Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 6 r 1983
STATE COLLEGE
Nominations are now being ac
cepted for the Pa. Department of
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• Feed Bins • Grain Bins • Wet Holding Tanks
• Utility, Flex, Transport, Incline, Vertical and Bin Unloading
Augers
• Bucket Elevators • Drying and Aeration Fans
• Aeration Floors • Grain Cleaners
Nominations being
Agriculture 1984 yearling ram
testing program.
Sponsored by the Department of
accepted for ram testing program
Agriculture in cooperation with the
Penn State Department of Dairy
and Animal Science; the Pa. Sheep
and Wool Growers Association and
the State Breed Association,
nominations for the testing
program are being accepted
between Aug. 1 and Nov. 30.
The purpose of the program is to
promote performance testing of
sheep in Pennsylvania and to
provide a common test for
evaluating rate of gain, structural
soundness, muscularity, condition,
and estimated carcass merit
The program is also concerned
with providing a genetically sound
testing program and an op
portunity for purebred breeders
and commercial producers to
purchase performance tested
rams.
For more information con
cerning the program and
nominations procedures, please
contact the Pa. Department of
Agriculture at the Meat Animal
Evaluation Center, 651 Fox Hollow
Road, State Cdllege, Pa. 16801.