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Earl and Barbara Stauffer, left, with Sunny-Craft Net Mandy and Tim and Teresa
Kissling.
Sylvia Cooper joins staff
I 1 LANCASTER - This- week,
Lancaster Farming welcomes
Sylvia Cooper as a new staff
writer. Ms. Cooper will be
primarily responsible for repor
ting livestock news events.
Ms. Cooper, from a dairy farm in
Slippery Hock, knows the ins and
outs of dairying today. As a -
youngster she participated in
many 4H events which ultimately
led to her keen' interest in
registered Holsteins. She has
shown cattle in many local, district
and state shows and was chosen as
a Distinguished Junior Holstein
Member finalist in 1974.
A 1982 graduate of Penn State,
where she majored in dairy
production, Ms. Cooper was an
active participant in the Dairy
Ag Day and 4-H Week ‘spring 5 forth together
Look for special Ag Week events
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
LANCASTER Agriculture
Day 1983, a nationwide program to
promote pea ter awareness of the
contributions and needs of the
American farmer and his oc
cupation, will be celebrated this
Monday appropriately, the first
day of spring.
This year, Ag Day celebrates its
tenth anniversary, but only its
third year of official recognition by
the entire nation.
Under a joint resolution ap
proved by Congress last Sep
tember and signed on Oct. 14 by
President Reagan, a proclamation
declared Ag Day a national oc
curance for the third consecutive
year.
Activities in Washington D.C. on
jfanday will include appearances
By Secretary of Agriculture John
R. Block, the observance’s
honorary chairman, at the
National Press Club and on ABC
television’s daily “Good Morning
Livestock writer
Sylvia Cooper
America” program. Sec. Block
also has taped a series of radio
messages to be broadcast
throughout the week.
President Reagan will parti
cipate in Ag Day by addressing
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture employees at their
office in the capital.
In the air and on the ground, Ag
Day will be recognized as three
Goodyear nightsign blimps will
carry the Ag Day message in the
skies of California, Texas and
Florida.
These blimps will feature an
animated neon display of the
symbol of Ag Day: schematic farm
buildings superimposed on an
electrocardiogram and enclosed in
an outline map of the continental
U.S. the same symbol featured
with this story.
In Pennsylvania, Governor
Thornburgh, riding atop an AUis-
Chalmers tractor, will visit the Pa.
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LaacastarFanaiag, Saturday, March 19,1983
Science Club. In 1982, Ms. Cooper
Was thefieteteinßre«lManager of
the POflft State Dairy Exposition
and-Was later selected as Most
Helpful Individual
“About 100 bead were shown on
Expo day,” Ms. Cooper said, “and '
a good number of them were
exhibited in the amateur division.
.It took a lot of courage for the
students who had never seen a live
cow to come out to the barns and
leam to prepare an animal for a
show. Believe me, it took plenty of
work to help clip all those cows
before toe show.”
Ms. Cooper has also helped clip
cattle for the Pennsylvania on
Parade State Calf Sale held an
nually at Harrisburg and the Ag
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AGRICULTURE:
ITS YOUR HEARTBEAT, AMERICA
AG DAY
Stauffer’s Mandy
brings $10,300
BY HUSH WILLIAMS
LANCASTER Earl and
Barbara Stauffer’s hopes for a
spring promise of better economic
times were on the line Thursday as
they watched the dispersal of their
Sunny-Craft herd of 40 outstanding
Holstans.
The Sunny-Craft dispersal was
held in conjunction with the Spring
Promise Sale and the 325th Garden
Spot Sale at the Guernsey Sales
Barn.
Among the nation’s leading cow
families, the Mattie’js were
featured in- the Sunny-Craft'
dispersal. Top-selling cow of all
three sales was Sunny-Craft Net
Mandy (2E-91) 5-2 365 28.994 M 3.9
1122 F. Mandy completes three
generations of excellent cows. She
sold with a Bell son, two tip
sisters, and two yet-to-be-born BT
sisters or brothers.
Mandy brought $10,300 from her
buyers,,/ Carl,' \Brown _of
Douglassville , and Tim and Teresa
Ki&ding, Hidden View Farm,
Robesonia. Auctioneer Horace
Backus announced prior to
Mandy’s sale that she had a
displaced abomasum this past
lactation, and was still able to
make this high record. Stauffer
asked the auctioneers to announce
the conditions of each of the
animals. He expressed concern
that buyers were well informed
about the cattle and that each was
going into good herds.
Many good breeders were on
hand Thursday for the sale of 104
heed from the three sales. The
Sunny-Craft dispersal brought a
sale total of $69,900, with a sale _
At dispersed
average of $1747 for the 40 head
sold.
A sale total of 162,200 was
generated by the Spring Promise
Sale, with 15 head selling for a sale
average of 94147. The top-selling
cow, Claretta Astronaut Emy, sold
for 910,200.
Grange plans
D.C. milk trip
HARRISBURG - The Penn
sylvania State Grange will observe
Ag Day on Monday in the Nation's
Capital by lobbying area
congressmen to gain support for
repeal of the milk tax and support
for the National Milk Producers
Federation plan.
This marks the second state ag
group to travel to Washington in as
many weeks to cany their milk
message to Congress. Last week,
PFA was there.
“Hie milk tax is not going to
'solve the dairy surplus problem,”
Charles Wismer, State Grange
Master and a dairy fanner, said.
“In fact, figures have shown that
milk production has actually
climbed in anticipation of the tax.”
The Grange favors a dairy plan
that provides incentives for
producers to reduce production
and penalties for those who in
crease production.
The National Milk Producers
proposal includes:
-A mandatory 15-cent deduction
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4-H - 92,000 strong
LANCASTER - With almost
92.000 youths enrolled in its diverse
projects, the Pennsylvania 4-H
program will be celebrating its
first honorary week, March 20 - 26,
as proclaimed by Governor Dick
Thornburgh, recently.
No other youth-oriented
volunteer program in the Com
monwealth offers as much to boys
and girls, both urban and rural, as
the 4-H program does; and 4-H is
able to boast of its impressive
volunteer statistics: more than
12.000 adults and 3,000 teens
participated in the program in
1982.
Emphasizing head, heart, hands
and health, the program supports
the teaching method of “learn by
doing,” and urges its members to
“make the best better.” This year
their week-long theme will be “A
place to belong.”
The projects of animal, poultry,
plant science and crops affect
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