UNIVERSITY PARK A total of 1,700 blue-jacketed Future Farmers of America, including a large contingent from the southeastern part of the state, will gather on the Penn State campus next week foj the annual Penn sylvania FFA Activities Week. The Activities Week program opens on Tuesday and continues through Thursday. Highlight of the program will be the 24 state FFA contests in which regional winners will demonstrate agricultural skills and abilities and compete for awards, including expense-paid trips to national competition. Contest winners will be an nounced at the final general session on Thursday at 9 a.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. The final session also includes the an nouncement of new state officers. Completing their terms at the THE PATZ solution: Patz Model 100 Manure Pump Patz Model 200 Compressed Air Manure Mover Manure Management Patz liquid manure pumps make manure handling faster and more profitable for you. The Model 100 manure pump handies free flowing manure and slurry with fine cut bedding. Both the plunger and plunger sleeve can be serviced without concrete breakup. And a flapper valve at the end of the 12-inch PVC pipe in the storage facility prevents manure backup. The Model 200 compressed air manure mover handles slurry, and has fewer moving parts a manually-operated hatch cover and one-way valve at the bottom of the underground tank. An air com pressor provides air pressure to agitate manure in the collection tank and then air pressure moves it to your storage facility. Find out how simple and economical controlled manure management can be. Take a close look at Patz liquid manure handling systems today. Patz • Performance Strong as Steel daily business meetings and general sessions of the Penn sylvania Association of FFA is the current slate of officers, including Larry Shrawder, state FFA president, of Kempton; and Judy Zimmerman, secretary, of Ephrata. The State FFA Band, directed by Ned C. Diehl, of Penn State, and the'State FFA Chorus, directed by Jack Shaffer, of Central High School, Martinsburg, will present concerts at general sessions each day. FFA members also will be in volved in a vareity of educational demonstrations, including a horse breaking workshop and a trout fishing demonstration. Special tours will feature visits to modern beef farms and a solar greenhouse operation. FFA members will have an opportunity todiscuss agricultural Controlled Pa. FFA Week opens Tuesday careers and college programs with personnel from the College of Agriculture. The annual event is sponsored jointly by the Department of Windy Acres to. host field day BRUCETON MILLS, W.V. - The Eastern Limousin Breeders Association will hold their annual field day Saturday, June 27 at Windy Acres Limousin Farm, Bruceton Mills, WV. Windy Acres Limousin Farm is owned by Ron and Norma Slagle and is located off 1-48 between Morgantown, WV and Grantsville, MD. The field day will begin at 9 a.m. with a social hour for sign-up, coffee and donuts. A Junior show DISTRICT MANAGER GEORGE HEATH 472 Woodcrest Dr. Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-737-0002 CONTACT YOUR LOCAL PATZ DEALER ALEXANDRIA MAXISENBERG •14-669-4027 BALLY LONGACRE ELECTRIC ' 215-845-2261 BEDFORD BENCEFARM EQUIPMENT 814-623-8601 -BELLEVILLE MACLAY t SON 717-935-2101 CAMP HUL LLOYD SULTZBAUGH 717-737-4554 FARM A DAIRYING. 717-263-1965 HAMBURG SHARTLESVILLE FARM SERVICE '215-488-1025 LEBANON MARVIN J. HORST DAIRY EQUIPMENT 717-272-0871 MILLERSBURG LANDIS LABOR SAVERS 717-692-4647 MILTON LANDIS FARMSTEAD AUTOMATION 717-437-2375 PIPEI tVILLI MOYER FARM SERVICE 215-766-8675 QUARRYVILLE UNICORN FARM SERVICE JAMES E. LANDIS 717-786-4158 TERRE HILL TERRE HILL SILO CO. INC. 215-445-6736 MARYLAND DEALERS IGERSTOWN. MD TRI-STATE FARM AUTOMATION 301-790-3698 KENNEDYVILLE FINDER SERVICE CO. 301-348-5263 LINEBORO. MD WERTZ GARAGE. INC. 301-374-2672 STREET. MD P 4 S EQUIPMENT, INC. Agricultural Education in the College of Agriculture and the Pennsylvania, Department of Education. Co-chairmen are Edgar P. Yoder, of the Depart ment of Agricultural Education, will begin at 10 a.m. The Junior Association will be running a preview steer show and junior heifer show. Following the noon meal, there will be a short session which will include a guest speaker, Robert Daily, beef specialist from West Virginia University. There will be both fullblood and percentage Limousin cattle on display. Anyone wishing to bring cattle to display or show must have proper health papers. If you plan to bring cattle, need M.H. EBY, INC. Manufacturer of All Ahiminum Track Bodies Livestock, Brain & Bulk Feed Distributor of Blue Ball, Pa. THIS WELL-BUILT MANURE TANKER SPREADS AN EXCELLENT PATTERN UN YUUR HELDS Because this well-built manure tanker from US Farms Systems of Pennsylvania shoots the discharge slurry up, and baffels the spread down, you get an even coverage pattern on your fields. Better than most makes and models, we think. In addition, the advanced design allows you to do the job with very few moving parts on the spreader. Gravity settles the slurry into the fan. The fan blows the slurry over the top of the spreader in a 6” pipe and out the back. So simple you know the unit will be easy to maintain. So let this well-built manure tanker spread an excellent pattern on your fields today. Write for price and model information to US Farm Systems of Pennsylvania, 4020 Blue Ball Road, Nottingham, PA 19362, or phone 301-398-2948. MD mcastcr Farming, Saturday, lunt 13,1981—A29 and Charles F. Lebo, of the State Department of Education. The awards will be presented on Thursday by Lebo, adult treasurer of the Pennsylvania FFA, and James C. Fink, State FFA Advisor. accommodations overnight, or additional information contact Eon Slagle, Rt. 3, Box 186, Brucetoh Mills, WV 26525 phone 304/379-6821. Or contact Jim Fawley, sec.-trea., Eastern Limousin Breeders Association, 3540 Anderson Road, Lynchburg, OH 45142 phone 513/364-2077. Aluminum Livestock Body UUdUUSI Refrigerated Trailers Sales & Service ■ IC* FARM ft IN SYSTEMS of Pennsylvania Your Tough-Built, Rad Bedding Chopptr Distributor Xn"SMAGIC WOM ( YMGctßenltl >1 «r717-«S-IM4 V rnnov j 7- ■-—> y I a 717-354-4971
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers