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—Lancaster Farmim
Miles Fry
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Revolution. Fry’s office, for
example, is in a former kitchen
which boasts an enormous walk
in brick fireplace built sometime
before 1760. Like the thousands
of poplars on his farm, Miles Fry
has deep roots in Lancaster
County.
In 1955, Fry started his poplar
nursery with eight cuttings, a
fact which was duly reported at
the time in the pages of LAN
CASTER FARMING.
“When I first started the
trees,” Fry commented, “I took a
lot of kidding from people who
told me I ought to plant corn
instead of sticks. But I knew that
the hybrid poplar was going to be
an important tree, and I stuck
with it.”
In the catalog which they send
to prospective customers, Fry
and his son have this to say about
hybrid poplars;
“When we planted eight Hybrid
Poplar cuttings in the spring of
1955 we hoped that we were
planting a tree that would grow
good timber in our time. That
was our only purpose. Thruout
the intervening years there has
been a steadily increasing public
concern about our deteriorating
environment and the impairment
of ecological balance and the
conservation of our natural
resources
“In our Hybrid Poplar
catalogue for 1972 we have tried
New Holland 4-H Babv
Beef Club Reorganized
The first meeting of the 1973
New Holland Baby Beef 4-H Club
was held recently at the home of
John Groff, 37 Quarry Rd., Leola.
The following officers were
elected for 1973;
Ken Groff, president; Gordon
Hoover, vice-president, Judy
Weaver, secretary, Jeff Martin,
treasurer, Kathy and Mike
Martin, game leaders, Rick
Good, song leader; Bill Hughes,
reporter
Leaders are John Groff,
Harvey High, Bob Martin, Lester
Weaver and Mark Yoder There
are 29 members this year.
The next meeting will be held
February 19 at Bob Martin’s,
New Holland
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to show you the part that Hybrid
Poplars have in helping to find a
solution for some of these
problems. We wish that we could
actually show you growing trees
instead of sending you our
catalogue. We would show you:
“Pleasant shady trees lined
witk 25 to 40 foot trees planted
five and six years ago. In the
back yards of these new homes
there are shade trees and screens
that provide the comfort a family
needs. One home owner told the
story: “Planting the Hybrids has
meant the difference between a
good community to live in or a
sprawl of houses.”
“In our farm community we
would show you good trees
planted in pastures, along the
farm lanes and roads and around
farmsteads.
“On the churned up land of the
mine spoils you would see good
young timber growing. Not many
years ago these black spoils were
regardless as useless.
“Sanitary land *ills are an
increasingly serious problem in
many communities. Generally
they are a blight of the
surrounding area. The growth of
the Hybrid Poplar rooted cuttings
on the Ft. Dix fill is assurance
that within a few years these
acres can be converted into
beautiful forests.
“You would see prime saw and
veneer timber growing on
abandoned farm land, pulpwood
in eight to ten years, saw timber
and veneer in from 20 to 25 years.
To those of us who grew up with
the reality that it took seventy
five years to grow a good wood lot
this seems incredible. The
plantings at Williamstown are
evidence that it can be done.”
From those eight cuttings, the
Frys have now developed both a
commercial and an experimental
tree-growing operation with over
100 different varieties of hybrid
poplar. Every year, some 500,000
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