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Persistent rain eliminated many of
the events at the Ephrata and West
Lampeter Fairs this past week, but at
the Farm Show Complex, where this
scene was taken, the Pennsylvania
Grant Heilman
leaving area
By Peggy Frailey
Grant Heilman, one of the
country’s foremost
agricultural photographers
and a fighter for preser
vation of farmland, is going
to leave Lancaster County
and move to Colorado, where
he and his wife, noted artist
Barbara Whipple, will build
a new home on a slope of the
Rocky Mountains.
The reason simply put,
Heilman no longer wants to
live in what he terms the
“creeping metropolism”
that has invaded Lancaster
County.
He and his wife will open a
combined studio in the small
town of Buena Vista -
population about 2500 and
take their chances with the
wide open spaces that have
become so rare in the east.
Meanwhile Heilman will
continue to run the
photography studio he owns
on West Lincoln Avenue, still
doing the bulk of his own
photographic work from his
new western home, and
making periodic trips back
to Lititz. The actual
operation of the plant will be
done by his present staff
there.
Although a lot has been
done in recent years to try to
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-6
Sale Register 76
Farm Almanac 8
Classified Ads 26
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 42
Home on the Range 45
Jr. Cooking Edition 46
Country Comer 42
All-American went on until rising
waters forced the closing of the show
on Thursday night Water was knee
deep here and threatening the barns.
By 3:00 a.m. Friday it was entering
preserve Lancaster County,
it is not enough and it came
too late, Heilman maintains.
“The dye is cast in Lan
caster County,” he said.
“We’ll take the alternative.”
“Lancaster County is not
facing up to what are
becoming uninteresting
living conditions,” the
photographer-naturalist said
during an interview this
week. “A great deal has been
done here, but not enough to
keep it from being un
comfortable (living con
ditions) and since we have
the option to move, we are
going to.”
“I suppose I will be
criticised by some for saying
this about Lancaster County,
but it’s how I feel,” Heilman
said.
For a number of years
now, Heilman has been a
strong advocate of preser
vation, and has used his
voice to try- to arouse public
interest m environmental
situations. He chose this
route deliberately, he ex
plained, believing he could
be of more use as a “thorn in
the side” rather than sitting
on boards and commissions.
His voice has been heard
I Continued on Page 511
Crop Report 67
Sale Reports 83
Chester DHIA 48
YorkDHIA 50
OleyPair 68
New Holland Fair 73
All American 20-21
Lampeter Fair 16
EphrataFair 19
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Sept. 27.1975
Renowned naturalist photographer, Grant
Heilman, whose pictures appear far and wide on
and in agricultural publications, plans to move to
Colorado next June because of the urbanization
which is taking place in Lancaster County. He’s
shown above taking a close-up of a cocoon on a
pine tree behind his studio in Lititz.
the barns and cattle were taken away
about 500 head were tied on the
State Hospital Grounds. By 7:30 all of
the animals except for one bull Had
been moved out There was about 10
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inches of water in the large'arena and
about IVz feet in the barns. Milk
trucks had trouble getting in to pick
up the milk from as many as 700
milking animals.
Class I milk
price to $ll
By Dieter Krieg
WITMER “It looks like
we’ll have an (ap
proximately) $ll.OO Class I
milk price by the end of the
year,” said Boyd Gartley,
director of member and
public relations for Inter-
State Milk Producers
Cooperative. Speaking here
at the annual dinner meeting
for District 6, Gartley
reminded the dairymen that
“we must be cautious about
the price going up too fast
because of consumer
resistance.” Someone near
the head table responded
with a loud and clear “right
on.”
Noting that advertising is
paying off, Gartley told the
Youth pursues
farming career
By Melissa Piper
PENN MANOR
“Farmers have made this
country what it is today and
I’d like to be a part of that
tradition.” Although these
words might have been
spoken by a long time far
mer, they actually came
from a young man who is
just beginning his career in
the field of agricultural
production.
Ron Hunt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Hunt, Miller
sville, has already been
active in agriculture for
three years although he is
presently a senior at Penn
Manor High School. Being an
FFA member since his
freshman year, the young
man has taken projects in
$3.00 Per Year
capacity crowd that Order 4
has recorded the highest
increase of Class I sales ci
any Order in the country. He
also added that the pas)
fiscal year went down a:
“the best financial year ii
the history in th«
cooperative.” Commentini
briefly on advertising, th«
Inter-State official observe)
that “the in thing” nowaday
is the “fresh and natural,
which is what milk is al
about.
Giving Inter-Stat
Cooperative members
reason to pat themselves c
the back, Gartley said th?
their cooperative is “th
most efficient c
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veal calves, and market a'
veil as breeding swine.
Ron has taken his FF/
work seriously not onh
trying his best at doin;
successful projects but als
in his activities. The Pen;
Manor Youth has been .
member of the State poultr
judging team that compete
in Kansas City, a member c
the award winning meat
judging teams and also o
the State dairy judging tear
that entered competition a
the Eastern States Expo i
Springfield, Mass.
Ron has been on th
parliamentary procedur
team and has received th
Star Greenhand and Sta
Chapter Farmer award:
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