6—Larita^tSr'Farming, Saturday, Allgust 24, 1963
IT FEELS GOOD TO BE HOME again and on the
tractor once more, Kenneth Myer said this week after
a tour of 11 European countries as a People-to-People
delegate from the Elizabethtown chapter of Future
Farmers Kenneth, preparing alfalfa ground said this
week he saw very little alfalfa on his tour, but he be
lieves the greatest need of European farmers is more
modern equipment. L F. Photo.
• Kenneth Myer
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a few Ayrshircs and some Bel
ted Galloway ” Myer said he
was surprised to see that most
of the machinery and tractois
on display were of American
manufacture
After spending most of his
first Sunday abroad at the air
port because of a schedule mix
up, Kenneth reached London
and said he was impressed by
the cleanliness of the city.
On a farm about 60 miles
outside London, Kenneth said
he saw 450 -acres of wheat that
would average 60 to 70 bushels
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per acre With a damp climate
and cool nights, the farmers
-could grow very little corn, but
they did raise a mixture of
oats, wheat and barley (which
they called coin) to feed the
115 dairy cows on the farm.
The cows were milked in a
herringbone milking parlor,
“fairly modern”, and housed in
loafing barns Pasture and hay
were supplied by Italian Rye
grass No gram was fed during
the spring or summer, but the
100 acres of pasture, divided
into 21 separate lots, was rota
ted every day.
In Denmark the Future Far
mers visited the state expen-
mental farm where most of the
cattle were Red Danes. “There
were a few Jerseys and Hol
stems, too.” he said
Thatched roofs caused the
local boy to wonder, until he
learned that the barns stay
cooler in summer and warmer
in winter with grass thatch
ing than with any other kind
of roofing material ”
“We saw quite a few Land
race hogs in Denmark and a
few Yorkshires.” he said
“Eveiywhere in Europe, the
Landiace hog is very popular”
On a Government owned
farm in Czhecoslavkia, Kenneth
saw field after field of hops
growing up wires to poles like
telephone poles All the farms
in this part of the country
were big 2,500 to 3,000 ac
res, he said Some of the farms
were collective (government
owned) faims and some were
cooperatives
At a collective farm in Hun
gary, the tounrtg Americans
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were served a meal that be- watched . the progress of the
gan with vegetable. s,q-u.p.. ;;v hus. - Checkpoint Charlie is a
“When the .'guy' next* to of five gates, he said,
dished up his soup, I saw a and “they close the one behind
chicken head, with the eyes you before they open the next
and comb still in place, on his one ” The tour guide explained
plate I was careful not to get that the wall had to be built
any chicken heads or leet In to keep East Berliners from
my soup ” Kenneth said. The spending too much money in
main course included the rest the Western zone "I had heard
of the chicken “The soup about the wall, but I wasn’t
didn’t taste so bad, though.” prepared for the broken bot
he added .philosophically ties, barbed wire entanglements
On this farm of about 3,500
acres Kenneth was amazed to
see the large number of hor
ses and so few tractors “The
tractors were pretty old and
looked sort of home-made ” he
said
Three hours behind the
East Berlin wall were more
than enough for the Lancaster
County farm boy “It was
pretty eerie, and I was glad to
get back on the Western side,"
he said of his bus tour Armed
guards stood behind the win
dows on all the corners and
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and armed guards on it ” he
explained
After a tour of Paris, the
Future Farmers visited a farm
in Belgium Flax, in bundles
like wheat, was a crop new to
the Pennsylvania boys. The
farm on the site of the Battle
of Waterloo had dairy cows
called Pie Red, Pie White, Pie
Black and Pie Blue, with the
first part of the name being
pronounced like “by” These
were the “most dairy looking”
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