Premium List For Fair
Exhibits Available
At Fair Office
Allentown Fair Premium Lists,
which explain exhibit entry proce
dures for this year’s fair running
Aug. 29-Sept. 4, are available at
the fair office.
Requirements, deadlines, and
fees for entry in all departments
are listed. Animals, farm, orchard,
garden and home products, and
flowers, photographs, antiques,
arts and crafts arc judged and
exhibited at the fair.
During this year’s fair, the SOth
anniversary of the end of World
War II will be commemorated by
special exhibits inside Agricultur
al Hall. Home and garden trends
from the war period will be dis
played, including examples of
“victory gardens.”
'The fair is asking that photo
graphs of local World War II vet
erans be submitted for a “Salute to
Veterans” exhibit. Participants
can either mail or drop off one
photo of their favorite vet to the
fair office from August 1-21
between 9 a.m.-sp.m.
The name or names of the per
son or persons pictured and, if
known, the year and the location
of the photo must be labeled on
the back of the photo. The
entrant’s name, address and phone
number also must be listed.
In addition to the traditional fair
judging categories, the premium
list describes seven corporate
sponsored culinary competitions.
They are listed as “special con
tests” under the home products
section.
Two of the contests. Land O
Lakes Light and No Fat Sour
Cream “Quick Bread” and Spam
“Best Recipes,” are state-level
competitions with winning recipes
forwarded to national test kitch
ens. Placing entries at the fair can
win up to $lOO.
The national Land O Lakes
winner will receive $5OO and a
year’s supply of products. The
Spam national finalist will win a
$2,500 shopping spree at the Mall
of America in Minneapolis, Minn,
plus air fare and two nights’
accommodations for two.
New this year. The Pampered
Chef, a company which offers an
array of kitchen tools through
home shows, is sponsoring an
“original cookie contest” Contes
tants are asked to create a cookie
to be judged on originality, taste,
and appearance. Up to a $lOO
worth of Pampered Chef products
will be awarded to place winners.
The locally-operated Clover
Hill Winery and Vineyards is back
for its second year with a “Cook
ing With Wine” contest Entrants
may prepare an appetizer, entree
or dessert. Place winners will
receive gift baskets from Clever
Hill.
The Softasilk “Championship
Cake Award” winner will take
home $lOO from the fair competi
tion. And, for “chocoholics,” Her
shey returns with its “Greatest
Cocoa Cake Contest” and its
youth “Greatest Cocoa Cookies,
Brownies and Bars Contest” for 8
to 18 year olds.
First place winners go on to the
Pennsylvania Farm Show in Janu
ary where they vie to win a
weekend at a Hershey resort.
Twelve-year-old Amy Martin of
Allentown took top honors at the
farm show this year with her crea
tion that took the blue ribbon at
last year’s fair, “Amy Martin’s
Delicious Cocoa Brownies.”
Unlike die other items in Ag
Hall that arc judged without spec
tators before the fair opens, the
special contests judging is hosted
by radio station WLEV with the
public invited to watch. Livestock
judging events are also open to
spectators.
Premium Lists can be picked up
at the fair office behind the Ritz
Barbecue on the fair grounds
weekdays between 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
They are also available at the fair
ticket office Saturdays from 10
a.m-2 p.m. For more information,
call (610) 433-7542.
‘Year of the Dairy Cow’ At
Montgomery County, Md. Fair
Increased premiums, butter
sculpting, milking demonstra
tions. and educational exhibits
highlighting the dairy industry will
be some of the many activities
planned for the 199 S Montgomery
County Agricultural Fair when the
Year of the Dairy Cow is celebrat
ed.
The annual Gaithersburg, Md.
event, Aug. 18-26, which draws
more than 400,000 spectators, re
cognizes an animal species each
year as the Animal of the Year.
“There are so many dairy-relat
ed activities and educational pro
grams that we are able to offer to
our visitors," said Fair President
Robert Pack. “We hope that the
dairy exhibitors will also see this
year’s fair as a special opportunity
to compete with other top-notch
breeders. The increase in die pre
miums offered for our dairy shows
will hopefully draw those who
don’t normally exhibit at our fair."
Activities to be included at the
1995 fair are a butter sculptor, a
milking parlor, calf judging, and
milking contests.
A one-ton replica of a Holstein
cow will greet fair visitors at the
Perry Parkway entrance to the fair,
courtesy of Turkey Hill Dairy of
Conestoga, Pa., while a cluster of
cows grazing atop a platform will
highlight the fair’s circle display at
Chestnut Street.
