AAO-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, August 15, 1992
Ag Progress
(Continued from Pago At)
more certification credits. Space is
available for SO participants on a
first-come, first-served basis.
Young people will enjoy the
computer classroom located in the
Youth Building, with introductory
lessons on the Apple Macintosh
computer running throughout the
day. The Youth Building also will
feature information on career
planning, college admission, the
4-H program and die Pennsylvani
a Governor’s School for the Agri
cultural Sciences.
Nearby will be the wildlife
exhibit frorA the Shaver’s Creek
Environmental Center, with some
of Pennsylvania’s many animal
species.
The equine educational prog
ram includes breed exhibitions,
handling and training clinics, rid
ing demonstrations and horseshoe
and lack displays.
Daily features include breed
exhibitions and a handling and
training clinic. Wednesday will
feature therapeutic and 4-H
champion riding demonstrations,
the Thorncroft Mainstreamers
Drill Team and draft horse
exhibitions.
Visitors can get timely advice
when they “Ask the Experts.”
Penn Slate faculty and extension
agents will be available to answer
general questions and deal with
specific problems concerning
landscape, lawn and garden; crop
and soil science; and dairy and
livestock production.
Bus lours to the research farms
always have been a highlight of
Ag Progress Days. Tuesday’s tour
will focus on ways to maximize
vegetable and small fruit produc
tion. On Wednesday, visitors will
travel to the University Park Cam
pus for a tour of the dairy produc
tion facilities and forage pastures
Days To Open August 18
managed under an intensive rota
tional system. Thursday’s tour
will focus on the latest research in
field crops, with emphasis on
com, alfalfa and soybeans.
The special topics tours will run
twice a day at 10 a.m. and 1:45
p.m. General research tours, fore
stry tours and soil and water con
servation tours are scheduled
throughout the day.
On Wednesday, a special tour
offered at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30
p.m. will visit the site of a timber
bridge designed by Penn State
faculty and sponsored by the Pen
nsylvania Department of Trans
portation. This type of bridge.
made of glue-laminated beams,
may soon replace decaying steel
and concrete bridges across the
nation.
At the Mealing Place, faculty
and staff from the College of Agri
cultural Sciences will give meat
cutting and cooking demonstra
tions, explaining which cuts are
low in fat and preparing the meat
different ways. Visitors can
sample the results.
There also is plenty of food to
eat, served by local agricultural
and community service
organizations.
Penn State’s Ag Progress Days
features over 500 acres of educa-
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tional and commercial exhibits,
tours and machinery demonstra
tions. It is held at the Russell E.
Larson Agricultural Research
Center at Rock Springs, nine miles
southwest of State College on
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Route 45, August 18-20. Hours
are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and
Thursday, with extended hours of
9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday.
Admission and parking are free.