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fulton Grange Selects Sewing Winners
z "Winners of the Fulton Grange
sewing contest were selected
Monday night and will compete
jon the state level in June.
| Miss Donna Welk placed first
in the under 18 years class and
Mrs. James Huber first in the
adult class. Miss Welk’s entry
■was a flowered dress and Mrs.
Huber’s a dark blue pant suit
Others modelling their out
fits were Miss Judy Longeneck
er who made a print dress and
Mrs. Charles Heath, a lavender
dress made by Mrs Clayton
Wiley
Judges were Miss Joan Lucas,
assistant Lancaster County Ex
tension home economist, and
Mrs. Curtis Akeis and Mrs
Clarence Wenger of Quarryville
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The Junior American Citizens
Club of the fifth grade, of Quar
ry ville Elementary Schoool and
directed by their teacher Mrs.
Margaret S. Stoner, represented
;their talent show which is spon-
by the D.A R The theme
of their program this year is “The
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Second Section
Looses Run a Friendly Animal Farm
By Mrs. Charles G. McSparran
" Farm Feature Writer •
“Olid Mac Donald, had a farm
ee-i-o.”
Well, the words to this song
don’t quite fit,-neither do the
words tic -the nursery rhyme
“Mary IfadA Little Lamb ” The
variety of animals are a bit un
rusuak on the farm of Mr. and
Mrs. Lester G. Loose of Man
Ihejro RD3 and add up to a noisy
*but interesting lot
1 Lester and Edna live on a 32
acre lam they named “Looses’
Pony Haven” It is located on
Picnic Grove Road on the edge
of Penryn, and it overlooks the
beautiful Furnace Hills with the
Pennsylvania Turnpike in the
distance.
This little farm, which was in
the Soil Bank prior to nine
years ago when the Looses
bought it, is the result of a
childhood dream Lester had
when he wanted ponies He was
raised on a 70 acre farm near
Rotbsvffie where his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. William' W. Loose,
practiced general farming. He
is gradually getting his farm
back into cultivation. He" raises
Pennfieid Buys
Two Local Mills
Eby’s Mill, Inc, Lititz, and
.Hempfielci Mills, Inc, East
Petersburg, have been acquired
by Pennfield Corporation. Rohr
'erstown.
; Both, the Lititz and East
Petersburg nulls will continue to
'operate and serve their custom
ers in Lancaster -and Lebanon
Counties All present employes
;wili ‘fee retained, accoiding to
Robert Graybill, Pennfield presi
dent.
] Joel C Habegger, preisdent and
owner -qf the newly acquired
will ' beeome,;-a: i pjember
lot - Pehnfield’s sales management
''organization.
American Flag and What It
Means to Me ”
Miss Nancy Esbenshade of the
music depaitment of Solanco
Schools was pianist for the group
Program Brass quartette
“Spacious Firmament” and “Eze
kiel Saw The Wheel”, essay “The
American Flag And What It
Means To Me” by Phyllis Wit
mer who won the Thatcher
award Recitation “It Couldn’t
Be Done” by Carla Horn, play
let “Wheels Within Wheels”—
leading parts taken by Kellv
Book and .Scott Tanguy, vocal
quartette -“Am I a Good Ameri
can”, recitation “Fellowship” by
Tammy Glacklm, clarinet ensem
ble “Prelude”, essay “The
American Flag And What It
Means To Me” by Daniel Hersh
berger, vocal solo “This Could
Be A Wonderful World” by Phyl-
Ls Witmer, Alma Mater “A Song
To This Fair School ”
During the business session of
the Grange which was conducted
by the Master, Richard Hollo
way, the Grange entered the
“Pride in Pennsylvania” contest
four acres of corn, five acres of
mixed hay and the rest in pas
ture land. ,
AND ON THIS FARM tliev
have eight Shetland ponies at
the present time, some of which
came from Dr, Perfect’s staple
at Reading He raises horses
and ponies. They have four
mules which are s a cross be
tween pony mares and a jack
ass which they formerly own
ed. This donkey’s name was
Dynamite. They have been
breeding ponies, but the pony
market is very poor now and
they have to practically give
them away So they quit bleed
ing, at least for awhile
If you attend Ephrata s Side
walk Sale today, you will pro
bably see their pome? there
Mr. Loose has a sideboard wa
gon and an open-top fom-seat
er carriage to which he hitches
his pomesio take children for
rides. 7*if'
Mr. Lapse also has a two-
chariot which he
rides behind his thoroughbied
Walking horse, “To-
Jo” wlfcll was given to them
six They matte little
use ofSlim’ as they are half
afraid to ride him, but Mrs
Loose says, “He adds prestige to
the pony farm ” Mr I Loose has
a quarter of a mile race track
near his stable to use for his
horse and ponies
Mrs Loose had Glenn Eshle
man of Penryn do an oil paint
ing of ToJo for her husband’s
Christmas gift Mr. Eshleman
does studio and art woik and
does a God and Nature show
with music and colored slides
for church and civic groups
AND ON THIS,FARM they
have some sheep. One of the
ewes had twins recently and
would only take care of one of
them Kind-hearted Edna stint
ed to feed the other lamb,
“Sambee”, and it has become
such a pet it follows -her all
around, even in the house if it
gets a chance.
