"Open Farms'' During
Farm-City Week
The Lancaster County Far
mers’ Association is extending an
invitation to visit with farm
families in the county who are
holding open house during Farm-
City Week. The farms will be
available for viewing on Satur
dya, November 18 and Sunday,
November 19 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Places of interest available
during the tour will be:
J. R. Wood and Son dairy farm.
The farm consists of 250 acres, 50
registered Guernsey cows,
loafing barn and silo with
automatic feeder recently con
structed. From Lancaster, Route
272 south to Little Britain
Elementary School, turn right,
turn left at first road, first farm
on right. Visitors are welcome to
watch milking.
Wengdale Farm, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Wenger’s dairy farm
consisting of 420 acres with 80
Holstein cows, 45 heifers. Route
272 south from “The Buck”, turn
left at third road, Cardinal Drive,
second farm on left. Visitors are
welcome to watch milking
beginning at 4:30.
James G. Kreider dairy and
beef farm; 350 acres, 175 Holstein
cows and heifers, 150 beef cattle.
Located on Center Road midway
between Route 272 and 222 near
Tanglewood Golf Course ; visitors
invited to watch milking.
Aaron Giick’s Maplehofe Dairy
Farm; 160 acres, 100 head of
Holstein cows, 40,000 caged
layers. Route 222, one-and-one
half miles south of Quarryville.
Groff Brothers farm operation
consisting of 224 acres, with
mixed orchard and modern steer
feeding facilities for 200 head of
beef cattle. Located two miles
west of Kirkwood on Street Road.
Groff dale Farm, operated by
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Groff,
with new cow barn for 60
registered Holsteins, pipeline
milker and liquid manure
system. Route 222 south from
New Providence one-half mile,
left on Camargo Road, Visitors
are welcome to watch milking.
Vernon Umble and family,
The South East Pennsylvania Extension
area, represented by Donald A. Harter
(left) of Lebanon, was honored at the 57th
annual meeting of the National Association
of County Agricultural Agents Monday in
Atlanta, Ga. for its outstanding work in
Environmental Quality. Harter and his co
workers were named first place national
winners, North East regional winners and
Pennsylvania state winners in Class V
(community leadership-county staff) in the
NACAA Environmental Quality Recognition
Christiana, 170 acre dairy,
consisting of 47 Holstein cows, 35
replacement heifers. Located 10
miles south of Strasburg on 896,
turn left at first crossroad south
of Nine Points. Guests invited to
watch milking.
Ernest Lefever Pig Farm,
Millersville; farrow sows twice a
year, approximately 300 small
pigs in modern pig house.
Located on Route 999 one and
one-half miles west of Miller
sville.
Charles Habecker’s Charnelle
Manor dairy farm consisting of 63
Holstein cows and 20
replacement heifers, stanchion
barn with pipeline milker.
Located on Habecker Church
Road one and one-half miles
south of Mountville.
Felway Farms, operated by J.
Arthur Rohrer and Sons,
Paradise, has 100-head of
Holstein cattle with stanchion
milking, 15,000 caged layers,
approximately 100 feeder pigs.
Turn off Route 30 at Rapp’s Esso
Station onto Route 741, farm is
three miles south.
Mentzer Homestead dairy and
beef farm, 80 Ayrshire cows and
heifers and 125 steers. Located
three and one-half miles south of
New Holland on New Holland
Road.
Dairy farm of John B. Ranck,
milking 65 Ayrshire cows. Go
south from New Holland on South
Kinzer Ave., first farm on right.
Rocoma Farms, dairy farm
operated by Robert F. Book, 11
South Hershey Avenue, Leola,
with 100 head of Holstein cattle
and milking parlor, homogenized
and pasteurized milk fresh from
the farm sold on the premises.
Visitors are invited to watch
milking between 5 and 6 p.m.
Clarence Stauffer and Son,
Sunny Craft Farm, family
operation with 65 registered
Holstein cattle of which 35 are
milking, 140,000 birds handled
annually in broiler operation.
One mile west of Ephrata on
Route 322, turn right on Weid
mansville Road.
Every year, the Keystone Livestock
Exposition donates the show's grand
champion hog carcass to a charity. This
year's carcass came to the Lancaster Boys
Club. The carcass was auctioned to local
meat dealers, and high bidder was Kunzler
& Co., Inc. Kunzler paid $220 for the 186-
Henry E. Kettering dairy farm,
consisting of 50 registered
Holstein cows. From Lancaster,
north on Route 501, turn right
onto Airport Road, first lane on
right. Visitors welcome to watch
milking.
