A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 18,1981
Governor’s
visit
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and bred by exhibitor at the state
show this past year. Sire is
Paclamar Astronaut.
The Ag Arena sale, which will
feature sheep, hogs, beef, and all
breeds of dairy cattle will raise
money for the Penn State facility.
Half of the proceeds from the
benefit sale will go toward the
arena.
The walking tour of the Smder
farmstead took the governor
through the life of a dairy cow,
from the calf hutches through the
graduated pens of the open-sided
heifer barn, the stanchion barn,
feedlot area, milk house and
wound up m the former jugging
retail area, which now is filled with
show trophies and banners.
Along the way, Smder and
Hallowell filled in Thornburgh on
the details of dairy farming - why
calves are reared in hutches,
feeding techniques, the age-group
pens in the heifer barn and field
injection of the liquid wastes.
In brief comments, Governor
Thornburgh explained that no
precipitous action would be taken
against fruits and vegetables
coming into the state from
California.
“Everything coming from
California is receiving hands-on
inspection,” Thornburgh said.
“If we fmd anything that might
affect the integrity of our own fruit
and vegetable crop, we’ll then take
whatever action is necessary.”
The governor remterated that
the action of the oil companies in
passing along the wholesale gas
tax to consumers was behavior not
m the public's interest and that the
forces of competition will make
them take another look at their
action.
The governor ticked off the
actions that have been taken in the
Commonwealth in support of
farming, such as the recently
signed Ag Areas Bill.
Thornburgh said the prune “We’re here tonight to keep in
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behind fence, steaks
counties gather on front lawn of Singing Brook are being barbecued for the group.
Farm, Imler, to meet and talk with Governor
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.. interest .uience, at left, pauses aim it fate evening
dinner to watch visiting dignitaries on Sniders' Singing Brook
Farm in Bedford County. In the front, from the left, are
Secretary of Agriculture Penrose Hallowell, Obie Snider and
touch with fanners and their
problems,” he said.
"Then, we can go back to
Harrisburg and continue to
tranlate these needs into action.
“We need to preserve prune
agricultural farmland, but to do it
we must preserve the family
needs now are to reduce the in
flation rate, restore stability to the
economy including the
agricultural economy and reduce
government spending.
“In Pennsylvania, we’ve kept
the growth of government below
the rate of inflation and 1 support
President Reagan in his efforts on
the natioanal level,” Thornburgh
said.
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Obie Snider tells about cow he's consigning Hallowed quipped to Governor Thornburgh
to Penn State Ag Arena Fund Raising Sale that he plans to start the bidding at ten
scheduled on December 11. Ag Secretary thousand.
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Governor Dick Thornburgh. Later during on-camera TV in
terview, the governor spoke amidst a chorus of “mooing” to
give authentic sound effects to the visit.
farmer, too.”
After an afternoon of threatening
skies and a tew sprinkles that
drizzled on the Snider’s cut hay,
the evening on the well-groomed
lawn amidst acres of corn just
beginning to tassel and wheat
shoulder-high and ready to be cut
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Governor Thornburgh signs guest book in the Snider
Holstein Trophy Room.
was graced with pleasant weather.
The governor spent the night at
the nearby Clarence Bowman
home and then moved on to the
Somerfest in Somerset on Fnday
and to the jugging operation and
farm market of Sam Minor near
Eighty-Four today.