Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 27,1982
UNIVERSITY PARK, The Cooperative Extension Service in
Pennsylvania State University has 12 northeastern states.
received a $76,000 grant from the G. Art Hussey, state
W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle leader/computer services for Penn
Creek, Mich., to study the State’s Cooperative Extension
feasibiity of a- farm and home Service, will serve as project
computer system within the director. During the 10-month
Lancaster District sells seedlings
LANCASTER For the eighth Pavillion No. 1 between 9 a.m. and
year, the Lancaster County Ip.m. on Saturday, April 17.
Conservation District is spon- For more information, contact
soring its Annual Tree Seedling Nancy Burkhardt at the District
Sale. Orders are being taken from Office, Farm and Home Center
March 1 through March 26. Rm 6, 1383 Arcadia Road Lan-
Seedlmgs can be picked up at the caster, PA 17601, telephone
Lancaster County Central Park 717/299i-536L
Chester Co. slates
benefit square dance
WEST CHESTER The public bounty Extension service or at the
is invited to a benefit square dance door. The prices are: $lO tor a
to raise money for Penn State’s Ag family; $5 for an adult; |2 tor
Arena. students.
The dance will be held on
Saturday, March 27 from Bto 11:30 For more information on the
p.m. at the Avon Grove High benefit square dance, contact the
School gymnasium. Tickets can be Chester Co. Extension office at 215-
purchased from the Chester 696-3500.
Potato Growers are ready
for annual meeting
STATE COLLEGE The College of Agriculture, Sam Smith,
Pennsylvania Cooperative Potato will be the guest speaker at
Growers, Inc. and Penn State’s Wednesday evenmg’s banquet.
College of Agriculture are busily The Cooperative’s annual business
preparing for the 31st Annual mrrtmr nil llr h"M nr Wrflrrr /l °iV
Potato Growers Institute to be held at 3 p.m.
March 3-4 here at the Toftrees
Country Club and Lodge. Registration for the Institute,
Key topics on the agenda include meals, and rooms are due this
potato research, marketing, and Contact Howard
grading; soil test reports; com- Featnerman, general manager of
puters; storage management; new 0,6 Potato Growers Co-op, at their
varieties; and minimum tillage. Harrisburg office by calling
And Penn State’s Dean of the 717/652-4200.
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Vtoriung for people who work the fold
PSU participates in computer study
FARM ,
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SERVICE
project, Dr. Hussey will work with
faculty members from selected
land-grant universities to deter
mine the current and future needs
tor computers throughout the
region. The 12 states are New
York, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode
Island, Vermont, New Hampshire,
Maine, Massachusetts, Con
necticut, New Jersey, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
"This feasibility study will
focus on workable alternatives,"
said Hussey. "We will examine the
common directions and objectives
of the Extension Service in the
Northeast to plan the most ef
fective uses tor a region-wide
system.”
The project will, tor example,
determine whether home ter
minals using telephone and
television are practical in the
Extension Service. It will test
whether home terminals can
provide poinl-to-pomt com
munications and whether they can
be used to collect information from
farmers.
In addition to reviewing what
other states have done to measure
area support for computer use, the
project will explore the use of
home terminals to supplement the
traditional on-the-farm visits,
meetings and newsletters for
technical educational materials.
Hussey said the practice of
agriculture is similar among the 12
states so that information
programs would be broadly
usable. Most of the states, he
added, are in the same initial
stages of considering computer
technology development.
A task force from six of the
states will explore means by which
a regional computer center or
institute might be supported to
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maintain Extension Service
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This project is similar to one
conducted in northcentral states
with Kellogg Foundation
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currently being established at the
University of Wisconsm-Madison.
In 1930, breakfast cereal pioneer
W.K. Kellogg contributed $45
million in personal wealth to
establish the Kellogg Foundation.
Atlantic honors dairymen
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Cooperative at the District 4 meeting last week at Blue Ball
Fire Hall include, from the left, Marvin Witmer, Warren
Bollinger, Lititz; and Don and Nelson Weaver, of Weaver
Homestead Farm, New Holland. The dairymen were honored
for haying DHIA averages at least 10 percent above the state
average for milk or butterfat and at least tworthirds of their
herds sired by Atlantic bulls. District 4 director Clyde Martin,
of East Earl, told members that service technicians provided
more than 300,000 services in 1981 and semen sales
revenue increased to direct-herd breeders and through
distributors.
Using income from the bequest
the Foundation has made grants
over the past five decades of more
than $584 million in the areas of
health, education and agriculture.
The Foundation is today among
the largest private philanthropic
organizations in the nation. It
supports programs on' tour con
tinents, including the Umted States
and Canada, Europe, Latin
America, and Australia.