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Quilt and Garden Festival,
Kitchen Kettle Village, Inter
course, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., rain or
shine, (800) 732-3538.
Southern Cove Power Union As
sociation’s Spring Plow Days
and Antique Tractor Show,
New Enterprises, and April 6.
Raising Meat Goat Seminar,
Mercer County 4-H Park, 9
a.m.-3 p.m., (724) 662-3141,
Perch Workshop, Ohio State
Uniyetsity -Soutb-Gcntcrs at
Piketon, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., (740)
289-2071.
Sunday. April 6
Daylight Saving Time begins.
NIAA annual meeting, National
Institute for Animal Ag, West
on Hotel, downtown Cincinat
ti, Ohio, thru April 10, (270)
782-9798.
State Convention Pa. Association
of Township Supervisors, Her
shey Lodge and Convention
Center, Hershey, thru April 9,
(717) 763-0930.
Monday, April 7
Global Positioning Systems and
Mapping Training, Franklin
County extension, (717)
334-6271.
National Distillers Grain Market
ing Conference, Des Moines,
lowa, thru April 9.
Heifer International Beef and
Fund-reusing Dinner, Yoder’s
Restaurant, New Holland, 6
p.m.; April 8, Fieldcrest
Room, Brethren Village, Lititz
Pike, Lancaster, noon; April 8,
East Fairview Church of the
Brethren, Fairview Road,
Manheim, 6 p.m., (717)
397-1253.
Mid-Atlantic Farm Credit Area
Annual Stockholders’ Meet
ing, Shoemakersville Fire
Hall, Shoemakersville, 6 p.m.,
(800) 442-7334.
Rural Road Safety Week, April
7-13.
Tuesday, April 8
Introduction to RUSLE, Myers
Farm, Centre County, Penn
State Nutrient Management,
thru April 9.
White-Tailed Food Plot and Sup
plental Feeding Seminar, Leb
anon Valley Exposition Cen
ter, 7 p.m.
Pork Quality Assurance Update
Training, Line Mountain High
School cafeteria, 7 p.m. (570)
784-6660.
Mid-Atlantic Farm Credit Area
Annual Stockholders’ meet
ing, Holiday Inn Select, Timo
nium, Md., (800) 442-7334.
Heifer International Fund Raiser,
Buffet Lunch at Assembly
Hall, Brethren Village, Lan
caster, (717) 397-1253.
Organic Dairy Meeting, extension
office, Watertown, N.Y., (607)
564-1060.
Pa. Farm Bureau News Confer
ence, Harrisburg Capitol Ro
tunda, 10:30 a.m., (717)
761-2740.
Wednesday, April 9
“Stray Voltage and Dairy
Farms” Conference, Radisson
Penn Harris Hotel, Camp Hill,
thru April 11, (607) 255-7654.
Wine Growers Technical meeting
in western Pa., Wingate Vine
yard, Smucksburg, Washinton
Penn State Extension, (724)
228-6881.
Bucks County Extension Living
on a Few Acres Workshop,
Backyard Poultry, Doyles
town, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.,
(215)345-3283.
Conference for Farm Advisers,
Educators, Utilities and Public
Policy Advisers, Radisson
Penn Harris Hotel and Con
vention Center, Camp Hill,
thru April 11.
Dairy-A-Phair Workshop, Frey
Dairy, Lancaster County, 9
a.m.-3 p.m., (814) 863-3912.
Mid-Atlantic Farm Credit Area
Stockholders’ meeting, Walk
ersville Fire Hall, Walker-
Competition Awards Homegrown Items
PHILADELPHIA “Be a
winner in the 2003 Pennsylva
nia Fair Home Grown and
Homemade Competition,” said
Beverly Gruber, chairman of
the competitive exhibits for the
upcoming fair at the Philadel
phia Park Race Track, May
15-26.
Potential exhibitors may
enter their creative work in a
wide variety of classes outlined
sville, Md., 6 p.m., (800)
442-7334.
Deer Density Workshop,
McKean County Extension,
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Organic Dairy Meeting, Tally Ho
Restaurant, Richfield Springs,
N.Y., (607) 564-1060.
Thursday, April 1 0
Dairy Nutrition trouble Shoot
ing Bam Meeting, Richard
Harrington Farm, Spring
Creek, 1:30 p.m., (814)
563-9388.
Worker Protection Standards for
the Green Industry, Warren
County extension office, 1
p.m., (814) 563-9388.
Meet a Cow, Meet a Sheep Day,
Ag Arena, University Park,
(814) 863-3914.
NCGA Regional Distillers Grain
Workshop, Des Moines, lowa,
(636)733-9004.
Susquehanna River Basin Com
mission meeting, Days Inn,
Huntingdon, 8:30 a.m., (717)
238-0423.
Friday, April 11
Western Pa. Holstein Spring
Spectacular Sale, Mercer
County 4-H Park, Mercer, 7
p.m.
Pa. State Jersey meeting, Howard
Johnson Inn, Mercer, thru
April 12.
