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Tony Dobrosky calculated by day’s
end.
The raffle-ticket sales will be
split between the FFA and 4-H,
based on the number of tickets sold
by each organization, .with a
portion of each group’s total
Hallowell to serve
as Ag Day Chairman
HARRISBURG - State
Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell has agreed to serve as
honorary state chairman for
Agriculture Day 1983, a nationwide
celebration of America’s
agricultural successes.
Govenor Dick Thornburgh will
proclaim March 21 as Penn
sylvania Agriculture Day, in
recognition of the essential role
agriculture plays in Pennsylvania
as our number one industry. The
theme for the observance is
“Agriculture; America's Heart
beat!”
Hallowell said, “Agriculture is
truly Pennsylvania’s heartbeat. It
provides a wide variety and
abundance of food at reasonable
prices, the most stable source of
jobs and a standard of living of
which we can all be proud.
Agriculture Day is designed to let
everyone understand how im
portant agriculture is in their daily
lives whether they are a farmer or
not.”
Pennsylvania has more than
60,000 family owned and operated
farms with a total gross income of-
LVF answers own
surplus problem
LANCASTER “Perhaps
where we’re most different is that
we take the bull by the horns and-’
do our own advertising,” Alpbeus
Ruth, president of Lehigh Valley
Farmers said, Tuesday, at Lan
caster County Dairy Days.
Ruth’s remark was sparked by'
earlier dicussion from Truman
Graf, agricultural economist, and
Edward Coughlin, director of the
Ag Marketing Service with
USDA’s dairy division, who each
expressed the need to balance
production and consumption, and
to increase promotion in attempt to
end the milk surplus.
“To us, there is only one
customer the consumer,” Ruth
said.
N
JJD.’s saga
amount going to their county
organizations and the remainder to
local chapters and clubs. Future
Fanners treasuries will split $6,705
and $16,040 is earmarked to 4-H,
with oyer $3,000 of that amount to
become part of the 4-H center trust
fund.
$3.3 billion last year. These farms
support a complex agribusiness
industry, employing 900,000
Pennsylvanians and accounting
for about $5O billion in economic
activity each year.
“We are pleased to have
Secretary Hallowell as our
honorary chairman again this
year,” said Robert C. Lanphier,
IK, president of the Agriculture
Day Foundation.
Agriculture Day is coordinated
by the Agriculture Day Foundation
with a staff provided by the
Agriculture Council of America'
Foundation. The council is sup
ported by more than 2,500 volun
tary members from the
agribusiness community, with
farmers and ranchers serving as
elected officials.
The Agriculture Day celebration
is a volunteer effort in cities, towns
and rural areas alike, aimed at
celebrating our bountiful
agricultural achievements. This
marks the third year Agriculture
Day has been proclaimed as a
national observance.
Last year the cooperative spent
almost $600,000 for advertising,
Ruth reported. This year, they are
budgeted to spend $1 million, and,
Ruth added, ”We have the support
of our producers for our promotion
program.”
This promotion includes ad
vertising for Lehigh's new
products, such as Lehigh Valley
Farm’s All-Natural Ice Cream.
Recording to Ruth, this ice cream,
made with 12 to 13 percent fat, has
become very popular worldwide.
LVF’s ice cream sales amount to
about IS million gallons of ice
cream each year.
The cooperative, serving 1100
producers, processes all its
products in Allentown. —DK
On hand, to select the winning
tickets was Congressman William
Goodling who "announced the
winners to a cheering crowd of
over one hundred club youths,
parents and officials. Godfrey
Brothers in Loganville is handling
butchering of the famed steer. '
Top prize went to Bruce Etter,
Manchester, whose winning ticket
earned him 150 pounds of roasts,
steaks and hamburger. Other
meat-pack winners were N.L.
McCann, Glen Rock, 125 pounds;
Eleanore Wesoloski, York, 100
pounds; Wally Eeiling, Livingston,
N.J., 75 pounds; Timothy Poke,'
Spring Grove, 50 Pounds.
Five winners will enjoy steak
dinners for two at the historic
Accomac Inn, north of Wrightsville
overlooking the Susquehanna
River. They are Terry Strayer,
York, Margaret Weaver, Lebanon,
Lynn Potts, Diilsburg, Ronald
Hash, New Park, and C. Fisher,
Dover. An alternate ticket, held by
H.L. Mann, New Cumberland, was
drawn in case any prizes are not
claimed.
HOG EQUIPMENT SALE...
YES, W/E HAVE A FULL LINE OF HO6 EQUIPMENT
HYDRAULIC AUGERS FOR GRAVITY WAGONS AND DUMP TRUCKS
DUMP TRUCKS
BASIC SCALE ONLY
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Making the official selections of the winning tickets was
U.S. Congressman Bill Goodling. left, assisted by extension
agent Tony Debrosky. ' “
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