Hunterdon Ag Board is busy organization
FLEMINGTON, N.J. - The
Hunterdon County Board of
Agriculture is winding down still
another year of activity and ac
complishment. The organization’s
annual meeting is set for next
Saturday, Nov. 19, at the
Quakertown Fire House.
Festivities begin at 6 p.m. with a
social hour. A roast beef dinner is
planned for 7 p.m.
The County Board of Agriculture
was founded in 1886. It is a broad
base group of farmers and others
interested in agriculture,
representing most of the county’s
municipalities. It’s concerns are
county-wide, but also reaches out
through its leadership into state,
regional, and national
organizations.
There are about 350 members in
the Hunterdon County Board at the
present time. Close to 300 of these
are members of the New Jersey
Farm Bureau.
County Board is part of a net
work of county boards of
agriculture with representation in
many state-wide organizations.
The State Board of Agriculture, the
Board of Managers of Cook
College, Rutgers, State Farm
Bureau, all draw on leadership out
of the various county boards of
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agriculture.
Currently, Dave Buchholz,
Alexandria Township, serves on
the college board of managers;
Fred Van Doren, Clover Hill, is on
the State Farm Bureau board;
Melda Snyder, Pittstown, was until
recently on the state ag board.
, Marjorie Van Ness, Raritan
Township, recently stepped down
as President of the New Jersey
Agricultural Society.
The officers of the county ag
board this past year were Fred
Clucas, Tewksbury, president;
Richard Gulick, W. Amwell, Ist V-
President; Ted Blew, Franklin
Township, 2nd V-President;
Charles Runge, Alexandria,
Secretary; and Charles Eichlin.
Frenchtown, Treasurer.
There are 35 elected members of
the Executive Committee; and
about 40 representatives of
organizations across the county
also serve on the committee. The
Executive Committee meets on the
first Wednesday of each month at 8
p.m. in the Hunterdon Extension
Center.
A monthly meeting agenda will
include a topic of general interest,
reports of the N.J. Department of
Agriculture, Farm Bureau, the
Cooperative Extension, and many
American
Bank
committees.
A history of Hunterdon
agriculture and the county board’s
involvement in it was published
recently: “As Ye Sow: the Story of
an American Rural Community.”
It features the wide-ranging ac
tivites of the organization.
It describes the county board’s
role in the beginnings of many
CHAMBERSBURG - The 14th
annual Franklin County Farm-City
Week Banquet will be held
Tuesday, Nov. 22 at the Kauff
man’s Community Center, ac
cording to Farm-City Week
Chairman, Dalton Paul.
Dinner will be served promptly
at 6:45 p.m; preceded by an “Ag.
Commodities Social Hour”,
starting at 6 p.m. Delicious snacks
of Franklin county’s agricultural
products will be served by County
Dairy Princess, Allison Biesecker;
Apple Queen, Jocelynn Hartman,
and Honey Queen, Kimi Benedict.
A variety of awards will be
presented by the Greater Cham
bersburg Chamber of Commerce,
the Franklin County Farmers
Association, the Waynesboro Area
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noteworthy successes; the foun
ding of the nation’s first artificial
insemination cooperative; the
founding of the first successful egg
auction in the U.S.; the impetus in
establishing the Hunterdon
Medical Center.
President Fred Clucas will not
dwell on the distant past in his
report t 0 •""•~»>ors on Nov. 19.
Jay-Cees, and the Kauffman
Community Ruritan Clubs. Cen
tury-Farm Awards will be
presented by C. Eugene Gayman,
Regional Administrator, the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture.
Entertainment will consist of a
performance by the James
Buchanan Show Choir, followed by
the always-popular “Job Ex
change” interviews.
Area service-clubs, such as
Lions, Ruritans, Rotarians, and
Kiwanians are encouraged to
attend and be recognized as
groups.
Tickets for the event are
available through Monday, Nov.
14, from the County Extension
Office, Vo-Tech School, ASCS
You can be sure he will stress the
achievements and successes of the
association’s most recent year.
The organization has been active
and responsive to its membership
and the community.
Speaker of the evening will be
Arthur Brown, Jr., State Secretary
of Agriculture.
