-Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Jan. 4, 1975
Eleanor Kreider
Many people are involved in numerous ways with the
mual Pa. Farm Show which will be held next week in
irrisburg. Did you ever stop to think how the Farm
iow Commission, with the help of the Farm Show
unmittee - representative of all the facets of
jriculture, plans all year for the big event. Think how the
stension personnel all across the state promote it, see
at many exhibits are taken to Harrisburg and judge the
itries. Think how the farmers, housewives, 4-H mem
rs and students prepare their wonderful exhibits which
some cases have been worked on all year. Also how Ag
achers and Home Economic teachers cooperate and
jrk with students to produce very fme entries,
emember the very fine entertainment that is scheduled,
ist, but not least, don’t forget the people who feed all the
hibitors and show attenders.
One who gets involved in more than one way is Mrs.
unes Kreider, Quarryville RDI, Lancaster County. She
JI be attending the Master Farmers’ banquet and
ogram January 7 and expects to be helping her church
ith their food stand. Because of these two things she
obably will be unable to attend the State Farm Women
nvention being held January 6 and 7. Their meeting is
jing held at 10 A.M. Monday in The Forum of the State
education Building with the banquet at 6 P.M. at the
‘nn-Harris Motor Inn, Camp Hill. Their meeting
convenes Tuesday at 9 A.M. in Room F of the Farm
tow Building.
There are many state-wide farm-connected annual
eetings and banquets held during the Farm Show, either
the Farm Show Building or at other places near-by. One
iich receives much publicity each year is the Master
inner program sponsored by the Pennsylvania Farmer
id the Penn State Cooperative Extension Service. New
aster Farmers will be honored Tuesday at a luncheon at
e Penn Harris Motor Inn, Camp Hill. All past honored
aster Farmers are invited to attend it. James Kreider of
ancaster County was selected as one of the six Master
armers of 1972 and he and Mrs. Kreider expect to attend
this year. Each Master Farmer received the coveted
Mrs. Eleanor Kreider is extremely proud of her
us band’s Master Farmer plaque he received In 1972.
Preparing
by
Mrs.
Charles
McSparran
Farm Feature
Writer
for the Farm Show Week
Mrs. James Kreider’s chief hobby is making
Keystone Master Farmers’ plaque and their wives each
received a charm bracelet with a charm engraved with
the same emblem on it and a corsage. Since then Mrs.
Kreider has added some charms with emblems of places
where they traveled such as a steamboat from New
Orleans, La. and the oak leaf from Canada. They always
have a picnic for the Master Farmers somewhere in the
state. Last year it was held in Erie County.
This Master Farmer farms a total of 320 acres at the
present time. He grows 220 acres of corn, 90 acres of hay -
mostly alfalfa and about 10 acres of rye for silage.
Sometimes he raises some wheat and barley. Until six or
eight years ago he raised 25 acres of tomatoes. He has a
hay drier, a combine and a sprayer for corn and hay. He
does some custom work with his combine and sprayer. He
has two dump trucks and hauls straw, hay, corn and
some coal. In addition to hauling his own crops he buys
and sells straw, hay and com and does some hauling for
other people.
Kreiders are the third generation to own the 147 acre
farm on Center Hoad where they live and they also own
another 90 acre beef farm on Center Road in East
Drumore'Township. They rent about 90 acres from Earl
Wenger. Sixty acres of it are farm ground and 30 acres are
in meadow which they use for pasture. They keep 34 beef
cattle, cows, calves, heifers and bulls there. They have
about 130 cows and 60 or 70 heifers on their home farm,
some of which are registered Holsteins. They have been in
DHIA since 1953. They raise about 200 Angus and Holstein
bulls and 40 heifers on their 90 acre farm. These are sold
mostly to Baum’s near Elizabethtown. A few are sold to
local people to butcher and they butcher a few for their
own use.
Jim, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Kreider, Peach
Bottom RD2, has been a farmer all his life. He does
practically all the bookwork and helps in general around
the farm. He does the milking when the other two men are
off. He hires two full-time men, William Walton, who lives
on his beef cattle farm and is in charge of the field work
and the general farming operation, and George Nickle
who is herdsman. Kreiders’ son Tom also works on the
farms. He and William Walton do the trucking.
Eleanor, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Hostetter of LandisviUe, grew up on their farm near there.
Her brother Ralph farms that farm now and her nephew
lives there. It is a Holstein dairy farm. Eleanor graduated
ceramics.
from Mount Joy High School where she took the com
mercial course. She did secretarial work in the office of
Geberich Payne Shoe Corp., Mount Joy before marriage.
She runs the farm errands and helps to milk every other
Sunday or in a pinch.
Kreiders have three children. Cynthia, “Cindy”,
graduated from Solanco High School in 1973 and works at
Willow Valley Farms Restaurant. She was in the mixed
chorus in high school, was in the 4-H Dairy Club a year or
two and in 4-H sewing.
Tom graduated from high school this past June. He took
the academic course and played the comet two years in
the Senior band. He was also on the wrestling team all
through high school. He was in the 4-H Dairy club five or
'six years.
Pam, 12, is in seventh grade at Swift Junior High School.
She plays a clarinet in the Junior band and sings in the
school chorus. She also takes private piano lessons. She
was in the Streaking Stitchers 4-H Sewing Club.
Kreiders are active members of the Mechanic Grove
Church of The Brethren. Jim has been on the church
Deacon Board for five years, this being his second year as
chairman. Eleanor is a Deaconess. They visit members
and she has charge of communion. Jim has been head
usher for five years. Eleanor is a Sunday School teacher
for three-year-old children. She is co-chairman of the
dining committee. They serve wedding receptions, local
dinners and funeral luncheons if requested. She is on the
Sunshine committee for the Women’s Fellowship. This
group meets the third Tuesday night of every month. They
do some sewing, pack stockings for a church home and
pack baskets for shut-ins at Christmas time. Sometimes
they help clean at the Brethren Village. This year they
will have a food stand at the Pa. Farm Show. They will
make hoagies at the church for it. Eleanor, Jim and Cindy -
bowl in their church league every Thursday night at the
Garden Spot Bowling Center at Strasburg. Jim is
treasurer of the league. Pam sings in the chancel choir at
church.
Eleanor is a charter member of Farm Women Society
31 which has 26 members. She is serving as program
chairman this year and is taking reservations now for a
hockey game at Hershey January 18. She formerly served
as chairman of the Ways & Means committee.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Kreider have been active in the Pa.
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