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VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HOST (Berks Co.) —Robert
and Jane Sattazahn have lots of
fb memories of what it is like to be an
modem dairy farm
family.
A photograph taken in 1973
shows the young couple with their
daughter and three sons —an
attractive, well-dressed, and
groomed family.
The photograph could have
been used to illustrate any model
family receiving any civic honor.
The Sattazahns were the 1973
Berks County farm family, an hon
or jointly sponsored by the Read
ing Fair and Grange.
Robert said that night his family
was honored, he got to see singer/
entertainer Pat Boone. He said be
believes Pat was wearing his trade
mark white shoes.
As the honored farm family, the
Sattazahns were treated to a day as
guests of the Reading Fair. This
was at a time when the fairground
was big and there were stands and
families and people from
Tobacco Blue Mold
Found In Pennsylvania
JOHN O. YOCUM
Senior Research Associate
Penn State
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Tobacco blue mold has been
confirmed on field plants and in
seedbeds in Lancaster and Leba
non Counties. The blue mold was
brought into the area on trans
plants from North Carolina. The
Earl Fink, president, Pennsylvania Council of Farm Orga
nizations, left, and Samuel Hayes Jr., acting secretary, Pen
nsylvania Department of Agriculture. Hayes spoke at the
council meeting Monday.
Four Sections
Zahnbach Farms Prepares For Next Generation
around.
The Sattazahns were driven
around in a golf cart and got to ride
on the midway rides five. Toward
late afternoon, one of the fair
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Office Closed
July 4
We celebrate the nation’s
birthday Friday, July 4, when
Lancaster Farming’s offices
will be closed. They will
reopen on Monday, July 7, at 8
a.m. Deadlines for the holiday
week are as follows:
• Public Sale ads 9 a.m.
Tuesday, July 1.
• Classified, Section D—S
p.m., Tuesday. July I.
• Classified, Section C, FE
& FE Wanted—9 a.m., Wed
nesday, July 2.
• General News Noon,
Wednesday, July 2.
• Mailbox Markets 9
4,m.. Monday, June 30.
Pennsylvania Department of Agri
culture’s Inspection Service and
Penn State personnel found blue
mold on the tobacco of every farm
visited where the North Carolina
plants had been transplanted. On
two farms, the blue mold had
already spread to tobacco seed
beds that were on the same farm.
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 14, 1807
Robert and Jane Sattazahn, owners of Zahnbach Farms, stand with the portable ice
cream and milkshake stand that the Berks County Dairy Farmers Association has
used for years to raise money for the county dairy princess pageant Regulations and
time have made the stand obsolete, and it isn't economical to retrofit the stand. The
fate of the stand is symbolic of what is happening to some dairy farms in this era of
rapid change.
Hayes Wants To Make
PDA Blue Ribbon Agency
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) — The new acting Pennsylva
nia Secretary of Agriculture.
Samuel Hayes, Jr., told agriculture
leaders Monday that he wants to
make the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture a “blue rib
bon” agency. “Other color ribbgns
are OK but not quite good
enough,” Hayes said. “I want the
Department of Agriculture to be as
good as the industry it serves. Pen
nsylvania agriculture is number
one, and I would hope that PDA is
the number one agency in state
government This is easier said
than done, but that’s my goal and
task.”
Hayes spoke at the regular meet
ing of the Pennsylvania Council of
Farm Organizations held in the
capitol. Gov. Tom Ridge, named
Hayes acting secretary to succeed
Charles Brosius who was asked to
resign at die end of May with no
reason given other than the admi
nistration wanted to take the
department in a new direction.
While this is not a normal transi
tion, Hayes said he was prepared to
grapple with the new mix of prob
lems because Gov. Ridge without
Gov. Ridge To Authorize
$5 Million For Avian Influenza
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) State Gov. Tom Ridge is
expected to sign legislation that
would authorize the state Depart
ment of Agriculture to spend $S
million to fight avian influenza.
In the meantime, no new flocks
have' been discovered to have
tested positive for the contagious
virus in or out of the quarantine
area in Lancaster County.
The quarantine is in effect to
prevent the spread of the disease
from flock to flock. The Pennsyl
vania State Police have been moni
toring traffic in and out of the quar
antined area.
|2UO Par Yew
question expressed solid support
for agriculture, and the legislature
offered to be as cooperative as they
can be in order to support our num
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Unanimously approved by the
Senate and House, a general
appropriations bill previously
passed by the Legislature was
being amended in the Legislature
when the Gov. Ridge Administra
tion requested the Legislature to
provide authorization to spend $5
million to fight the disease.
The Senate and House both
signed off on the legislation Wed
nesday night (the House worked
through until about 5 a.m. Thurs
day before calling it quits for the
summer) and it went to the gover
nor’s office for his signature.
The general appropriations bill
would authorize spending in the
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