Indiana 4-H’er joins IFYE tour to Switzerland
INDIANA Cheryl Ann Comp
ton of Clarksburg, Indiana County
has been selected as an in
ternational Four-H Youth Ex
change Ambassador to Swit
zerland. The six-week exchange
Lancaster dairy crown
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The winner of the county contest
will represent Lancaster County in
the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess
contest to be held in September,
and will also attend a training
seminar, designed to help dairy
princesses promote the dairy in
dustry more effectively. All
contestants will receive prizes.
The new Dairy Princess will be
crowned by LuAnn Brenneman,
the 1982 Lancaster County Dairy
Princess, who will be concluding a
busy year of making appearances
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program will emphasize dairy
farm practices and living.
Cheryl is one of twelve 4-H
youths from across the United
States that" Will be traveling to
Switzerland on June 17.
on behalf of the dairy industry in
the county .
The pageant will be preceded by
a reception for the contestants
beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by
dinner at 7 p.m. The evening will
provide entertainment for the
whole family.
Tickets for the event cost $8 and
are available from any contestant,
the agricultural Extension office
or contest chairmen Gerald and
Linda Kreider, Lancaster Pike,
Route 1, Quarryville, Pa. 17566.
Ticket deadline is June 10.
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The IFYE exchange is sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Cooperative
Extension Service, Friends of 4-H,
the National 4-H council and local
individuals and organization.
While in Switzerland, Cheryl will
be living and working on a dairy
farm, visiting dairy and
agricultural industries, speaking
to farm groups and participating m '
rural youth group activities. The
group will be hosted m the German -
speaking areas of Switzerland,
with their hist stay in Berne, the
country’s capitol city.
The Swiss Federation in west
central Europe lies in the same
latitudes as the state of
Washington, and has a population
of 6.4 million persons. It is a lan
dlocked country surrounded by
Austria, West Germany, Italy and
France.
The mountainous terrain of
Switzerland only allows one-fourth
of the land for permanent pasture
Cheryl Ann Compton
and meadow use. The herds range
from 10-30 head, of which nearly
half are milk cows. Cows are
maintained in the valleys and
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lowlands during the winter and fed
hay. In summer, herds are driven
to mountain areas for pasture.
Cheryl is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, James T. Compton of R. 1,
Clarksburg. She has been an active
member for eleven years. She has
completed projects as dairy,
leadership, foods, clothing, health
and veterinarian science. Being a
member of the Southern Dairy 4-H
Patchwork 1 Pals and County
Council, she has held the office of
president, vice president,
secretary, treasurer, news
reporter, and teen leader.
Cheryl was a Keystone Winner in
dairy, foods and nutrition.
Cheryl just completed her
freshman year at Edinboro where
she was enrolled as a nursing
student.
Cheryl will be available for
speaking engagements involving
Swiss dairy farms, family life, and
cultural experiences, after Sep
tember 1.
Tobacco
carryover
stopped
WASHINGTON, D.C.
“The excess poun
dage carryover
program for hurley and
flue-cured tobacco will
not be continued for the
1983 and subsequent
marketing years,”
Secretary of
Agriculture John R.
Block has announced.
The program was
reinstated for the 1982
crop only, after having
been in effect for the
crop years 1972 through
1978. Excess tobacco is
that produced in excess
of 110 percent of the
effective farm quota.
The program provided
the safe storage of such
tobacco produced
primarily for reasons
beyond the producer’s
control. Block said.
The program was
discontinued beginning
with the 1979 crop
because it stimulated
overproduction, with
producers intentionally
producing excess
tobacco; and there was
not provision in law for
reducing the farm quota
for the following year,
even though some of the
quota would be
displaced by pounds
held in carryover. It
tended to contribute to
the rising costs of
leasmg quota; large
amounts of carryover
depressed auction
market prices; and
overproducltion en
couraged increased
incidents of false
identification.
“We have determined
the carryover program
is not m the best in
terests of producers and
other segments of the
tobacco industry,”
Block concluded. “We
have received support
for this determination
from various farm and
warehouse organizati
ons, producers and
members of Congress.
Therefore, we are
making this early an
nouncement so
producers will not plant
excess acreage in an
ticipation of con
tinuance of the
program."