The 73 Pennsylvania Farm Show -
On January 8, 1973, the doors
will open on the Pennsylvania
State Farm Show in Harrisburg
for the 57th time and before they
close late Friday afternoon,
upwards of a half-million people
will have passed through them.
The logistics of such an un
dertaking in an outmoded
building served by inadequate
traffic routes are difficult under
the best of circumstances.
The typical visitor to the Farm
Show is intimately aware of the
extreme traffic conditions but the
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balance of the headache mer
cifully escapes him.
It all began on June 21, 1972,
when the morning rainfall was
accompanied by a flash flood
warning. Less than 48 hours
later, hunoreds of thousands of
Pennsylvarians up and down the
Susquehanna watershed were left
homeless by rising waters and
the Farm Show complex, known
around the world as the home of
the largest indoor agricultural
exposition, had become a virtual
indoor lake.
Although 5,000 families were
made homeless and private
business and commerce
devastated in Harrisburg, most
of the buildings that the Com
monwealth owns in the capital
city were left high and dry. The
two most prominent exceptions
were the Governor’s Mansion and
the Farm Show.
The inter-connecting series of
Farm Show buildings and bams
constructed over the last 40 years
and now covering more than 11
acres under one continuous roof
was standing in 80 inches of
muddy water.
Most of the water drained
away, but much had to be
pumped out of below-grade
recesses. Equipment was
drained, dried, repaired or
replaced. Brick and masonry
surfaces and floors were
scrubbed with fire hoses and
brooms. Everything else touched
by the flood waters was repainted
and barely a month had gone by
when the first small scale events
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started going on as usual at the
Farm Show.
The All-American Dairy Show
in September and the Keystone
International Livestock Ex
position in November came off on
schedule and the 57th Annual
Pennsylvania State Farm Show
will be on schedule, too.
Very few concessions had to be
made to the Great Flood of ’72.
To be
During 1973, almost a billion
small trees, or five for every
American, will be planted in the
nation’s forests, according to
American Forest Institute. The
gigantic planting replaces trees
that have been harvested or lost
to fire, insects or disease.
More than 1.3 million acres are
expected to be planted this fall
and next spring, according to AFI
estimates. Over 200,000 ad
ditional acres are expected to be
aerially seeded by helicopter as
well, with applications ranging
from 10,000 to 30,000 seeds per
acre, depending on tree species.
Even this huge reforestation
total is dwarfed by nature’s own
continuous natural replanting via
seedfall scattered on the winds.
AFI said the big planting effort is
carried on mainly because
foresters are too impatient to
wait for nature’s leisurely pace in
getting trees back into the ground
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Planted During ’73
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 30,1972
The most significant of these are
the parking accomodations. A
good portion of the Farm Show
complex’s 60 acres of parking
space was given up to take on
some 225 mobile homes to house
Harrisburg area families made
homeless by the flood. The
arrangement is temporary but
you’ll still be able to see this
“sudden city” when you visit the
again on valuable timber
growing land.
AFI said every man, woman
and child in ihe United States will
have used up a tree by the end of
this year—a fairly big tree, about
100 feet tall and 16 inches in
diameter and yielding about a ton
of wood. That is the current
annual U.S. per capita share of
wood fiber that goes into tissues,
newspapers, school books, fur
niture, houses, food packages and
thousands of other products.
In pulp and paper alone, ac
cording to AFI, each citizen is
currently using 570 pounds a
year, 10 times the amount of
individual wood use in 1900.
The tree-planting effort is
helping maintain the nation’s
forest base of 759 million acres —
a forest area still 75 percent as
great as when Columbus landed.
AFI said the balance between
growth and removal is “in the
black” on these lands, with
growth exceeding harvest and
natural losses combined by a
substantial volume.
The Institute added, however,
that about a third of that forest
land—24B million acres—is set in
parks, wilderness and other
restricted areas or is not suited
for growing commercial timber.
As population grows, intensive
forestry practices such as the
current tree-planting effort will
have to be continued and ex-
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Farm Show.
And you’ll still be able to park.
Additional land had been
acquired from the City of
Harrisburg, and Harrisburg Area
Community College. Free shuttle
buses will run continuously
between the HACC lot and the
entrances to the Farm Show.
panded to assure maintaining the
present one-tree-per-Amencan
annual harvest.
AFI pointed out that govern
ment and industry tree planters
are committed to long term
projections. Trees being put into
the ground will be harvested in
years 2000 to 2037 to provide
Americans with housing and
other requirements.
In the Kitchen
CORNMEAL PUDDING
% cup suga
1 tsp. salt
3 tbsps. bu 1 er
4 cups mill
1 cup emit 3d cornmeal
3 eggs, beal u
Combine sugar, salt, but
ter and 3 cups of the milk.
Heat to scalding. Combine
cornmeal and remaining c up
of milk. Slowly pour into hot
milk mixture, strring con
stantly. Cool until thickened
and then cover and cook at
low heat, stirring 'requently.
Stir small amo nt of hot
cornmeal mix ito beaten
eggs. Quickly adc 'I is to the
cornmeal mixture, stir well
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and top with grated nutmeg.
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