PERIODICALS DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY W 209 PATTEE LIBRARY _ I HI \ _ UNIVERSITY PARK PA Bj ) VOL 37 NO. 9 Former Lancaster County Extension director Jay Irwin and his wife, Betty, admire artifacts from Poland that remind them of the land and people they learned to love dur> ing their six-month stay there. For story, turn to page A2O. State DHIA Meets With PSU Department, Holds Board Meeting EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.)-To open discussions about the relationship between Penn State University and the Pennsyl- Fire Company Bests Competitors In Lancaster Tobacco Show ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) History was made at the Lan caster Tobacco Show on Tuesday when, for the first time, a fire com pany was awarded grand champ ion of the wrapper class. Thai’s right, a fire company. All 30 representatives at the Penryn Fire Company in Man heim, along with the aid of spokes man Lesley Ebersole, were hon ored for their help in helping plant, grow, and harvest a 2 'A acre plot of class 1 Pennsylvania grown seed leaf wrapper on farmland donated for use by Norman Geib. The plant stock came from Richard Groff, also of Manheim, who won champion Pennsylvania grown smoking out of Class 5, middle one-third. Lesley said the volunteers all Four Sections vania DHIA. a group of University and extension personnel, along with the DHIA board of directors, met here Wednesday under the chairmanship of Dr. Stan Curtis, department head, dairy and animal science. helped to irrigate the plot and “we took real good care of it, kept the weeds out, and hoed it pretty well,” said Lesley, 18, son of Ncvin and Theda Ebersole. He is a senior at Manheim Central High School and a member of the Man heim FFA. (Turn to Pago A 24) INDEX Sec. A... Market Reports & General News. Sec. B... Women’s News, Public Sales & Mailbox Market. Sec. C... Business News & Classified 4-36. Sec. Declassified 1-3. See Story Index Page A 3. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 11, 1992 Various ideas were presented in the all-morning session. A sum mary of some of these ideas include: -The tie between Penn Slate and PA DHIA grows more and more important. •Extension’s roll has changed over the last years. While exten sion formerly managed DHIA, now DHIA is more self-managed and Extension is working more as an educational arm of DHIA. -Resources are diminishing for Extension, but farmers’ resources have also diminished. -SCC scores are desired by dairymen because they are paid premiums for quality based on these scores, but linear score is a more stable score because SCC counts can vary widely on diffe rent testing equipment -PSU has 70,000 students, is No. 2 in the nation for corporate and private giving and No. 9 in the nation for research dollars received. -We need to build bridges. -DHIA has become very impor tant to one speaker, “My heart and soul.” -One farmer felt some people in Extension had talked against RCMA and now some agents had (Turn to Page A 32) 76th Pennsylvania Farm Show In Progress LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) “I think it’s amazing. I’m excited to see me in butter,” said Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Robin Wilbur when the butter sculpture was unveiled at the Pen nsylvania Farm Show building on Wednesday. The butter sculpture, sponsored by the state’s dairy industry, salutes dairy youth and will be on display until January 16 at the Pen nsylvania Farm Show McClay Street entrance lobby of the Farm Show Complex. Each day the Farm Show pays tribute to a spe cial feature. Saturday highlights “Family Day,” Sunday is “Gover nor’s Day,” Monday is “Agricul tural Heritage Day,” Tuesday is “Dairy Day,” Wednesday is “Youth Day,” and Thursday is “Sale of Champions Day.” Robin, who is the 35th state dairy princess, and Clinton County 4-H member Lauren Daubert and her Brown Swiss calf arc life-size “We look pretty good for 800 pounds,” Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Robin Wilbur, center, tells Lauren Daubert, left, as they admire the sculpture formed by Raymond Mackintosh, right. Dairy Expo Focuses On Management Goals VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff ALLENTOWN (Lehigh Co.) Dry cow management, parasite control, money manage ment, and a variety of issues were discussed this week by researchers and dairymen during the Penn- Jcrscy Dairy Expo held in Allen town Wednesday. 609 Per Copy replicas carved in butter by Ray mond Mackintosh of Toronto, Canada. “I think 1 look pretty good at 800 pounds,” Robin remarked. Ten ycar-old Lauren was equally excited, but she had one com plaint: “They didn’t give me curls.” Lauren is the daughter of Dean and Brenda Daubert of Lock For a complete listing of Farm Show events and building layout, turn to page 819-826. Haven, Clinton County. Robin’s parents arc Arlyn and Arlene of Lcßaysvillc in Bradford County. A supporting metal framework undergirds the butter sculpture that look six 12- to 14-hour days to complete. The butter comes in 60-pound blocks that Mackintosh softens a bit before working with it (Turn to Page A 33) The Pcnn-Jersey Dairy Expo is a dairy herd management confer ence and trade show, sponsored by cooperation extension offices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The program was repeated Thursday at the Oxford Fire Hall in Oxford, Chester County. The announced members of a (Turn to Page A 34) 19.00 Per Year
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