Office, Chambersburg Chamber of
Commerce, and Committee
members.... Carl Allison, Kelly
Barr, Miriam Burkholder, Jean
North, Kenneth Doyle, Ruth Fitz,
Betty Gamble, Eugene Hege, Ray
Kauffman, Paul Lehman, Edward
Myers, Fred Oaks, Gerald
Reichard, Mike Small, Charles
White, Betty Wingert, Myron
Young and Gladys Becker.
AVIAN INFLUENZA QUARANTINE REGULATIONS
Area Quarantine Refutations
No poultry or poultry products, except processed poultry, including
chickens, ducks, ceese, turkeys, exotic fowl (except caged pet birds)
and game birds raised in captivity shall be moved within the
quarantine area nor removal from the quarantine area except by
permit of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
NO LIVE BIRDS OR EGGS MAY BE REMOVED FROM FLOCKS AND
PREMISES INFECTED WITH HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN IN
FLUENZA
Conditions for issuance of permits for movement of poultry or
poultry products within or from the quarantine area
I Permit may be issued tor transportation ot live birds from flocks
other than those infected with avian influenza of high pathogen
icity direct to slaughter plants under federal inspection
A Permits may be issued only following an onsite inspection of
the flock by an authorized representative of the Task Force
and determination that this flock and no other flocks on the
premises are infected by avian influenza
6 Birds moving from these flocks shall be transported in vehicles
covered so as to prevent contamination along the route
C Equipment and vehicles utilized to transport these birds shall
be considered under quarantine until proper C & D has been
certified by an official representative of the Task Force
II Permits may be issued for transportation of live day old chicks
originating from healthy flocks to approved grower operations
which shall be placed under special quarantine
A Permits may be issued only following an onsite inspection of
the flock by an authorized representative of the Task Force
and determination that this flock and no other flocks on the
premises are infected with avian influenza
B Equipment and vehicles utilized to transport these birds shall
be considered under quarantine until CAD has been certified
by an official representative of the Task Force
111 Permits may be issued for transportation of hatching eggs
originating from healthy breeder flocks to approved hatching
facilities according to guidelines established by the Federal
quarantine order
IV Permits may be issued for transportation of table use eggs which
have been sanitized and packed in unused or sanitized flats
and crates Nest run eggs may be moved by permit to approved
facilities for sanitizing and packing
V Permits may be issued for transportation of dead poultry poultry
parts and litter from infected flocks to approved disposal sites
only when suitable disposal if not available within the quarantine
area
A Equipment and vehicles utilized to transport dead poultry,
poultry parts and litter must be maintained in a proper sam
tary condition
B Equipment and vehicles utilized to transport dead poultry
poultry parts and litter must be constructed and maintained
so as to prevent contamination of the transportation pathway
Quarantined Flocks
Poultry poultry parts, eggs, litter and any other potentially con
laminated materials may be removed from flocks and premises in
fected by non highly pathogenic avian influenza by permit only
A Live poultry may be mvoed to approved slaughter facilities by
permit only
B Table eggs sanitized and packed in unused or sanitized flats
papers, racks and crates may move by permit only Nest run
eggs may be moved by permit to approved facilities for samtiz
mgand packing
C Dead poultry cull eggs, refuse and litter may be removed from
the quarantined premises by permit only whep proper
disposal cannot be accomplished on the quarantined pre*
mises
NO LIVE BIRDS OR EGGS MAY BE REMOVED FROM FLOCKS AND
PREMISES INFECTED WITH HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN IN
FLUENZA
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QUARANTINE NOTICE TO BE
PUBLISHED IN LANCASTER
PAPER
Pursuant to the authority
vested in the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture by
the Act of 1929 April 17 PL
533 and the Administrative Code
of 1929 Act of April 9. 1929 (P L
177 No 175) Section XVII the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture has established a
quarantine on the movement of
poultry and poultry products in
portions of Berks Dauphin
Lancaster and Lebanon
Counties Effective November 4
1983 no poultry poultry
products or game birds shall be
moved from the area bounded by
the Susquehanna River on the
west following northeast along
Interstate Routes 81 then 78 to
Route 61 south to the in
tersection of Routes 61 and 222
then southwest along Route 222
to U S Route 30 and west along
Route 30 to the Susquehanna
River except by permit from the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture
Penrose Hallowed
Secretary of Agriculture
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