dryer, small hammer or roller mill, prefab insulated building, dry and high moisture grain storage equipment, grain storage augers, fuel tanks and pumps. Rl. LEBANON, PA 17042 PHONE 717-866-4906 717-866-4555 removing the fleece in one piece. LS
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