VOL 28 No. 32
The A, B, C’s
of Swap Shop
It’s easy as “A, B, C” to get
involved in the Dairy Product
Promotion Swap Shop.
A stands for “Air” and that's
where a Lebanon County
dairyman is taking his dairy
promotion. Besides the ad
joining photo, look for his
high-flying story in the A
Section.
B represents banks - and one
up in Schaefferstown is into
milk promotion in a refreshing
way. Turn to Page AID.
C means cooperation. A
writer from Chambersburg
wants some practical
cooperation from the ADA to
help promote milk. Her
request in on Page AlO, too.
If you have any Dairy
Product Promotion Swap Shop
ideas, send them to:
Dairy Product Promotion
Swap Shop
Lancaster Farming
P.0.80x 366
Lititz, Pa. 17543
Blue mold closer
LAN CASTE K - Blue mold is
getting closer and closer to Lan
caster County.
Claude McKee, tobacco
specialist in Maryland, this week
informed his Pa. counterpart, John
Yocum, at the Penn State
Southeast Research Farm that
blue mold has been found in an
untreated Md. seedbed.
Yocum urges that Kidomil
treatments be kept dp-to-date in
both beds and in the fields
preparatory to planting.
It’s ag happening
at Keister’s Market
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
MIDDLEBURG It’s becoming
a regular mouth-watering, tummy
stuffing, foot-stomping ag hap
pening up in Snyder County.
And on Tuesday some 21,000
people jammed Keister’s Auction
to celebrate the happening - the
second annual Pa. Ag Promotion.
“Why, this is as crowded as the
Bloomsburg Fair,” commented
more than one person as they
elbowed their way.through the mob
of people.
And, if you’ve ever been to the
Bloomsburg Fair, you know that’s
the ultimate in compliments about
attendance,
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Four Sections
Getting high
on milk promotion
He soars during chores
everyone to celebrate - par
ticularly the eatin’ kind.
There was enough food to please
the fussiest of Pa. Dutch gourmets.
Just start with the apple juice,
work your way through a mess of
barbecued ribs or chicken and end
up with apple fritters and maple
syrup.
If that menu didn’t meet your
epicurean needs, there was a score
or more of good eatin’ items to pick
from. And they all came out of
Pennsylvania fields and orchards.
Commodity princesses patrolled
the “midways” to remind
everyone,
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 11,1983
A 24
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Grange seeks
Johne’s funding
BY TRISH WILLIAMS
HARRISBURG An in
formative seminar on Johne’s
disease was conducted Monday by
the Pennsylvania State Grange in
attempt to create more awareness
Storms hit
farm areas
MIFFLINBURG - Severe pre
summer storms with high winds,
.drenching rain and heavy hail
have caused extensive damage in
agricultural areas of Central
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
In the Mifflinburg area of Union
County in Pennsylvania, the Paul
Zimmerman farm, which was just
opening a new fruit and vegetable
market, sustained extensive
damages to numerous produce
crops.
And, in the Flemington-Ringoes
areas of Hunterdon County, N.J.,
metal sheds on a number of farms
were tom apart by the storm.
In the Union County storm, farm
rain gauges were overflowing with
some four inches from the storm
that hit Monday evening. The bulk
of the precipitation - both rain and
hail - fell between 7 and 8 p.m.
“We just started picking
strawberries earlier Monday and
had a half-bushel of sugar peas
in,” explains Mrs. Zimmerman, of
Mifflinburg.
“And now, there’s nothing more
of them.”
Friends and neighbors gathered
at the Zimmerman farm this week
to help with cleanup, rebuilding
and spraying. The family was also
receiving offers of plants from
greenhousesnnd other growers.
“We had outgrown selling out of
our garage and had built the new
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$7.50 per Year
of this chronic infectious disease
that is now being diagnosed at an
alarming rate in dairy cattle
throughout the country. There is
presently no known cure for this
contageous disease. The Grange is
trying to create better public
awareness of the extend and
damages of the disease in order to
gain support for needed Johne's
disease research.
Dairymen and representatives
from the State Senate and House of
Representatives in attendance
were informed about the current
status of the disease in Penn
sylvania by veterinarians from the
Pa. Dept of Agriculture and the
University of Pennsylvania’s large
animal research center. New
Bolton Center, in Kennett Square.
The Grange spurred by its
dairymen members concerned
about the incidence of the disease
in Pennsylvania approached
researchers at New Bolton Center
on April 20 to request that they
consider doing Johne’s disease
research. Researchers there had
already been planning such a
research project, with the interest
and support shown by the Grange,
they were able to expand and have
ready a concrete research
proposal 30 days later.
Dr. Robert Whitlock and Dr.
John Fetrow of the University of
Pennsylvania Veterinary School
of the research
proposal. The research will be
conducted over a three year period
and will require $115,000 per year
for three years to fund.
State Grange Master Charles
Wismer, Jr. said the Council of
Farm Organizations plans to make
the request for funding the
research by introducing it to the
legislature as a tine item on the
budget of the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture.
Senator Sam Morris, chairman
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