A IS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 27,1982 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - For the first time in its 67-year history, the University of Maryland’s Certificate of Merit Award in Agriculture has been presented to a representative of the state’s seafood industry. This marker buoy was established with the selection of J. Clayton Brooks of Cambridge, Dorchester County. Brooks is president of the J. M. Clayton Company, a family-owned Eastern Shore crab-processing operation. Along with three landlubbers from the western side of the Chesapeake Bay, Brooks was honored during the seventeenth annual Maryland Agricultural Leaders Forum on the College Park campus earlier this month. The Certificate of Merit Award in Agriculture has now been bestowed on 240 men and women in the Old Line state. Brooks is a past president of the National Blue Crab Association and former secretary-treasurer of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood In dustries Association, now headquartered at Easton. He is a recipient of the Association’s Seafood Ambassador award. He has been involved with the University of Maryland’s Sea Grant program, beginning in 1972 with the Marine Advisory Program of the University’s Cooperative Extension Service. Also honored with Brooks were Leon B. Enfield of Knoxville, Frederick County, Melvin E. IH SUPER SAVING TIME! 80-amp battery charger, booster and tester only $ 242 95 • Charges to 80 amps, boosts to 300 amps ■ Tests alternators, battery charge 7 other tests • Exclusive dual meter design • Timer ■ Rugged construction ■ Part number, 1131 855 Rl. M. 3^095 10-amp battery charger Here's the perfect charger for home, farm, and lawn and garden and recre / ational equipment needs. Indicator shows battery charge rate 3-way 7 switch 407 389 R 92 SWOPE & BASHORE, INC. RD I, Myerstown, Pa. Located 1 Mile S. of Int. 78 & 6 Miles N. of Myerstown on Rt. 645 in Frystown PHONE: 717-933-4138 Area Codes 215 & 717 Call Toll Free 1-800-692-7467 Md. Ag Merit roster includes waterman Leppo of Winfield, Carroll County, and Carl L. Omdorff of Ken sington, Montgomery County., Enfield and Leppo are both dairy farmers and former members of the Maryland Agricultural Commission, while Omdorff is a veteran nurseryman. Enfield also is president of the Maryland Farm Bureau. He hgs been associated with the county board of zoning appeals, govern ment study commission and County Board of Supervisors of Elections. And he is a member of the University of Maryland’s agricultural advisory committee. In his spare time over the years, Enfield has attained recognition in jousting, the official state sport of Maryland. He has also developed a jousting project for advanced 4-H horse and pony project members. Both be and tus wife have been local 4-H volunteer leaders for a number of years. Like his southwest Frederick County counterpart, Melvin E. Leppo balances dairy farming in southwest Carroll County with community and statewide service. In addition to a three-year term on the Maryland Agricultural Commission, Leppo has served on finance committees of the board of directors for Dairymen, Inc. At the county level, he was a Soil Conservation District supervisor for nine years, and he is a past chairman of the county’s Agricultural Land Preservation Board. CKM6ER I * , HI ire welder with ease, ter with the is an up to reld longer, for any AC lions, hel cable with 300 amp 295 amp tit not in- Booster cables Tangle prod All coppei wire -with color coded damps* Special Price $19.25 Despite unfavorable economic conditions for farmers at present, Leppo is optimistic about the future of agriculture. He en couraged his son, Brian, to follow in his footsteps; and they formed a partnership in 1981. A daughter, Terry Leppo, was Maryland state dairy princess in 1975. Carl L. Omdorff was honored for his 60 years of service to the state’s ornamental horticulture industry. He has been president and general manager for many years of Kalmia Farm* '• • < « •»3 r Cattle on feed up 14 percent WASHINGTON, D.C. Cattle 1.88 million cattle on feed, up 12 on feed on Nov. 1 in the seven percent from last year, major feeding states totaled 8,120 head, up 14 percent from a year ago and the highest count for the date since 1978. It also marks the highest inventory for any month since January 1980. The sharpest increases were found in Colorado with 1 million head, up 34 percent. Next was Nebraska with 1.82 million, up 18 percent, and Arizona had 351,000 head, up 16 percent from last year’s figures. Elsewhere, Kansas had 1.37 million head, up 18 percent; California had 642,000 head, up 4 percent; lowa with 1.06 million head, up 5 percent; and Texas with TOP VIEWING MICRO CORN HYBRIDS FOR PERFORMANCE THAT MEANS SUCCESS. 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