The Pennsylvania Poultry Federation has set their annual conference for September 24-25 at the Holiday Inn in Grantville. Slated for the second day of the conference, the commodity sessions offer attendees the op portunity to hear speakers address problems specifically related to the species with which they are associated. All commodity sessions begin at 9:30 a.m. and feature two forty-five minute presentations. This year’s featured speaker, NBC economic correspondent, Irving R. Levine, will speak after the commodity sessions. The turkey session features Dr. Frank Cherms of Nicholas En terprises in Sonoma, California. Dr. Cherms will address “Altering Carcass Composition Through Lighting,” a relatively new con cept which has been successful for Nicholas, one of the world’s largest turkey breeders. Dr. Cherms has been a Reproductive Physiologist for Nicholas since 1969. 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On Saturday the new plowing class for young girls will compete for prizes and on Sunday the young boys class will demonstrate. There will be a new driving class com petition with wagons. The Fall Harvest season will be marked by cider making, apple butter cooking, roasted com meal for mush making, and the new dry houses drying apples, string beans, com and fruit. Great tasting sausage sandwiches will be available at the sausage stand. Harvest pies at the tasting table will include apple, grape, schnitz and raisin custard. Other pies will These Are Many Reasons To Choose Patz // f ¥ Surface-Drive 988 «p~ New ring drive for the Patz Model RD-820 Silo Unloader aF automatic farm systems Dairy Division 608 Evergreen Road RD 2 Box 271 Lebanon, PA 17042 East Earl, PA 17519 (717) 274-5333 (717) 354-0584 M« Jr., Professor Poultry Science at Penn State University. Dr. Leach will address “Influencing Early Egg Shell Formation,” a topic on which he has performed extensive research. 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