MIFFLIN BURG Four Mif
linburg Area High School seniors
a ve been selected to receive state
TA proficiency awards.
They are Eric Imgrund, in oil
, ro p (soybean) production; Patti
Snook, in sheep production; Barry
Spangler, in home and farmstead
improvement; and Crystal Zech
man, in beef production.
The proficiency awards recog
nize FFA members at the local,
state and national levels for excep
tional progress toward specific
occupational objectives in
agriculture.
Applications submitted by the
state winners will now be entered
in national competition.
Eric Imgrund, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Karl Imgrund, Lewisburg,
has 25 acres of soybeans, some of
which are his and some of which
he farms in partnership, and is an
Asgrow seed salesman. He also
has projects in beef, dairy beef and
swine finishing, market lambs,
com and veal calves as well as a
work experience project.
He was sentinel of the Mifflin
burg FFA and received chapter
proficiency awards for agricultural
mechanics, beef finishing, diversi-
PLAINFIELD FARMERS
FAIR
5 Miles South Of
Bangor, PA. Route 191
WEDNESDAY. JULY 22
Placing of Exhibits 1-9 P.M.
(Made or Grown Between July 1986-1987)
(An Entry Fee of $2.00 will be charged for an
exhibitor's number)
Bar-B-Q Chicken 6 P.M.
Pie Eating Contest 7 P.M.
Demolition Derby ($5.00).. 7 P.M.
Music by "John Hambley
Band”
THURSDAY. JULY 23
Judging of Entries.. Starts 9 A.M.
Placing of Baked Goods and
Flowers 9:30-11 A.M.
Black and White Cattle
Judging
Bar-B-Q Chicken
BMX Bike Races
Music by “Broadway
Buckaroos" ...
FRIDAY, JULY 24
Cattle Judging (4-H and
FFA)
Steer Entries (4-H and
FFA)
Bar-B-Q Chicken
Tractor Pull
(Purse B Modified ft Stock-fS.OO)
Music by "Sonny Miller”... 8 P.M.
SATURDAY. JULY 25
Sh- ' - ..9 A.M.
iheep Show Open
Safe Tractor Driving (4-H and
Ff*A) 9AM
Steer Show (4-hi and FFA) . 1 P.M.
Bar-B-Q Chicken 5 P.M.
Parkettes Gymnastics
Team
Lehigh Valley 14 Midget
Racers
Watermelon Eating
Contest 7 P.M.
Music by "Twitty Fever" .. 8 P.M.
50/50 Drawing— Plainfield
Farmers Assn Midnight
Miffiinburg Students Receive State FFA Proficiency Awards
Zechman
fied crop production and feed grain
production.
He plans to attend Williamsport
Area Community College and
study heavy equipment and would
like to start dairy farming in the
future.
Patti Snook, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. F. Ernest Snook, Mifflinburg
R 3, has 25 lambs in a breeding
herd this year. The Northumber
land County Sheep and Wool Prin
cess, she also has beef finishing
and work experience projects.
She received chapter proficien
cy awards in sheep breeding and
diversified livestock production,
the star chapter farmer award, a
state project record book award
and an FFA scholarship award.
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Products Include Household
Molasses, Syrup & Edible Oil
* SHOOFLY PIE ★ PEANUT BUTTER
* RAKINP * CORN SYRUP
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* BARBADOS * COCONUT Oil
MOLASSES * CORN OIL
* BLACKSTRAP * SOYRFANdti
MOLASSES I PEANUTO?L
* PANCAKE SYRUP PEANUT OIL
If your local store does not have it,
CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE
BROCHURE & PRICES
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GOOD FOOD INC.
i P ood Division Of Zook Molasses Co )
West Main St., Box 160
Honey Brook, PA 19344
Phone; 215-273-3776
Call toll free in PA: 800-662-7464
Over 50 Yean Of Service
Snook was president of the Mif
flinburg FFA and SUN Area FFA,
placed second in FFA state creed
speaking competition and was a
member of the parliamentary pro
cedure team that placed first in the
state last year.
She plans to attend Penn State
University to study agricultural
economics and agricultural law.
