C24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 31,1981 • HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania legislature convened this week to begin another session of lawmaking Most important to farmers a~e those lawmakers who sit Chester Farmers’ Assn, holds member drive UOWMNGTOWN - The T.ester County Farmers -ssociation held a kickoff _oy for leaders of the 1981 ■embership team at '-.nuns Restaurant Tom W-lkinson, of Lan- .nberg, chan man of the ■.cmmittee, told his mem ■ srs that 874 paid-up embers i epresented a gain , over 1980 Extension to offer dairymen’s seminar OWEGO, NY -A Dairyman’s Seminar featuring 20 reknown professors from the agriculture School of Cor nell, Penn State University, Georgia State, and Michigan State Universities, will be held February 24,25 and 26th at the Owego Treadway Inn, Owego, New York The seminar is sponsored oy both the Extension Departments of New York and Pennsylvania The theme, “Managing the Dairy Farm in the 80’s” will be addressed first by the Keynote speaker. Dr. David Call, Dean of the College of igriculture and Life Science at Cornell, on Tuesday af ternoon, February 24th at I 10 p m He will be followed by 'Ptakers, Sam Dum and fi 'red Hughes, both professors in Farm Management at Penn sylvania State University On Tuesday evening Robert Milligan, Professor of Agriculture Economics at Cornell, will addres the topic "Is there a Computer in your Future 9 ” Computer Program demonstrations C ;almg with nutrition, dairy : ccords, and business Decisions will be conducted I I professors Lyle Wadell aid Wayne Knoblauch of ' ornell, and Richard Adams t -om Penn State On Wednesday morning, February 25th, Mike i Connor, professor of Dairy !The over-achievers VMM MAR DIESEL TRACTOR Here’s who represents you in the state legislature on the Senate and House agriculture committees Who represents your area on the ag committees’ Who should you write to with complaints or praise > Senate committee members can be reached by The committee plans a whirlwind campaign to complete the membership campaign by Feb 4 It was estimated that there are nearly m e hundred farmers in Chester County who are potential membei s of the Association Farmers Association is member controlled with Science from Penn State will begin with “Tools for Reproductive Management intheSO’s ” Roger Natzke of Cornell will follow with “Milking Systems of the Future ” Larry Hutchinson, DVM from Penn State and John Shenk will conclude with ‘ Management of Udder Health” and “Forage Testing with Infra-Red”, respectively The Wednesday afternoon program deals with “Managing Herd Re placements for Profit” Jeff Davidson, DVM from Cornell, W W Irish and Larry E Chase, and Richard S Adams from Penn State will take their turns speaking throughout the afternoon The seminar will end after the Thursday morning Pa. potato HARRISBURG - Total stocks of potatoes stored in Pennsylvania on January 1, 1981, were 2,500,000 cwt, 24 percent less than a year ago, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service Current total stocks are 60 percent of this year’s production of 4,180,000 cwt. compared with 55 percent on hand a year ago An estimated 144 million cwt of potatoes for all uses were in storage in the fall producing states on January 1,1981 This is 18 percent less Wai mart;* hardware & equipment go. Rt 501 IV2 Miles South of Schaetferstown PA Phone 717 949-6817 Slot Wed Ito 12 Set BtoS Open f wntmg Hon. John Doe, Senate Post Office, Mam Capitol Building, Harrisburg PA 17120 House members can be contacted by writing Hon. John Doe, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House of uoaniy Association mem beis also being members of the Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association and the American Farm Bureau,” according to Gene Mc- Dowell. McDowell further ex plained that the Farmers Association is a ‘general farm organization Every crop and every livestock seminar about “Optimum Utilization of Farm Resources to Feed the Dairy Cow” David Mertens, from the University of Georgia, John Speicker, from Michigan State, and Bob Milligan from Cornell will each speak Reservations for the seminar must be made by February 14 by contacting Richard Eschler, Cooperative Extension, 56 Mam St Owego, New York 13827 Further information may also be acquired by calling the Cooperative Extension office at Towanda, Penna 717-265- 2896 Lodging may be reserved at the Owego Treadway Inn, exit 65, west of Binghamton, New York