SAMPLE COPIES FREE of LANCASTER FARMING to your fi lends or business associates. Just write their names and addresses below Copies of LANCASTER FARMING ate not always easy to find they are not sold on newsstands and perhaps some of your friends may not be acquainted with our weekly service. We’ll be glad to send, without chaige, several copies (You’ll be doing both them and us a favoi: j Street Address &>R. D, City- c T 6 Street Address & R. D. City/ (You are not limited to two names. Use separate sheet for additional names.) Your Name Address □ Check-here if you prefer to send a Year’s (52 issues) GIFT' subscription for $2 each ($3 each outside of Lan caster County) to your friends listed above. If so $ enclosed, or t Q Bill me later. c Please mail this form to: ! CIRCULATION DEPT. LANCASTER FARMING FLAT BIG DUTCHMAN Diller Avc., New Holland,Pa. State Zip • State Zio Poultry men around the world are fast their poultry houses with” the “high profit return" automated; Big Dutchman FJatDeckCage. Systems and Equipment-as-shown-above. Contact your Big Dutchman. Branch or Representative today . . . about yours. ! A Divlsion oMJ.S. Industries, Inc. He Reaped A Farm Revolution It is harvcslime Worst time of the year for grain farmois in 1831 Cutting giam by hand DECK CAGES Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 13. H)(>9 • 1!) is slow, b.ickbi caking woik And the spcclei of ciopde sliovmg i.un hangs over c\civ aeie of giam unhancstcd bv end of day Then joung imen- Phone 354-5168 lor Cvms Hall McCoimick, 2(5, unveils Jus new hoi setlrawn i caper. In one alernoon lys pew conti tiplion completes the woik of scveial men And the mech anical ievolution in agiiculluic is undeiway Cyms McCormick’s inventive mind was stimulated by his ex penences as a youth growing up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In 1831 he patented a hillside plow. He had a machine cutting gram that same year. But it wasn’t until 1834 that he received a patent on his reaper which was to go 'down in his tory as the most important agri cultural advance of the 19th century. The McCormick reaper en abled farmers to do two to six times more work and add to the acreage they could handle. It facilitated the settlement of new areas of the country, too. And it stimulated the invention of other farm machines. For yeais, inventor-manufac turer McCormick on his reaper, including such new ideas as a giam binder. At the same time, he intro duced mass production in fac tories near the wheat regions. He sold new models of- the reaper at stated prices each Jar, and reduced prices on .the previous year’s models. He- as signed agents to areas and pro vided them with demonstrator models and spare parts to sell. By 1851 his reapers'were so famous they were exhibited at the London World’s Fair. And before McCormick’s death in 1884, he had also received awards from exhibitions in-Par is, London, Hamburg, Lille, Vienna, and Melbourne, Scott To Spea& At State Meeting John W Scott, Washington, master of the National Grange, will personally lepresent that organization and deliver one of the principal addresses the 97th Pennsylvania State Grange convention in Lewistown, Oc tober 27-30, A Wayne Readmger, master of the State Grange, said this week following a meeting of slate and local Giange officials di which final plans were made lor the state session Scott, immediate past Pennsyl vania mastei, will be makmg-his fust retain visit to the state'for a state convention As state mas tei, fiom 1962-1968, he piesided over six diffeieni state meetings piior to his elevation to national office late in 1968 With his Pennsylvania back ground, Scott will speak toithe good of the order in the state and will deal with policies'and activity of the National Gtange in a'3B-state area •whereriti func tions as America’s oldest and largest active farm family fra ternal organization/ A native Pennsylvania, Siott grew up on an Allegheny county farm and for nearly thirty years, until he became engaged full time in Grange work, was asso ciated-with his father in dairy farming in Butler county, where he has been a member of-Uaton ville Grange-since-1935. He was' named. “Man off the Year” in 1960 by Butler Pomona Grange andin 1966-was accorded a similar honor by New*Holland Machine Co. for distinguished service to agriculture, statewide and nationally. Readinger said state and-docal community leaders will share in formal opening ceremonies* the fr-st night of the-convention, the first State Grange session ever to be held in Lewistown Speak ers during the week will include State* Agriculture Secretary Le land H Bull who will report on new developments on the farm front- , „ . . ....
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