Delano slated to speak GETTYSBURG - The 34th annual meeting of the Adams County Farmers’ Association will be held at the Sheraton Inn, Business R. 15, just south of Yoder (Continued from Page Al 2) the East Petersburg Rotary, the Masonic Lodge and the Landisville Church of God. In the NAAB business meeting, David Slusser, president of Atlantic Breeders Cooperative was elected to serve a three year term on NAAB’s Board of Directors. Slusser, a Crawford County dairyman, has served on the Board of Atlantic since 1973, was vice president for three years and is in his second year as president. He has been a voting delegate to the NAAB meeting for nine times. A graduate of Penn State with a B.S. in dairy production, Slusser owns 100 registered Holsteins, operating the family farm with his wife Kaye and their two children. The herd average on 50 milking cows is ir "milk and 666 fat. Gettysburg, Tuesday, Oct. 2 with a social hour at six (6) p.m. and dinner at 6:45. Purpose of the meeting is to elect directors, adopt policies and hear National Farm Bureau President, Robert Delano. President Delano represents more than three million farm families throughout the nation and Puerto Rico. The county association has been actively gathering policy suggestions from its membership, which will be submitted to the local membership for its consideration. Once Policies are adopted they remain in force for one year. The Adams County Farmers’ Association is active in community affairs and is a lobbying organization working for sound legislation for our agricultural county. It also offers business services to its members. Dinner ticket reservations should be sent to Daniel Winters, 444 Oxford Ave., Hanover, Pa. 17331 - Phone 717-637-8379 no later than Sept. 22. The price is $12.50 per person. ' Md. continues dairy management pilot program COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Forty Maryland dairy farms are being selected to participate in a two year demonstration project to show producers how then can increase annual income as much as $2OO per cow. The dairy management pilot program is another part of a Profitable and Efficient Production (PEP) three-year educational endeavor of the Univsersity of Maryland’s Cooperative Extension Service. Phase II of the PEP program was begun early this year with a statewide educational campaign which concentrated on milk quality and mastitis control in dairy cows. That effort used closed-circuit television and conference telephone hook-ups to reach 650 persons from 350 dairy farms gathered at 22 locations in a series of one-day meetings. Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 1,1984—A29 The dairy management a complete herd survey of all demonstration project will get participating farms. Management under way about Oct. 1, according practices in mastitis control, to Robert R. Peters, an Extension nutrition, reproduction, herd dairy science specialist at the health, cropping, and record- University of Maryland in College keeping will be investigated. Park. As information for each farm is First item on the agenda will be (Turn to Page A3B) E-town Sheep Show (Continued from Page A 27) p^