No Need For Pay Pullet Program At Hearing
Poultry industry officials in Harrisburg oppose the Pennsylvania Approved Pullet Grown Program at a state hearing. Deputy Secretary Jack Grey chaired the session and read the proposal, while a hatchery representative questioned its asserted benefits to sellers and buyers. Continued on page 7.
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Harrisburg
Poultry and Allied Industry
Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture
Jack R. Grey
Hatchery
E J. Lawless
Bureau of Markets
Conservationist Attends Training Conference at MSU
Orval Bass, SCS conservationist, returned from a management training conference held last week at Michigan State University on the North eastern Regional Training Center campus. The program, sponsored by the U S Conservation Service, included experts from Michigan State University Michigan University and SCS and covered human relations communications supervision training employee development and management improvement.
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Lancaster County
SCS
Orval Bass
Michigan State University
U.S. Sol Conservation Service
Northeastern
Michigan University
Fred Frey’s Twin Oaks Farm Builds Better Gates
Angus breeder Fred Frey and his brother Ernie run Twin Oaks Farm Quarryville R2 and have expanded a prefab gate and fencing business built on the home farm. They fabricate all steel welded gates and fences, serve a 20 state area, and have completed projects from Missouri to Penn State University, with custom work making up about 75 percent of their output.
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Twin Oaks
Fred Frey
Quarryville
Frey
Missouri
Penn State University
Fred
Ernie
L. F
Freeman Raises Wheat Allotment
Secretary of Agriculture Freeman announced a 15 percent increase in the national acreage allotment for the 1967 wheat crop. The 1986 effective allotment was 51.6 million acres, now rising to 59.3 million acres, placing 1967 wheat acreage near 1955–1961 levels. He said June carryover will be under 600 million bushels for the first time in 13 years, supporting farm income in 1967 amid strong demand.
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Freeman
Farm Calendar May 15 Rural nfe Stewardship Week event
The Rural nfe marks Soil Stewardship Week May 15 to 22 with events including a May 18 Southeast Region 4-H Leaders Forum at Reading Motor Inn and a Wildlife Club meeting at Lititz Springs Park. From May 20 to 22 the Lancaster County Horse Show runs at Lancaster Riding and Tennis Club grounds. The 4-H Horse Club will meet at Farm Credit Building Lancaster with speaker James Gallagher, Penn State livestock specialist.
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Nfe
Reading Motor Inn
I-H
Lititz Springs Park
Lititz
Lancaster County
Lancaster Riding and Tennis Club
Lincoln Highway West
Lancaster
Farm Credit Bldg
James Gallagher
Penn State
New Division Developed At Penn State
A Penn State division in the College of Agriculture unites instruction and research across animal science dairy science horticulture and poultry science under Dr. Donald V. Josephson. He will chair the division for three years and the unit will coordinate related food science programs from agricultural engineering economics and rural sociology.
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Food Science and Industry
College of Agriculture
Penn State University
Donald V. Josephson
Josephson
SWCD Directors Meet With ASCS
Lancaster County Soil and Water Conservation District directors met with the ASCS office on Manheim Pike Lancaster with several cooperating agencies. No final action due to a quorum shortage. Eight new cooperators agreements totaling 382 acres were received. Plans for the county plowing contest were discussed with tentative scheduling for the last week in July. Several sites were considered but no decision. Associate director Forney Longenecker urged greater Young Farmers participation.
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Lancaster County Soil & Water Conservation District
Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service
Manheim Pike
Lancaster
Forney Longenecker
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