—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13, 1973
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The article this week was
prepared by Gerald Phillips,
teacher of agriculture at Pequea
Valley High School.
Its Up to Us!!
In the not too distant past,
Lancaster County was known
throughout the state, if not the
entire Eastern United States, as
the Garden Spot of Pennsylvania.
Farm land stretched out in front
of ones eyes in all directions for
untold thousands of acres. The
farmer in Lancaster County was
looked upon with esteem and
respect as a sound businessman
and good citizen. He was an asset
to the community. It probably
wasn’t too long ago that
agriculturally-related businesses
were the community and in
dustry. How quickly times
change.
Practically each week in any of
our local newspapers we read of
farms that are bought by
business firms, private industries
and even wealthy individuals,
and are then redeveloped into
community living centers,
supermarkets, and the most
wasteful of all parking lots.
Residents in these modern
villages then go about their
business by raising a big stink
about farm odors (no pun in
tended).
In one recent article a
developer refered to chicken
coops and pig stys. Now when
was the last time any of you saw a
“pig sty” 9 Todays modern
agriculture is enabling the ef
ficient farmer to produce and
process more meat, milk,
vegetables and eggs of higher
quality, in less time and in less
space And the odor levels are
scarcely higher than before.
Perhaps some of these
pollution minded urban dwellers
should take a guided tour through
some of our industrial plants and
take notice of the smell, noise
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CEHMAN
BROS.
SALES & SERVICE
1 Mile North of Terre Hill
on Route 897
East Earl, R. D. 1, Penna
Phone 215-445-6272
Teachers:
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level, grease and grime and the
accident levels and then decide
which is a better place to be. If
they’re so anxious to become
country dwellers then they should
be capable of putting up with
country life. Snowed in roads in
the winter, no swimming pools
for noisy kids in the summer and
“seasonal odors ”
Don’t misunderstand the
content of this article.
Agriculture needs industry and
vice versa. My point is: why
locate industry and model
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anyone
Gerald Phillips
EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, AND PARTS
3\a Putchman.
EASTERN BRANCH
215 Diller Ave., New Holland, Pa. 17557
communities on tracts of land
which are best suited and most
productively utilized by farming
communities? Why build out
ward instead of upward? Why
squander tillable soil when un
tillable land lies near by with no
real productive purpose?
With improved zoning
regulations, land prices might
not escalate to the point where it
becomes impossible to continue
to farm and realize a profit. Our
land tax structure is now so high
that the profits barely outweigh
the expenses
If you re' Jifford Grube’s
article a shore while back, read it
again. He spoke of the farming
situation in Bucks county whose
agricultural tradition is as our
own. Now its merely develop
ment after development to ac
comodate communities to
Philadelphia. Who’s to say that
one day Lancaster County will
not be development after
development to accommodate
communters to Harrisburg?
I spent four years in Bucks
county at Delaware Valley
College and I can wholeheartedly
agree with Cliff. Farm land
prices have skyrocketed to over
$2,000 an acre and most of it is
being bought by private firms
and individuals to be left un
worked till greater prices are
reached and a profit is attained
HANDLES THE FOLLOWING
• HART CUPS
• PLASTIC CHICK FOUNTS
• FOX VALVES
• SOLENOID VALVES
• TIME CLOCKS
• THERMOSTATS
• TIMERS
• PRESSURE REGULATORS
• WATER FILTERS
• EGG ROOM COOLERS
• EGG ROOM DOORS
• AUGER PAN FEEDERS
• 8' HANGING WATERERS
• SUSPENSION ACCESSORIES
• WINCHES & PULLEYS
• FOX—O—LENE TUBING
• FANS
• MANURE DRYERS
• TURKEY RANGE FEEDERS
• LAYER & CHICK CAGES
• ROUND HANGING WATERERS
• MOTORS
• SCREW HOOKS & CHAIN
• NESTS
• HOG HOUSE VENTILATION
• HOG WATER BOWLS
A Division of U.S. Industries, Inc.
with no real work being done.
Our FFA Chapters are proud to
be from Lancaster County. We
have always represented this
area very admirably at our State
functions. With more and more
farms dropping out of the county
scene, this will undoubtedly
lower the enrollment in our
vocational agricultural
programs. If we can’t offer a
stable present in agriculture to
our farm youth, how are we to
convince them of a promising
future?
Let’s keep our farmland far
ming and not supporting parking
lot! Its up to us and only us!!!
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• BROODERS
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• CURTAIN AAATERIAL
• GAS & WATER HOSE
• STAINLESS & GALV. CABLE
• INCINERATORS
• CABLE PIT CLEANERS
• BULK FEED BINS
• FLEX AUGER FILL SYSTEMS
• EGG COLLECTORS
• CAGE NIPPLE DRINKERS
• MANURE AUGERS
• HANGING FEEDERS
• SWISH WATERERS
• VIBRATORS
• LIGHT DIMMER
• FEED METER SCALE
• EGG GRADERS 20-70 Cases
Entomology Winners
Only three area 4rH’ers entered
the 4-H entomology competition
at the Pennsylvania Farm Show
this week, and they won two firsts
and a second in four classes.
Nancy Mays, 1212 Nissley
Road, Lancaster took first prize
in the first year 4-H club member
catergory. Her brother, Alan,
took second place in the second
year category.
First prize in the third year
category went to Janet Hut
chison, West Grove, RD2,
Chester County.
Phone 717-354-5168