Master Farmer Harrisburg, Pa. -- Nine indivi duals representing six farm opera tions will receive the Master Farmer Award on Tuesday, Jan. 12, during a Farm Show luncheon of agricultural leaders at the Penn Harris Motor Inn, Camp Hill, Pa. The Master Farmer Award Program, in its 54th year, is spon sored by Pennsylvania Farmer magazine and the Cooperative Extension Services of Pennsylva nia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia. More than 450 individuals have received the award. Master Farmers are recognized for their accomplishments in agri cultural production as well as com munity involvement and leader ship in farm and civic organizations. This year’s winners are Clark Bower of Perry County, Pa.; John Brubaker Jr. of Lancaster County, Pa.; Fred Gold Butler of Berkeley County, W. Va.; Leonard E. Crooke of Bucks County, Pa.; Lee Kiefer of Schuylkill County, Pa.; and Arthur, Richard, Bruce and Brian Pallman of Lackawanna County, Pa. Clark Bower runs his 505-acre Pleasant View Farm with his son Logan and brother, Ben. Managing 285 acres of crop land and 85 cows without hired help is a continual challenge for the three. Bower believes in health and safety on the farm-for people, animals and finances. Insisting on safe opera tion of farm machinery, converting to an open Virginia-style heifer bam and keeping debts low are some of the ways Bower keeps his ALL STEEL IDEAL FOR RURAL & SUBURBAN BUILDINGS frames * Storage • Workshops • Open Shelters • Residential • butleiTmfgVco7 1 I Attn. P.E. Hess * I P.O. Box 337, Oxford, PA 19363 ■ I AS ABOUT OUR J ■ NEW DEALER PROGRAM FOR 1988 j | □ Lester’s All Wood Buildings ( I □ Butler All Steel Buildings l ■ Name I Address ■ County. I City | Phone farming operation healthy and safe. Keeping his entire family involved in running the farm is important to John Brubaker. Dur ing evening milkings, Brubaker, his wife, Barb, and their three children can be found working and playing in the bam. The Brubakers milk 62 head of registered Hols teins on their 136-acre Lancaster County farm. By maintaining soil fertility, practicing soil conserva tion techniques and striving for optimum feed efficiency, the 33-year-old Brubaker has made his farm prosper. He wants to make sure his children have every oppor tunity to be involved in farming. "Every Sunday afternoon, with my eyes wide open, I walk through the farm," says Fred Butler, whose attention to detail is a key to farm ing success. He grew up on a fami ly farm in Berkeley County, W. Va., helping his father and brother. After serving two years in the Army and marrying Norma Gene Lineberg, he left the home farm and started on his own in 1956 with $6,000 he had saved from 4-H and FFA projects. Now, he owns 325 acres and rents 607. Butler runs an auto dealership in Martins burg, W. Va., and he also serves as West Virginia’s Farm Bureau president. Leonard Crooke wants to tell agriculture’s story to the consum er. Tours of his 166-acre Crooked Acres Dairy in Bucks County, Pa. help children and adults learn the importance of agriculture in our world. Crooke is concerned about soil conservation-he has installed n n .State SELECT - WE BUILD BUTLER AGRI'BUILOER 0 FARMER BOY AG INC. 410 E. Lincoln Ave Myarstown, PA 17067 PH- 717-866-7565 • 0 CITY AND SUBURBAN a C & M SALES INC. OGOMPF CONSTRUCTION 0 TRI-STATE MARINE BUILDERS.INC. 4 Banbury Lane Pittsburgh, PA 15202 PH; 412-766-6202 Awards To Be Presented One of the Master Farmer awards to be given by Secretary of Ag Boyd Wolff at the Farm Show goes to the Pallman family. L to R: Arthur, Brian, Mrs. Arthur (Leona), Bruce and Richard Pallman. 7,000 feet of diversion terraces, Pheasantry in Schuylkill County and that’s what he delivers. 3,500 feet of tile drainage and Pij., ships more than 500,000 Pallman Farms is a family farms 95 stripcrop acres. He also dressed ringneck pheasants, chu- affair, thriving through the maintains a 12-acre woodlot that kar partridges and wild turkeys cooperative efforts of Arthur supplies firewood and lumber. He each year. He has worked hard to “Dutch" and Leona Pallman and believes in continued estate plan- develop a year-round hatch for [h c ir sons, Richard, Brian and ning, and he is proud to have game birds, now running smooth- Bruce. Pallman Farms, in Lacka instilled a love of agriculture in his ly, and to operate a genetics prog- wanna County, Pa., is a poultry, six children. ram to identify and select for tomato and strawberry enterprise. Marketing is an afterthought for desired traits. 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