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    CIO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 30, 1993
Top Lancaster DHIA
KELVIN ZOOK
293
BENUEL B STOLTZFDS
HONEY
TOOTSI
JAY E LANDIS
LDJONI
RHELDA & LYNN ROYER
ROLLIE
HARRY H RANCK JR
AUDREY
JOHN E COLENAN JR
BEGONI
BRIDGE VIEW DAIRY
34
KARL W HERR
BONNIE
144
117
KENNETH L BALHER
RUDY
LLOYD B SENSENIG
GOLDIE
ELHER B BEILER
56
WARREN E BURKHOLDER
BRIDGE
KELVIN L BEILER
TOOTSI
QUARRY EDGE EARN
BOUTIQ
ELF
ABNER S ESH
BRENDA
ROBERT L SHELLY
BLOSSO
LONG ACRES EARN
15
TRITOWN FARM
PAIGE RH
CARL E & NANCY G BRANDT
68
CLIFFORDSJOYCE BLANK
JESSIC
GINNY
VERNON R UHBLE + SON
LISETT
GERALD MARTIN
BONNY
AMMON 2 MARTIN
299
TIMOTHY KURTZ
39
CARL L MARTIN
FAIROS
HARRY L TROOP
BEHITA
JULIET
CLAIR H OBERHOLTZER
OPAL
LENEWOOD FARM
TOPIU
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.)
Youth, 14 or 15 years old, who
plan to be employed by a farmer to
drive tractor and/or operate farm
machinery must complete a safety
course.
To successfully complete the
courses, youth must attend seven
consecutive Monday night meet
ings from 7 p.m.-9 p.m., demons
trate the ability to safely drive a
tractor, and pass a written exam.
The first meeting will be held
on Monday, February 1, from 7
p.m.-9 p.m. at the Adams County
Extension Office, located two
miles west of Gettysburg on Rt. 30
across from Doersom airport. A
$5 registration fee covers a per
sonal copy of the instruction man
ual. A minimum enrollment of 10
is required. Any 13-year-old or
older youth are welcome to attend
the course.
Topics for the course and meet
ing places are as follows: Febru
ary 1 - Safety Is No Accident,
Extension Office; February 8 -
Maintenance and Safety Checks
\nd Instruments and Controls,
Biglerville High School Ag.
(Continuad from Pag* C 9)
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Youth
Room; February 22 - Starting and
Stopping Tractors And Tractor
Safety on the Farm, Gettysburg
High School Ag. Room; March 1 -
Tractor Hitches, PTC, and
Hydraulics AND Tractor Safety
jn the Road, Fairfield High
School Ag. Room; March 8 - Why
GEORGETOWN, Del.
Newly released informaton com
piled by Delmarva Poultry Indus
try, Inc. (DPI), the non-profit trade
association working fror the con
tinued progress of the Delmara
Peninsula’s poultry industry,
shows the chicken industry con
tinues to grow, providing more
employment and increased eco
nomic contributions to the area.
Broiler production last year tot
aled 548,500,000 birds, up nearly
2.2 percent from 1991, while the
number of pounds produced rose
more than 4 percent to reach 2.64
billion pounds. Each bird weighed
an average of 4.8 pounds, heavier
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24,159
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27,376
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Must
Figures
Cows By Protein For December*
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Complete Safety Course
'arm Machinery Accidents Occur
\ND Farm Machinery Accident
Situations, Littlestown High
School; March 15 - Safety Stan
iards For Agricultural Tractors
md Implements AND Farmstead
Safety, Bermudian Springs High
School Ag. Room; March 22 -
'arm Machinery Field Nile by
Show Importance Of Industry
than the national average.
Unlike many industries on the
Delmarva Peninsula, the poultry
industry increased employment in
1992. Close to 22,000 persons
were directly employed „in the
industry,' while thousands of
others had jobs because of the
poultry industry’s presence. These
22,000 people earned more than
$367 million.
The poultry industry creates a
built-in market for grain and soy
bean farmers on Delmarva. Most
of the com, soybeans, and sorg
hum raised by local farmers is
used by the poultry industry. The
DPI 1992 figures show that 22.1
EZRA Z HORST
111
MARVIN J ZOOK
REBECC
HAROLD S NUSSER
19
OAKRIDGE EARN
40
C DALE BOLLINGER
COOKIE
FLOWER
PILLAR-PRIDE EARN
65 E
WELK SHADE HOLSIEINS
LEANNE
DANDA EARNS
308
SPRING LAWN FARM
140
72
CURTIS E AKERS
TABBY
AARON B LANTZ
SHAN
PANSY
JOHN K PETERS + SOM
BINGO
DANIEL E KING
178
LAPP VALLEY FARM
BETH
GLENN F SHENK
ANDREA
GALEN 0 MARTIN
LYNN
KAT LIN
584
PEQOEA MEADOWS FARM
178GLD
BOCHLAN ACRES
HABLE
HAHLON E KING
FERN
DAVID K STOLTZFUS
VERA
JOHN J SPEICHER
152
HEAVER HOMSTEAD FARM
38
BROOKSHIRE FARMS
SILVER
KEH + LISA HIKER
BEV
BURNELL H HOLT
136
NOAH N MARTIN
17
GORDON E HERR
199
NELSON H WENGER
TEDYBE
MARVIN Z HEAVER
14
New Oxford High School Ag.
Dept, and machinery dealer
cooperating. Also, April 3 will be
the tractor driving skills test for
each participant to demonstrate
their ability to safely drive a
tractor.
The training course is offered
million bushels of soybeans, 62.3
million bushels of com, and 1.33
million bushels of sorghum, with a
farm value *of $303 million were
used for poultry feed.
Processed and*ready for market,
the 548.5 million broiler chickens
were valued at $1.25 billion, an
increase of 8.25 percent from the
previous year.
‘These figures clearly illustrate
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23,018
305
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305
jointly by High School Vo-Ag
Departments and the Adams
County 4-H Program/Penn State
Cooperative Extension. Addition
al information may be obtained
from your high school ag teacher
or from county 4-H agent Jared K.
Tyson at (717) 334-6271 or (717)
624-4525.
the significant impact of the poul
try industry on the Delmarva eco
nomy,” said DPI President Larry
K. Winslow. “Our industry con
tinues to expand and all indica
tions arc this trend will continue.
Delmarva is tho birthplace of the
commercial broiler industry and
remains a major producing area,
accounting for close to 10 percent
of America’s broiler chickens.”
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