READING - The Berks Comity Horse Exposition will be held Saturday, March 28 at the Berks Campus of Penn State from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The Expo is an educational event being sponsored by the Berks County Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H horse clubs, m- PAUL B. SOuQDufIePOOD^EfQ! It meets the changing needs of most soils and supplies the ratio of Nitrogen, Phosphate and Potash . to maintain a favorable plant-nutrient balance for top grain and forage production. Pelleted UNIPEL 21-7-14 is an ideal fertilizer for the grower who wants a Uniform Single Application of a complete fertilizer on com in Spring or Fall. It’s especially good for programming high yield com for gram, or for silage, and for com/soybean rotations. * Ortho FERTILIZERS Helping the World Grow Better Berks Co. terested horse breed associations, local horse clubs, and the Berks County Equine Council. 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All items will be subject to sale prior to the auction which will be at 3:30 p.m. A 10 percent donation will be given from each sale to the Berks County 4-H horse facilities. Another favorite will be the amateur fine arts and crafts contest. All art must feature the theme “Horses ” Prizes will be awarded by age divisions and all interested can bring items Saturday morning of the expo. A one hour fashion show will be held m the auditorium. Models will be presenting appropriate attire for horse related activities. Horse T SALE ON r---T rti xer breed queens will display their show dresses also. The day’s schedule looks like this. —9:15 - “Poisonous Plants” by J. Wesley Bahonk. —lO 15 •- “Dressage and Com bined Training Exhibition” by Mike Neff and Ann Weigle of Oley Valley Combined Training Association. —10:45 - Reading Mounted Patrol —11:45 - “The Complete Tur nout” on correct dress, harness and driving techniques by John Greenall of Thorny Hills Farm. 30-fashion show Dairymen to face higher labor costs REISTERSTOWN, Md. - Higher labor costs in 1981 may force the nation’s dairymen and other farmers to seek new ways to improve their farm labor productivity, says John W Wysong, Extension farm management specialist and professor of agricultural economics at the University of Maryland. Because they usually hire permanent, full-time workers for crop and livestock production, dairymen in particular will have higher payrolls to meet this year, Wysong notes However, the quantity of labor they employ per unit of output can be reduced by using more and better capital investments to enhance total resource produc tivity Congress should ease the burden of fixed capital investments by legislation permitting faster rates of depreciation on new farm equipment and building in- Ag administrator (Continued from Page B 2) also included 11 titles relating to Colleges. He also served with the the broiler, turkey and egg in- Commission on Agriculture and duslnes Four other titles related Natural Resources of the National to farm marketing, tour concerned Academy of Sciences and on the farm credit and finances, and planning committee for the three were in the realm of farm National 'Conference on Children insurance. and Youth in 1962 and 1963. Another nine titles dealt with Since 1970, Poffenberger has farm price analyses, Iran- g lven testimony in the U.S. House sportation, machinery, road, trf Representatives and Senate in labor, fertilizer and tobacco. In support of the budgets for higher 1953, he also authored a 24-page education, booklet titled leaching Units in several occasions, he met Agricultural Economics for with Secretaries of Agriculture Teachers of Vocational freeman, Hardin, Butz and Agriculture Bergland concerning the part- Smce becoming an ad- nership between the U.S. mimstrator at the College Park Department of Agriculture and campus, Poffenberger has state governments relevant to represented Maryland agriculture agricultural research, Extension in various capacities at the anc * teaching programs at the national level in nearby nation s land-grant universities. Washington, D C Poffenberger is a native of During the 19605, he held Hagerstown. He and his wife have positions of leadership with the resided for many years at National Association of State * alr^anc * ai " e *^ e P arents °* Universities and Land-Grant two married daughters MAX,P POWER Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 21,1981—83 —1.15 - “Breaking and Training Demonstration” by Ward Studebaker, a PSU horse herd sman -2:30- breed parade -3:30- white elephant auction —4:30 - “Corrective Shoeing” by PA' Guild of Professional Hor seshoers -5:30- horse bowl finals The 10.15, 10:45, and the 2:30 events are scheduled weather permitting, and the 11:45,1:15, and the 4:30 events are scheduled outside demonstrations weather permitting, otherwise discussed inside. vestments which are aimed at improving human work produc tivity, the Maryland Extension specialist declared in a recent position paper. Traditionally, increased farm efficiency and higher productivity have restrained costs of labor per hundredweight of milk and meat produced, says Dr Wysong. For example, a three-man labor team on a modern dairy farm in Maryland can maintain 90 or more cows By contrast, a three-man equivalent labor force managed only 45 cows in the 1950 s Similarly, the average milk yield per cow in Maryland has doubled in this penod-from 6,000 pounds per year in the 1950 s to more than 12,000 pounds per cow in 1980. This upward trend in labor productivity has helped to offset the rises in wages and social security taxes over the years, restraining retail, prices for con sumers in the process GENERATOR SYSTEMS 330 Fonderwhite Road Lebanon, Pennsylvania 17042 Phone: 717-274-1483 Division of Leonard Martin Company OWER
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