‘The fair’s advertising cam
paign is ‘Come to the Fair and
Milk It For All It’s Worth’,” Pack
said. ‘The fair wants people to
cpme to our event and take in all of
the activities, many of which are
free, and just literally have a great
time. It’s a great event to come to if
families are looking for good
wholesome entertainment all the
way through.”
Complete rules and regulations
for exhibiting at the Montgomery
County Agricultural Fair can be
obtained by calling the fair office
at (301) 926-3100.
H eLP Y °UR S e^
To B
ELKTON, Md. Maryland’s
premier agricultural equipment
demonstration is scheduled for
Tuesday, August 1, in Cecil Coun
ty-
Ag Showcase, in its ISth year,
has become a popular part of the
Cecil County Fair, drawing more
than 300 farmers from Maryland,
Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
No matter what crops or live
stock you produce, there will be
equipment here for you.
Farmers-Businessmen
Picnic July 26
FLEMINGTON, NJ. The
Hunterdon County Board of Agri
culture is holding its annual
“Farmers - Businessmen’s Picnic
on Wednesday. July 26. at the Old
Dogwood Hill Farm, Milford, NJ.
Wagon tours of the farm will
start at 4:30 p.m. until S:4S p.m. A
riding demonstration will take
place at 6 p.m., with a picnic sup
per at 6:30 p.m.
Old Dogwood Hill Farm, Inc. is
owned and operated by Paul and
Edith Kozak. Since 1980, theirs
has been a “hdmebred” Thorough
bred horse breeding and training
farm. They have four Thorough
bred stallions and two stallions
used as “teasers.” There are 28
broodmares, from whom are pro
duced the sales inventory of the
future.
The vast majority of the land is
devoted to pasture. Their staff of
fers a full range of training options
to owners, from teaching a foal its
first lesson to breaking the 2- to
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e Showcased Aug. 1
This year’s program at the Fair
Hill Fair Grounds on MD Route
273 will feature the latest in hay.
conservation tillage, TMR mix
ing, and manure handling equip
ment
Come prepared for a hands-on
event as equipment will be de
monstrated, not just exhibited.
Dealer and company representa
tives will be on hand to answer
your questions as you put their
equipment through the test.
3-year-old. They offer seminars to
the public on breeding and preg
nancy care, a training regime from
foal to finish, in-hand clinic, do's
and don’ts of the show ring, and
numerous other programs.
The meal will be an old-fash
ioned full-course picnic supper by
Maddalena’s Cheesecake Co. Inc.
There will be barbecued chicken
sausage and peppers, potato salad,
coleslaw, com on the cob. fresh
fruit, watermelon, cheesecake, ice
cream, coffee, tea, and milk.
After supper, George Ball Jr.,
president, chairman, and CEO of
the W. Atlee Burpee Co. will be
guest speaker. His speech will be
“the history of the last ISO years
of gardening and farming through
the eyes of the Burpee Company.
There will be a drawing for
door prizes after the talk.
All tickets are $l5 per person.
Deadline for purchase is July 20.
Call extensions service. (908)
788-1339, for more information.
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Refreshments, provided by
Central Maryland Farm Credit,
Elkton office, will be available at
9:30 a.m. Along with morning
equipment demonstrations, Gary
Cottman, product representative
with John Deere, will give a brief
program on global positioning
systems.
Also, Dr. Wesley Musser, ex
tension economist with the Uni
versity of Maryland, will talk
about his research to assist farm
ers in selecting the proper size
farm equipment for their farms.
Equipment demonstrations start
in on 20 acres of orchard grass hay
with the newest mowing, raking,
tedding, and chopping equipment
Prior to lunch, extension person
nel will discuss the cost and effec
tiveness of single strand electric
fencing to prevent deer damage to
crops. Lunch will be available for
a charge, served by the county
Farm Bureau women.
After lunch, activities continue
with box and slurry type manure
spreader demonstrations including
how to calibrate these for preci
sion application. Then it’ll be hay
baling time with the latest balers,
baggers, and wrappers. TMR mix
er wagons will also be demon
strated. Field equipment activities
wind down with a conservaton
tillage equipment demonstration.
Soil conservation staff will be on
hand to measure residue cover af
ter each machine.
Antique equipment from area
collectors will be displayed all
day. For the first time ever, Ag
Showcase activities spill over onto
the fairgrounds, with a compact
tractor demonstration at 6:30 p.m.
Spectators will get to see and
operate compact tractors and
every conceivable attachment
available.