NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



New Sullivan Ag Agent 



(VJeekhj Market Bulletin. March 12, 

 19Q7I 



UNH Cooperative Extension lias 

 hired Stephen )udd to fill the po- 

 sition of extension educator, agri- 

 cultural resources, for Sullivan 

 County. He recently finished his 

 PhD program at the UNH Depart- 

 ment of Animal and Nutritional 

 Sciences, where he's been working 

 with Dr. loanne Curran-Celentano 

 looking at beta-carotine and its 

 effects on cows and humans, in 

 10Q5, he received COLSA's Out- 

 standing Teaching Assistant Award. 



|udd also has had practical ex- 

 perience working with commercial 

 dairy and livestock operations. 



He began his duties on IVlay 12 

 and can be reached at 603-863- 

 9200. 



FFA Results 



The Spring FFA Career Develop- 

 ment Events were held at the 

 UNH Thompson School in Durham 

 in May 2. 



Five schools entered the Nurs- 

 ery/Landscape Event. The highest 

 score went to Cheshire Center of 

 Applied Science and Technology, 

 Keene; the second highest, to 

 Coe-Brown Academy (Northwood); 

 the third, to Pinkerton Academy 

 (Derry). Individual high-scorers 



were lonathan Gray, |oshua Conley 

 (both Cheshire Center of Applied 

 Science and Technology!, and la- 

 son Adams (Pinkerton). 



And five teams entered the 

 Floriculture Event as well The 

 highest score here went to Dover 

 High School; the second highest, 

 to Pembroke Academy; and third, 

 to the Seacoast School of Technol- 

 ogy (Exeter). Individual high- 

 scorers were — in order — Wendy 

 Lee, Cherie Redmond, and Sarah 

 Haindler, all of Dover. 



Congratulations to all top-scor- 

 ers. The number of participants 

 was up — which is encouraging to 

 the many people — from the uni- 

 versity, from the FFA, from private 

 industry — involved in organizing 

 this event. A word of thanks goes 

 to everyone who helped. 



NHOS Winners 



The annual show of the New 

 Hampshire Orchid Society (NHOS), 

 held at the Nashua Armory on 

 April 23-25, generated not only a 

 small profit, but — more impor- 

 tantly — 22 new members. 



This year's trophy, created by 

 Roger Belisle's Granite Crafts in 

 Hooksett, was a piece of granite 

 cut in the shape of the state of 

 New Hampshire; on it was at- 

 tached a NHOS pin and brass 

 plaque. In several categories, tro- 



phies were not awarded (ribbons 

 were given, but judges felt that 

 trophies were not merited). The 

 trophy sponsored by the NHPGA 

 for the best cut-orchid arrange- 

 ment was one of these. 



However, there were many high- 

 lights. Among them were a trophy- 

 winning ("Best Large Specimen" 

 and "Best Cypripedium") Paphio- 

 pedilum lowii — a slipper orchid — with 

 4 1/2-foot-long stalks and 32 blos- 

 soms (this was grown by Ovid's Or- 

 chids of Kingston, Massachusetts). 

 Another Massachusetts grower. Dr. 

 Wilfred Neptune, exhibited a 

 Renanthopsis 'Mildred Jameson' with 

 over 100 blossoms — this was 

 awarded "Best Vanda in the 

 Show." And from New Hampshire, 

 Gordon LaBonte, from Man-chester, 

 won his first AOS award ("Best On- 

 cidium ") for a spectacular Oncidium 

 papilio— the "Butterfly Orchid." This 

 plant had eleven flower stalks — 

 none under four feet, each with a 

 blossom in full bloom. 



(The NHOS has had a busy 

 spring, exhibiting at the Massa- 

 chusetts Orchid Society show, in 

 Art in Bloom at the Museum of 

 Fine Arts In Boston, and at the 

 second annual Nashua Flower 

 Show at the Hunt Library in 

 Nashua. For information about the 

 NHOS and its activities, contact 

 loanna Eckstrom at 603-654-5070.) 



|UNE & JULY 1997 



