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VOL 31 No. 42
Ag Progress Days Has Water Quality Theme
All roads lead to Rock Spring
this week when Pennsylvania
agriculture has its yearly summer
fling near State College in Centre
County. Ag Progress Days begin
Tuesday, August 19, and run
through Thursday, August 21. With
many features of interest to all
segments of agriculture, the theme
of APD 1986 is “Water Quality in
Your Life” with a dozen exhibits
reflecting College of Agriculture
research and extension programs.
Exhibits in the theme building
include;
• Sulfur and Iron Removal
featuring an original PSU desigied
Carolina Jersey Breeder
Tells About Drought
BY GINGER SECHRIST MYERS
Adams Co. Staff Correspondent
MOORESVILLE, N.C. - Gene
The 1986 Summer Drought
Hay Fund now has a total
of $9,780. If yon want to
contribute to this drought
hay fund, make your
checks payable to 1986
Summer Drought Hay
Fund. Then send your
check to Lancaster Far
ming newspaper, 22 East
Main Street, P.O. Box $66,
lititz, PA 17543, attention
Hay Fund or attention
Editor.
‘Awful Heavy ’« Nice 9
Although many of Mi tobacco stalks were twisted from this
summer's violent thunderstorms, overall, Manheim farmer
Clarence Metzler (on wagon) was tickled with his robust crop.
Earlier this week, Barry Rowe (left), along with half a dozen
other friends, helped Metzger get his crop into the barn. At
76 yefr old, Metzler's been farming tobacco for nearly 60
years. "Work’ll never kill you, but worryment will,” he ad
vises.
Four Sections
working home water treatment
system that can hook into well or
municipal water systems.
• Spray Nozzels and Water
Quality- Safe chemical ap
plication for farmers.
• Protect Your Groundwater-
How to.
• Livestock Lot Runoff- Model
showing recommended drainage
procedures to control runoff from
livestock pens.
• Animals and Water- Quality
and quantity water needs of dairy
cattle, poultry, and swine.
• Water, At What Price?- Puts
water costs in perspective com
Harris surveyed the rain-soaked
field where only a week earlier his
four-foot, earless, corn had stood.
He apologized for the amount of
Johnson grass still growing there,
but explained that he and his
fafottier Bill, with whom he farms,
~tod.„lpai)L $5000.00 this year for
weed control, but without rain they
had gotten poor results. They now
plan to leave the Johnson grass
grow, cut it, and bale it for hay.
The Harris brothers had to cut
their com for silage to feed their
200 head Jersey herd. Within a
week, the sky finally let loose the
first measurable moisture they’ve
had since Thanksgiving. The
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16,1986
pared to other services and
products. Also shows the costs of
not having good water such as the
costs of giardia outbreaks.
• Acid Rain in PA Its Effects-
Lieutenant Governor William Scranton visits with the Don Hotter family Wednesday
(left to right) Kent, Scranton, Hotter, Mrs. Hotter and Kristen.
Names Ag. Committee
Scranton Wants To Expand Farm Markets
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LEBANON - “We are a state
with a diversified agricultural
base and a strong family farm
heritage,” said Lieutenant William
Scranton Wednesday. “And we
deserve a government that will
expand upon the efforts made in
recent years to get Pennsylvania
produce and farm products to the
markets-markets not only in
Pennsylvania, but into other states
in the region and abroad. That will
be one of my top priorities.”
These remarks were made when
the Lieutenant Governor visited
the Lebanon family farm of Donald
Hoffer to announce the formation
of a statewide agricultural com
mittee in support of the Scran
ton/Fisher ticket for governor in
the fall elections. “Ag is number
one in Pennsylvania but it can
grow. It must grow,” Scranton
said. “Anyone who would govern
Pennsylvania must address not
only the concerns and problems of
agriculture, but must also address
the opportunities we all see.”
In addition to marketing, the
Governor listed the preservation of
prime farm land and animal health
as top priorities. “Our prime farm
land is a treasure Pennsylvania
must maintain,” Scranton said.
“Firt of all it’s a nonrenewable
resource and we must protect it
against development. We need to
be able to hand farms down from
generation to generation. And we
must keep it in production. If that
means reducing tax burdens,
issuing development rights or
expanding markets, we must do it.
Facts and figures.
•Insects and Water Quality
Assessment- Will feature two live
stream environments to demon
strate that microscopic insect life
We must gear everything state
government does to preserve the
family farm and the vitality of the
soil,” he said.
A group of family farmers,
animal health professionals and
representatives from agribusiness
gathered at the Lebanon R 4 farm
to hear the Lieutenant Governors
Lancaster Co . Holstein Club Sale
Allegan Valiant Twinkle, the VGBB show cow with embryo
guarantee from D. Lamar Witmer, sold for $5,100 Thursday
evening to Arlen Keener and Larry Wenger at the Lancaster
County Holstein Sale held at the Lampeter Fairgrounds. In
addition, the Twinkle cow was milking right at 100 pounds
and had records to 31,580 milk and 1,098 fat.
The red cow Marlu Alban Prissy ET from Stonehurst Farm
sold to Elam Stoltzfus for $3,100. The Prissy cow was G+ out
of an Excellent cow with a string of records to 25,420 milk,
and 971 fat. In all 43 head sold for a total of $62,900 and
averaged $1,463. Mike Weimer was the auctioneer and Jay
Howes read the pedigrees. Members of the Lancaster County
Holstein Association worked the ring and cared for the
animals in the barn.
98.50 per Year
in streams is an early indicator of
water quality. When certain in
sects begin to die, that is the
earliest indicator of a drop in
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remarks. later Senate? and
Hotter toured the be' , and
surrounding fields. The state
“Agriculture for Scranton Com
mittee” announced at the farm
visit included the following per
sons: Dr. Mark Allam, Swar
thmore: I. Hershey Bare,
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