A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 25, 1998
Penn State Extension Research Pasture Growth Charts
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Farm Market Numbers
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.