Equine Center Receives $1 Million Endowed Chair Gift
The Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center at Morven Park Leesburg Virginia has been endowed with a $1 million donation from Adelaide C Riggs of Woodbine. The chair in equine medicine will be held by Dr Michael Murray a veterinary clinician and researcher focusing on equine gastric ulcers. This endowment marks the first major gift under a new Virginia Tech center funding agreement with its Advisory Board established last year. The center was founded in 1984 with a $4 million gift from Marion duPont Scott on 200 acres donated by Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation.
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Marion duPont Scott
Morven Park
Leesburg
Adelaide C. Riggs
Woodbine
Michael Murray
Virginia Tech
Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation
Catoctin FFA Holds Fundraisers for Camps and Banquet
The Catoctin FFA Chapter ran two fundraisers to fund leadership camps conventions and recreational activities plus their annual banquet. Members raised 300 from flower bulb sales with top sellers Shawn Shriner Jennifer Lewis and Jen Jackson. The club then sold 700 cases of citrus fruit to raise additional funds.
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Catoctin
FFA
Shawn Shriner
Jennifer Lewis
Jen Jackson
Rabbit club to meet at Frederick Extension Office
The Freestate Domestic Rabbit Club will hold meetings the next two months in the small conference room at the Frederick County Extension Office on 330 Montevue Lane Frederick. Administering medicine to rabbits will be discussed at 7 30 pm Monday Feb 20. On March 20 the topic will be kindling and lactation in rabbits. For more information call 4738965 or 8318440.
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Freestate Domestic Rabbit Club
Frederick County
Montevue Lane
Frederick
Walkersville
Mid-East
DHIC
Hagerstown
CFSA
Thomas Johnson Drive
Frederick Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors
Maryland Department of Agriculture
Annapolis
Frederick County Farm Bureau
Pomona Grange
Betty’s
Maryland Dairy Princess Committee
Frederick County Chamber of Commerce
Grange
Rose Hill Manor
HE Duvall Inc
East Patrick Street
FFA
Freestate
Carroll County Ag Center
Ballenger Grange
Grange Hall
Mountaingate Restaurant
Catoctin Soi Conservation District Board of Supervisors
FFA Made For Excellence
Holiday Inn
Somerset
Maryland Jersey
New Midway Fire Hall
Frederick County Ag
Francis Scott Key Mall
DHI Plans Series of Training Meetings for Dairy Sector
The Mid-East Dairy Herd Improvement Corp. will run training and information sessions for DHT supervisors and dairy farmers. Bring DHI reports. Sessions cover laptop data entry, on farm data programs, herd profiles, and proposed rule updates with dates across Carroll, Hagerstown, Frederick, Chestertown, Bittenger, Westminster, Forest Hills.
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Mid-East Dairy Herd Improvement Corp
Steven Smith
Dairy Records Processing Center
Provo
Utah
Lee Majeskie
University of Maryland
George Gramling
Mid-East
Carroll County Extension Office
Westminster
DHIC
Hagerstown
Frederick County
Frederick
Chestertown
Bittenger
Forest Hills
Dairy seminar set in Walkersville
The annual Dairying Today program will be held at Walkersville Fire Hall on Wednesday February 8. Registration begins 8:30 a.m. with the program at 9:30 a.m. Dr Bob Milligan of Cornell will discuss farm help and farm families facing the year 2000. Registration is 3 dollars per person at the door. Lunch reservations by January 31 via two phone numbers.
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Walkersville
Bob Milligan
Cornell University
New York
Frederick County Farm Bureau Scholarships Offered
The Frederick County Farm Bureau will offer two $500 scholarships for the 1994 95 academic year. Applicants must be high school seniors or full time college students. Scholarships are available for dependents of Frederick County Farm Bureau members and students with an agriculture curriculum major. Applications may be obtained from high school guidance offices or by calling Tonjin Mayne at 81 5014. Applications must be received by Saturday April 1.
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Frederick County Farm Bureau
Tonjin Mayne
FFA to Hold Butchering at Catoctin High School
The Catoctin FFA and FFA Alumni plan a butchering event at Catoctin High School on Friday March 16 led by Harold Lenhart. Orders include sausage pork chops pudding ham ribs and roasts with pickup times 3 to 7 p m Friday March 19 or 9 am to noon Saturday March 11 in the agriculture shop. Call numbers to place orders.
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Catoctin
FFA
Catoctin High School
Harold Lenhart
Bob Beavan
Kevin
Agriculture Calendar Adds Local Farm Events in 1995 Edition
The Frederick News-Post Ag Calendar lists farm group activities for February and March 1995, with deadlines and contact points. Entries include Maryland Ag Week Dinner in Baltimore, various dairy, beef, and grange meetings, conservation and CFSA sessions, and the Wool and Unshorn Sheep Incentive Payments deadline in Frederick.
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Frederick
Frederick Cfsa
Westminster
Maryland Cattlemen's Convention
Sheraton Inn
Hagerstown
Maryland Institute of Cooperative Education
National
Carroll Manor
Grange Hall
Maryland 8 week course for small farmers begins March 2
The Maryland Cooperative Extension Service offers an eight week evening short course for small and part time farmers from 7 to 9 pm on Thursdays starting March 2 at the Frederick County Extension Office 330 Montevue Lane Frederick. Fee is 15 dollars. Topics cover farm support agencies soil fertility pest management pasture management alternative agriculture options fruit and vegetable production marketing and farm financial management with resource guidance for new and existing producers. Registration forms available at the Frederick Extension Office 380 Montevue Lane Frederick or by calling 694 1594.
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Montgomery County Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors
Maryland Soil Conservation Committee
Howard Williams
Williams
Montgomery County
Muncaster Road
Derwood
State Soil Conservation Committee
Department of Agriculture
Harry S. Truman Parkway
Annapolis
Maryland Cooperative Extension Service
Frederick County
Montevue Lane
Frederick
E Farm
Frederick Extension
USDA requires basic crop insurance for farm program benefits
The USDA reminds that all insurable crops must carry at least catastrophic insurance to qualify for farm program benefits under a reform aimed at reducing government spending on crop losses. Sign-up deadlines vary by crop and state, with deadlines on February 15 February 28 and March 15.
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Washington
Congress
United States
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Wye Research and Education Center
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National Association of Conservation Districts
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