Thurmont Grange hosts Christmas caroling and charity visits
The Thurmont Grange and Junior Grange held a Christmas caroling event delivering fruit baskets and candy cane cards to residents and visitors including Floyd and Kathleen Blower Roy Valentine Albert Zentz Allen Angleberger Danny Nowell and many others. A youth tractor and machinery safety certification workshop is planned with 4 H instructors Nevin Tasto and Ed Dutterer guiding lessons starting Jan 25 at the Carroll County Extension Office. Open to ages 8 18 with five further Monday sessions at local farm machinery dealers. No registration required. first meeting mandatory. For details call (410) 48-4611 or (410) 875-2800.
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Thurmont Grange
Junior Grange
Floyd
Kathleen Blower
Roy Valentine
Albert Zentz
Allen Angleberger
Danny Nowell
Ross Smith Sr
Blanche Henning
Dorothy Alexander
Mehrle Shimer
Charles and
Beatrice Smith
Adrian Kiser
Charles Mumma
Earl Miller Sr
Tammy Wivell
Ella Eyler
Frank Kendall
Fahrney Reedy Memorial Home
Robert Remsberg
Rachel Zentz
Meridian Nursing Home
Catherine Mersch
Homewood Retirement Center
Howard Miller
Michael Manor Nursing Home
U.S. Department of Labor
Nevin Tasto
Ed Dutterer
Carroll County Extension Office
Atlantic supports dairy board and national checkoff program
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative delegates at the annual meeting backed the National Dairy Research and Promotion Board and the national checkoff program funding its activities. President Robert B. McSparran urged continued advertising to boost consumption as milk production rises, warning that a vote against the program would halt promotion efforts across national, regional, and state levels.
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Atlantic Dairy Cooperative
National Dairy Research and Promotion Board
Robert B. McSparran
Atlantic
National Dairy Board
Commodity marketing club to meet in Frederick County
A grain and agriculture commodity marketing club forms in Frederick County. Its first meeting is at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Frederick County Cooperative Extension Office, 330 Montevue Lane. For more information, call Terry Poole at 694-1594.
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Frederick County
Polled Hereford Breeders Plan Fort Worth Convention Week
Seventy years of progress will be celebrated by Polled Hereford breeders with an annual convention show and sale set for January 25 to 28 in Fort Worth Texas. Activities will be at the Worthington Hotel and the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. Nearly 400 heifers bulls and cow-calf pairs are entered for the show January 27-28 with 39 consignments in the sale. Highlights include APHA membership meeting national Palettes luncheon and meeting and Texas Mixer. The Herdsman of the Year and National Polled Hereford Queen coronation will be announced.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Worthington Hotel
APHA
Pallettes
Pa Farm Show enters final days at Harrisburg venue
The 7th Pennsylvania Farm Show runs through Thursday at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. Dairy Day opens with cattle judging at 8 am and supreme champion dairy cow at 2 30 pm. Swine, horse pulling, beef and lamb events fill Wednesday, with final sales and end at 4 pm Thursday. For more information call (717) 787 3373.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
4-H Clubs Sponsor Model Horse Show for Youth
Model horse show for youth ages 10 to 18 at 2 pm Sunday February 7 in the 4-H building at Howard County Fairgrounds. Entry fee 35 dollars per person. classes for Breyer and Breyer models. Ten classes with ribbons for winners. For class list call 416 312 2707.
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Sia
Howard County Fairgrounds
Breyer
Breyer Models
Maryland awards total quality cement pioneer award vetoed
The Marland Department of Agriculture vetoed a total quality cement pioneer award from Governor William Donald Schaefer. Gov Schaefer praised department staff for professionalism and caring as Robert Walker, secretary, noted the department was among the first to establish a total quality program to improve Maryland government service and the Sseggnewistal community.
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Marland Department of Agnculture
Wiliam Donald Scaefer
Maryland Department of Agnculure
Robert Walker
Maryland
Leif
Frederick County Farm Bureau Women elect new leaders
At the Christmas luncheon new leaders for the Frederick County Farm Bureau Women were elected. Seated are Lisa Gaver Shirley Zimmerman Louise Stup and Louise Ediger. Standing are Evelyn Wilcom Denise Valentine Mary Garst Alice Stevens Jean Albaugh Wilma Mallow. Not pictured are Annabelle Moser and Marianne Browning.
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Frederick County Farm Bureau
Lisa Gaver
Shirley Zimmerman
Louise Stup
Louise Ediger
Evelyn Wilcom
Denise Valentine
Mary Garst
Alice Stevens
Jean Albaugh
Wilma Mallow
Annabelle Moser
Marianne Browning
Environmental award given to Sayres of Waffle Hill Farms
Environmental honorees Jane and Lawrason Sayre of Waffle Hill Farms in Churchville received the Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen's Association. They are among seven regional winners as Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Robert Walker presented the citation.
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Jane and
Lawrason Sayre
Waffle Hill Farms
Churchville
National Cattlemen's Association
Maryland
Robert Walker
Efficient beef cow calf production insights from Agri Views
Beef cow calf operations rely on pasture and low inputs to produce weaned calves per cow. Open cows drive the biggest losses, with nutrition, calving, and herd health key to efficiency. Proper prebreeding nutrition, timely weaning, calf growth factors, and preconditioning improve buyer value and profits.
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Scott Barao
University of Maryland
Frederick County Agriculture Calendar Jan 1977 Notes
An agriculture calendar lists county events from January through March including farm shows, meetings, seminars, and social gatherings. Notable items include the 77th Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg the National Western Stock Show in Denver and several Frederick County activities such as the Equine Lameness Seminar Agribusiness Breakfast and Pomona Grange meetings with dates, venues, and contact numbers for information.
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Harrisburg
Denver
Colo
Frederick County
Thurmont
Grange Hall
Fort Worth
Texas
Sire Power
Hotel Hershey
Frederick County Holstein Association
Walkersville
Pomona Grange
Ballenger Grange Hall
Trees and Forests The Value to Our Environment
Trees are essential resources, cleaning air by removing carbon dioxide and supplying oxygen, preventing erosion, shading waterways, and reducing home cooling costs. In the Monocacy River watershed, 75 percent of forest cover has vanished, prompting Maryland foresters to boost planting and buffer strips along rivers. Catoctin and Frederick Soil Conservation Districts offer conifer and deciduous seedlings. order via district office at 695-2803, prepaid, pickup in April.
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Earth
United States
Columbus
Monocacy River
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Catoctin
Frederick
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MDA
Rebecca Long
Farm Bureau
Agri
Terry Poole
Martin’s West
Baltimore
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Annapolis
Delmarva Corn and
Wicomico Youth and Civic Center
Lurg
Sheraton
Hagerstown
Garrett County
Grange Jail
Frederick/Catoctin Soil Conservation District
SCS
Purina
H.C. Summers, Inc
Jefferson Pike
Jefferson, MD
North Glade
Woodsboro
Keymar
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