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Planned
For Easton
NAZARETH (Northampton
Co.) Newborn baby chicks,
prize winning rabbits, and live
bees performing the complexities
of life in their hive will be but a
sample of what you will see at the
Adventures in Agriculture com
munity event at the Palmer Park
Mall in Easton.
From Friday, February 7 at 5
p.m. through Sunday, February 9
at 6 p.m., the Northampton
County Farm/City Committee
and the Penn State Cooperative
Extension will be sponsoring this
event intended to raise awareness
of city and suburban residents
about the significance agriculture
has in our county.
Master Gardeners will be on
hand to answer your home gar
dening questions, 4-H Clubs will
show their projects, and wool
spinners and rug weavers will ex
plain their craft. Twenty-five ex
hibits will fill the Mall with dis
plays about Farmer’s Markets, a
local vineyard, greenhouses, trac
tors, and even an engine club.
There will be something to please
everyone’s taste.
Saturday evening entertain
ment will be provided by the
Happy Boombadears in two
show-stopping performances at 6
p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The goal of Adventures in Ag
riculture is to show that when the
farmer is tilling the soil, planting
seeds, and raising farm animals,
he is playing an important role in
promoting a viable community
by providing fresh, local food.
For additional information call
(610) 746-1970.
- files., Wed., Thurs. & Fri. Feb. 11,12,13 & 14, 2003
m 339 King St, Myerstown, PA
(West of Wenger’s Farm Machinery off Rt. 501)
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answer your
Questions.
• Equipment Demos
• Exhibits
• Free Lunch
Junior Shorthorn Show Portrays Breed’s Progress, Says Judge
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) “I’m really impressed
with the progress that this breed
has made in the past ten years,”
said show judge Jim Gilooly.
From the muscle and structure
standpoint, the breed has im
proved, he said, and the cattle
coming into the ring were sound
and “big and strong in bone
structure,” he said.
In addition, “four of the very
best (heifers) in the show came
back for the bred-and-owned
class, and that indicates that the
program is working and that the
youth know what they’re doing,”
he said.
From the Shorthorn classes
Gilooly picked out an animal
owned by Nate Tice, Lebanon,
for grand champion honors.
Nate, a 4-H and FFA member
who has been showing livestock
for 10 years and exhibiting cattle
for five years, is the son of Tom
and Deb Tice, Lebanon, and is a
senior at Northern Lebanon High
School.
Nate also showed a hog during
Farm Show competition. He is
from a 30-acre farm at home? has
IS head of cattle at home.
Tice also took home grand
champion honors from the Farm
Show’s Junior Market Beef
Show.
Jason Heinlein, 14, Aliquippa,
Beaver County, and “SRF Char
leene Rose,” a homebred heifer,
took home reserve champion
placing.
He has been exhibiting animals
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Nate Tice, right, took his heifer to grand champion honors during the junior show.
Jason Heinlein, 14, and “SRF Charleene Rose,” a homebred heifer, took home reserve
champion placing.
for six years and two years at the
Farm Show.
Jason is from Stony Ridge
Farm, a 23-acre operation with
22 head of steers and show cattle.
Their reserve champion was the
first Shorthorn bred at the farm.
He plans to continue showing
the animal, as he travels to junior
nationals, the Pennsylvania Beef
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Sixty nine Shorthorn cattle
were entered into the show.
The showmanship judge for
the show was David Gordon,
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