A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 25, 1998 Penn State Extension Research Pasture Growth Charts Lancaster County I 3000 i 2500 ; 2000 1500 1000 Notice how the pasture growth has speeded up in late June from the Heat and Moisture 1 140 j 120 80 60 ! -*o 2 4/27 5/12 5/18 5/25 8/2 6/8 6/15 6/22 6/29 7/6 7/ ' 2500 i 2000 1500 i 1000 5/3 5/4 5/18 5/26 6/1 6/8 6/15 6/22 6/29 7/6 7/13 Farm Market Numbers Nearly A Dozen QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster Co.) About a dozen people pro vide homemade and grown items to sell at the Solanco Growers Market, now in its fifth year. Every Saturday cm the parking lot at the Good’s Store at Fourth and State streets in Quarryville, 11 vendors set up show to sell many homemade and homegrown items. The grower’s market was set up much like a roadside stand with farmers direct-marketing their pro duce to consumers, said Ed Her rmann, a vendor who brings veget ables, eggs, and fruit to the stand. Herrmann, who also serves as Solanco Young Farmers Associa tion adviser, noted that a lot of dif ferent products are offered for sale at the market Items for sale include heirloom and ethnic vegetables, including fall decorations, by Leon and Lin da Boyer of Lambert Farm in Nar von. Robert and Keith Fahnestock of Fahnestock Fruit Farm, Lititz, sell peaches and apples. Jack and Shirley Henderson of Henderson’s Hydroponic Greenhouse, Lancas ter, sell hydroponic tomatoes. {Continued from Page A3O) Lancaster Pasture Cover Lancaster Ave Growth/Day Dauphin Ave Pasture Cover Daniel B. and Fannie King of Hess Road Bake Shop. Quarryville, sell baked goods and homemade bread. Jejomc E. and Sharon Rhoads, Quarryville, sell sweet com and vegetables. Also. Bev Schaeffer of Schaef fer Flowers in Conestoga sells fresh cut flowers, dried flowers, and bedding plants. Jonathan and Sevilla Smucker of Holtwood sell vegetables, bedding plants, home made bread, and canned foods. Ed Heltshe of Stone Hill Nursery in Conestoga sells trees, shrubs, and perennials. Robert and Billie Alt house, Holtwood, sell fruit and vegetables. And Jonas Esch of New Providence sells pastured raised poultry (dressed chicken and turkey) at the market The market is open every Satur day at 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Several special events are sche duled during the year. One was a pig roast the third Saturday in July. A special event is ice cream mak ing, to be held Aug. 15 (the third Saturday in August). Everyone is welcome to the special events. 4-H HAPPENINGS CM o> CM CM Dauphin County Ext ANNEX WELLSBORO (Tioga Co.) —Four members of Penn State University’s Cooperative Extension staff were among all the county agents who received awards at the 1998 annual meeting of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents in San Antonio, Texas. The awards program high lighted the annual meeting, where more than 1,800 extension agents and guests convened, reviewed their responsibilities as educators, and attended professional im provement workshops. The Achievement Award and the Distinguished Service Award honors the top two percent of ex tension agents in each state for their hard work and success. The Achievement Award recognizes agents with less than 10 years of service to cooperative extension. Honored were Thomas McCarty. Cumberland County ex tension agent, and Dan McFar land, York County extension agent Two members of Penn State University’s Cooperative Exten sion staff were among agents in the U.S. who received the Distin guished Service Award. Honored were Charles Gale, Columbia County extension agent, and Rich Columbia County 2000 1000 1600 1400 1200 1000 (D O CO •* vCo<O(MO><o<'>~-<0 CM •<• *• m m m u>(o The missing data is were all the measured paddocks decreased in growth, * u) to in to <o 18 5/26 6/1 nsion Agents Receive Awards sion agent This is the 60th year that the National Association of County Agricultural Agents has awarded the honor. Charles Gale coordinate the 4-H horse, dairy, dog and youth programs in Columbia County. The horse and dairy programs re main strong and vital through the nurturing and leadership training for leaders and teens. New riding clinics for handicapped riders have been a great success. Gale works with the Tobacco-Free Youth Coalition to educate mer chants about youth and tobacco. Richard S. Smith works on live stock, environmental, administra tive and youth .issues. He devel oped the livestock sale and changed the lamb sale from live auction to a tele-auction. More than 40 percent of the youth in Sullivan County are involved in 4-H projects. More than 100 youth work on the in-depth environ mental projects. Working with the council of governments, Smith helped develop a countywide workman’s compensation pro gram that saved each municipality $12,000 annually. Columbia Ave Pasture Cover Columbia Ava Growth/day Dauphin Growth/day '6/8 6/15 6/22 6/29 7/6 7/13 K Tom McCarty has an extensive program on water quality. Mc- Carty had 1,500 people test their water with his program and 63 percent identified that they should test their water annually. McCar ty’s program involved adults test ing their water and checking their septic systems. The youth visited farms that protect the water sup ply. The water quality program has four elements; 1. Citizen Wa ter Testing, 2. Information expo outreach to urban audiences, 3. youth science camp, 4. well and septic workshop. Dan McFarland has developed programs on cow comfort, stall designs, and bam ventilation sys tems. In freestall design, McFar land has developed five different slide presentations on stall com fort. These have been presented to more than 1,800 people since 1991. He has developed several factsheets on stall design and bam ventilation that county agents and dairy farmers use. Dan has devel oped four slide presentations on dairy bam ventilation ideas that have been presented to more than 1,400 people.
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