016-Lancaster Farming Saturday, October 24, 1987
ALFRED, N.Y. Annual
meeting of the Empire Sheep Pro
ducers Cooperative, Inc. will be
Nov. 13-14 at Alfred State
College.
Hosted jointly by the West Cen
tral New York Sheep and Wool
Cooperative based in Canaseraga
and Alfred State, the two-day
event opens at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.
13, with a meeting of directors to
which pool managers also have
been invited. This session will be
in the college’s agricultural sci
ence building.
First general meeting will be at
9:40 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, when
Dr. James Thompson, dean of
Alfred State’s School of Agricul
ture and Allied Health Technolo
gies, will officially welcome the
visitors. All Saturday activities
will be at the college lake-lodge
facility.
At 9:45 a.m., the group will hear
from James G. Butler, vice presi
dent of the National Wool Growers
Association, who will offer an
update on association activities.
Barbara Gates of Interlaken,
president, will preside at the
Empire Sheep Producers annual
meeting from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. This will be followed by a
lamb dinner.
The program then continues
with a 1:30 p.m. session on sheep
first aid.
At 2 p.m., Dr. Don Thompson of
New South Wales, Australia, a
practicing veterinarian who works
primarily with flock health, will
speak on Ovine Progressive Pneu
monia (OPP). He is currently a
research assistant at Cornell Uni
versity in the field of OPP.
Completing the afternoon prog-
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ram will be
presentations:
2:30 p.m.—“Handling Systems
for Sheep,” by Tim Willsallen of
Ithaca. Originally from Southern
New South Wales, Australia, he
now manages a 300-white faced
UNIONVILLE Tiffany Roh
rer of Nottingham showed the
Grand Champion Market Steer at
the Chester County 4-H Baby Beef
Show last Saturday in Unionville.
Anita Howe, Downingtown,
showed the Reserve Champion at
the 63rd annual Unionville Com
munity Fair.
Erica and Matthew McClellan
of Fox Hill Farm, Unionville, exhi
bited Champion and Reserve
Champion Angus heifers respec
tively. Clarise Tittle of Atglen
showed the Grand Champion
Hereford heifer.
Ribbons in the Market Steer
classes went to Matthew McAllis
ter, Spring City, Champion, and
Walter Russell, Downingtown,
Reserve Champion Light weight;
Tiffany Rohrer, Champion, and
Anita Howe, Reserve Champion
Medium weight. Also to David
Howe, Champion, and Vance
Dietz, Reserve Champion Light
Heavy weight. Both boys are from
Downingtown.
Lane Lineberger, Downing
town, and Rob Rohrer, Notting
ham, showed Champion and
Reserve Champion Heavy weight
Market Steers, respectively.
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3:30 p.m. “1987 Program
Review of NYS Cooperative Coy
ote Damage Control” by Thomas
Tomasa, district supervisor,
USDA Animal Damage Control
Program.
two other
Unionville Beef Winners Chosen
Fitting and showmanship hon
ors went to Tiffany and Rob Roh
rer, first and second Senior show-
UNIVERSITY PARK
Kathryn Hostetler, Cambria Coun
ty, received a Distinguished Ser
vice Award from the National
Association of Extension Home
Economists at the association’s
annual meeting in Louisville, Ken
tucky, October 4-8.
A hortie economist with Penn
State’s Cooperative Extension
office in Cambria County, Mrs.
Hostetler was cited for her innova
tive programming and work with
young homemakers. “Cambria
County Cooperative Extension
provides a program of interest to
young families,” Mrs. Hostetler
said about the young homemakers
program. Another successful prog
ram is the family strengths prog
ram, which provides financial
management and parenting infor
mation to young families through
already existing parents’ associa
tions. Mrs. Hostetler is also the
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Reservations for the program
are in charge of Lee Laßochelle of
Belfast, president of the West Cen
tral New York Sheep and Wool
Coop and assistant professor of
animal science at Alfred State
College.
men; Matthew Howe, Downing
town, and Matthew McClellan,
first and second Junior showmen;
Hostetler Receives Award
Cambria County 4-H youth coor
dinator of the various 4-H camps.
A native of Millerstown, she
holds a bachelor of science degree
in home economics from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, and
completed her master of science
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Mrs
HARRISBURG The Pen
nsylvania Department of Agricul
ture has imposed a quarantine
order restricting the movement of
honey bees into, out of or within
the jCommonwealth effective
October 14. The action was taken
to prevent the further spread of the
Varroa mite and limit its economic
consequences to the state’s agri-
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Commercial exhibits of interest
to sheep producers will be on dis
play both days.
and Jonathon Howe, Dowmng
town, and Chris Bremer, Parkes
burg, first and second First Year
showmen.
recipient of the National Associa
tion of Extension Home Econom
ist Fellowship Award and is a
member of National and Pennsyl
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Home Economists.
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