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Something for eveiyone at Ag Progress
■ BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
■ ROCK SPRINGS There
will be something for
Everyone when the “biggest
Buid best ever” Ag Progress
Bays opens Tuesday at Penn
State’s Agricultural
Research Center.
I Theme of this year’s
■went,, which has attracted
Inore than 250 commercial
Exhibitors who are
Displaying some $2O million
north of equipment and
machinery, is “Penn State
Agriculture: 125 Years of
Krogress.”
I Machinery demon--
fttrations are scheduled
Ihroughout the event,
■Tuesday through Thursday.
Korn chopping and handling
Bt 10:30 a.m. is followed by
mowing at 11:30 a.m.
Krimary tillage gets started
t 12:30 p.m., with secon
lary tillage at 2 p.m. Hay
naking winds up the
emonstrations at 3 p.m.
Bus tours of the research
lots leave every half hour
rdm 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. from
he headquarters. The buses
nil transport spectators to
he wagon tour sites.
A theatre with continuous
ntertainment will offer a
aried program of wide
ppeal. The program
chedule includes segments
n spinning, lace making,
erbs and flowers, food
afety, rural crime
revention, folklore,
uilting, winemaking,
orticulture and even some
luegrass music.
Special programs of in
vest to the small-fry will be
taged daily in the children’s
:nt. A Home and Family
Adams County farmers charge
unknowns with rain theft
BY CURT HAULER
GETTYSBURG - A group
)f Adams County farmers,
neetmg for the second time
n one week, has charged
:loud seeders are preventing
am from falling on their
arms.
ln this Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Sheila’s shorts, 19;
■hester hogs, 20; Chester dairy show, 26; Eastern
lolstem show, 28; Berks Holstein meet, 33; Dauphin 4-
[ dairy, 34.
SECTION B: Fulton Grange meets, 2; Lycoming
gent to retire, 4; What’s new, 6; Blackbird damage, 7;
ucks-Mont swine, 9.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Home on range, 6;
arm women’s picmc, 8; State 4-H winners, 12;
ractor pulls, 13; Joyce Bupp, 14.
SECTION D: Lebanon 4-H hogs, 2; Lebanon DHIA,
, County’s a supermarket, 10; Ag Progress exhibitors,
? ; Ag Progress map, 18; Bradford DHIA, 32.
SECTION E: Del. nitrogen research, 2; World
[ hamp auctioneer, 4; Lebanon 4-H horses, 10; Lebanon
■rand champ hog, 12; Farm talk, 18; Huntingdon
'•HIA, 25; Blair DHIA, 30.
Living tent will be the
location of exhibits and
demonstrations on energy
saving techniques, nutrition
and health, family
recreation, housing, cooking
and clothing.
Among the educational
exhibits staged by Penn
State, Federal and State
agencies and farm
organizations will be wood
products, on-the-spot forage
analysis, a computerized
program on auto purchase
and operating costs and
troublesome weeds.
The Dairy and Livestock
Tent again will be a center of
interest containing historical
and contemporary displays.
Top samples of hay and
haylage will be on display m
the Hay Tent.
Special events on Tuesday
will be a Penn State ag
alumni luncheon, a
ceremony at the Jerome K.
Pasto Agricultural Museum
and a visit by Governor Dick
Thornburgh and other top
state leaders.
On Wednesday, there’s the
House Ag Committee lun
cheon and on Thursday a
visit by the Susquehanna
Region Grass Roots Com
mittee.
Small wpodlot
management. and other
conservation practices can
be seen in the conservation
research area.
Altogether,' it will be a mix
of historic displays and
antique machinery with the
most up-to-date ways of
heating a home, harvesting a
crop, growing a garden or
practicing soil and water
conservation.
In response to the charges
delivered Wednesday,
Pennsylvania Agriculture
Secretary Penrose Hallo well
has ordered the State Police
and the Bureau of Aviation
to investigate possible cloud
seeding.
Laacastar Fanafog, Saturday, August 16,1960
Acres of the latest models of farm equipment will
be displayed and demonstrated during Ag Pro-
Approximately 15,000
visitors a day are expected
for the event.
All in all, the 1980 Ag
Progress Days is expected to
live up to its billing as the
largest outdoor educational
event for agriculture in the
East.
The Rock Springs
Agricultural Research
Center is located along
Route 45 nine miles west of
State College.
Hallowell took the action,
invoking his power as
chairman of the state
weather modification'board.
The farmer group, which
also drew about 140 growers
to a session last Friday
night, says rain clouds
regularly come over the
inountains from the west but
never dump the anticipated
moisture in the county,
these gram growers point to
heir-stunted com as proof of
i lack of ram.
They say extremely high
*ates of cloud seeding,
rather than encouraging
rainfall, actually reduce the
rhances of rainfall to almost
lefo.
While nobody is pointing
angers publicly, several*
groups are mentioned as
laving motives to keep
•amfall out of the County.
One is the Gettysburg area
;ourist trade which might
Ag preserves inch ahead
LINCOLN Agricultural
land preservation in
Lancaster County moved
one small step farther
toward reality this week.
The Ephrata Township
Planning Commission and
Township Board of Super
visors held a joint public
hearing Monday night at
which the initial draft of
profit from good vacation
days. The second is the
construction business.
A third group is fruit
farmers in the area who may
fear a sudden ram could
brmg hail and damage tree
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In budget cuts:
Is conservation fall guy?
WASHINGTON,D.C. -
Will the 1981 conservatioh
program of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
be cut by more than 25
percent?
This question is embroiled
in the current fiscal
dilemma m the nation’s
capital as bureaucratic
infighting flares -to attempt
to keep within President
Carter’s budget guidelines in
gress Days Tuesday through Thursday at Penn
State.
revised agricultural zoning
district regulations were
unveiled for the first time to
the farm community.
Reception by attending
farmers was generally as
warm as the humid tem
peratures prevailing in the
Lincoln Fire Hall. An in
formal straw poll taken by
the planning commission
showed unanimous approval
of the concept of farmland
preservation and majority
favor of the manner in which
the township is tackling the
pioneering legislation.
One of the primary con
cerns expressed by farmers
dealt with existing zoning
restrictions on non
conforming farming uses m
residential districts
governing how much these
farm uses may be expand.
Existing regulations state
that non-conforming uses
tnis election year.
All you get from
Washington are rumors of
budget cuts or informal
confirmation of possible
budget cuts.
The present rumor is that
the Annual Conservation
Program of the USDA will be
cut by about $5O million from
the $l9O million level passed
by the House. Consideration
of budget levels are now
7.50 Per Year
ii i i I
may only be expanded one
tune up to 50 percent of
present size. Farmers asked
that the township consider
lessening these regulations
to permit unrestricted ex
pansion so long as the
operation would conform to
new 200-foot setback
tequirements and vegetative
screening as written into the
amended code.
Among regulations in the
new amended code for which
farmers expressed
wholehearted approval were
those dealing with the
recognition of the im
portance of farming and
protection of the right to
farm.
Early in the code a
paragraph states the overall
intent of the regulations:
“Provide maximum
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locked in discussion in the
Senate.
As soon as the Democrats
return from the convention
m New York City, the
rumors may start moving
closer again to reality.
Reportedly, the Senate
Appropriations Committee
has been directed by the
Senate Budget Committee to
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