Now it is out in ‘the pastime
with the other sheep, but all
The committee to head this con
test is David Wissler, Jesse
Wood, Chailes McSparran and
Clifford Holloway Jr
Fulton Grange took a State
Grange traveling gavel to Fre
mont Grange 1906, Chester Coun
ty, Tuesday night and presented
a program on utualism
Clifford Holloway Jr gave a
report of the Solanco Medical
Committee
Women of the Grange are ask
ed to bring handiwork for dis
play to the next meeting May 24,
and the men are o bung things
they have made The annual
memorial service will also be
held
The Junior Grange made
Mother’s Da\ flower arrange
ment gifts at their meeting They
will conduct a paper drive at
their next meeting June 14
The Lancaster County Pomona
chorus will hold reheaisal May
16 at 8 p m at the Grange Hall
Go-To-Church Night
The Fultorr Gran?e annual Go
lo-Church night will be observed
May 23 at 8 p m at the Grange
Hall with Rev Hiram Overly,
New Holland, preaching The
Pomona chorus will provide spe
cal music for the service
A covered dish supper will
precede the service at 7 pm.
Rolls, butter and drink will be
provided Bring a meat dish, an
other dish, and your own place
settings
Everyone is welcome to attend
both the supper and the serv
ice
she has to do is call ‘baa’ and it
Gomes' a-runnmg to take its
bottle.
AND ON THIS FARM they
have some guinea pigs 600 to
700, all the time They have 3C
pens of breeding stock in which
they keep eight females and
one male in each pen They
also have 15 pens with many
guinea pigs m each one They
are white with pink eyes and
are sold to a man at Schoeneck
for laboratory use Only the
white ones will do for lab use
and they cannot have daik veins
in their legs
They have a few colored ones
which are sold strictly as pets
There is a lot of know-how in
raising these animals but
Looses have very good luck
with them They must have con
trolled heat, ventilation and
humidity for them They feed
them pellets and greens winch
they haul theie in great quan
tities.
AND ON THIS FARM they
have a goat named Liz Taylor.
They got it one and a half years
ago from a sister-in-law It’s
hard on flowers and shrubbery
when it gets loose.
AND ON THIS FARM they
have six steers, five of them
Angus and one Jersey They get
them at three days of age and
feed them from calf nursers un
til they can eat alone When
the animals are ready to mar
ket, they have them butchered
and sell the meat by the quar
ter, cut up and wrapped for the
freezer
, AND ON THIS FARM they
have 100 goslings which were
hatched in April and will be
sold for Thanksgiving and
Christmas market People come
there to buy them and they take
some to Root’s Auction
AND ON THIS FARM they
have 26 guineas, some with
dark f eathei s spotted with
white and some all white ones
They send the eggs to a hatch
ery and start their own birds
.They’ve found that they must
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15,1971 —
Construction to Begin
On New Agway Unit
Construction is slated to be
gin this month on a modern
multi-million dollar Agway, Inc
warehouse at Elizabethtown
Expected to be in operation by
mid-1972, the center will supply
200 Agway retail stoi es in Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Maiyland
and Delaware
The 130,000 square foot, steel
insulated facility will be built
by Cumbeiland Builders Cor
poration of Carlisle Preli
minary work is being done by
Hemp Biotheis of Harrisburg
The 34-acre site on the Cone
wago Industrial Park near
Route 230 is accessible to both
highway and rail transportation
The $2 2 million wholesale
distribution center will replace
nine smaller warehouses includ
ing the one at Spring Garden in
York County. Local Agway re
tail outlets, however, will re
main
The Elizabethtown ware
house, which will include about
nine acres under roof, is one of
thiee being built by Agway to
modernize its distribution sys
tem One is already in opera
tion at Geneva, New York, and
the third will be built at West
field, Mass.
The highly automated Eliza
bethtown center will stock 9,000
have one male for each hen shaped design of dark fur OR
bird for hatching purposes each side of his body
These birds make the best They there’s several families
watch dogs because whenever of kittens around there this
someone comes around thej time of year.
really make a racket AND ON THIS FARM they
AND ON THIS FARM they have four dogs The tiniest is a
have about 12 black Minorca Chihuahua named Penny It’s
banty -chickens in the same a fnendly little, nervous crea
house a the guineas They also hire that is a real house pet.
have a few other chickens in Then there’s Queenie, another
there. The Minorcas are so very house dog which is part Eskimo
tame, they come right up to you and part French Poodle,
and you can hardly walk inr The next is a Collie named
them. Edna uses the chicken Rover who guards the barnyard
eggs for table use They are animals
smallei than eggs from a largei Out in the back yard is
breed, but are nice for red beet Smoky, a huge Newfoundland
eggs dog which resembles Smoky the
AND ON THIS FARM they Bear in size and color He has
have some cats and kittens One outgrown one doghouse and had
cat called Mittens has double to have a larger one built. Big
front paws and another one as he Is, he only eats a quart of
named Mr Peepers has heart- (Continued on Page 18)
Mrs. Edna Loose bottle feeds her twin lamb Sambee.
products, including farm me
chanical and electrical equip
ment; paint, tools and hardware
items, tires and automotive ac
cessories, building supplies, and
home, lawn and gaiden commo
dities
The latest in electronic and
mechanical equipment will
make both filling orders and
maintaining inventory fast and
accurate A computer at Agway
headquarters at Syracuse will
keep records on all items m
stock.
When filling orders, em
ployees will guide automated
equipment which has been pro
grammed to follow the most ef
ficient route in gathering items.
A continual chain will move
tow carts through the building,
picking items for oiders and re
plenishing stock.
A giant “stacker crane” sys
tem will retrieve large and bul
ky items from a 50-foot storage
area of the building. A system
of punch cards directs the stack
er crane to raise, lower and
stack palletized supplies
Loading facilities include a
dock that can accomodate 10
tractor-trailers and three re
ceiving doors for supplies ship
ped in by rail
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