James Kettering Pig Farm,
consisting of 65 sows farrowing
twice a year. Dry cows and
hiefers for dairy are kept on
property. From Route 230, East
Petersburg exit, turn left on
Colebrook Road, go two and one
half miles to lane on left with
“Sweigert Barber” sign.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Her
shey’s Hershvale Farm, an
operation consisting of 50
registered Holsteins, 14,000
Program sponsored by Celanese Cor
poration. They received $2OO in awards,
and congratulations from Chester N.
McGrew, (right) Mansfield, Ohio, NACAA
Professional Training Chairman, and Tom
Addison (center) director of Agricultural
Production, Celanese Chemical Division.
Some 100 state, regional and national
winners in the program, in operation *his
year for the first time, were honored at a
banquet.
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laying hens and 100 hogs.
Children active in 4-H with dairy
animals and steers. Located one
mile north of Manheim; going
west on Hosier road, fifst farm on
right
Steer farm of James and
Martha Garber, Route 283 west of
Lancaster to Manheim-Mount
Joy exit. Turn west on Manheim-
Mount Joy Road, go one mile to
Milton Grove, turn right, second
farm on left.
Thome Farms Inc., family
operation consisting of 500 to 600
beef cattle, 33,000 caged laying
hens and 800 to 1,000 hogs. Eggs,
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per meal He said consumers in
the U S pay only about 16 percent
of their disposable income for
food, a percentage much lower
than in many other countries.
“There’s a communications
gap,” Pope said, “between the
producer and the consumer.
Consumers don’t know that there
are a lot of people in the meat
production and marketing chain.
They aren’t aware of the
tremendous investment of time
and money that it takes to
produce meat. And if we tell them
that a beef animal may change
hands six times before it winds up
on the grocer’s shelves, con
sumers are going to wonder
why.”
Middlemen have been the
target of meat price complaints,
Pope pointed out, but he said a lot
of these middlemen are
necessary for the maintainence
of a consistently high-quality
product throughout the country
One bright spot quoted by Pope
was a survey conducted by
the University of Illinois The
survey showed that housewives
were acutely aware of food price
changes because they shopped so
often “A nickel increase in the
price of a pound of hamburger
will make a housewife mad
because she remembers what she
paid last week. TV sets might go
up hundreds of dollars, though,
and she won’t say anything
because she only gets one every
five or six years.”
The survey did show, however,
that consumers don’t blame
farmers for high food prices.
They blame middlemen.
pound porker, or about $1.19 a pound.
Chris Kunzler, left, president of the meat
company, presented the check to Walter M.
Dunlap, chairman of the Boys Club building
committee, while Bob Kiernan, Boys Club
director looked on.
butter and cheese are sold in a
self-service store on property
Route 283 west of Lancaster to
Rheems-Milton Grove exit Turn
right, pass Green Tree Church,
turn right onto Herfort Road,
second farm on right
Lester and Hazel Hawthorne
and Son dairy farm consisting of
140 Holstein cows milked in
double-three milking parlora_adJ&_~*
automatic take-off milkers.
From Lancaster turn at first light
in Elizabethtown, turn left onto
Route 241, go four miles to
Bossier Road, turn left, first farm
on the right.
The communications gap isn’t
all one-sided, according to Pope
He said producers don’t realize
that consumers 'are changing
Housewives want more con
venience, and they want what
they want the year ‘round
They’re going to be eating 35
percent of their meals away from
home m the years to come,
they’re going to be watching their
calories, and they’re going to be
concerned about chemicals in
their food and chemicals in the
feed of livestock animals
Different patterns of con
sumption will inevitably be felt m
the nation’s feedlots, Pope said
Farmers will be producing more
products to specification, rather
than growing an animal or a crop
and trying to find a market for it
Agriculture will become more
concentrated, and food will be
grown by fewer persons
Agricultural operations will
come in for closer public
scrutiny, and will be more sub
ject to government controls.
Pope told the group that he
thinks the cowman of 1980 will
have a 100 percent cow-calf crop,
with 300 to 500 cows His
operation will be geared to
getting animals efficiently to a
turn-off point where they’ll be
sold regardless of age
“Summing up,” he said,
“we’ve got to remember that
marketing is a very complex
operation, with a lot of variables
We can lick it by producing the
right product, in the right
quantity and quality, in the right
form, at the right time, in the
right place and at the right
price.”
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