D22-LancMter Farming Saturday, May 9,1987 HARRISBURG - National Grange Master Edward Andersen will visit five Pennsylvania State Granges during the month of May. Andersen will be among a team of National Grange officials who will conduct a series on leadership development designed to reach thousands of Grange members. Edward Andersen was elected the 18th master of the National Grange in November 1979. He is a native of Nebraska and prior to his election as National Master, operated a 700-acre general livestock farm in Waterloo, 20 miles west of Omaha. He began his farming career as a dairy farmer, following service in the U.S. Army in World Warn. Andersen joined the Grange in 1960 and has held numerous local, county and state offices. He was elected state master in 1970 and the following year was elected over seer of the National Grange. His election as national master marks the first time in Grange history that the overseer was elected master. 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He is a member of the Agriculture Ad visory Committee for Trade and Vocational Agriculture Advisory Committee. In May 1960, he was elected chairman of the National Farm Coalition and serves on the National 4-H Council Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the President’s Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped, Highway Users Federation board of directors, Farm Division of National Safety Council, board of directors of National Livestock and Meat Board and Advisory Committee to the Agricultural Division of the American Vocation Association. The National Grange Leadership Team will visit 31 Grange states for this series on leadership development. This is an enormous undertaking by the National Grange in an effort to recruit, maintain and expand Grange leadership. All subordinate and pomona leaders and members are invited to attend. State officials, including Pennsylvania State Grange Master Charles E. Wismer, Jr., will be on hand during this series of important Grange meetings. The meetings will be held in Grange halls and will include presentations by the national team plus materials and information for all departments. National Master Andersen said, “We hope everyone will make a special effort to attend the meeting in their area. It will be a real learning experience. ’ ’ The meetings for Pennsylvania will be held: •MAY 16, SATURDAY - 10 a.m. at the Gibson Grange in Susquehanna County. A covered dish will follow. • MAY 16, SATURDAY - 6 p.m. at the California Grange in Montour County. The Grange is * Top-of-the-range model, available in both 2 and 4-wheel drive * Smooth, large capacity 85 PTO hp, 6-cylinder Perkins engine producing 85 PTO hp * A near perfect weight distribution and power-to weight ratio enables the M-F 399 to handle the largest implements MASSEY-FERGUSOIM COME IN AND MAKE YQI N.H. FLICKER & SONS, INC. Maxatawny, PA Ph: (215) 683-7252 M. WEAVER & SON N. 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Forage Field Day In Delaware NEWARK, Del. - A brief field meeting will be held Tuesday, May 12, from noon to 1 ;30 p.m. to look at small grain and vetch forage plots on the University of Delaware research farm in Newark. The plots were established by extension agricultural agent Dean Belt, university farm superin tendent James Wolfer and ex tension dairy specialist Dr. George Haenlein to show area farmers how they can supplement then dairy, beef and sheep rations more cheaply with annual forages, small grains and vetch. Forage from the plots is fed to the university’s research dairy herd. The plots are currently at an ideal stage for observation. Haenlein, Wolfer and LEBANON VALLEY IMPLEMENT CO. 700 E. Linden St. Richland, PA Ph: (717) 866-7518 PEOPLE’S SALES ft SERVICE Oakland Mills, PA Ph: (717)436-2735 463-2735 Belt will all be on hand to answer questions. “We’re very pleased with the results of several years work on this forage production system and now have some figures to share,” says' Belt. “After discussing these results, we will have a presen tation by extension pest management specialist Joanne Whalen on leafhopper control in alfalfa.” Interested parties can park in the lot behind Townsend Hall and get a visitor’s pass in the county extension office. A wagon will take visitors to the demonstration plots. 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