COLLEGE PARK. Md.
Two teens Stephanie Wilt of
Washington County and Jennifer
Pearce, a Harford County resident
with Baltimore County 4-H mem
bership dominated the 4-H
Senior Western Horse and Pony
Show held recently at the Mary
land State Fair in Timonium.
Together, they won 12 of the 24
events, each capturing six blue
ribbons.
Pumpkin Carving Party
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.) —A bring along a fevorite adult to help
special pumpkin carving party with the project There is a charge
will be held at the Hershey ** the adult wily if he/she wants
Museum on Saturday, October 23 to carve a pumpkin of his/her own.
at 2 p.m. Participants ages 7 and Special tools, instructions, and
up will use special tools to trans- pumpkins are provided. Please
form an ordinary field pumpkin register by October IS. Space is
into an extraordinary Jack-O- limited. The cost of the class is $9
Lantern just in time for Hallo- for members. $l2 non-members,
ween. Children are encouraged to Per information please call (717)
534-3439.
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4-H’ers Round
Wilt, 19, of Boonsboro and her
12-year-old quarter horse, Nita
Creek, took top honors in four
equitation events; horsemanship,
stock seat, western riding, and
western pleasure (horses). The
veteran competitors also won the
conformation class for fillies and
mares (horses, three yean old and
oven dry, not mining foal). Nita
Creek was named champion mare
for the show.
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Up Ribbons
Pearce, 17, of Fountain Green
earned five blue ribbons on Sonny
Dee Sioux, a six-year-old Pony of
America: grooming and horse
manship, conformation (fillies and
.mares, ponies, three years old and
over, dry, not nursing foal) and
western pleasure, pole bending,
and barrel racing for ponies. She
also took top honors in the trail
competition with a 10-year-old
Pony of America gelding. Docs
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Other first-place winners were:
• Western Conformation/
Foals: Arin Axlinc, 16, of Broad
Run (Frederick County) with Bro
ken Arrow, a quarter horse/
Arabian stallion.
• Conformation/Yearlings:
Rebecca Peregoy, 18, of Morgan,
a Carroll County resident with
Howard County 4-H membership,
with CR Triple Crown, which was
named champion of all foals or
yearlings.
• Conformation/Mares (three
years old and over, with foal at
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Waldorf (Charles County) with
Gatsby Go Ragtime, an Appaloo
sa mare.
• Conformation/Gelding
Horses (three years old and
over): Lisa Lutz, 16, of Bel Air, a
Harford County resident with Bal
timore County 4-H membership,
with Good News Story, an Ameri
can quarter horse, which was
named champion gelding.
• Western Command: Patricia
Parsley. 19, of Church Hill (Fre
derick County) on Patch Bullseye
McQue, a Pinto gelding.
• Reining: Rachel Cockerham,
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• Pole Bending/Horses: Laura
Veise, 18, of Marriottsville, a Car
roll County resident with Balti
more County 4-H membership, on
After You, a 27-year-old Arabian/
thoroughbred gelding.
• Barrel Race/Horses: Belinda
Kovacs on Gatsby Go Ragtime.
• Keyhole Race/Ponies:
Rachel Cockerham on Cloudy
Sunrise.
• Keyhole Race/Horses:
Belinda Kovacs on Gatsby Go
Ragtime.
Department
Issues Seed
Tag Warning
ANNAPOLIS. Md.
Maryland Secretary
of Agriculture Robert
L. Walker issued a re-
minder to Maryland
farmers to carefully re
view the analysis lag on
all seed they purchase
to plant a cover crop
this coining winter.
“Many farmers are
planting cover crops un
der the Maryland Agri
cultural Water Quality
Cost-Share program to
reduce nutrient runoff
from their land. This
has significantly in
creased the demand for
cover crop seed, parti
cularly rye. Unfortun
ately, some poor quality
seed is being offered for
sale,” Wallker said.
The Maryland De
partment of Agricul
ture’s Turf and Seed
Section recently placed
a tractor-trailer load of
seed rye under a stop
sale Older after its seed
laboratory found the
seed to be contaminated
with seed of 17 differ
ent weeds, including
such noxious weeds as
Canada thistle, John
songrass, com cockle,
and wild garlic.
‘The cost of control*
ling these weeds could
easily exceed the pay
ments for installing the
cover crop under the
cost share program,”
said Walker.
According to Mal
colm Santa, chief of the
turf and seed section, all
seed bought and sold in
Maryland must be test
ed and labeled under the
Maryland Seed Law.
“Any farmer plan
ning to use home pro
duced seed is strongly
urged to have it tested
to insure proper ger
mination and purity,”
Santa said.
For testing, a two
pound sample should be
sent to the Maryland
Department of Agricul
ture, Turf and Seed Sec
tion, 50 Harry S, Tru
man Parkway, Annapo
lis, MD 21401. The cost
for a complete purity,
germination, and nox
ious weed examination
is $l3.
For more information
on the testing and label
ing of seed, contact the
Turf and Seed Section
at (410) 841-5960.