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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 1, 1966
ANOTHER FALL-WINTER chore is getting celery
out of the trenches and ready for market. More than,
half of the plant is trimmed and discarded. Amos says
the most common question asked is “Isn’t there some
thing you can use all that material for?” The answer
apparently is “No”, L. F. Photo
• Amos Funk
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acres, nearly all of which, is
under irrigation. Some of the
water for irrigating is drawn
from the Conestoga Creek,
and some from the Pequea
Creek.
If the Funk operation
seems like a busy place in
the winter, it must he a bee
hive at the height of the
cropping season. Amos brings
in 15 Puerto Ricans each
year. A few come in
ary and the rest in 3lay; they
leave in November to be
home for the coffee harvest
He said that about 60 per-
cent of the same ones return Amos Funk has long been
from year to year. He is active in conservation work,
building a house for them in addition to that which he
for next year, hoping to at- practices on the farm He has
tract the best people to w ork been president of the Lan
for him. Amos said he is well caster County Soil & Water
satisfied wnth their work, and Conservation District for thir
even though he h'as to send teen of the fourteen years he
them tickets in advance for “iras been on the board He
their passage he has never is also active at the state
lost any money on them Andy level, and is a past president
supervises the activities of of that conservation board,
these migratory workers while Recently he was named to a
they are on the farm second term by Governor
The Funks have been ex- Scianton on the state S&W
panding lapidly in recent Conservation Commiss.'on, an
years. They -put up a modern agency which supervises the
market stand in 1963 with activities of the local dis
the cdea of selling more of tucts. In addition to these
their produce right at the duties, he is a member of
faim Amos said it “was one the -Governor's Committee on
of the best things we ve ever Agnculture, an advisoiy
done” Twenty-five to thirty group which is helping to lep
peicent of all the farm pio- resent agriculture at top lev
duction is now sold at the els in a changing Pennsvl
tarm. -Fred, the youngest vania economy.
Funk son. manages the load
side maiket, among Ins oth
er i esponsibihties
AtWti l Mm,- '(A s ww Av >** **-* »x* ->- * „
SURROUNDED BY a carpet of green leaf lettuce,
Andy Punk holds up one market-ready plant for the
camera’s inspection. Lettuce is one of the greenhouse
crops grown at Funk’s to get some out-of-season, pro
ductive activity. L. F, Photo
But the family ib still look
ing for better w'ays of oper
ating the farm Although,
they keep accurate cost rec
ords on all productive enter
prises, it is nearly impossible
with an operation of 'that size
and nature to be sure which
crops are making money and
which are not The barm has
been enrolled nn the Penn
State linear programming
plan and a detailed analysis
of all factors will soon lie
made This may bring about
considerable changes in the
types ot crops they will raise,
and the proceduies they now
follow.
The Funk opeiation is an
excellent example of what a
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