—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Nov. 2.1974 24 Traveli As intonating, In ito own way, u Halley’s Comet, the Trailside Country School in. Killington, Vermont, is s shining aberration in the “blue sky” region of the world. And, like the famed comet, it keepe coming bade. This year, in fact, marked the sixth consecutive year that Mike and Diana Cohen brought their traveling school to the same Eastern Lancaster County farm. The publicity-shy Mennonite farmer who has hosted the school for the past six years, said be is always eager for their visit. This year, the yellow Trailside School bus - pulled into the lane loaded down with 18 high schoolers, three instructors, a dog named Timber and a ton of camping gear, sweaters, jackets, candy bars, cereal boxes, thumb . pianos, guitars, sleeping bags, tents and cooking utensils. For ten days, the students stayed in Lancaster County, working on the farm during the day, returning at night to a nearby campsite. The youths, mostly urban d wellers, gather eggs from the hen bouse, paint, build and help with other farm chores. Since they’ve been coming to the farm, they have built an addition to the chicken house, put a new roof (Hi a wash bouse, and erected a small barn. In return for their labor, the farmer answers the youths’ questions about his way of life. “What we try to do in our school,” Cohen told Lan caster Fanning, “is to show the kids other ways of life. We get mostly urban kids, and we try to get them dose to the natural history and the people of the regions we visit.” When this writer visited the group on the farm, they were crowded into their bus, listening as their host talked about the history of ice and ice boxes and the role ice used to play before un- Mauw~l(aif FLAMELESS CATALYTIC HEATERS TERRAMYCIN A/D FORTIFIED CRUMBLES (DISCOUNT PRICES) MUON S. GROFF & SON FARM & DAIRY STORE X D. 3, Ephrala, Pa. 17522 (Hinkletown) Phone 354-0744. Store Hours 7 A.M. to 9 P.M. Hosed Tubs. A Sat. Jt £JL ng School Visits Lancaster Co, Fa Gregory Leeds, a resident of New production during his visit to a county York’s Long Island, had a chance to farm with the Trailside School from become familiar with the facts of egg Killington, Vermont ‘Your Pigs Will Love Rctf’ Mike Cohen and his wife, Diana (back to camera) have been riding around the country with a busful of kids for the past six years. "We need a vacation,” Cohen told Lancaster Farming. The Cohen's operate the Trailside Country School out of Killington, Vermont. IMPORTANT NOTICE LET US HANDLE YOUR FEEDER PIGS NEXT FEEDER PIG SALE IDES., NOV. 5 As a result of increased receipts and popular demand on the part of both buyers and seller, Bi-monthly Feeder Pig Sales will be held at the Lancaster Stockyards. Feeder pigs consigned to Walter M. Dunlap and Sons must arrive at the stockyards between 7 A.M. and 11 A.M. the day of the sale. Upon arrival they will be inspected by a veterinarian, tagged, and state graded. The two sales scheduled for November will be held on Tuesday, the sth, and Tuesday, the 19th, starting at 1 P.M, Consignors wishing to tag their pigs on the farm can get the tags at the state office at the stockyards, not later than 4 P.M. any day preceding the sale, thereby saving 25 cents per pig. Consign all your feeder pigs to Walter M. Dunlap & Sons where they will be handled by a capable and experienced staff, and for further information call 717-397-5136. WALTER M. DUNLAP & SONS Capable Service To The Livestock Industry Since 1898 dertakers discovered em balming fluid. After they bad run out of questions, the students piled out. Part of the group went to gather eggs out of the ben house. Another few bopped onto an old, but very well-preserved, wagon to do some more work on the new running gear they were constructing out of old lumber. The county should get more tourists like this. Although one hesitates to call them tourists. From Lancaster County, the group planned to go to Arizona to spend a week or so