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The Pennsylvania 5-Acre Corn Club first place winners were announced at the com
conference. From left, D. Richard Snyder, Montoursvllle, shelled grain, three acre,
regular barest size; John McDowell, McDowell Farms, Mercer, shelled grain, three
year average; Norman Jodikinos, Clinton, shelled grain, regular harvest size; James
Bishop, Muncy, ear com class, hand harvest; Andrew Lucas, Zion Grove, earn corn
class, machine harvest; and Lloyd Zook, shelled grain, three-year average, regular
harvest size. Not present Is David Schantz, Albums, earn corn class, regular harvest
Size. Photo by Andy Andrews
Gov. Robert Casey addresses the press conference at Spring Lawn Farm at New
Danville in Lancaster County on Monday morning. In addition to numerous television,
radio and press representatives, the David and Joe Garber families hosted Casey,
Maryland Governor William Scheafer, and other officials of the Chesapeake Bay prog
ram. In the photo taken by the calf bam with Casey are Shirley, Kendall, David, Char
ise, Joe, Yvonne and Josiah Garber. Photo by Evontt Newawangar, Managing Editor.
The Blank family named their farm “Smiling Holstelns," because they tell others:
“Our cows are happy to be making milk and now your job Is to keep them happy by
drinking milk.” Parents Cliff and Joyce are shown with children, from left, Laura,
Dwayne, Daryl, and Lisa. Turn to page 810 to learn more about the Blank family tradi
tion of milk promotion. Photo by Lou Ann Good.
Five Sections
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 7, 1992
This Spring, Watch India
To See If Well
Have A Drought
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
CARLISLE (Cumberland Co.)
Keep an eye on India.
If that country is under drought
conditions in May and June this
year, the com belt and the eastern
U.S. will be rainy and cool during
the com season.
But if India is dry in May and
June, then we could see a severe
drought in 1993.
“If India is having a drought in
May and June of this year. I can bet
you that we'll have a more nearly
normal growing season in the com
belt,” said Dr. Louis M. Thomp-
Governors Visit Garber
Conservation Farm
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
WILLOW STREET (Lancaster
Co.) —With emphasis on the theme
that the Chesapeake Bay starts in
Pennsylvania, Gov, Robert Casey
and Maryland’s Gov. William
Scheafer visited a Lancaster
County farm Monday to trumpet
the success and future needs of the
program.
Using Spring Lawn Farm, own
ed by the David and Joe Garber
families, as a backdrop, Casey
assured Scheafer that Pennsylvani-
Berkley To Head Pa.
Holstein Association
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
WARRENDALE (Allegheny
Co.) Lewis Berkley, Berlin R 3,
is the new president of the Penn
sylvania Holstein Association.
The Somerset County dairyman
was elected to head the state’s
largest dairy breed organization
during PHA’s annual meeting,
held February 26-29 at the War
rcndale Sheraton Inn. Berkley, the
former PHA vice president, sue-
Association Applauds Family Farms
Addresses Industry Concerns
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Poultry Progress Days held at
the Farm and Home Center on
Thursday addressed concerns of
the industry and applauded poultry
producers who have. continued
family poultry farms for two gen
erations or more.
“Poultry families exemplify
strength and leadership in agricul
ture,” Jay Irwin, county Extension
director emeritus, told the group as
he identified the eight families
who received Poultry Family Spir
it awards.
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son, emeritus associate dean ot
agriculture at lowa State
University.
Thompson spoke on Tuesday to
about 200 com producers at the
1992 Pennsylvania Corn
Conference.
Thompson presented research
on the factors of global wanning
and how warming and cooling
cycles go hand in hand with com
prices and the economy.
Thompson centered on the fac
tors caused by the El Nino a
a was aware of the role his state
played in the Bay clean-up
program.
“I want to reaffirm Pennsylvani
a’s committment to stand by Mary
land, Virginia and die District of
Columbia to work together toward
the goal of a 40 percent reduction
in nutrients in the Bay by the year
2000,” Casey said. “Spring Lawn
farm is a model of good steward
ship of our natural resources. We
have seen clean-up efforts here
today.
ceeds R. Wayne Harpster, Penn
sylvania Furnace, retiring on the
completion of his two-year term
as president
Laszlo Moses, Greenville, was
elected vice president and Dean
Johnson, Warren, was re-elected
to another term as PHA treasurer.
Newly-elected to the executive
committee are Calvin Will, Berlin,
representing the southwest dis
trict and Paul Lawrence, New
Four generations
For four generations the Dennis
L. and Ellen Eby farm in Gap and
the Dennis Forty farm in Manheim
have raised chickens.
The Eby farm was purchased in
1903 by Martin Eby who started
with a couple of hundred chicks,
cows, steers, sheep, and pigs. Hun
dreds of chicks ran around in the
backyard until the late 1940 s when
son Menno housed 2,000 chicks on
the farm. The family grew their
own pullets, and washed and
graded the eggs that were shipped
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