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
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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?
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♦ Experienced ag loan officer
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♦ Dependable source of credit
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farm service
BROWNSTOWN AGRI
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(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
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