-Honors Six Farm Owners % V % From the left, Dina and husband C. Arthur Zug, Mifflin i Moil Wertz Danville receive town, receive a Clean Water Farm Award from Arthur Davis, rom of AgrlcuU £SSSm? “ Department of Environmental i- phin County, for construction of a * Daniel C. Schrack, Logan :t storage facility that holds more town, Clinton County, for the con n than 2,500 tons of manure, and for sanction of two manure storage i- employing stripcropping, filter facilities and the installation of 11 strips and agricultural terrace more than 10,000 feet of water techniques to control soil erosion diversions to reduce soil erosion on his 300-acre dairy and poultry on his 1,300-acre dairy farm, farm. * Neil and Leon Wertz, Dan- I.G. SALES Silvardalo, PA 215-257-5130 KERMfT K. LONE MAPLE KISTLER INC. SALES & SERVICE Lynnpert, PA Naw Alaxandar, PA 21S-298-2011 412-666-7172 LOST CREEK PIKEVILLE LANDIS BROS. INC. IMPLEMENT EQUIPMENT INC. Laneaatar, PA Oakland Milla, PA Olay, PA 717-291-1046 717-463-2161 215-987-6277 O Nothing Runs Likeaueeref LEHIGH AG EQUIPMENT Watcosvlllo, PA 215-390-2553 OXFORD GREENLINE Oxford, PA 215-932-2753 215-932-2754 Big Jobs Call for Big John 111 MAKAREVICH GEORGE V. SEIPLE TOBIAS EQUIPMENT BROS., INC. 4 SON CO.. INC. Easton, PA Halifax, PA zoi-092-waa 215-250-7140 717-302-3132 Tractors, utility haulers, commercial mowers. . . John Deere commercial products are built to take the demands professional lawn care calls for. And, they’re backed by the power pros your John Deere dealer. ville, Northumberland County, for construction of three waste stor age facilities, and installation of 1,200 feet of cropland terraces, 1,280 feet of grass waterways and two water diversions of their 500-acre livestock and game farm. * Arthur and Dina Zug, Mif- SMITH’S WALTEMYER’S IMPLEMENTS, INC SALES & SERVICE “TiTSS* ™ Llonf P* CE 717-328-2244 717-244-4168 SOLLENBERGER M.S. YEARSLEY EQUIPMENT & SONS Ev*r«n, PA W«(t Chatter, PA 814-352-5223 215-896-2990 Paul Clungston, Halifax, Dauphin County, holds his Clean Water Farm Award recognizing his efforts to minim ize nutrient and non-point pollution in the Susquehanna River watershed. He Is flanked on his left by Arthur Davis, state secretary of DER and Boyd Wolff, secretary of the state Department of Agriculture. flintown, Juniata County, for installation of a manure pit and waste storage facilities, and for Farmer is Conservationist Annually an Individual farmer or a farm family Is selected as Dauphin County’s Outstanding Conser vation Farmer by the Dauphin County conservation district. Benjamin Crabb, Elizabethville (left) receives his award from Conservation District Vice Chairman Jay Book. Crabb has Implemented con tour farming, minimum tillage, terraces and diver sions along with various water control structures on his 117-acre farm. Crabb’s farm is managed as a cash grain operation and can be seen along Route 209 in Washington Township, just west of Loyalton. Enters Proving Program PLAIN CITY, 0H10—7H3744 Keystone Major-ET-TD, a young sire bred by Keystone Farm in Easton, has been cho sen to enter Select Sires’ program for Genetic Advancement (PGA) sire sampling system. Based on his outstanding pedigree, 7H3744 has been selected as one of 160 Holstein bulls from throughout the United Stales to enter the program in 1989. The bull is sired by the high components sire, Beautician. The dam, a VG(88) Bell, has an outstanding 3-11 record of 31,660 lbs. 3.8 percent or 1,210 lbs. fat and 3.2 percent or 1,014 lbs. protein. She also had over 27,000 lbs. milk 4.0 per cent or 1,000 lbs. fat and 3.2 percent or 870 lbs. protein at 2-6. The VG(B6) grandam has a lifetime record of 160,250 lbs. milk, 3.7 percent or 5,865 lbs. fat in six lactations. 7H3744’s pedigree is backed by production and type. Select Sires is a family of 12 farmer-owned and controlled A.I. cooperatives, serving the largest number of co op mem bers in the United States. 7H980 Walkway Chief Mark, d most extraordinary type and production sire of the decade mk (ntarlM an example of the superior genetics Select Sires offers. Tb results assist the federation in achieving its basic objecti to supply livestock breeders with the industry’s top generic* improved timber management on 45 forested acres of their 380-acre dairy farm. Pennsylvania Bull irtiay, January is, IMO-823
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