The seminar is limited to 'the first one hundred applicants -JB stocks off than what was on hand at the same tune last year and a 26 percent decline from January 1, 1979. Disappearance of the 1980 fall crop to January 1, 1981 was 10 million cwt, one percent above the same period a year ago This total disappearance to date in cludes 16 1 million cwt. of potatoes that were dumped during grading, fed to livestock on potato farms, discarded without grading and loss due to shrinkage (moisture loss) Til March 1,1981 Representatives, Main Capitol Budding, Harrisburg PA, 17120 Here’s who provides the agricultural leadership in the 165th "state general assembly operation is represented ” ‘The Farmers’ Association works with the mushroom industry, the dairy industry, the cash crop industry and poultry industry.” Wilkinson pointed out that the Farmers’ Association has provided many benefits for farmers He listed an Agricultural Review Board to stop the condemnation of prime farmland, a farmer representative on the Governor’s Tax Commission secured sales tax exemption for farmers on production items such as feed, fertilizer, and machinery, Ag em ployers division, farm management and also legal services Members of "Wilkinson’s committee are Richard Steele, Pocopson, Art w Yocum, Elverson, Je let Robinson, Oxford, Elmer Mast, Parkesburg, Richard Breckbill, Oxford; Ellis Brown, Dowmngtown, Tom Merroth, Dowmngtown; Barclay Hoopes, Lan denberg, Francis Downs, Avondale; Mike Mowrer, Bill McAllister and Kolb of Spring City; Albert Bartels of West Grove, and Lewis Wilkinson, Lan denberg FARM LOANS? X- * WHY do some of the best farmers in this area borrow from Brownstown Agri Loan Corp? ♦■ Competitive interest rates ♦►Terms to 7 years ♦• Repayment tailored to income ♦ Experienced ag loan officer ♦» Friendly, confidential service ♦ Dependable source of credit ♦ Exclusive lending to farmers farm service BROWNSTOWN AGRI <Jai.c> loan corp. (Subsidiary Of The Brownstown National Bank) ROBERT N. ZOOK President In the Senate Edward Helfnck, a republican from the 27th district, was named committee chairman. He represents the area around Columbia, Montour, Nor thumberland, Union, and Juniata counties Ralph Hess, Lancaster and York County republican is vice chairman Patrick Stapleton, the democrat representing the Indiana, Clarion and Indiana County aiea, who was majority chairman last session, now is minority chairman Other members include Tim Shaffer, republican from Butler and Lawrence Counties, James Rhoades, republcian from Carbon, Schuylkill counites, William Moore, republican from Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Perry, and Cumberland area, J Doyle Corman, republican representing much of Centre, Clearfield, Cambria and neighboring counties, Henry Messmger, democrat from Lehigh County; Michael O’Pake, democrat from Berks County, and James E Ross, lepresentmg Beavei and Washington Counties. The House was somewhat shaken by former ag com mittee chairman Reno Thomas's failure to be re elected He is replaced by Roy Wilt, a Mercer County taimer, and a republican serving his seventh term in the legislature. Lancaster County Republican Noah Wenger Mam & State Sts. Brownstown, Pa. 17508 717-656-2951 again will serve as vice chairman. Kenneth Cole, Adams and York County democrat, will be the mmouty chairman; David Wright, Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson, Venango counties, will be minority vice chairman Others on the house ag committee will be. Harry Bowser, Erie and Warren Republican, Harold Brown, Berks Democrat, Tom Caltagirone, Berks Democrat, Harry Bowser, Erie Republican, Walt DeVerter, Centre County Republican, CarvilleFoster, York Republican Also serving on the House Ag Committee are William W Foster, Wayne, Pike and Monioe Republican, Joe Gneco, Lycoming, Nor thumberland Repbuhcan, and Ed Haluska, Cambria Democrat Also named were June Honaman, Lancaster Republican, Edwin Johnson, Blair Republican, William Klingaman, Lehigh, Schuylkill Republican, William Lloyd, Somerset Democrat, Roger Madigan, Bradford Republican In addition, Merle Phillips, Montour, Northampton Republican, Joseph Pitts, Chester Republican, Steve Seventy, Allegheny Democrat, John Showers, Snyder and Union Democrat; Ted Stuban, Columbia, Montour Democrat, and Paul Wass, Indiana Republican, were named to the House ag committee ■•a-. glad dea < *?th u s .. Serving Lancaster And Lebanon Counties
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