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The next meeting will be held on January ?5 at the home of Mary Hill, Fourth Street, Boyertown. Incoming President Doris Beshore and two delegates will attend the State Convention on January 10 at the Forum at Harris burg and the banquet at the Penn Harris. The next meeting will be Janu- ary 11 at Two Brothers Restaurant. M.S. YEARSLEY & SONS Wml Chnttr, PA 215-696-2990 Computers Friends To Cows WASHINGTON, D.C. Computers, satellites in the sky, and other modern-day technology will play bigger roles on farms in the future, as well as in business and the home. U.S, Department of Agriculture scientists say farmers, for exam ple, will be able to detect animal diseases faster and protect crops using less pesticide. Someday, a dairy cow may alert the farmer by “radio” that she’s coming down with mastitis, a bac terial infection of the udder that cuts milk production. A tiny sen sor, placed harmlessly in the Lebanon Society 20 Lebanon Farm Women Group 20 met at the home of Susie Miller for a Christmas party in December. Secret Pals were revealed and new ones were chosen. New program books were distri buted and games were played. The next meeting will be held at the home of Marion Maulfair on January 17 at 7:30 p.m. Crank up combines and other equipment with this heavy-duty, 530-CCA battery that fits Case IH, Fbrd, New Holland, Massey, and others. Reg. $65.33. Now $57.49* withodmge. (IY6113) lifetime Jhide-In Offer. Bring in your used John Deere Strongßox battery and we’ll discount your new one...even after toe warranty expires. IMcfeyoursuiboK "flterh ji. flu A* wWMtfIIWSiPV'SI Fnrti ' .fSijAy» antriwg«M«faw ynwr ftmdhk Lancaster FamUnp, Saturday, January IS. 19M-823 udder, records the cow’s tempera ture. A miniature radio transmitter relays the data to a computer every IS minutes. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in USDA say temperature changes often signal the onset of disease, but the new system can sense a problem before symptoms appear. That could reduce health costs and speed the cow’s recovery. ARS scientists have put the computer to work in a different way to combat boll weevils. In the 100 years since this pest invaded the United States and began attacking cotton, growers have tried just about everything on them, including walking through fields to see if the number of wee vils is high or low spraying an insecticide only when the weevil population appears to threaten the crop. Now, in Mississippi, scouting the fields has taken a new form an electronic surveillance that appears to be successful. Here’s how it works: Every two weeks during the growing season, two-thirds of the states’ cotton growers count up the boll weevils Scooper Bowl HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The second annual Farm Show “Scooper Bowl,” the all-you-can-eat ice cream paradise, hosted more than 1,000 ice cream lovers, raising $3,470 for Pennsylvania youngsters suffering from cancer. The “Scooper Bowl” was held Sunday, Jan uary 9. The event was sponsored by Pennsylvania’s Dairy Pro motion Partners the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Mid-East UDIA/F.O. 36 Advertising and Promotions Agency, and the Pennsylvania Dairy Promo tion Program and followed similar activities held in Boston, Massachusetts and Syracuse, New York. Volunteers from the Four Diamonds Fund of the Her shey Medical Center kept busy collecting money and scooping ice cream as Farm Show-goers poured into the event. A media ice cream media contest featured local media celebrities, hand-chuming their own homemade ice cream creations. WGAL-TV 8 won first place with their Chocolate-Cookie-Nut ice cream. WNNK-FM radio and WQLV-FM radio came in second and third respectively with their creations. Minty “Wink’y Wacky ice cream and Petrified ice cream. Children from the Four Diamonds Fund joined the media teams. The Four Diamonds Fund raises approximately 99 per cent of their funds from community organizations and events. Annually, the fund supports over 2SO children with cancer. The fund supports children and families by providing 100 percent coverage of hospital bills not cover ed by family insurance. Additional monies from the fund are used to support programs at the medical center including children’s can cer research. The fund was created to provide families with support for the tremendous financial burden from hospitalization. Pennsylvania ice cream companies donated products and volunteered their time for the event. Companies in cluded; Coleman’s Ice Cream of Lancaster; Hershey Ceamery Company of Harrisburg; Jack & Jill Ice Cream Company of Bensalem/ and Turkey Hill Dairy of Cones toga. Pennsylvania’s ice cream industry is the second largest in the country. The state’s abundance of fresh cream and milk makes Pennsylvania an excellent location for ice cream manufacturing. Pennsylvania’s Citizens are also known as ice cream connoisseurs and the “Scooper Bow!” offered the public another opportunity to sample new pro ducts as well as old favorites. Pennsylvania’s Dairy Promotion Partners have been collectively promoting dairy products for the stale’s dairy farmers since 1989. ADSI i— p AV OFF! | snared in traps placed in their fields. This data, from all over the state, is relayed to an ARS lab. There, scientists use a computer to make color-coded maps of weevil population densities. Scientists, extension agents, and growers then rely on the maps to figure out the best weevil-control strategy, including less use of insecticide. Other agency scientists in south Texas are operating computers to generate maps from satellite data. These maps can help farmers, for example, measure the size of weed infestations that ruin grazing land and work out ways to control the weeds. Satellite-based maps also have supplied the first good infor mation on the status of the Gulf Coast’s black mangrove shrubs, which guard against shoreline ero sion and provide homes for wildlife. That’s a sampling of how tech nology is being put to work for agriculture and the envirortment. At the same time, the research also is paying off for the public—such as an ARS computer system that predicts the outbreak of mosqui toes so steps can be taken to snuff them out before they can make life miserable.
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