Barry Spangler, son of Eugene
Spangler, Mifflinburg R 2, has con
ducted various home and farms
tead improvement projects,
including renovating buildings,
constructing new buildings and
fences, completing electrical work
and landscaping. He assisted with
construction of the livestock bam
at the West End Fairgrounds and at
his church.
Spangler has dairy herd, dairy
beef finishing and on-farm work
experience projects. He was vice
president of the Mifflinburg FFA
and treasurer of the SUN Area
FFA.
He placed first in FFA stale
Patti Snook
agronomy and conservation public
speaking contests and received a
state project record book award,
chapter proficiency award in publ
ic speaking and FFA scholarship
award.
He plans to attend Penn State
University and major in agricultur
al education.
Crystal Zechman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Zechman, Mif
flinburg R 2, owns four animals
and has started a cow-calf opera
tion; she also raises market steers
and manages another farmer’s
cow-calf herd.
The Pennsylvania Angus Queen
and a member of the Pennsylvania
Junior Angus Association, Zech
man also has com production and
on-farm work experience projects.
Pa. Farm Museum Plans
LANCASTER—Care of farm
animals, simple crafts and tradi
tional foods are all included in
Landis Valley Museum’s work
shops for children.
Workshops scheduled for
August 10 through 12 will be held
for children ages 6 to 8; on August
17 to 19, sessions will be offered
for the 9 to 12 year olds. Each day
classes will run from 9to 11 a.m.
Themes for the three days are
“Favorite Farm Animals,” “From
Lamb to Linen” and “Old-
Fashioned Foodways.” Each day
children will take home an item
they have made. Flo Howard is
coordinating the workshops with
teaching support from volunteers
and museum staff.
The "animal” day will include a
tour of the farm animals and an
opportunity to water them using
wooden buckets. Children will
hunt for and handle a variety of
products made from animals rang
ing from a hom button to a leather
mug. Everyone will make potato
prints of animals and decorate a
small item. In "Lamb to Linen”
Cowtown Rodeo
Cowtown, N.J.
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Located on U.S. Route 40, eight miles east of the Delaware
Memorial Bridge in Salem County
Every Saturday Night * ★7:30 Rain or Shine
Admission $6 Adults ★ ★ $3 Children 12 and under
Free Parking ★ ★ ★ Refreshment Stands
Group Rates Available: Call 609-769*3200
She was reporter and secretary
of the Mifflinburg FFA and Union
County vice-president of the SUN
Area ITA. £he was the chapter star
greenhand and a member of the
state first-place parliamentary pro
cedure team. She received a state
project record book award, FFA
scholarship award and chapter pro
ficiency award in specialty crop
production.
She plans to operate her own
registered Angus farm and a feed
lot with her father.
The four students previously
received FFA Keystone Degrees,
the highest achievement degree
granted by the state FFA.
The state proficiency awards are
supported by the National FFA
Foundation and the following: oil
crop production, Shell Companies
Foundation and Ring Around Pro
ducts, Inc.; sheep production,
Milling Division of Carnation
Company, American Sheep Pro
ducers Council, Inc. and Sheep
Industry Development Program,
Inc.; home and farmstead
improvement, Upjohn, Tuco,
Asgrow and Cobb; and beef pro
duction, Nasco International, Inc.
and New Holland.
Workshops For Children
children will help to process wool
and flax (linen) as well as make a
wool lamb figure and try wool rug
braiding.
On the last day, “Foodways,”
everyone will learn to fire an out
door bake oven, preserve foods,
make cookies and ice cream, chum
butter and stencil a booklet of the
prepared recipes.
Regular registration is $l5 per
child; those with museum Associ
ate family memberships are
charged $13.50 child. Only
3-day registrations are accepted;
places are reserved by the receipt
of a check. Call Flo Howard at
(717) 665-2211 to make registra
tion arrangements.
Landis Valley, an outdoor com
plex of over 30 historical build
ings, is the largest museum of Pen
nsylvania German rural life. It is
located 4 miles north of Lancaster
on Route 272 (Oregon Pike). The
museum is operated by the Pen
nsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission with support from the
volunteer group, Landis Valley
Associates.
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