I— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 28,1968
Would you like it from the bottle ... Or maybe you want to be hand fed? . . .
, _ , n _ ' size. Velvet from the antlers is
Peanuts, Tomey & Smokey
August.
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She is just likely to greet you
inside the house by the fire
place or eating crackers from
her master’s hand. She will let
you feel her fine, soft-textured
coat and you might get kissed
on the nose if you aren’t care
ful.
In past years, the deer have
been taken via leash and station
wagon to the Masonic Temple
in Allentown for 800 children at
a Christmas party. And some
times they go out at Halloween
to win prizes. One year, Peanuts
was hitched to Santa’s sleigh,
SMOKEY at the deer crossing.
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filled with Christmas gifts for
children in Allentown.
It doesn’t take long to house
break a fawn, Schaffer reports.
It can be done in about three
weeks. The deer are tamed and
trained as youngsters The fawns
are taken from their mothers
and bottle fed. The deer answer
to their own names and each
i>pds down in his own stall.
Smokey loses his antlers each
January and Schaffer has kept
them all and displays them in
his den. The buck starts grow
ing new horns on or about the
first week in March and the ant
lers grow about an inch per
week until they reach normal
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As you leave, you realize you
have just made new friends. Mr
and Mrs. Schaffer have been
such a fine host and hostess and
they just assume you’ll stop
back sometime which is prob
ably true For, when you have
had the experience of visiting a
household where white-tailed
deer lie on the door step and
greet you in the living room or
kitchen, you couldn’t possibly
drive past in the future without
stopping to see if everyone is
well
• Tobacco Meeting
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sion of buying practices, and the
future of the tobacco business
in Lancaster County.
Each man will present the
views of the phase of the to
bacco industry he represents in
the above areas, and following
the presentation questions from
the audience will be discussed.
This meeting is the second for
the new season of the Eastern
Lancaster County Adult Farmer
program. The first meeting was
held on December 18th when
over 40 farmers heard John O.
Yocum, Director of the South
eastern Tobacco Research La
boratory, discuss new practices
Oh, I see, you want to get it yourself.
PEANUTS’ FAWNS Spike and Bambi,
in tobacco production. Topics to y
be covered in future 'meetings ' ' " , .
include money management . percentage of women
and farm credit, farm record among'the" labor force in the
keeping, swine feeding and united States is growing phe
management, the economics of- nom enally. One-third of all the
forage production, and soil test- worki adults in the ratlon tO .
mg and fertilization. day are s womelU In the imk;
All interested persons are the ratio was less than one-fifth,
welcomed and further informa- l ,
tion on these meetings can be Robert Herr, teacher of agricul
had by contacting Mr. Miles ture of the Eastern Lancaster
Fry, Ephrata R. 3 farmer, or County School District.
Working Women
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