Thurmont Emmitsburg Show Plans for 37th Annual Event
The Thurmont and Emmitsburg Community Show Committee schedules the 37th annual fair for September 10 to 12 at Catoctin High School Thurmont honoring the Frederick County Sheriff's Department. Officers include Rodman Myers president Paul Stull vice president and Robert Beavan secretary with a large slate of committee members. Sheepbreeders plan Sunday demonstrations and Sunday activities feature pig races a dog show barnyard bingo and dairy and goat shows while the band Catoctin performs Saturday and Sunday.
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Thurmont and
Emmitsburg
Catoctin High School
Thurmont
Rodman Myers
Paul Stull
Robert Beavan
Florence and Charles Brauer
Robert Wiles
Roger Troxell
Jean Myers
David Harman
Denise Valentine
Helen Troxell
Robert Valentine
Eugene Bollinger
Brian Glass
Kevin Donnelly
Dennis Willard
David Coblentz
Maryland Association of Fairs
Deep Creek Lake
Frederick County
Maryland Grange celebrates National Grange Week across state
Six county Granges and 21 subordinate Granges in Maryland join National Grange Week, proclaimed by state master Maurice Wiles. The event marks the 31st year of Grange Week in 4,000 communities nationwide. Founded in 1867, the Grange is a rural service fraternal group with about 300,000 members in 37 states.
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Maryland
Maurice Wiles
Grange
Maryland Draft Horse Field Day Set April 24 at Spurrier Farm
The Maryland Draft Horse and Mule Association holds an old fashioned spring field day at 9 a.m. Saturday April 24 at Spurrier Farm on Md 75 near Libertytown. Rain date is May 8. Draft horses and mules will plow disc harrow and plant during the day. For more information call Sonny Burdette at 898 3041 or Bud Lentzner at 410 775 2939.
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Maryland Draft Horse and Mule Association
Spurrier
MD. 75
Libertytown
Sonny Burdette
Bud Lentzner
Acreage reduction program opens in Frederick County
The Frederick County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service invites contracts for the acreage reduction program. Enrollees qualify for price support loans and deficiency payments, with 50 percent anticipated at signup. ARP reductions: corn 10 percent, grain sorghum 5 percent, wheat barley oats zero. Contracts accepted through Friday April 30. Call 662-1321 for more info.
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Frederick County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Call
Pomona Grange Meeting and Dairy Princess Contest
The Frederick County Pomona Grange meets at 10 a.m. on Saturday April 24 at the New Market Grange Hall with speaker Robert Rose on farm truck legislation. A Dairy Princess Contest is set for 7:30 p.m. Sunday June 6 at the Jefferson Community Center with eligibility for high school sophomores under 22 and dairy farm or 4-H/FFA dairy project ties. contact Bonnie Remsberg or Susan Summers for details.
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Frederick County
Pomona Grange
New Market Grange Hall
Tfc
Robert Rose
Dairy Princess Committee
Jefferson Community Center
Bonnie Remsberg
Susan Summers
Beef breeding traits for profitable cattle production
Agri Views summarizes Terry Poole and Scott Barao of the University of Maryland extension on key beef breeding traits. Emphasized are reproductive ability, calving ease, structural soundness, milk and mothering, yearling growth, and balancing carcass quality with feed efficiency for commercial markets. crossbreeding favored to improve reproduction and overall productivity.
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University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service
Scott Barao
April 24 1993 Frederick County Grange and Shows Calendar
Frederick County calendar lists events for April 24 including Pomona Grange Meeting at New Market Grange Hall Mid Atlantic Brown Swiss Call Sale at Frederick Fairgrounds and a 12 30 to 6 p m dinner at the 4 H Camp and Activities Center plus a Spring Field Day by the Maryland Draft Horse and Mule Association at Spurrier Farm Libertytown Also notes April 25 26 events and deadlines such as the 1993 Acreage Reduction Program on April 30 May activities include the Sheep and Wool Festival at Howard County Fairgrounds the Carroll Manor Grange meeting and the Richard N Wills 4 H and FFA Show at Howard County Fairgrounds with other Grange meetings and a National Dairy Promotion meeting in Washington DC through May 20 and a Beekeepers Association meeting in Frederick County on May 20 with additional Thurmont Grange dates.
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Frederick County
Maryland Draft Horse and Mule Association
Spurrier
Libertytown
Pomona
New Market
Maryland
Howard County Fairgrounds
West Friendship
Carroll Manor
Grangehall
Richard N. Wills
National Dairy Promotion and Research Board
Washington, DC
Frederick County Beekeepers Association
Thurmont Grange
Grange Hall
Frederick Fairgrounds
Frederick
BLEND
Tradition
JADE
Challenge
EMORY
Dotson
Patrick
Mode Brown Swiss Association
Cindy Warner
University hosts annual Student Ag Day at UMCP
The University of Maryland College Park hosts its fourth Saturday April Student Ag Day showcasing dairy cattle beef cattle swine and sheep fitting and showing contests. Maryland Cavalry Regiment riders perform while a farm animal petting zoo and a humor filled swine showmanship contest entertain. Sheep show will move to Beltsville due to a disease outbreak. Official judges include Bonnie Graves Remsberg William Gregg Jr and Thomas Mullinix.
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College of Agriculture
Washington, D.C
University of Maryland
College Park
Institute For Physical Science and Technology
Regents Drive
Farm Drive
Maryland Cavalry Regiment
Baltimore Zoo
Animal Sciences
Kathleen W. Bauer
Woodbine
Univer
Sity
Maryland
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
Beltsville
Bonnie Graves Remsberg
Middetown
William Gregg Jr
Woodfield
Thomas Mullinix
Dayton
Ayrshire breeders meet for Project 2001 genetic plan
National Ayrshire Breeders Association of America outlined Project 2001 a young sire sampling program to speed genetic progress at a Maryland Delaware Ayrshire banquet in Frederick. Production honors went to David and James Patrick Maple Dell Farm Woodbine with 58 cows ECM 20148 pounds.
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National
Ayrshire Breeders’ Assocation of America
Maryland
Pudding Run
Still Pond
Edgewood
Harold Clark
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Terry Poole
Ronald Sundergill
Maryland Dairy
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Bruce Reeder
Sue Ann Yingling
Gail Bowerman
David Gray
Mount Airy Saddle Pass
Mount Airy
Thurmont Grange Meeting
Ayrshire
Amanda Valentine
B.J. Waltimyer
Westminter
Becky Patrick
Mark Valentine
Michelle Harbaugh
Aaron Shank
Hagerstown
Greg Seager
Ralph Shank Jr
Mary Shank Creek
Madeline Valentine
Becky Long
Carole Patrick
Barney Clark
Roy Cole III
David Patrick
Ralph Shank Sr
Dale Bendig
Amos Rudderow
Kathy Patrick
Marta Waltimyer
Rebecca Long
Ayrshire Association
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Mullinix
Carroll County AG Center
Westminster, MD
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