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Show June 1971 UTAH FARM BUREAU Page 6 o&mg caccoftnomi? m your doors Leave a light on Lock DON Assistant Mano- ger; apple marketing and vege- table processing program. Assistant Mono--' ger. Poultry Marketing Division. TROY BARTON, POLLITT, & Pollitt, Barton, Have lawns mowed while gone Drive with care Asslstant 0MAS Deve Market opmen Manager, Division. INSURANCE COMPANY UTAH FARM BUREAU Moore New Assignments for AFBF Staff New assignments for members of the staff of the American Ag- ricultural Marketing Association to most effectively utilize staff time and experience In servicing State Farm Bureau marketing associations have been announced by William J. Kuhfuss, president of the AAMA. J. , Thomas Troy Barton, J. Moore, and J. Donald Pollitt have been named assistant managers of AAMA. The AAMA Is an affiliate of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Barton, who served as AAMA field coordinator, will have overall responsibility in the AAMA poultry marketing programs as well as other special assignments. A. 'William Jasper, who had worked in the AAMA poultry marketing programs has been named assistant secretary of market development and research for the American Farm Bureau Federation. Moore, who served as an assistant manager of the AAMA fruit and vegetable division, will be In charge of AAMA programs designed to assist growers of tomatoes, asparagus, potatoes, popcorn, grapes and processing vegetable crops (corn, peas, beans, cucumbers and cabbage). He also will supervise new speclllty crop programs as they are developed. Pollitt, who served as an assistant manager of the AAMA fruit and vegetable division, will have responsibilities in the AAMA processing apple marketing program and the AAMA processing vegetable program. He also will carry out other special assignments. Pollitt is headquartered at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. MY HEART ONCE BLED FOR THE SINCE poor workin'stifp'but HE'S BECOME TOP-D06- -. DIFFERENT.- - ORCHARD" WORKERS OAHIZE THE HMBPmS tms WEALTH Ssssas, Alfred W. Keating will continue as manager of AAMA livestock operators. These programs Include feeder cattle, slaughter hogs, dairy herd replacements and beef breeding stock. Supervision of the AAMA apple and cherry programs will continue under Harold J. Hartley, AAMA general manager, In addition to his other administration duties. Barton, a 1949 graduate of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture, was born and reared on a farm in GordonCounty, Georgia, near Calhoun. Prior to entering the University of Georgia, he taught school In the Floyd C ounty school system for one year and served two years IntheU.S. Army. Following graduation, he taught a class of veterans under the veteran farm training program In Gordon County. He joined the staff of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation in August, 1951, as field He served In num- representative. erous Farm Bureau positions, including legislative director and as assistant director of field ser- -. vices. He was director of field services when he joined the staff of the AAMA May 1, 1966. Mr. and Mrs. Barton have four children two boys and two girls, and live In Wheaton, a Chicago su- ber 1955, and served untll he resigned in August, 1956. He served as organization director for three Ohio counties Fairfield, Ross and Pickaway from Septem- ber, 1956, until he was promoted to regional' supervisor for the northeast region for Ohio Farm Bureau in July, 1960. Mr. and Mrs. Pollitt have one son and three daughters. Moore, who received his bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from the University ofVer-mo- nt and State Agricultural College, Burlington, Vermont, after serving In the U.S. Navy, joined the staff of the AAMA September He also did graduate 1, 1968. work at the University of Massachusetts. Prior to joining the AAMA staff, he was manager of the New keting Jersey Agricultural Mar- Association from 1963. Rhubarb Pie Harbinger of Spring Whether you make it in late winter from the first rhubarb in markets or from fruit harvested later from your own patch, rhubarb pie is always a welcome herald of spring. This recipe uses orange juice and rind to add subtle overtones of flavor and fragrance to the tartness of the rhubarb. CITRUS RHUBARB PIE 1 recipe pastry for double crust pie 2 teaspoons grated orange V4 cups sugar or lemon rind 4 cup com starch Yu teaspoon salt 3 cup orange juice 5 cups Food coloring (optional) pieces) 2 tablespoons margarine rhubarb Divide pastry almost in half. Roll out larger portion and fit inch beyond outer rim. Roll out into 9 inch pie pan. Trim to inch inch wide thickness. Cut into remaining pastry Mix com Add and starch salt. rind and sugar, rhubarb, strips. juice. Toss until well mixed. Tint pink, if desired. Turn into pastry shell. Dot with margarine. Moisten edge of pastry in pan. Arrange pastry strips over rhubarb mixture in lattice pattern. Seal to edge. Turn edge of pastry in and over ends of strips. Flute to form high rim. If desired, brush pastry with milk and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in 400 degree F. (hot) oven 50 to 60 minutes or until filling has bubbles that do not break. Makes (J-in- -- -- 6 -- servings. Trade Balance a Benefited By Agriculture burb. The USDA reports, the U.S. Pollitt, a graduate cum laude finished the first three quarters of from Ohio University at Athens, the current fiscal year with a favOhio, in 1951, with a bachelor's orable balance of trade of $1.4 degree in agriculture, joined the billion because of American agAAMA staff July 1, 1964, as field riculture. representative in the Applachian Figures released by the Departarea. He farmed in Callla Counment of Agriculture In anticipaty, Ohio, from his college gradution of World Trade Week show an ation until 1956; served as presiexcess of agricultural exports over dent of his County Farm Bureau imports from July 1970 through In 1954 and was elected to the board March 1971 of $1.6 billion. This of directors of the Ohio Farm Burmore than offset a deficit of $200 eau Federation, Inc., In Novem million In the nation's trade. The figure and April estimates also Indicate that U.S.' farmers this fiscal year will exnon-agrl-cult- port products worth about $7.5 billion, an unprecedented total. This Is close to three quarters of a billion dollars more than the previous fiscal year record of $6.8 billion In 1967. President Nixon has proclaimed the week of May 16 as World Trade Week, urging the business community and the American people to 'consider world trade as an Important national priority which warrants their attention and productive efforts." USDA noted that agrlcultual exports currently are running about 17 per cent ahead of the same period in the previous fiscal year, led by gains of one -- fifth or more In cotton, wheat and soybeans. Cotton shipments for the first 10 months (April figures estimated) were worth $400 million, up 45 percent from the same period last year. Wheat shipments gained 34 per cent to $925 million and soybean exports reached just over $1 billion, an Increase of 22 per cent. a aaaanaG |