Hog Cholera Quarantines Sweep Eastern States
Hog cholera, a contagious viral disease, has been confirmed in several eastern herds. Five herds in Gloucester County New Jersey, two in Massachusetts, and one in Rhode Island are affected. USDA imposed federal quarantines Wednesday evening. Earlier, February 28, New Jersey reported about 5350 hogs in three affected herds and a state hold on swine movements. Continued on Page 18.
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Seaboard
Glouchester County
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
USDA
Department of Agriculture
Fertilizer Shortage Easing Says Chevron Official
A Chevron Chemical Co. marketing specialist told local farmers that fertilizer supplies for N P and K should be adequate this year after two lean years. The shortage now shifts to distribution with a potential railroad car shortage looming due to grain exports.
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Chevron Chemical Co
Outstanding Garden of Young Farmers member named
LUE BALL-John ver a dairyman from Weaverland area named outstanding farmer of the Garden of Young Farmers association for 1975 at the annual banquet at the Fire Hall. He farms 130 acres milking 76 cows with pipeline milkers and a liquid manure system, boosting herd average to over 15 000 pounds of milk and 580 fat. He is vice president of the Pequea local and member of Eastern Milk Producers, competing against Robert Book William Fisher and Harold Musselman.
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Lue Ball
John Ver
Weaverland
Garden of Young Farmers Sociation
Weaver
Eastern Milk Producers
Pequea
OVF
John Weaver
Bill Fisher
Andrew Stoltzfus
Earl Weaver
Elizabethtown Young Farmers Honor Banquet
At Ice Hall last Friday Elizabethtown Young Farmers honored members with Larry Garber as toast master. Don Mowrer won first in corn silage and received an award and Doebler's seed corn. Irvin Engle placed second in silage and shelled corn contests.
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Melissa Piper -Rheems
Nual
Elizabethtown Young Farmers
Larry Garber
Young Farmers Group
Don Mowrer
Elizabethtown
Doebler
S. Irvin Engle
Marietta Ri
Engle
E-town
Irvin Engle
Marietta
Dale Hiestand
Bainbridge
American Agriculture Day March 22 1976 observes Ag Day
The nation will salute American Agriculture Day on March 22 1976 highlighting farmers, rural towns and agribusiness firms. The event promotes understanding of US agriculture to consumers and officials and is coordinated by the National Agri-Marketing Association.
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Kansas City
National Agri-Marketing Association
NAMA
Rural Route cartoon debuts in Lancaster Farming
Beginning this issue Lancaster Farming introduces Rural Route a humor cartoon drawn by Thomas Armstrong of Sellersville Pennsylvania. Armstrong a 1955 Penn State animal science graduate and former Angus herd manager describes the feature focusing on a farm family with the farmer as the central character and the occasional bureaucracy and red tape affecting his work.
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Lancaster Farming
Thomas Armstrong
Sellersville
Armstrong
Penn State
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Lancaster
Dieter Krieg
Herb Roup
Chevron
P. L. Rohrer
Smoketown
GSYF
By Dieter Krieg
Robert Book
Bareville
William Fisher
East Earl
Harold Musselman
New Holland
Life
Berks Dhia
Lebanon
Kutztown
FFA
Country Corner
Chester Dhia Homestead
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