Outgoing president Dale Hershey, standing, Instructs newly elected directors, sea* ted from left, John Hershey of Marietta; Carol Groff of Kirkwood; and Donald Herr of , - pu .jtlve for Hatfield Quality Meats; and Ron Butt and Ray Martin, both of the Lancaster County Pork Producers, serve fresh ham and hot dogs to guests at the annual Lancaster County Extension meeting. Farmland Assessment The weather during the week of January 17 put a real crimp in the plans to hold educational meetings to explain the provisions of Act 319 to Chester County landown ers. Schools where three of the meetings were scheduled were closed, thus canceling all pro grams for those days. The Board of Assessment is now planning to send to all owners of tax parcels of 10 acres or more a statement of what their assessment would be if they elected to enroll in Act 319. 2-Day Forage School, Wednesdays, February 9 & 16,1994 Contact: Walter Wurster immediately at 610-696-3500, enrollment is limited 3-Day Dairy Nutrition Teleconference and Workshop Thursdays, February 10,17 and 24,1994 Lancaster County Farm and Home Center Contact: Glenn Shirk immediate!' (Dairy Milk Lines column continued next week.) Chester County is having a tele conference for com producers on Tuesday evening, February 22, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Chester County Intermediate Unit office at the Oaklands Center on Route 30 west of Exton. For more detailed directions see the February issue of Chester County Crop Grower or call the Extension office at 610-696-3500. The program will feature Penn State Agronomy Ex tension specialists on com produc tion and those attending will have an opportunity to call the experts and ask questions or listen to the questions being asked in other parts of the state. Forage School and Dairy Nutrition School Last chance to take advantage of two excellent high-level schools for progressive dairy far mers and agri-business in Febru ary: Gap Diner, Route 41, Gap, PA at 717-394-6851. enrollment is limited Corn Production Teleconference Lancaster County Extension Highlights Services (Continued from Page A 1) outstanding work with 4-H’ers. The county’s 4,113 4-H’ers parti cipate in one of the 160 clubs with 546 adult volunteers and 87 teen volunteers. Bruce Hellerick, horticultural agent, received the national exten sion award for offering the best horticultural program in the coun try. He planned workshops on such issues as pruning, identifying and correcting landscape problems, shrub and disease identification, and vegetable produc tion. Twenty seven new master At the 81st Lancaster County Extension meeting Or. Pat jngsness presents five year service awards, from left, to Dr. John Schwartz, Diane Groff, H. Bruce Hellerick, Gail Bubernack, and Dr. Robert Thee. Dairylea SYRACUSE. N.Y. An informational breakfast for Dairylea members and New York state legislators is being sponsored by Dairylea Cooperative Inc. on Tuesday, Feb. 8. The event will take place from 7:30 to 10 a.m. at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, N.Y. The informal gathering pro vides a forum for Dairylea' mem bers and state legislators to dis cuss current dairy and agricultural issues. Horticulture agent Bruce Hellerick and 4-H agent Zoann Parker display plaques recognizing them for their outstand ing work in the county, which earned them national awards. gardeners added this year bring a total of 96 in the county who donated 78S hours and answered 1,000 home horticultural questions. Five extension staff members received five-year service awards from Dr. Paul Wangsness of Penn State. These included Bruce Hel lerick, horticulture agent; Dr. John Schwartz, director; Dr. Robert Thee, multi-county housing agent, Diane Groff, secretary; and Gail Bubemack, secretary. Elected to serve as board mem bers for the Lancaster County Extension are John Hershey, poul- f H Sponsors Legislative Breakfast Dairylea is a Syracuse-based dairy cooperative with more than Nutrition Forum HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The next meeting of the Veter inary Nutrition Forum will be held on Wednesday, February 9, at the Days Inn Airport Hotel located on Eisenhower Boulevard in Harris burg. The guest speaker will be Dr. David Casper. Dr. Casper is with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD. The try farmer from Marietta, north west district; Clark Stauffer, poul try, livestock, hog, tobacco, and produce farmer from Ephrata, northeast district; Joe C. Garber, dairy farmer from Lancaster, southwest district; Donald H. Herr, dairy and tobacco farmer from Lancaster, southeast district; and Carol Groff, greenhouse grower from Kirkwood, southern district. Richard Peacock and Harold Esbenshade gave a slide presenta tion of their trip to Russian as part of the poultry industry Friendship Force Exchange. 2,300 member farms throughout the Northeast. Set seminar topic will be “Energy Me tabolism of Dairy Cows.” An informal cocktail hour will be held in the lounge at 6 p.m., fol lowed by dinner at 7 p.m. Dinner reservations should be made no later than Monday, February 7. Please call Linda Tufft-at (215) 723-5555 ext. 3060. If you are planning to attend the program but not the dinner, reservations are not necessary.
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