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VOL. 29 No. 46
Egg order approved;
No decision on Avian
Yes,,, but,,.
DECATUR Egg producers
representing greater than two
thirds of the laying hens in the
country have responded to a
survey sent out by the United Egg
Producers’ Marketing Order
Committee, according to UEP vice
president, Ken Klippen.
Mailed to all known egg
producers with a minimum of 3,000
laying hens, the survey asked
producers to vote “yes”, “yes if”,
or “no”, and include their com
ments on each of four provisions
which are possible for inclusion in
a marketing order under the
Agricultural Marketing
Agreement Act of 1937.
Results were tabulated, both by
producers voting and by laying hen
numbers represented, since two
thirds of either producers or laying
hens can pass a marketing order.
Producers responding voted 68
percent “yes”, or “yes if”, for the
quantity control provision, and 67
percent of the laying hefls
represented favored the controls.
Producers favoring the promotion
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Silhouetted against the Susquehanna, the Dauphin
Conservation District meets outdoors on river banks at
Millersburg to launch $350,000 fund drive for new Ag Center.
In background, ferry approaches for unusual midriver news
conference on Chesapeake Bay cleanup program.
Will voluntary Bay
cleanup effort work?
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
MILLERSBURG - Penn
sylvania’s initial approach to
farmers to help clean up the
Chesapeake Bay will be a volun
tary effort, according to Paul
Swartz, DER’s Director of Soil and
Water Conservation.
“Our approach will be a
voluntary program unless all such
efforts fail,” Swartz said Monday
night during a unique news con
ference on the Millersburg ferry
anchored in the middle of the
F-ou'r Sections
Va, ban lifted
BY JACK HURLEY
( WASHINGTON, DC - USDA
(officials announced the lifting of
Virginia’s avian influenza
quarantine on Friday, ending a
siege that began with quarantine
enforcement on January 27, and
resulted in the depopulation of 1.25
million birds in the state’s
Shenandoah Valley. The last
Virginia depopulation occurred on
July 27, when a flock showing
positive serology (birds having
avian flu antibodies but no active
virus) was destroyed.
“We’re delighted to make the
announcement,” said Betsy
Adams, spokesman for the USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health In
spection Service, who labeled the
end of the Virginia quarantine “a
tangible sign of progress”.
In neighboring Pennsylvania,
where four serologically positive
flocks were depopulated since the
Jl August, officials remain
captiously optimistic about an end
to the quarantine.
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Susquehanna River.
As he spoke in the waning light of
a balmy September evening, the
placid waters of the Susquehanna
flowed by the ferry loaded with
municipal and conservation of
ficials from Dauphin, Perry and
other nearby counties.
And the water beneath them was
likely loaded too - with an excess
of nitrates and phosphates from ag'
runoff. And in this nutrient loading
of the river’s waters, which make
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, Soptember 15,1984
Sunnybend Sexy Glitty B Star was named grand champion of the Holstein open dairy
show at the York Fair on Thursday. 4-H’er Bridgette Boyer showed her senior two-year
old for the champion title.
f 6 Glitter’ shines at York Fair
BY WENDY WEHR and
JOYCE BUPP
YORK - On Wednesday
Bridgette Boyer “out-showed” her
fellow 4-Hers by capturing the
champion showmanship award in
the York Fair 4-H Dairy Show. But
Boyer’s senior 2-year-old, Glitter,
“outshone” all the other entries on
Thursday by taking the senior and
grand championship titles in the
open Holstein show at the York
fairgrounds.
This was Sunnybend Sexy Glitter
B Star’s second grand cham
Are Pa. farm safety programs paying off?
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Although farm-related accidental
deaths in the Commonwealth have
continued to drop for the third
consecutive year, this is not a time
to become careless and com
placent, according to Dennis J.
Murphy, Extension Safety
Specialist at Penn State.
From a high of 67 accidental
farm deaths in 1981, the total has
dropped to 48 in 1982,39 in 1983 and
30 thus far this year.
“We believe that the decrease is
due in part to the increased em
phasis and the greater number of
people and groups becoming in
volved in farm safety,” Murphy
said.
“But regardless, it is not a time
to relax this emphasis and con
cern.”
As harvesting is about to begin in
full scale, which is the reason for
the opening of National Farm
Safety Week Sunday, the single
largest category of accidents stiU
concerns operation of machinery.
Traditionally half to two-thirds
of all accidental deaths on Penn
sylvania farms are related to
machinery.
Tractors are involved in the
majority of machinery fatalities
and overturns is by far the single
pionship rosette from the York
Fair shows. On Wednesday Boyer,
daughter of Tom and June Boyer of
Sunnybend Farm, Thomasville,
also claimed the senior and grand
championship honors in the 4-H
dairy show.
Sired by Ocean-View Sexation,
Glitter’s dam is Sunnybend
Dapples Black Star. The
homebred 2-year-old has won titles
since she was a calf, when she was
named junior all-Pennsylvania.
Reserve senior and grand
champion in Thursday’s open
most frequent type of fatal ac
cident.
But a continuing category that
ranks high in tractor accidents in
Pennsylvania is the extra rider.
For example, of 15 fatal tractor
accidents last year, 10 involved
overturns, three extra riders and
two with the PTO.
“Recent emphasis has been on
ag rescue techniques and
Fatal farm accidents have shown a steady decline in
Pennsylvania since 1981.
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Holstein show was Kingway I Star
Jaybird, bred and owned by Paul
and Kathy King of Delta. Not to be
outdone by Glitter, Jaybird
created a bit of excitement herself
by calving just .minutes after
leaving the show ring.
Paul and Kathy King and Sun
nybend Farm took a lion’s share of
the first and second place prizes in
the Holstein show. They captured
the junior and reserve junior
championships, respectively, as
well as blue and red ribbons in the
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emergency response by both
ambulance crews and the family,
particularly involving
machinery,” Murphy explained.
“Rescuers have been trained in
techniques of handling victims,
shutting off equipment and freeing
individuals, while the family has
been instructed in what to do
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