New York Spring Dairy Carou
sel, Syracuse, N.Y., thru April
14,
Northeast Hoof Training School,
Finger Lakes Region, New
York, thru April 12. Also Aug.
8-9, Oct. 24-25. Also June
24-27 and Nov. 4-7, (800)
619-6546.
Elizabethtown Heritage Day
Event, Antiques ' Appraisal
Ask For Jay
in the 2003 Exhibitors Hand
book. All homegrown and
homemade products produced
by the exhibitors are welcome
at the fair.
Categories of entries include
sheep, goat, home-baked prod
ucts, canned products, needle
craft, arts, crafts and photogra
phy, hay and grain, vegetables,
nut, fruits and berries, floral ex
hibits, and homemade wine.
Show, Winter Heritage House
Museum, 10 a.m.-l p.m., (717)
367-4672.
Building Strong Families Semi
nar, Towanda Country Club,
8:30 a.m., (570) 265-2896.
Friends of Agriculture Breakfast
Series, Modem Maturity Cen
ter, Dover, Del., 7:15 a.m.,
(302) 831-2512.
Cornell Conference on Globaliza
tion and Rural Livelihoods,
Ithaca, N.Y., thru April 12,
(607) 255-7684.
Saturday, April 1 2
Bucks County Extension Living
on a Few Acres Workshop
field trip, 9 a.m.-noon, (215)
345-3283.
Northampton County 4-H Tack
Swap, 4-H Center, Nazareth,
11 a.m.-2 p.m., (610) 837-7294.
33rd Annual Maryland State
Holstein Show, Timonium
Fairgrounds, 9:30 a.m., (301)
271-0048.
Penn State Little International
Livestock Exposition, Ag
Arena, 8 a.m.
Advanced Pastured Poultry
Workshop, Albany, N.Y.,
(518) 427-6537.
Penn State Dairy Exposition,
University Park, 1 p.m.
John Deere Antique Tractor
Plowing Demonstration, Ron
Moyer Farm,’Hereford, (215)
679-6592.
Backyard Poultry Workshop,
Wayne County Courthouse,
Honesdale, (570) 253-5970,
ext. 239.
FFA Chapter Farm and Forest
Landowner Forestry Work
shop, Stockbridge Valley Cen
tral School, Munnsville, N.Y.,
(315) 495-4483.
Equine Garage Sale, Northamp
ton County 4-H Center, Naza
reth, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., (610)
837-7294.
Sunday, April 13
National Garden Week, Year of
the Poppy, thru April 19.
Monday, April 14
Global Positioning System and
Mapping Training, Lancaster
Farm and Home Center, (717)
334-6271.
Hardwood Log Grading, Penn
State’s Ag Arena, thru April
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 5, 2003-A29
The 54-page guide lists possi
ble cash prizes and rules for
entry, display, and removal of
exhibits. First, second, and
third place cash prizes as well
as ribbons will be awarded to
each class. A “best of show”
ribbon will also be given in each
general category.
For your official Exhibitors
Guide, write to P.O. Box 5,
New Tripoli, PA 18066, or call
(610) 767-5026.
15, (814) 863-1113.
Tri-county DHIA Records Work
shop, Dutch Treat, Spartans
burg, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., (814)
563-9388.
Bucks County Holstein Club
Bam Meeting, Delaware Val
ley College Dairy, 7 p.m.,
(215)489-2399.
Tuesday, April 1 5
Windows II Class, York County
Extension, also April 16.
Delmarva Poultry Booster Ban
quet, Wicomico Youth and
Civic Center, Salisbury, Md.,
(302) 856-9037.
Grape Growers Technical meet
ing, Lancaster Farm and
Home Center, 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
Adams County Farm Bureau an
nual spring meeting, Gen.
Pickett’s Buffet, Gettysburg, 7
p.m., (717) 642-9306.
Penn State Extension Dairy
Health and Nutrient Manage
ment Workshop, DHIA Lab,
Manheim, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.,
(717) 394-6851.
Introduction •to Computerized
Farm Recordkeeping, Cum
berland County extension,
9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., (717)
240-6500, thru April 16.
Wednesday, April 16
Soil Quality Field Day, Mont
gomery County Geriatric Cen
ter, Royersford, (610)
489-4319.
Project Grass Northeast Spring
Meeting, Columbia County
Extension office, Bloomsburg,
10:30 a.m.
Bucks County Extension Living
on a Few Acres Workshop,
Doylestown, 7:30 p.m.-9:30
p.m., (215) 345-3283.
Southwest Sensation Holstein
Sale, Fayette County Fair
grounds, Uniontown, 7 p.m.
Pork Quality Assurance Update
training, Lycoming County ex
tension office, 7 p.m., (570)
784-6660.
Horse Pasture Management
Meeting, Circle D Farm,
Woodbine, Md., 7 p.m.-9 p.m.,
(410)489-7987.
Thursday, April 17
Global Positioning Systems and
Mapping Training, Lebanon
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