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Dozens of friends and neighbors gathered last
Friday to help rebuild the Glenn Fite barn which
was destroyed four weeks ago by fire. Fite is a
cattle dealer from the southern end of Lancaster
County. The Fite family expressed their ap
Sander Mill Celebrates
50th Year of Business
In 1925, Earl Sauder
purchased a feed mill in
Hinkletown and began - a
business which is
celebrating its- 50th an
niversary. The Earl Sauder,
Inc., feed mill is now located
on Railroad Ave., in New
Holland, and we visited there
on Monday to talk to the man
who heads up the firm today.
His name is Earl Sauder.
Is he the son of the founder?
or die grandson? No, the
president of the firm is Earl
Cattlemen Tour
Ayrshire Herds
by: Melissa Piper
Regardless of just where
farmers originate from,
when they meet the con
servation usually drifts to
the same topics; namely the
price of corn, the weather
and animals. So it was on
Monday when a group of
thirty farmers from
England, Wales, Scotland
and Ireland met with a
number of Lancaster County
farmers to tour the Masonic
Home in Elizabethtown.
The guests were a portion
of Ayrshire Cattle Breeders
who were touring the
Eastern United States as a
part of the Centennial
celebration of the Ayrshire
Cattle Breed. The.tour was
held in conjunction with the
Sauder himself, the founder,
still at the helm of the
business he started lialf-a
century ago.
We asked Mr. Sauder how
he had managed the singular
feat of starting a company
and running it for 50 years.
“One of (he big reasons
things turned out the way
they did,” he said, “was that
I started young.”
More than 20 people work
at the mill today, which has
been at its present site since
national Ayrshire Show
which was held the later part
of this week in New England.
The cattlemen and their
families toured Ayrshire
farms in Chester County
including the Kennard
Henley operation and the
Ann Little farm before
making their tour of the herd
at the Masonic Homes in
Elizabethtown.
Horace Mann, farm
director at the Masonic
Home facility, was in charge
of the tour which included a
visit to the dairy barns
where the guests were in
vited to see the calves,
heifers and cows along with
three Ayrshire bulls kept in
stud.
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Serving The Central ana southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 10, 1975
predation for the contributions of time and
materials made by all who helped. The structure
was photographed late in the afternoon, an almost
completed building where early in the morning
there had been nothing.
1939. Most of the business is
devoted to serving dairy
farmers within a 20-mile
radius of New Holland.
“When we started,” Sauder
commented, “the business
was about half dairy and half
poultry feed. Now, dairy is
by far out biggest
customer.”
Two of the big changes the
veteran feedman has seen in
his five decades of business
have been the emergence of
volatile markets and farm
deliveries, “markets are
much more erratic today
than they were 50 years
Jeff Glackin, a senior at Solanco High School, has
been an active FFA member, serving as president of
the local chapter.
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-6
Sale Register 68
Farmers Almanac 8
Classified Ads 24
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 44
Organic Living 47
Junior Cooking Edition 45
Sale Reports 71
Country Comer 38
Farm Women Calendar 39
Pheasant Project 59
ago,” he said. “If wheat
went up 2-cents a day in 1925,
people were really upset.
Last week one day the
market moved 16-cents and
nobody made a fuss about it.
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Outlook good, but . . .
Spring Crop
Conditions Are
A Week Behind
by Dick Wanner
The early crop situation in
Southeastern Pennsylvania
is running about a week to 10
days behind schedule, ac
cording to our discussions
with five county agents on
Thursday and Friday. But
the weather improved
markedly this week. With
another week or so of sunny
skies, planting - and the
crops that are already
growing - should be pretty
well caught up.
“We should be planting
about 180,000 acres of corn in
Lancaster County,” we were
told by Associate Lancaster
County Agent Arnold Lueck.
“There’s been a lot of
pressure from national
groups to put in less corn, but
I don’t see that pressure
having very much affect on
farmers here. For one thing,
we have a very small
carryover of feedgrains
from last year’s crop. And
our livestock fanners here
will be needing all the feed
th Lueck Bsaid 8 said that com
planting is a week or more
behind schedule because of
the cold, wet April weather,
But with fields drying off
rapidly towards the middle
of this week, he expected to
see a lot more com in the
ground by the time this issue
of Lancaster Farming went
to press.
“I think there’ll be more
com grown for silage this
year than last,” Lueck said.
“Our rural landscape is
dominated by these towers,
and farmers will be Ming
them up. They 11 be making
more use of forage this year,
Solanco Youth
Enjoys Dairying
Although many young
people are finding it in
creasingly difficult to begin
farming as a career, some
youths are still interested in
giving it a try in one way or
another. One such person is
Jeff Glackin, a senior and
active FFA member at
Solanco High School.
For the past few years,
Jeff has been working part
tune and summers on the
Paul Trimble dairy farm
near Quarryville. The
Trimble farm has a herd of
130 Jersey cows and affords
Jeff the opportunity to work
on the farm as part of his
FFA work experience
I believe. They’ll put up
more haylage, and they’re
already putting in a lot of
small grains silage.”
As they did last year,
many fanners will be hiring
custom operators to plant
their corn with minimum till
planters. “There will be a
sizable acreage planted to no
till, but I don’t think it will be
a lot more than last year.
For the time being, at least, I
think we may have reached a
plateau in no-till planting.”
Lueck said he doesn’t
expect to see a big change in
tobacco acreage this year.
“The high prices for last
year’s crop may tempt some
fanners to put in a few more
acres, but I think we’ll see
another 13,000 to 14,000 acres
to tobacco again this year.”
Small grain crops in
Lancaster County came
through the winter well,
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Winners Named
FFA members from all
over Lancaster County
gathered at Ephrata High
School on Monday (May 5)
f or their annual Leadership
Training Conference,
ihe conference is held to
instruct new officers and
future officers in the roles of
leadership which they will be
assuming in their local
chapters within the coming
y ear .
Recognized for their
outstanding FFA work were
Ruby Ginder) a M anheim
junior, who won the Red
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Jeff Glackin
project.
As one of the workers, Jeff
helps finish the milking in
the morning and does odd
jobs until beginning his
classes at noon. Then
following school, J ef f returns
to the Trimble farm to
complete the evening
milking and chores.
Although his work has
taken up much of his time,
Jeff admits that he likes
farming and especially the
dairy operation.
“Farming is the only
really honest work, I can
think of doing,” Jeff ex-
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