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The Chester County Holstein breeders visited farms of fellow Here they ail get in the picture at Heindel Dairy Farm in York County,
breeders in York County, Maryland, and Lancaster County on Tuesday. See story page A 24. Photo by Everett Newswanger, editor
Crohn’s-Johne’s Connection: Scientists Look Into Controversy, Herd Control Options
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
GRANTVILLE (Dauphin
Co.) Evidence of human
Crohn’s disease, with strikingly
similar symptoms to Johne’s
disease in cattle, has not been
found in children on farms
where Johne’s has been de
tected.
According to a leading
Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Samuel Hayes Jr. launched the Export for
Scholars Program last week at W.B. Saul High School within the Philadelphia city limits
and at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown. In the photo along with Saul High School
students are, from left, Andre Ruiz from Puerto Rico; Rep. Kathy Manderino, Philadel
phia County; Hayes; and James Bane, Saul ag adviser.
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researcher on the controversial
issue of a possible human con
nection to Johne’s, science has
been challenged to come up with
Poultry Progress Day Helps Producers Do A Better Job
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) Poultry Progress Day
enables poultry producers to
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11, 2000
ways to track exactly how
humans acquire Crohn’s.
Dr. Theodore Bayless is pro
fessor of medicine and head of
keep abreast of new equipment,
industry developments, and
management practices. But the
primary concern of every pro
ducer is the threat of avian in-
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gastroenterology at Johns Hop
kins University. Bayless spoke
to about 180 educators, legisla
tors, and agri-industry repre-
fluenza (AI).
“AI has the potential to spell
financial disaster with disrup
tion to markets, cash flow, and
international trade,” Dr. David
Kradel told 160 people attend
ing the annual event, March 2 at
the Farm and Home Center.
Although avian influenza in
the county seems to be under
Pennsylvania Celebrates 100th
Anniversary Of First Soil Survey
JAYNE SEBRIGHT
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The year 2000 marks the
100th anniversary of the first
soil survey completed in Penn
sylvania. That survey was done
Ridge Administration
Launches ‘Export
For Scholars ’ Program
DOYLESTOWN (Bucks
Co.)-Building on Gov. Tom
Ridge’s commitment to educa
tion and to international trade,
Agriculture Secretary Samuel E.
Hayes Jr. launched the “Export
for Scholars” Program.
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sentatives Thursday during a
session of the Second Annual
Pennsylvania Agriculture In the
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control, Kradel of PennAg In
dustries said that reviewing
what happens in Italy coulc
repeat itself here unless diligeni
and progressive action contin
ues.
For several months Italy had
been dealing with a low patho
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on a portion of Lancaster
County, which included 11 soil
series.
Lancaster County was chosen
as part of the second national
soil survey in 1900 because of its
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“We often tell our young
people that they live in a global
marketplace,” Secretary Hayes
told students at W.B. Saul High
School in Philadelphia and Del
aware Valley College in Doyles
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