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
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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.