VOL 26 Ho. 34
Poultry Federation selects 1981 Industrymen
Bill Carlin accepts the 1981 Eger Industryman of the Year
award from Venion Leininger. right the 1980 Egg In
dustryman of the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation. With
Carlin is wife Jean.
Lancaster finds blue mold
bydickanglestein
LANCASTER The' recent
damp,., rainy weather - while
helping to replenish ground
moisture has also brought a
variety of problems to fields in the.
Lancaster County area.
Serious disease and , pest
problems have been reported
recently in tobacco, wheat and
corn crops.
The first reports of blue mold
have been confirmed in Lancaster
County tobacco.
~Twm .'problems of powdery
mildew and scab are threatening
the developing wheat crop.
And'black cutworms have at
tacked com fields, particularly in -
the eastern section of the county,
requiring the replanting of at least
a couple of hundred acres.
The confirmed reports of blue
mold have come thus far from the'
western and central sections of the
county, including Rohrerstown,
Columbia and between Neffsville
and East Petersburg.
All three of the reports involved
seedbeds and in one the plants
were also in the field. The systemic
fungicide, Ridomil, had not been -
used in the beds or the field in
which blue mold has been found.
“These are the first confirmed
reports of 'blue mold outside of
Florida,” John Yocum, superin
tendent of the Penn State
Southeast Research Lab at Lan
disville.said.
“But there have been un-
Last call for dairy photos
LANCASTER This is it.
Lancaster Farming’s Dairy Month
Photo Contest has entered its last
week.
To beeligible for the cash prizes,
photos must be received in our
office on Friday, June 26.
Entries are still arriving daily in
the three categories of com
petition. The categories:
Posed - Photos showing people
with their favorite dairy animal.
confirmed reports of blue mold
also in West Virginia.”
The blue mold sightings in the
countycoincide with ap
proximately the same time it was
spotted last year. The problem
seems to emerge primarily toward
Tommelleo joins L.F. staff
LANCASTER Donna M.
Tommelleo, a recent Penn State
graduate, has joined Lancaster
Fanning as a staff writer, an
nounces Robert G. Campbell,
publisher.
Donna M. Tommelleo
They could have been taken at a
show or just around the farm.
Scenic - Any pretty photo
showing dairy animals in the
natural environment of a pasture,
meadow, pond or field.
-Comic or ( cute - This is any
feature-type photo showing dairy
animals in humorous or unusual
situations. In this category, just let
your imagination and camera run
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20,1951
LANCASTER A crowd of over
200 poultry producers gathered
here at the Host Farm on Thursday
eveningtb honor the Pennsylvania
. Poultry Federation’s Industrymen
of the Year.
Eat Industryman of the Year is
Bill Carlin, farmer and Egg Stock
Sales Manager of Hubbard Farms.
Carlin moved to the family farm
at age 11 and soon convinced his
father to allow him and-his older
brother to take over the farming
operations instead of hiring a
tenant farmer. They began with
layers, steers, and hogs and
marketed their eggs through
Producers Cooperative Exchange.
After a successful high school
experience in FFA, Carlin went'
into farming in earnest. He
, became a director of Producers
and served from 1959 to 1965,
holding the offices of treasurer,
1960, and president, 1961-65.
In 1965, Carlin joined Agway,
the latter stages of transplanting,
particularly if the weather turns
cloudy, damp and'wet for any
appreciable period.
It’s expected that the next couple
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In November of 1977, Donna
received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Animal Industry from
Penn State and completed a second
degree in Dairy Production last
month.
“The first time through school I
was exposed to all types of
livestock, but my second degree
allowed me to concentrate on my
favorite species the dairy cow,”
she said.
Donna admits she’s a city girl by
birth, .but a country girl by heart
and choice. Donna was bom and
raised in New Castle, Pa., where
her parents, MrTand Mrs. Thomas
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DAIRY
Franklin Dairy Princess, €l7;
Lebanon Dairy Princess, D 2;
Adams Dairy Princess, A 32;
Cumberland Dairy Princess, A 36;
York DHIA, €32; Montgomery
DHIA, €36; Juniata DHIA, Dl3;
Potter DHIA, Dl3; Dairy ad
vertising dollars, €3O.
COLUMNS
Editorials, A 10; Now is the tune,
A 10; The milk check, Al 9; Ask
VMD, A 37; Idp’s Notebook, €5;
Joyce Bupp’s column, C 9; Ladies
have you heard? €l2; That’s a
good question, Dl9; Farm Talk,
06.
HOME AND VOlim
Homestead Notes, C 2; Home on
the Range, €6; Farm Women
Societies, €11; Kid’s Korner, €l4;
4-H, €l6; FFA, €2B.
Inc. and m 1970 became the poultry
specialist for their Southern
Division in Harrisburg. Carlin
joined Hubbard Farms in 1977.
While with Agway and Hubbard,
he became active' in the Penn
sylvania Poultry Federation,
serving" on every committee and
activity the Association undertook.
He directed the Federation toward
a stronger affiliation with young
people and conducted meetings
with producers, allied in
.dustrymen, university and
government officials.
Carlin is the only Federation
member to have served as
loside
This
Week’s...
Team roping, a rodeo event, is a thriving sport in Lancaster
County. For part of the fun, turn to page...C22.
For an udderly fantastic hobby, Jeanette Weaver collects
cows. But her cows have no milk production problems. Check
the details on page...C2.
A mechanized tobacco harvester? There’s now one in Lan
caster County. See picture...Dl7.
Youths participate in fitting and showing workshop at the
Guernsey Pavillion..,A3o.
New state FFA officers elected from area chapters include,
from top to bottom, Doug Hershberger, Solanco, Lancaster
County, president; Glenn Wenger, Elco, Lebanon County,
vice-president; Jeff Stoltzfus, Octorara, Chester County;
Eastern Region vice-president; Kevin Devine, Grassland
Chapter, Eastern Lancaster County, treasurer; Dean Pat
ches, Northern Lebanon, secretary; and Kent Heffner, Blue
Mountain, Schuylkill County, chaplain. For more information
on FFA Week and top contest winners, turn to A 24.
$7.50 Per Year
chairman of every committee in
the Federation, including the
presidency in 1976. He is a member
of Hempfield Methodist Church.
He and wife Jean have three
children Bill, 26, Lynda, 23, and
Ann, Si.
The Broiler Industryman of the
Year for 1981 is Mel Mitchell, of
Akron, Lancaster County.
Mitchell began his career in the
broiler business in 1945 as a
market attendant and production
employee of Weaver’s Poultry v As
a marketing attendant, he sold
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