• Holstein Ass'n.
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■County committee assign
ments include the following
General committee Clar
jence Lyons, 204 I T ess Blvcl ,
Lancaster, and Mrs Rhelda Ro
yer, 2025 Oregon Pike, Lancas
ter
Booklet committee John
S Shellj, Manheim R 1 *
Tour committee Richaid
Hess, Strnsbuig Rl, chainnan,
Roy H Book, Rouks Rl, Hen
ry B Kettenng, Litilz R 3, and
M. M Smith, County Agent,
Lancaster
Milk piomotion committee
Claience Lyons, chairman
and Charles Cowan, 2025 Bloo
mmgdale Ave , Lancaster
Banquet committee Rob
ert C -Groff, Quarryville R 3,
and Victor Plastow, Associate
County Agent, Lancaster.
Registration and reception -
Mr and Mrs David Yoder,
SFAIBC, Lancaster. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Tindall, Peach
Bottom Rl, Mr and Mrs. Earl
L. Oroft, Stfasburg Rl, and
Mr. and Mrs J. Mowery Frev,
Jr., 1813 Hans Herr Drive,
Lancaster.
Ladies Program Mrs.
Rhelda Royer, chairlady, with
additional committee members
to be chosen by the chairlady.
Publicity Roger Gundl
ach, SPABC. Box 254, Lancas
ter; Jack Keyser, Intelligencer
Journal, Lancaster, and Jack
Owen, Lancaster Farming, Box
1524, - Lancaster.
• Extension Banquet
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Speaking to more than 360
persons at the banquet in the
ballroom of Hotel Brunswick,
Lancaster, Bucher had the
audience in an uproar as he re
counted some of the experien
ces of a young county agent
in the early days of extension
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FORMULAS
CAUGHT CHATTING AT THE golden anniver
sary of the extension service in Lancaster County are
former Associate County Agent, Harry ST Sloat, and
Melvin Stoltzfus, a dairyman from Ronks Rl. Sloat
served the county in extension work for 40 years be
fore retiring in 1961. The hand of County Agent, M
M. Smith is shown pointing out an item of interest to
another guest. L. F. Photo.
in the county.
Bucher, who served the
county from 1913 to 1949
recalled that he often had to
take a pitchfork and help the
farmer with his load in order
to get an audience of any
kind.'
He" said he started his duty
on the 13th of the month, but
could not recall if it were a
Friday, but he said there was
very little in the way of re
search and no help from ex
tension specialists m those
days.
He said he was very dissat
isfied with the progress he was
making in the first few mon
ths. “The weekly reports didn’t
have much bottom,” he said,
and he made up his mind to
give up the job on the follow
ing day. “I probably would
SERVICE
with the
FUTURE
in mind!
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have, too, if it hadn’t been a
cloudy day.”
He said on the day he plann
ed to resign, he had a talk
with the County Superintendent
of Schools who told him he
had seen two crows sitting on
a wire talking things over “I
decided if they can take it, I
can too ”
“The next morning things
started to break,” he said.
I still wanted more action,
he said, but it was hard for
a young man to get an audi
ence with older farmers He re
counted a conservation with a
young doctor who told him he
had had trouble getting busi
ness until he started driving
his horse as fast as he could
go up and down the roads
“The women said, ‘That young
doctor must be good to have
Phone 569-0411
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 16, 1963
REMINSCING ABOUT THE OLD days in exten
sion work is, always in order with former county agent,
Floyd (Dutch) Bucher. Here at the golden anniversary
banquet of the extension service he chats with Mrs.
Norma DeLellis, present Home Economist in the Lan
caster County Extension service. L F. Photo.
to travel that fast’ and he be
gan to get business”
“That gave me an idea' I
got a motorcycle, and as some
of you know, I went up and
down the loads,” he said
Calls for help became more
frequent after that, and soon
Bucher became a familiar sight
as he traveled up and down
the county roads for the next
36 years.
Extension service in the
county was ongmally oigamz
ed under the name of Farm
Bureau and Bucher told ot
several interesting events
which grew out of the situa
tion when the American Farm
Bureau Federation was termed
He said his original oftices
were in the Greist Building,
but in 1921 Representative
Greist asked him if he would
like to have space in the pio
posed Post Office building
When the building was com
pleted, the Faun Bureau did
not want Buchei to move out
oX the offices on which they
weie paying rent He said, “I
went to Washington to see my
boss, whom I had nevei seen
and told him to write me a
letter I told him what kind ol
letter I nanted, and wh n n it
came, I said to the Farm
Bureau, ‘There it is What can
I do about it', so we moved
into the new offices ”
Levi H Biubahei, Rohiers
store
@i I a g e
town, and Alra. Jane
Columbia, nanated a senes ot
slides depicting the pi ogresS
of county extension w ork over
the past 50 yeais Thev ie
counted the conti ibutions of
“pioneeis in extension” such
as Hairy S Sloat, fonnei As
sociate County Agent, who
served 40 years fiom 1921 to
1961 and Miss Anne Foibes,
the fust extension home econo
mist who served trom 1922 to
1947
Six dnectois ueie elected to
the Extension Sen ice Commit
tee Mrs Hairy S Mu mm a,
Manhehu Rl, Mas elected to
sen e in the Northwest dis
trict, Mis. Allen K. Kisser,
Leola Rl, was elected tiom the
Northeast distnct, John W.
Sangrey, Conestoga, and Rich
ard Lefeier, Quanyville Rl,
will lepiesent the Southwest
distnct, Robeit C Groft,
Suarrynlle R 3. the Southeast
district, and John H Mjer,
Quarnville R 3, the Southeast
fiom the Southern aiea
Robeit C Gioft, pi evident,
wji, nidbtei ol ceiemomes
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