HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) State Secretary of Agri culture Samuel E. Hayes Jr. recen tly announced that poultry exhibits are allowed to return to the 1999 Pennsylvania State Farm Show. Last year, Secretary Hayes was forced to cancel poultry exhibits as a bio-security pre caution following an outbreak of avian influenza in Lebanon and Lancaster counties. At this time, no poultry flock is known to be infected with an H 7 or H 8 virus. "While we are very pleased that Pennsylvania's poultry exhibitors again can join us at What want they grow K. 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