laprastpyfarmin q Jrir■ i 1 law iii m • Z.W a A I Vot. 42 No. 29 LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) mmi- As a charter board member of Farm and Home Center for 36 years, Lawrence H. Skromme has overseen the building of the multi purpose facility, located at 1383 Arcadia Road, and helped it become the hub of city-county activity. Skromme received a recogni- Mid-Am To Acquire Borden COLUMBUS, Ohio and SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Borden Inc. and Mid-America Dairymen Inc. (Mid-Am) on Thursday announced a definitive agreement for Mid-Am to acquire the Borden/ Meadow Gold Dairies Inc. unit Bordeq/Meadow Gold Dairies recorded sales of mote than $9OO million in 1996. Headquartered in I June 7ls Dair £ Issue Lancaster Farming Office Closed Monday June is when special tribute is paid to the dairy industry. Lancaster Fanning’s annual June Dairy Month issue is scheduled to be published on the first Saturday of the Month, June 7. We are again working to bring the dairy story to you in a special way through visits with farm families. DHIA reports, farm management reports, dairy recipes, and mes sages from our advertisers. Our office will be closed Monday, May 26, to observe Memorial Day, but will open again for business at 8 a.m. Tuesday. If you have a news story or an advertising message to be placed in this special June Dairy Month issue, please contact our office, any day, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m,. Our phone numbers are (717) 394-3047 or (717) 626-1164. Our fax is (717) 733-6058. Two New Flocks Identified With Avian Influenza Late Friday afternoon last week the ag department, at the request of the Industry, issued a premise quarantine on two farms and an area quarantine in Lancaster Coun ty. The quarantine encompasses 80 flocks in an area measuring 70-80 square miles, according to Dr. Sherbyn Ostrich, acting director of the bureau pf animal health and diagnostic services and state veterinarian, far right, at the press conference Tuesday. From left, John Martin, chair of the Poultry Health Committee of the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation; John Hoffman, executive director of the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation; Walter N. Peechatka, executive deputy agriculture secretary; and Ostrich. Four Sections Farm And Home Foundation Recognizes . Scholarship Winners and Charter Board Member don award on Tuesday night when board members met “As an engineer, Skromme’s guidance and expertise throughout the years in building construction has been invaluable, and his fun draising for the Farm and Home Center is outstanding.” said Max Smith, framer county extension agent Many achievements mark (Turn to Page A 29) Ogden, Utah, it operates 27 pro cessing facilities in 11 states, pre dominantly west of the Mississippi River, and employs 3,600. The company produces a full line of dairy products, including fluid milk, ice cream, other frozen novelties, yogurt, cottage cheese and juice, and markets them under (Turn to Pag* Alt) Lancaater Farming, Saturday, May 24, 1997 Eight Lancaster County high school students receive $1,400 scholarships to pursue agriculture* and nutrition-related studies. Front from left are Jason Fieager, Msgan Pepple, and Emmalea Carver. Back from left are David Lehman, Darren Martin, Jonathan Hess, and Seth Gehman. Todd Huber was unavailable for the picture. ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Fanning Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) —Two new layer flocks have been identified with the avian influenza (A. 1.) virus, according to informa tion gathered before the start of a teleconference Friday morning with poultry experts across the country at the Farm and Home Center. That brings the number of flocks with A.I. to four in a quaran tine set up in the northern part of the county late last week. In a telephone conversation Fri day morning with Dr. Sherbyn Ostrich, acting director of the bureau of animal health and diag nostic services and state veterina rian, the two new cases include a layer flock with 200,000 birds southeast of where, earlier, A.I. was identified on two other farms. The second, located southwest of the earlier two, is also a layer oper ation with 150,000 birds. Late last week the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture placed $28.50 Per Year an area quarantine in a five-mile radius encompassing poultry farms in Rapho. Penn, West Hempfleld. and East Hempfield townships of Lancaster County to control the spread of the non pa thogenic avian influenza virus. The virus was found on two farms in the “heart” of Lancaster’s poul try industry. On May 7, a farm with three flocks totalling 154,000 hens in the Manheim-Mount Joy area was depopulated after it tested positive for the H7N2 or nonpathogenic form of A.I. The work to quickly test flocks within a five-mile radius of that farm was reported in the May 10 issue of Lancaster Farming. Last week, testing by the Pen nsylvania Department of Agricul ture’s Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services turned up another, smaller flock that was depopulated and buried on site on Monday this week. The flock con tains 12,000 birds and was close to (Turn to Page A 26) 60* Per Copy
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