New Regulations Improve Labeling For Liming Materials HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Agriculture Secretary Boyd E. Wolff has announced the creation of new regulations dealing with agricultural liming materials. The regulations require manufacturers to provide more information about the materials. Editor Wins Journalism Award Everett Newswanger, managing editor. Lancaster Farming, was awarded the 1994 Northeast Farm Communicator Association Award for excellence for the best photojournalism farm story at the association’s winter meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire, ear lier this month. The Communica tor Association is a group of pro fessional agricultural journalists, broadcasters, and public relations persons from the Northeast part of the U.S. The winning story featured the bulk milk tank truck driver who left his small son waiting at home for his daddy to return from days of non-stop efforts to get the milk from farm to plant in the blizzard snows of 1993. Newswanger is the 1993 Honor ary County Agent named by the Pennsylvania Agricultural County Agents Association at their annual meeting in State College in November. More recently the Pen nsylvania Young Farmers Associ- Farm Bureau To Meet (Conilnutd from Pago A 22) prior-converted croplands and the permit exemption for normal farming practices should also be spelled out in law. • The last time the federal gov ernment operated on a balanced budget was 25 years ago. Farm Bureau supports passage of a balanced budget constitutional amendment to bring discipline to runaway federal spending. The amendment would require that federal outlays be in balance with federal revenues unless three fifths of the entire membership of the House and Senate vote for higher spending. In addition to visiting their con- TOWN AND COUNTRY POURED WALLS • Manure Pits jrfTE • Retaining Walls Wff • House Basements • Trench Silo Walls (215) 593-5794 Ask For ike HERNIA? 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The farmers will be updated on the activities of the U.S. House Agriculture Commit tee by Rep. Tim Holden (D-6th Dist.), Pennsylvania’s only con gressman on the committee. The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is a voluntary, general farm orga nization which represents 23,542 farm families in 54 county units. 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Lincoln Ave., Myers town, Leb. Co., Pa. A half mile east of the intersection Rt. 501 & Rt. 422 in Myer stown. By Leon Hoover. Nelson L Ebersole, auct. Rescheduled Public Sales uniformity in labeling liming materials for use in different stages. Representatives of indus try, government, and land grant colleges from Pennsylvania. New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Dela ware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia held a series of meetings to develop uniform label ing requirements for agricultural liming materials which would be applicable in all of those states. Pennsylvania, a leader in the pro duction and sale of agricultural liming materials, is ahead of the other participating states in efforts to implement the proposed standards. Due To “Inclement Weather” Public Sale of Antiques, Antique Furniture, Glass ware, Tools, Milk Bottles, Tins. Scheduled for Sat., Feb. 12 is postponed to Sat., Feb. 26 same time. 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