Vol. 19 No. 51
Over 100 Ephrata area Young
Farmersgathered at the Clyde Eby
Farm in Ephrata to harvest 80 acres
of corn on Monday morning.
Eby, who died of injuries received
man automobile accident on October
Farm Leaders Queried
On Co. Fair Feelings
Farm leaders in Lancaster
County are being queried by
County Agricultural Agent
Max Smith, who wants to
know their feelings about the
idea of a Lancaster County
Fair.
About a year ago, some
segments of the county’s
farm community began
seriously discussing the
possibility of a county fair.
Smith called a meeting in
Rick Krali, RDI, Lebanon, displays one of the many
FFA awards he has won over the past few years as a
member of the Cedar Crest Chapter.
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Bth, was a member and past
secretary of the organization. Ap
proximately 120 men helped with the
corn harvesting with 22 pickers
working in 80 acres.
June to air the views of those
who were in favor of a fair
and those who were opposed
tothe idea. At the close of the
meeting, Smith urged those
present to think about a fair
over the summer, and he
invited them to meet again in
the fall to make a final
decision on whether or not to
pursue the idea. Smith
himself is maintaining a
position of neutrality on the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 2, 1974
subject.
This month, a question
naire prepared by Smith was
sent to leaders in some 40
local farm groups. The 14-
question survey is to be
completed and returned to
Smith by November 20. On
Nov. 25, a meeting will again
be held at the Farm and
Home Center to discuss the
results of the survey. If the
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Rick Krall
Dairy Farming
Is His Interest
by: Melissa Piper
Although Rick Krall won
several awards both in FFA
and 4-H activities this past
summer, perhaps the most
special was receiving the
Keystone Awards for out
standing 4-H work m
petroleum power and dairy.
Rick is the 17 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Krall, RDI, Lebanon and has
been a member in both the
Cedar Crest Dairy 4-H club
and the Cedar Crest FFA
Chapter.
Rick was chosen to receive
the Keystone awards
following a review of his 4-H
activities over the past years
and extensive interviews
with state 4-H officials. The
Keystone awards represent
New Berks Co.
Ag Center Opens
by Dick Wanner
A gala open house
reception was held Wed
nesday evening for the new
$1.5 million Berks County
Agricultural Center in Bern
Township. On Tuesday af
ternoon, this writer was
given a preview tour of the
facility by Vemon Shaffer,
the Berks County com
missioner who was the prime
mover behind the center’s
construction, and James
Haldeman, Berks County
Agent.
The building’s gleaming
white facade looks out on a
sprawling expanse of
beautifully landscaped lawn.
A two-story foyer - equally as
white and equally as
gleaming as the exterior -
greets visitors as they enter
the mam door. Skylights spill
a soft white glow on two
indoor planters in the foyer.
“We’d probably get
enough light in here to grow
corn in our planters,”
Haldeman said. “But we’ve
been too busy moving in to
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 52
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 28
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 41
Organic Living 44
Farm Women Calendar 39
Junior Cooking Edition 42
PAFC Meeting 52
Trail Side School 24
an outstanding ability and
work in chosen 4-H fields and
are given to only the most
worthy 4-Hers in the state.
This summer Rick had
several 4-H projects that
included tractor and
automotive skills, dairy and
teen leadership.
Showing his dairy animals
at several shows kept Rick
busy this summer. His
Holstein placed first in the
FFA two-year old class and
received grand champion
honors at the Lebanon fair.
At the South Central District
Show his cow placed first in
the two year old class and
placed second in the same
class at the Pa. Junior Dairy
Show.
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think about things like that.”
As we walked through the
building on Tuesday, work
men were frantically getting
last-minute chores done for
Wednesday’s open house.
“We’re going to have one
of the few centers in the
country where farmers can
come to transact their
business with all federal
farm agencies under one
roof,” Shaffer said. In ad
dition to the cooperative
extension service, the new
center will house the Far-
Look! Up In
The Sky! It s
A (splatt) . . .
by Dick Wanner
If you happened to be
driving near the Marticville
Middle School in Southern
Lancaster County on Friday
afternoon, you’d have seen a
light plane flying fairly low
over a playing field outside
the school. And if you looked
closely at the plane you’d
If you were an egg, how would you like to be
dropped from a thousand feet in a contraption like
this? It's one of, the more whimsical designs sub
mitted for the Marticville Middle School's Operation
Egg Drop.
$2.00 Per Year
mere Home Administration,
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service,
Soil Conservation Service
and the County Conservation
District office.
Other county groups
headquartered there will
include the department of
weights and measures, Civil
Defense, and a county-wide
police radio network.
Shaffer, a former Air
Force officer, is particularly
proud of the Ag Center’s
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have seen that it was
dropping 164 oddly shaped
objects from its door.
And, if you r d have looked
even closer, you’d have seen
that inside the plane,
William Regester, the
school’s principal presently
on sabbatical leave,
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