Farm Show opens Sunday
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arena.
Visitors will be treated to over
250 commercial exhibits and
various food booths. In addition,
approximately 8,000 individual
entries of farm and home products
will be proudly displayed. *'
The Food Marketplace,
featuring 25 Pennsylvania food
processors and retailers, will
return for the fifth consecutive
year. Food commodity booths,
boasting high-quality Penn
sylvania farm products, will be the
focus of the Pennsylvania Food
Center along the east wall of the
main exhibit hall.
Visitors will also be treated to a
full slate of livestock shows. Sheep
exhibitors will be in the small
arena on Sunday and the show will
continue with the Corriedale and
Rambouillet breeds Monday
evening and junior shows on
Wednesday. The draft horse show
is scheduled for Monday.
Dairy shows will start Tuesday
at 8 a.m. and continue throughout
the day, while beef cattle shows
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will dominate Wednesday’s show,
schedule and continue into
Thursday.
The show will climax with the
junior steer, market lamb and
market swine sales on Friday.
Other special events scheduled
for the busy week include
Secretary of Agriculture’s Night
on Monday, featuring the
presentation of several prestigious
awards, including the Penn
sylvania Farm Family Award, the
70th Farm Show Theme Award and
the Pennsylvania Farm-City
Award.
At 7 p.m. Jim Shearer of
Mountville, Lancaster County, will
put his well-trained border collies
and sheepdogs through their paces
in the large arena. Also on
schedule is a horse and pony
demonstration presented by the
Cumberland County 4-H’ers and a
hitched horse competition.
Tuesday is Master Farmers’
Night and brings the Daigozivo
Dance Group of Harrisburg for a
first-year performance. The
Pennsylvania Folk Dance
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Festival, featuring 60 sets ot young
dancers from throughout the state
will kick up its heels in the large
arena Tuesday evening.
Meanwhile, in the small arena,
sheep enthusiasts will match their
skills in the Junior Sheep Blocking
and Grooming Contest which gets
underway at 7 p.m.
Another of the show’s highlights
is the championship Horse Pulling
Contest Wednesday evening at 4:30
in the large arena.
Contestants square off at 6 p.m.
in the Pennsylvania Sheep to
Shawl Contest in the small aremfT
Auction of the shawls follows the
Wednesday contest.
Thursday, the final evening
during the show, features the State
Championship Pony Pulling
Contest, set for 6 p.m. in the large
arena.
A number of agricultural
organizations will also meet during
the week, including the Futuye
Farmers of America who will
recognize the Keystone Farmers
during their Mid-Winter Con
vention Wednesday.
The Keystone is the highest
degree awarded at the state level
and goes to chapter members who
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have shown outstanding
achievements and proficiency in
their projects, leadership, com
petition and other aspects of the
FFA program.
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FFA’ers who will receive then
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Lancaster Farming applauds
Block resigns as USDA head
WASHINGTON - The year
long battles over the 1985 Farm
Bill behind him, USDA
Secretary John Block this week
announced his resignation,
effective within the next few
weeks.
President Reagan accepted
the resignation with reeret and
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their achievements.
This week’s issue of Lancaster
Farming also includes a complete
schedule of events (page Dl7) and
a map (page Dl7) to help you find
your way around Farm Show. A
complete list of exhibitors can be
found on page D 23.
commended Block for his
service in advancing the ad
ministration’s farm policy
stance.
Block did not indicate what
his future plans are, but said he
was reviewing several different
options. No successor has been
named.
Reducing drift
Spraying pesticides can
present problems if the
spray drifts onto a
neighbor’s property. To
prevent this, avoid
spraying when it is
windv, says Tom
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Delaware extension
agricultural engineer.
“But,” he adds,
“while it may not be
practical to eliminate
spray drift entirely, the
operator can reduce
two-thirds of the drift by
careful equipment
selection and operation.
Keep both the operating
pressure and the boom
low.”
Low operating
pressure produces
larger spray droplets.
Although small droplets
provide better target
coverage, the smaller
the droplet the greater
the risk of drifting.
Spray droplet diameters
may range from 5
microns (the size of
seafog droplets) to 1,000
microns (raindrops
range from 500-1,000
microns). While an
aerosol droplet of 5-
micron diameter
released 10 feet above
the ground in a wind of
only 0 mph can drift two
miles off target, a 50-
micron drop drifts only
150 feet off target under
the same conditions.
In selecting droplet
size, Williams says to
balance coverage with
drift potential. Although
no sprayer nozzle
produces droplets all of
one size, using low
pressure and nozzles
with large holes forms
more large droplets
than small ones. Drops
become smaller as
pressure increases.
Keeping pressure too
low, however, distorts
the pattern and gives
uneven coverage.
Williams recommends
operating flooding fan
tips at pressures of 10 to
25 psi, flat fan nozzles at
25 to 40 psi, and low
pressure flat fans at 15
psi.
Studies show that
spray boom height is
also a major factor in
downwind drift.
Williams advises
lowering booms and
using closer nozzle
spacings and wider
nozzle spray angles. A
new mechanical shield
for flat fan nozzles
reduces drift at sprayer
and wind speeds above 5
mph by increasing
downward air velocity
around the nozzles to
better direct the spray
toward the target.
“Remember the
winds, though, “urges
the specialist. “Drift is
70 percent greater in 12
mph winds than in 3.r
mph winds. So when it’s
very windy, don’t
spray.”