Farm Women Group Makes a Cookbook
Herr Family Has Lots of Easter Chicks
By Mrs. Charles G. McSparran Mountain chicns in their two
Farm Feature Writer large broiler houses
“Which came first, the chicken They conti act with Victor
or the eggs’” Weaver of New Holland, in fact,
We often hear people ponder they were the seventh family
this question Next to the cross, to contract with Weavers, and
the egg has become probably have been in the business seven
the most widely used symbol of years These chickens are used
Eastei mainly foi Weaver’s battei dip-
No child’s Easter basket 1= ped chlcken
complete without a few choco- Herrs’ chicks come to them as
late and bughtly colored candy day-old sexed chicks Cockiels
€ gg s are put in one house and pullets
Is there anyone even diet re- m the other By keepmg them
. y , ’,, , separate, they develop faster and
stncted, who doesn’t eat an egg * ’ , „
P . _ “ are more nearly the same size,
T ,, V , . . , 3Vz pounds, when they sell
“>«” C “ kKIS 315 ke[,t S “
Easter y weeks and four lays and pullets
"ta* i. , , seven weeks and four days
Eggs bring a nutritious, color
ful, spring approach to Easter Herrs use gas brooders and
menus too. have all automatic feeding and
Baby chicks are another sym- watering They have a diesel
bol used for Easter The color- to make electricity in case
ful little marshmallow ones P° wer failure
brighten the child’s Easter Herrs’ 110 acre farm has been
basket Many children, too, are reduced to 55 acres by selling
delighted with the colored hve some ground for housing de
chicks velopments, for individual home
A family which starts 390,000 plots and to neighboring farm
chicks a year is the Lloyd H. ers They grow mostly corn and
Herrs of Marticville Road in some hay.
Pequea Township. Six times a They have 25 Angus steers
year they put 65,000 White Also, 38 Comedale-Hampshire
.SECOND section, _
Firemen finish bringing fire near Manheim under
control Monday.
An estimated $45,000 to $50,000 damage occurred in
this barn fire on the farm tenanted by Harlan Groff,
Holly Tree Road, Manheim RDI, and owned by Grant
G. Simmons, 216 Landis Valley Road,i Lancaster.
Some early reports had indicated arson, but the fire ,
started from “some bad wires” and the possibility of
arson is “definitely out,” Paul Z. Knier, Lancaster
County fire marshall, said Wednesday afternoon.
The fire early Monday afternoon, completely des-
Mrs. Lloyd H. Herr, Lancaster RD6, string is starched. A hole cut in front after
with some of the Easter decorations she the egg is dried is trimmed with white
made. The large egg, with Easter nest in- lace She also decorated the chicken and
side, is made from light green string goose eggs,
wound about an inflated balloon. The
Ci oss ewes and 50 spring lambs a vivid description of all the bought the farm in 1807 and
which are being sold mostly for buildings and changes made in built the present house. At the
the Easter market. This is a them from time to time. At that time of his death he owned 847
large white breed of sheep that time the farm stretched from acres, valued at $62,600, quite a
comes from out west and the New Danville Pike to Millwood contrast to value of land today,
lambs are larger than other Road and from Sprecker Road This farm was divided among
breeds. to Penn Grant Road. heirs and passed down through
Hens are the third generation Philip Baker was the first about six generations of the
to own this .farm. They have owner and built a log house and Harnish family,
the history of the farm which a double decker bam which j n jgDl Noah Z Hess, Lloyd’s
goes'back beyond 1800 and gives stood until 1970. - DavicHHarmsh grandfather, bought the farm.
In 1909 Ira Herr, one of the
Harnish family, married Mamie
Hess, one of Noah’s daughters.
president and is serving the sec
troyed the barn and its contents, including many valu- end year as president. She is
able pieces of farm equipment including a tractor, the on the Farm Women Society
charred remains of which are shown in the foreground, county board and is chairman of
farm wagons and cultivators. their scrapbook committee. She
The house, shown, in the photo, was only about 20 also s f t rved c on their Program
feet from the barn and received extensive damage from comrm ® a^ nua
r vention last November,
both flames and water used to bring the fire under con- p arm women Society 22,
trol. centered in the Willow Street
Five puppies were killed and several pieces of fur- avea , has many charitable
niture were removed from the house at one point be- projects They contribute to the
cause of concern that the house might also be lost. (Continued on Page 15)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 3,1971
They bought the farm in 1916.
Three years latei a quarry was
opened on the farm
In 1922 Ira Heir bought a re
tail milk route and was the first
rmlkman in that area to sell
milk in bottles This milk route
was discontinued in 1954.
Mr and Mrs Herr still live in
part of the stone farmhouse.
Lloyd H Heir, Ira’s so*,
bought the farm in 1960 and
changed from Ayrshire cows to
Holsteins He built the two
large chicken houses in 1964
and the dany held was sold in
1963 The old barn was tom
down in 1970 and another one
built to meet the need of their
present enterpuses
Lloyd has been a farmer all
his life, having woiked for his
father befoie he bought the
faim
Mis Herr, the former Darlene
Miller, is the daughter of Mr.
end Mrs Claude Miller who now
live at Lampeter As a girl, she
giew up on her paients’ 90 acre
farm at Refton and attended
Lampeter High School. Before
mainage she woiked at Tidy
Products Companj and at Hamil
ton Watch Company
Darlene is a charter member
of Faim Women Society 22
which was organized 20 years
ago She has served on many
committees of the Society and
as secretary, treasurer, vie©
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