She's a Guest of the Brown Family in Quarryville
Visitor Describes Farming in Turkey
By Mrs. Charles McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
As part of an Experiment in
International Living, the beauti
ful 20 - year - old. hazel eyed
Rahime Ozbas of Soke, Turkey,
is presently being entertained by
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar K. Brown of
Quarryville and is being spon
sored by the Quarryville Rotary
Club.
This is the thirteenth year this
club has sponsored a girl from
a foreign country.
Rahime is a real good-will am
bassador for her country and
gives us this story of herself,
her family and their farm and
conditions there.
She is the daughter of a large
cotton farmer and fish merchant,
Cemal Ozbas, They live in a
fertile valley on the west coast
of Turkey near the Aegean Sea,
.which has a climate similar to
southern California.
Mr. Ozbas has a -1,000. acre
farm, on which-he-grows prin
cipality'cotton, as the climate is
particularly suitable. - To ; grow
-cotton it is necessary io have hot
and dry summers, a dry fall sea
son and nighttime dews They
also have irrigation canals
The temperature is around 100
degiees in daytime but the air
is dry and they have cool eve
nings He hires as many as 300
cotton pickers as it is necessaiy
to get it picked in a dry condi
tion
■ - Several years ago a friend gave
him a cow and from this start
his herd has grown to 25 cows
They keep the herd at that size
, The./mil^is,,,used for butter,
Sieese- and yogurt. They also
have donkies, a few horses, a
flock of 50 different kinds of
poultry such as chickens, ducks,
geese and turkeys foi the eggs
and meat
They have winter floods that
Robert H. Good (left) of Airville RDI,
York County, is greeted in Washington,
D. C., by Harry Birdwell, of Fletcher,
Oklahoma, National FFA President Good
Robert Good Attends
National FFA Meeting
Robert Good, Ist Vice Piesi- Leadership and Citizenship Con- FFA Center near the Nation’s
dent of the Pennsylvania FFA in Washington, DC, ie- Capital
Association attended a National cently. The week-long Confer- A highlight of the week’s
Future Farmers of Ameuca ence was held at the National (Continued on Page 18)
Mrs. Edgar K. Brown, Quarryville, shows some of her
decorated eggs. To the right is one of her prized antique
shoes. In backgrounds her oldest anitque table with some
other anitque pieces of china on it.
come down the mountains north salt, then weighted down. After
of them. These deposit rich top a week, the unpleasant juices
soil-in their valley near the sea aie extracted and the olives aie
until a peninsula becomes a lake ready to eat
nn?t? e J a hore lme mOV6S fUrther To set the oil from green
’ olives, they cut four slits in each
Tn their plain the farmers grow olive and put them in salt water
off per cent cotton, some wheat for a month No part of the olives
and are experimenting with rice are wasted. Factories make soap
There are many poultiy farms etc, out of them and even use
They have fig and olive or- the olive stones for fuel to start
char d s. The size of these fires They export more oil than
orchards is not measured by olives
acres but by the number of tiees Rahime says iaoor is much
Olive trees grow to be very large chea per in Tin key than here
and aie siow growing In most and t be level of living here
cases they are planted between hlgher than there They have
fields The tree branches break tm-ee classes of people the
easily so the olives are picked poor nc h a nd extiemely rich
by hand. A laige cloth is stretch- farmers have cooperatives
ed beneath the trees and they from which to purchaS e machm
shake down the o wes carefully and feed and ot her s
with Black olives and th t b them crops Fait of
gieen ones are grown ozbas> cotton lg sold t 0 a co . op
They use a lot of olive oil for ant j par t to merchants Mr
cooking and the acid olive oil is Ozbas was a cotton meichant
used foi soap foimerly The merchants sepa-
To get the oil fiom black rate the cotton from the seeds
olives, they are put in sacks, with a cotton gin.
alternating layers of olives and All kinds of fruit aie grown in
attended a week-long National FFA Lead
ership and Citizenship Conference for
State FFA officers.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 8.1970
Turkey, including citrus fruits
Ip. the southern section bananas
are grown. Also all kinds of
vegetables except asparagus,
lima beans and sweet potatoes
Eggplants, peppers, onions and
tomatoes are very popular
Ozbas’ winter home is m Soke
and their summer home about
14 miles from there There is a
population of around 30,000 in
the farming centers 80 pei cent
ot the people in them aie farm
ers. The employes live on faim.
Mr. Ozbas goes out to his farm,
which is 20 miles away, to over
see it two or three times a week
Ozbases have two to four house
servants who do the cooking and
cleaning in their large home
where they do a lot of enntei
taining. Many times 30 to 40
people come for a meal The
large kitchen is in the basement
Miss Ozbas proves her culinary 7 art by preparing the
meal for her hosts. This is Meat Pilav that she is serving.
Stauffer Cites New State Law,
Cautions Farmers on Pollution
Animat waste disposal is "ex- still me mimoer one pollutant,"
tiemely important” m Lancaster Stauffei said, and the new law
County and faimers “should be “makes the farmei liable for a
extiemely caieful in uiban fine for siltation ”
aieas,” according to Aaion Stauf- The new state law, as Stauffer
fei. chan man of the Lancastei undei stands it at this time,
County Soil and Watei Conseiva- probably will be enfoiced
tion Distnct through the state health office
with piessuie being excited by
Stauffei made the comments citizens gionps
this week aftei the distuct boaid “i> m a uttle concerned on this
had instiucted Oival Bass, dis- rnattei” of stieam pollution,
tuct conseivationist, to check on stauffei said, adding that he
the implications of the new f ee i s many faimeis aien’t put-
Clean Sti earns law which was ting then best foot foiwaid and
adopted lecently m Hauisburg could do a lot moie to stop
“It is evident that siltation is pollution
B.a^caßte.^^yaginmq
SECOND SECTION
and the servants live in the base
ment Their home is about 14
years old but has Just two floors
Food is carried up the stairs and
served on the first floor. Most of
the homes arc older and have
three floors People have lots of
antiques Some homes look like
museums
They have many welfare or
ganizations Mrs Ozbas is presi
dent of one welfaie club. Then
aim is to send five or six poor
students to college. This is very
expensive They get donations
and have cocktails, picnics, teas,
sewing days and the like to raise
funds.
Rahime has a married sister,
Samiye Celem, a graduate of an
American school, who is married
to a lawyer and they live in
Istanbul. She also has a brother.
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