HARRISBURG - Country
music, equestrian
showmanship and the
recognition of Penn
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Show family and
agribusiness will highlight
Secretary of Agriculture’s
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Monday night will be
Night, January 12, at the
State Farm Show.
Country Current, the
Umted State Navy Band’s
country and bluegrass unit,
will open the evening’s
activities with a per
formance beginning at 7
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p.m. in the Large Arena of
the Farm Show Complex in
Harrisburg.
State Agriculture
Secretary Penrose Hallowell
said, “We are pleased to
have the Navy’s nationally
acclaimed country and
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the State Farm Show. ’ ’
He noted the evening event
is free and open to the public.
Following Country
Current’s performance,
Secretary Hallowell will
address the audience and
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 10,1981—P29
announce the recipients of
the prestigious Farm Show
Family of the year award
and the first Pennsylvania
Agribusiness Award.
Hallowell said, “Begin
ning last year, the Farm
Show Commission
designated a committee to
select an outstanding farm
family at each year’s Farm
Show. This year we have
decided to recognize the
equally outstanding
promotional ac
complishments of the state’s
agribusiness industries as
well.”
Lieutenant Governor
William W. Scranton HI;
Miss Pennsylvania, Anita
Patton of Lebanon; and
State Secretary of Aging
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HARRISBURG - There’s
an old Pennsylvania proverb
that says Farm Show Week
and bad weather go
together. This idea has gam
ed such acceptance that any
type of “bad” weather in
January has Harrisburg
residents talking about
“Farm Show Weather.”
Every year Farm Show
officials keep their fingers
crossed weatherwise They
look at weather reports of
Farm Show Weeks begin
ning with the first Farm
Show in 1917. The National
Oceanic and Admosphenc
Administration Office in
Harrisburg provides records
which reveal that the
average Farm Show over the
65-year period has ex
perienced only two days of
inclement weather.
The 1980 Farm Show was
“average weatherwise,”
with two days of snow
totaling just over one inch
Temperatures for the week
ranged from a low of 11
degrees to a high of 48
degrees.
State Agriculture
Secretary Penrose
Hallowell, Chairman of the
State Farm Show Com
mission, notes that there
have"-been 36 Farm Show
Weeks with less than one
inch of snow, and 19 Farm
Show Weeks with less than
one inch of snow, and 19
show weeks with no snow at
all.
“The nice thing about the
Farm Show is that no
amount of bad weather can
dampen the enthusiasm of
the hundreds of thousands of
visitors who come to
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Lancaster Farming has over
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Gorham Black will par
ticipate in the presentation
ceremonies.
Secretary Black will
present an award to the
oldest Pennsylvania farmer
at the Farm Show. Senior
citizens are encouraged to
stop Monday at the Senior
Citizens Corral near the
main entrance on the
Maclay Street side to sign up
for the contest
Following these special
ceremonies, the audience
will be entertained again by
Country Current who will
perform a medley of country
and bluegrass favorites.
The program will conclude
with a demonstration by the
Cumberland Valley 4-H
Horse and Pony Drill Team
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Harrisburg every January,"
according to Halloweli.
“From the opening
ceremonies on Sunday, Jan.
11, through the sale of the
Champion 4-H Baby Beef,
our show generates en
thusiasm for all.’'
Five shows have had
perfect weather, according
to NOAA records. The four
day shows in 1921 and 1922,
the five-day shows in 1934,
1953 and 1973, all shared this
Farm Show record. The 1973
show broke all existing at
tendance records as 750,000
visitors flocked to
Harrisburg in crisp, clear
winter weather.
“The biggest snowfalls m
Farm Show history,’’
Hallowell said, “came in
1964 with 18 inches of snow
on the ground, m 1918 with 16
inches of snow and m 1970,
when a Sunday night
snowfall put 14 inches on the
ground. The 1964 snow, 18
inches, was far and away the
worst in Farm Show
history.”
Zero temperature weather
struck only two Farm
Shows, with six days below
zero recorded m 1936 and two
below zero recorded in 1957.
The high temperature for a
Farm Show was hit m 1972
when the thermometer
struck 66 degrees.
Hallowell said that while
chances are against a
perfect weather week, four
out of the past ten Farm
Shows have had only one day
of bad weather and better
than one-half have had only
two days of inclement
weather.
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