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V/209 Pattoo Library
Ponna, State University
University, Pa* 16808 S*
Vol. 20 No. 15
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin T. Harnish,
Willow. Street Rl, accepted
congratulations and a plaque from
Daniel L Martin, right, in honor of
their 25 years of membership in the
Inter-State Milk Producers
Getting Their Farm
By Bits And Pieces
“Okay,” Bruee Andrien
said to his then 10-year-old
daughter Denise, “you can
get a cow for your' 4-H
project. But when she has a
calf and she starts giving
milk, we might keep the calf,
but we’re for sure going to
sell the cow. We are not
going to startmilking cows.”
Today, five years later, the
Andriens have 14 Registered
Jersey cows and heifers,
four Registered Jersey bulls
and “one pink-nosed
Guernsey,” as Andrien puts
it.' The Andrien family -
Bruce, his wife Loraine and
their three children, Denise,
15, Bruce, Jr., 12, and 8-year
old Lorin - are now milking
seven cows - with three more
due to freshen - and hoping
Bruce and Loraine Andrien, West
Chester, hope to see their family in a
Cooperative. Martin, Inter-State vice
president from Manheim, made the
presentation during the Inter-State
District 7 annual meeting in Mount
Joy on Thursday.
they can find a reasonably
priced farm in the near
future. The Andriens have
been ■'bitten hard by the
farming bug. And at 39,
Bruce Andrien is trying to
build a whole new way of life
for himself and his family.
“I want to farm,” he said
when Lancaster Fanning
visited the family on Mon
day, “because it’s something
the whole family can do
together.”
Andrun is a home im
provement contractor in
Chester County. The family
lives on a wooded 13 acres
outside West Chester.
Behind the house which was
built when they moved there
some seven years .ago,
Andrien has constructed a
full-time dairy operation in the near
future.
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 22. 1975
barn and an exercise yard
for the cows, two horses, a
Shetland pony, and half-a
dozen Holstein-Angus
steers. A short distance from
the bam is a laboriously
cleared hillside which serves
as pasture for a purebred
Hereford steer and a
Hereford cow. And behind
the bam is a small chicken
house with about 100 dual
purpose birds.
Andrien is becoming a
farmer by bits and pieces,
but says he’s ready now to
begin a full-time dairy
operation as soon as he can
find a suitable farm. “We’ve
looked all over for farms,
and we check out every farm
we see advertised in Lan
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Law CaDs
SFbr Spray Licenses
‘. Federal 3 pesticide laws
i every state
set- up wmTß'Sbrt of licensing
procedure for jtst about
everyone who uses her
bicides and insecticides,
including fanners. Henry F.
Nixon, director of the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture’s Bureau of
Plant Industry, is the man in
charge of seeing that Penn
sylvania meets the federal
requirements by 1976
The law has caused much
concern among area far
mers who feared that they
would be stopped from using
any of the chemical weapons
they’ve been using in the
past to battle weed and in
sect foes. Nixon, speaking at
FFA
Meats
Contest
Winners in the animal FF A
meats judging contest were
recently announced by Gus
Birchler, FFA advisor at
Penn Manor High School and
coordinator of the event.
First place honors went to
the team representing
Garden Spot High School
which was comprised of
Mike Hartman, Lavern
Martin and Lewis Good.
Manheim Central’s team
captured second place
honors and included Tim
Good, Dennis Kulp and Steve
Hershey.
The top „ five individual
judges for the event wdre
Mike Hartman, Garden
Spot; Rick Hunt, Penn
Manor; Dennis Kulp,
Manheim Central; Clifford
Martin, Ephrata and Steve
Hershey Manheim.
The judging contest was
held at the Kunzler Packing
Company in Lancaster with
Jim Heth organizing the
competition. FFA members
participating were asked to
identify 25 cuts of meat and
judge 5 beef carcasses for
yield and grade.- They were
also asked to judge fresh
hams and ribs for quality.
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 55
Farmers Almanac 8
Classified Ads 26
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 43
Organic Living 45
Junior Cooking Edition 42
Farm Women Calendar 46
Sales Reports „ 67
Thoughts in Passing 46
the annual Lancaster County
Crops and Soils Days on
Tuesday at the Farm and
Home Center, put at least
some of those fears to rest.
“We know that we’ve got
to abide by the federal law,”
Nixon told the more than 300
farmers in attendance. “We
think we’ve developed a
program that meets federal
requirements, but does so
with a minimum amount of
disruption for the people like
farmers who are now
pesticide users.”
The Ag Department’s
program calls for licensing
users of restricted
pesticides, but doesn’t
Sally Ann Garber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Garber, Elizabethtown, models one of her award
winning garments.
Award Winning
4-H Sewing Member
Sally Ann Garber, 737
Groff Ave., Elizabethtown,
has- been an active 4-H
member in home economics
for the years. As a
member of the Sew & Sews
Sewing Club in
Elizabethtown, Sally has
completed many projects
that have ranged from
making a scarf her first year
to creative work with
fabrics.
The Elizabethtown Area
High School junior has been
in several 4-H Dress Revues
on the county, district and
state levels often winning top
prizes for her sewing
creations.
As an exhibitor at the
Farm Show, Sally Ann has
had two sweepstakes awards
in the sewing competition. At
the State Farm Show, the
sewing competitors are
divided into districts ac
cording to the counties they
$2.00 Per Year
require any license for
fanners and others who use
chemicals whose use is not
restricted. The only
requirements for restricted
chemical use will be those
which appear on the con
tainer labels, Nixon pointed
out.
“But I would recommenc
to all farmers that they
apply for a license to use the
restricted pesticides,” Nixon
said. “You may run into a
problem where the
unrestricted chemicals
aren’t going to do the job you
need done. Getting a license
isn’t going to be difficult at
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represent. Winners are
selected from the districts
and those winners are then
entered in the sweepstakes
contest representing the best
sewing creations in the state.
Sally Ann has won a second
in the sweepstakes for a
school dress she constructed
and captured first place in
the Farm Show Sweepstakes
category this year with her
entry.
Sally Ann’s award winning
entry was a long-sleeved
came knit dress with a
contrasting imitation
leopard fur vest.
Sally Ann explained that
she had become interested in
sewing since her mother had
been in 4-H also and had
sewn for some time.
Along with her sewing
work in 4-H, Sally Ann has
served on the dress revue
committee and has attended
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