Emergency plan coordinates USDA and FCDA to guard livestock
The FCDA and USDA unite to form a peacetime national team safeguarding crops and livestock from biowarfare and disease. ARS leads nationwide meetings to build a rapid response force, with state and federal partners creating emergency eradication units and tracing foreign-origin diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USDA
Federal
Civil Defense Administration
FCDA
ARS
Agricultural and Veterinary Colleges
Potato digger demos and farm fires recall 1906 events
The article recalls a 50 year old Lancaster County potato digging demo using Hallock and Hoover machines judged by B Z Hess Joseph Ross and G Bromfield. It notes a Chester County farm fire that destroyed barns and crops, a Elkton Maryland blaze saving a town, and other historical ag highlights including 1906 copper and wool production figures and a St Louis death in a brine vat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Henry Haines
Lancaster County
Haines
Hallock
B. Z Hess
Willow Street
Joseph Ross
Oxford
G. Bromfield
Rising Sun
Maryland
Lancaster
York
Chester
Ren Bailey
Cochranville
Chester County
Mabel Bailey
Atglen, Oxford and
Parkesburg
David McMillian
Christiana Fire Company
Our Capitol Power The People Voting November
A historical reflection on how voters shape government from national to local levels. It argues that power rests with elected officials only if the public demands better leadership, noting Josiah as a biblical example and warning against passive voting habits. It emphasizes local offices influence and responsibility in elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dairymen’s
Cooperative Dairy Assn
State Agricultural College
County Court House
Foreman
Josiah
Anw
King Josiah
Th Division of Christian Education
National Council of the Churches of Chris
U.S
Community Press Service
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eee Aia
Octoraro
Quarryville
Lancaster Phone Express
Alfred C. Alspach
Robert E. Best
Robert G. Campbell
Robert J. Wiggins
Europe
Asia
California
BY Jack Reichard
Jacob Graybuill
Phares Evans
Montana
Michigan
Elkton
Big Elk Creek
Elkton Supply Co
Benjamin B Shelly
Manheim
Harry Lanfersieck
St. Louis
Lanfersieck
Long Island Potato Growers Assn
New York State
New Jersey
Lescon
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