sppraclate Lancaster
LXCtiange county more." She
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ICislssU treai Pip l(| being "really warm/' Her
He said the trip was a ftmi, y equally lived in
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one night visit there. * they »n here,"
Ruth Ann Irwin, 14, Slxton-year-old Chcrri, a
Landisville, Uved on a 2,000 °* the Silver Spurs
acre farm, but spent much of Club, said, 'I really liked
her time at a Way family “* eyeriwice and enjoyed
reunion which was scheduled W P “ w « u ’’ She
during her visit. She Mid she the' me
loved the mountains -“I took "/S™ stay in Indiana where
so many pictures." She “e stayed on a farm "where
added, "I wanted to stay we wuld see wm flelds."
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Dwight Houser, 17, a Red
Rose Baby Beef Club
member, agreed with the
observation about the roads.
Dwight said, “Most roads
were stone and dirt, and it
was so dry that you could see
someone coming for miles
because of the clouds of
dust.”
The ranch where Dwight
lived was owned in part
nership. They owned 2600
acres, with 1600 under
cultivation, and the rest in
canyons and pasture land.
He characterized the land as
“rolling.” Of interest to him
was their alfalfa hay which
normally yields just two
cuttings as opposed to the
three to four cuttings we are
accustomed to here. The
alfalfa on his ranch was
grown in 36-inch rows; The
explanation given, according
to Dwight, was that because
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Mount Joy, the reel value of
(he exchange was getting to
see other parta of the country
and meeting more people.
"You alao get to know other
4-H programs and how they
work," He said he also got to
know the 4-H’er* from this
county on the trip.
Barry lived on a 2,000 acre
ranch, of which 1600 acres
were farmed and the rest
was "wasteland." The crops
were alfalfa, pinto beans and
wheat, and basically the only
difference he noted was that
the equipment is bigger than
here. He said his host ranch
was located one half hour
from the mountains and one
half hour from the desert.
But he did have neighbors
less than a mile away.
One thing he observed was
that only the large main
roads were macadam - the
rest were dirt.
Martha Gregory (left) talks over with Kim Martin and Wayne Erb.
her experiences on the exchange trip
of the low amount of
moisture (17-18 inches per
year) planting it in rows
helped it get taller and
therefore made better hay.
Dwight said the
topography was definitely
different from here. “There
was one field which was one
mile long.” Dwight helped to
turn over hay bales on that
field, so he can testify to just
how much time it takes to
cover the length of a field
that long.
He said a visit to that part
of the country, while in
teresting, merely “makes
you more thankful for what
you do have. I wouldn’t want
to live there.”
He said the trip also made
him realize that the United
States “is a lot bigger than I
realized.” He mentioned the
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large wheat fields in Kansas
which were being harvested
as they traveled through and
said, “The fields were as
long as the eye could see.”
Roberta Stine, 15,
Mountville, talked about the
irrigation. She said, “They
need to irrigate because they
can’t depend on the rain - it
hardly ever rains there.”
Roberta said she liked the
trip because “We got to meet
so many people • including
people from Lancaster
County.” She echoed the
sentiment of many when she
said, “Pm ready to go again,
and I would like to have
stayed longer. It was a lot of
fun.”
Martha Gregory, IS, Lititz,
had the distinction of living
200 miles from the center of
the five county area where
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they stayed. She also lived at
5,000 feet which she said
tended to make her tire
easily. She was amazed at
the irrigation, saying, “They
even had to irrigate their
lawns.*' She added that their
gardens were irrigated too,
and were smaller than ones
she knew here.
She said it hadn’t rained
for three weeks prior to her
visit, but it rained slightly
every day while she was
there.
For Lancaster Countians,
accustomed to the lush green
countryside and favorable
growing conditions, the trip
was an eye-opener • and an
exciting change. Next year
when the Colorado 4-H’ers
visit here they, too, will be
surprised at the vast dif
ferences.
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