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
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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
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Champion Market Lamb class 1
MarKTracy i Scott Mylm 2 Mark Tracy 3 John Martin
Reserve Champion Markat Lamb Class 2
Margaret Herr i Tim Engle 2 Jeff Martin 3 PhilYeagley
SALE CLASS. MARKET LAMBS Class 3
Class 1 i Margaret Herr 2 Barry Martin 3 Brian
1 Dawn Herr 2 Dwayne Coble 3 Dawn Herr Hunt
Class 2
1 Ellen Lewis 2 Tim Engle, 3 Carey Donches
Class 3
1 Tammy Baker 2 KimSchildt 3 PhilYeagley
Class 4
1 Margaret Herr 2 Mike Brubaker 3 Matthew
Snavely
Champion. Sato Class
Margaret Herr
Reserve Champion. Sale Class
Ellen Lewis
Champion Pan
Margaret Herr
BEST OF SHOW
Margaret Herr
Showmanship
Aga 154 Over
Margaret Herr
Age 12-14
Tim Engle
Age 8-11
Curt Engle