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JUNE-JULY, 1969 • FOR THE MEN WHO SELL AND SERVICE IH FARM EQUIPMENT VOL. V NO. 6
C. B. “Bud” Hoober visits with Ivan Yost (left), state president of Young Farmers of America, 1969 chair
man of Young Farmers Institute, current county plowing champ, placed 3rd in state in ’6B. Owner of new
856, Yost farms 400 acres, milks 50 Holsteins.
Accounting responsibilities are headed up by Chuck
Flick aided by Arietta Arment and Vivian Maitland.
The latter (not shown here) also serves as the firm’s
receptionist.
A Business Built on
C. B. “Bud” Hoober and his son
Charlie head up one of Penn
sylvania’s top dealei ships, al
ways in Harusbmg district’s
“Top Ten.”
“Why not 7 ” you might ask
“Look wheie they are . . Lan
caster County, one of the most
productive agricultural counties
in the US. Anyone could sell
the line in that lush land ”
And right there is wheie the
“bear stomped the buckwheat,”
as they say m Intercourse, Pa,
the home of C. B. Hoober &
Son.
You see, at least 50 percent of
Hoober’s customers can’t plow
with a farm tractor. It isn’t they
don’t know how, or can’t learn.
It’s because their religious be-
SALES ACTION
The Hoobers of Lancaster County
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lieis tell them “no self pi open
ed faim power, no rubber on
wheels, only steel ”
For these are the Amish peo
ple, famed every wheie as splen
did farmers, modem in many
agricultural techniques, often
a step or two ahead of then
neighboring farmers And
while one might own a Farmall,
it may be used only as station
aiy power. Horses'" or mules
must - pull the plow, disk or
planter.
Hoober has delt with the
Amish for many yeais, has
woiked with them, helped them
adapt certain modern equip
ment to conform to then rules.
As a result, there is a mutual
feeling of tryst and confidence
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Parts Manager is Charles Eschleman
(right), whose 22 years with Hoober probab
ly makes him “senior” member, with ex
ception of Bud himself. ABOVE: Roy Weav
er is an 8-yr. veteran engine specialist.
Mutual Respect and Confidence
By Larry Herr, Harrisburg
here That is why they buy bal
ers, disks plows and cultivators
all on sceei, none self-power
ed fi om Bud Hoober
The other half ot Hoobei’s
market’ Not greatly unlike the
Amish, except they can farm
with full power and mn on rub
ber-tued wheels
Pennsylvania Dutch, descen
dants of vast colonies of Ger
mans who settled when the
land was known as Penns
Woods.
Scotch-Insh, whose hardy
forebears moved to the area's
western borders before the
French and Indian Wars.
And down through the yeais,
there has not been too much
change. Those who didn’t move
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 9,1969—1
Charlie Hoober adjusts diesel fuel rotor
prior to vo-ag demonstration. Charlie works
closely with such groups, participates in
service training programs at seven area
high schools.
ever-westward, stayed on to
faim, generation after geneia
tion.
Lancaster County Hums aie
small by today’s standaids, with
aci cages fiom 75 on up to some
of 200 or more, heie and theie
The land is pi iceless, almost
100% tillable, producing cigai
tobacco, corn, hay, feed crops
and wheat, but mostly “milk,’’
for dairying is the No 1 souice
of farm income, and the coun
ty’s Holstein herds are famous
thi oughout the dairy woi Id
Bud Hoober took on the IH
dealership at Intercourse in No
vember of ’4l. He’ll tell you, “I
had $620 of parts and a six
nionth note, but we made rt.”
Today, the fum sells in ex
cess of 50 new and used tiactois
annually with the 656 and 544
leading the way Baleis move
well, as do pull-type coin pick
ets Cub Cadet sales will um
as high as 35 a yeai
For years, Bud paiticipaled
stiongly in- Penn Slate's Vo-Ag
education program Chailie has
taken over his fathei’s respon
sibilities here, and conducts
courses regularly.
Hoober attiibutes his film’s
success to the seivice it gives.
And that is tiue Just ask any
one in and aiound Inteicouise,
Pa, whether on rubber or on
steel, or maybe even chasing
the bear out of the buckwheat.
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