Lancaster County Extension elects five directors BY SALLY BAER Staff Correspondent LANCASTER Five .directors were elected to the board of the Lancaster County Extension Association at its annual meeting Thursday. Elected to their first three-year term were: Mrs. Helen Rohrer, 1623 Book Road, Lancaster, who raises steers, broilers and layers; Lynn Royer, 2025 Oregon Pike, Lancaster, a dairyman; and Ed Zug, R 2 Peach Bottom, a dairyman. Re-elected to a second term were: Mrs. Dolores Hamish, R 1 Willow Street, who operates a veal farm with her husband, and Mrs. Lilli Ann Kopp, R 3 Mt. Joy, a free-lance home economist. Presenting staff highlights, County Agent Glenn Shirk said that the Extension is in an era of change and stressed that Ex tension personnel are striving to help countians deal with the basics of life as well as the new technology. In agriculture, that means increased attention to nutrient management and wise conservation of the environment. Shirk said the computer is being used more heavily within the of Newly-elected directors of the Extension board are, from left: Helen Rohrer, Lynn Royer, Dolores Harnish, Ed Zug and Lilli Ann Kopp. ATTENTION MR. POULTRYMAN State Agriculture Officials Are Urging The Poultry Industry To Continue Strict Sanitation Measures To Avoid Unintentional Spread Of Avian Influenza We Offer Pressure Washers - Cleaning Compounds - Supplies To Help You Do It Effectively & Economically LIMITED SUPPLY - ONE YEAR WARRANTY » Chemical Injection Standard On All Units - Weigh Only 85 Lbs. RANSWASH of Central Pennsylvania R.D. #3 Box 816 Mount Joy, PA Phone: 717-898-3006 fice, and now information is available to all countians through Penn State’s Pennpages computer service. In reporting on the family living program, Brenda Stallman, nutrition aid supervisor, said the Expanded Foods and Nutrition Education Program focuses on housing, hunger, health and homemaking. She emphasized that the family living programs have changed to meet the demands of modem living, stressing financial planning, food preservation and other skills. During 1985 Extension personnel held 2,121 meetings attended by 52,306 people. They also provided individual assistance to over 35,000 people and wrote 1,308 newspaper articles and did 3,225 radio broadcasts. Dr. Thoms King, former associate director of Extension and now a program leader for International Agriculture Ex tension Programs with Penn State, told about the College of Agriculture’s involvement in Swaziland. King said one reason it is im portant to be involved in a project CW 1003 MGH 3GPM@ 1000 PSI 3.5 HP Honda Engine Special *9oo°° abroad is to help those countries become food self-reliant. King said the United States is one of only a half dozen countries that con sistently produce more than they need. He said it is vital to get other countries to produce food more reliably than in the past. A second reason King said*Such projects are important is to give a global outlook, seeking new ideas and approaches to stay in the forefront. World trade is yet another reason for the college of agriculture to be involved in ternationally. “We are more and more dependent on a global market. The so-called developing countries are the market of the future. Last year 38 percent of all export sales went to developing countries, which are a fruitful market,” King said. Penn State has had 16 in ternational projects since these programs began in 1970. Agriculture in Swaziland offered some contrasts. King said that most of the Swazis did not live in villages but in dispersed homesteads, ranging from 10 to 50 people. Acreage was allotted by wet • « CWIOO3 MGB 3 GPM @ 1000 PSI 3 HP l/C Series B/S Engine Special •820 00 Industrial Farm Tanks m •0 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 15,1986-A47 Dr. Thomas King talks about Penn State’s agricultural project in Swaziland. the 170 chieftains resulting in about 4 to 7 tillable acres per homestead. In Swaziland wealth is measured by cattle, and King said per spective husbands must pay a “bride price” of 15 to 17 head of cattle or more if they are part of the royal family. For that reason cattle play an important role. These cattle graze on the communal grazing lands during the day, often under the care of children, and are brought in at night. The cows are then separated from their calves and are milked in the morning. Because of poor nutrition, the cows usually calve just once every three years. King said women are the backbone of agriculture everywhere because men are often absent. Women make decisions about the acreage and do most of Base milk price announced Alexandria, VA. - Middle Atlantic Order Market Ad ministrator Joseph D. Shine today announced a January 1986 base milk price of $12.67 per hun dredweight and an excess milk price of $11.07. The weighted average January price was $12.53 and the butterfat differential for the month is 16.0 cents. The base milk price was up three cents from December but was $1.45 lower than last January. The weighted average price was un changed from December and was $1.52 lower than a year earlier. The gross value of January producer milk was $69.0 million, compared to $71.3 million a year ago. Mr. Shine said that producer receipts totaled 551.8 million pounds during January, an in crease of 42.4 million pounds from last January, and the average Public Auction Register £*- I KLIM! • KRUMR AUCTIONRRM COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL AUCTION SERVICE REAL ESTATE FARMS ft RESIDENTIAL PERSONAL PROPERTY - ANTIQUES - FARM STOCK SALES - LIQUIDATIONS RANDAL V. KLINE AUCTIONEER REALTOR 717 733 1006 717 569 8701 L 1 ROY E.GOOD, JR. RD 1 BOX 151 A DENVER. PA 17517 215 445 4309 the work. Maize is an important crop in Swaziland and it was one of the areas in which the Penn State project offered some technological help. Production averaged under 20 bushels to the acre, often because of poor seeding techniques and because grasses took over the fields. Cotton is a cash crop for the Swazis and cabbge is the most important vegetable. Sugar is the largest export crop, followed by paper pulp and pineapple. Penn State personnel worked closely with the Ministry of Agriculture in doing cropping systems research, Extension training, information development and participant training, with 20 natives traveling to the United States for advanced education. daily delivery of 2,635 pounds per producer increased 194 pounds of 7.9 percent from a year earlier. Class I producer milk totaled 263.0 million pounds and was up 1.5 million pounds or 0.6 percent from last January. Class I milk ac counted for 47.67 percent of total producer milk receipts during the month, compared with 51.35 percent in January 1985. Base milk accounted for 84.98 percent of total producer milk receipts in January compared with 90.84 percent last year. The average butterfat test of producer milk was 3.82 percent, up from 3.77 percent last January. Middle Atlantic Order pool handlers reported Class I in-area milk sales of 219.4 million pounds during January, an increase of 1.0 percent from a year earlier after adjustment to eliminate variation due to calendar composition. Closing Date Monday 5 00PM ol each week & publication LLOYD H.KREIDER AUCTIONEER 717 786 3394 FEBRUARY WED. FEB. 19 - 6:3OPM Public Coin Auction. Rentzel's Auction Barn, 1 1/20 mi. N. of Manchester, PA, alone Rt. 181, turn right at White Rock, watch lor signs. Blaine N Rentzel. Auct. WED. FEB 19 - 7 30PM Complete Dispersal Sale of High Grade Holstein Dairy Cattle, 60 Head. Located ABERDEEN SALES CO INC . Livestock Auction Market, MD. Rt 22, Churchville, Harford Co, MD. John Alvey, Owner. & IAT. FEB 22- -10.30 AM Liquidation Auction for Oxford Farm Machinery Co., Rt. 12, just N. of Oxford, New York, Binghamton area. Goodrich Auction Service.
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