A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 17, 1993
COLLEGE PARK, Md.
Every year, on the fourth Saturday
in April, College of Agriculture
students alert their peers and
Washington, D.C. area commuters
to the fact that farm animals still
are part of scene on the urban-ori
ented University of Maryland
campus at College Park.
As it has for two-thirds of a cen
tury, this year’s Student Ag Day
on April 24 will attempt to convey
the atmosphere and traditions of a
country fair in an urban setting.
Most activities will center on
the livestock bams area, behind
the Institute for Physical Science
and Technology, at the inlersec
iton of Regents Drive and Farm
Drive. The event will run from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no admis
sion charge.
Typical of country fairs, Ag
Day will feature student competi
tion in fitting and showing dairy
cattle, beef cattle, swine, and
sheep. Meanwhile, student riders
from the nationally famous Mary
land Cavalry Regiment will per
form nearby.
By 2:30 p.m. the winners in
each livestock class will be ex
changing animals to determine
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who deserves the honor of being
selected grand champion show
man. University of Maryland fa
culty members and alumni - with
little or no previous experience -
will compete at 1 p.m. in a humor
filled swine showmanship contest.
Barbecued beef hamburgers,
chicken hot dogs, and the famous
University of Maryland ice cream
will be sold throughout the day by
College of Agriculture student
clubs. Bedding plants and vegeta
ble transplants will be sold by the
University of Maryland student
chapter of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers.
Barnyard babies from the Balti
more Zoo will be included in a
farm animal petting zoo for chil
dren in the new lobby addition to
the Animal Sciences Building on
the College Park campus.
The Ag Day official program
booklet each year carries a sur
prise tribute honoring a College of
Agriculture faculty member. This
year’s booklet is dedicated to a
College of Agriculture adminis
trator.
Ag Day is sponsored each year
by the Agriculture Student Coun
cil at the University of Maryland,
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with cooperation from other stu
dent organizations in the College
of Agriculture.
This year’s planning committee
coordinator is Kathleen W. Bauer
of Picketts Comer, near Wood
bine (Carroll County). Bauer is a
University of Maryland senior,
majoring in general agriculture.
She works with her brother, Ken
neth W. Bauer, Jr., in a swine
operation.
Gary E. Scibcl, an agricultural
engineering senior, is president of
the Ag Student Council. Seibel
grew up in the Knollwood section
of Adelphi (Prince George’s
County).
Jerry V. Deßarthe of North
Laurel (Prince George’s County)
is a longtime advisor for Ag Day
and the Ag Student Council. De-
Barthe is an associate professor of
animal sciences at the University
of Maryland.
Deßarthe sees the Ag Day fit
ting and showing competition as
an opportunity for student partici
pants to acquire something more
than textbook knowledge about
the care and handling of farm ani
mals.
He also notes that this year’s
The Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. 12 Migrant Child Development Program, LIUMCDP,
provides supplemental education for children of migratory farmworkers. The goal is to
enhance and enrich migrant children’s lives through academic achievement, positive self
concepts, and an awareness of available career opportunities. Through these services,
children become empowered to succeed. In return, parents attain a better self image about
themselves that becomes evident in their work performance.
LIUMCDP is dually funded, receiving monies from the state and federal government.
LIUMCDP, one of 5 migrant sites in Pennsylvania, serves 31 counties in the south-central
part of the state.
LIUMCDP serves children whose parents/guardians
1. work or have worked In seasonal or temporary agricultural employment
2. have moved across school district or state boundaries within the last 6 years.
In Pennsylvania, agricultural employment includes: dairy farming, tomato, vegetable and
fruit harvesting; poultry and food processing: and lumbering.
Specially trained recruiter/community liaisons locate, identify and enroll eligible children.
They also disseminate useful information about local resources and provide follow up sup
port services as needed.
We enroll children from birth through the age of 22 if they have not yet graduated from
high school. LIUMCDP programs vary according to need and migrant concentration per
county. Overall, programs include: Daycare/Preschool Kindergarten Centers: Public
School - tutorial intervention: English As A Second Language: Summer School Enrichment,
Summer Career Education and Summer Intensive Language Programs; In-Home Summer
Regression Prevention; and Parents as Tutors Program. Children are served throughout
the state based on assessed need.
If you employ hired hands on your farm, please call our office. They may be eligible
for Important educational benefits. For more Information, contact:
Parker C. Coble, Director, Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. 12, 65 Billerbeck Street,
New Oxford, PA 17350, (717) 624-4616
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show informally kicks off a “Part
ners in Education” joint program
that permits College of Agricul
ture students at the University of
Maryland to gain practical experi
ence in working with animals at
the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture’s nearby Beltsville Agricul
tural Research Center.
Earlier this year, the University
of Maryland sheep flock, housed
for many years at College Park,
was eliminated because of a dis
ease outbreak. So arrangements
were made to hold the Ag Day
sheep fitting and showing compe
tition at 9 a.m. on April 24 in the
Sheep Nutrition Bam (Building
435 A), - formerly known as the
Goat Bam, - at the Beltsville loca
tion. The winner will compete that
afternoon for grand champion
showmanship honors with the
Attention
Farmers With Hired Laborers
EDUCATIONAL ENHANCEMENT for Children of Hired Laborers
other livestock winners at College
Park.
Thomas E. Mullinix of Dayton
(Howard County) will be the offi
cial sheep showmanship judge
Mullinix is sheep flock manager at
the Beltsvillc Agricultural Re
search Center.
Bonnie Graves Remsberg of
Middletown (Frederick County)
will judge the dairy cattle show
manship competition. She and her
husband, Thomas D. Remsberg,
are Holstein breeders.
William N. Gregg, Jr,, of
Woodfield (Montgomery County)
will be the beef show judge
Gregg and his father arc former
Angus cattle breeders.
Kenneth W. Bauer, Jr., of
Woodbine (Carroll County) will
judge the swine showmanship
contest.
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