50—Uncaster Farming. Saturday, Oct. 4, 1975
Homestead Notes
Mra. J. Richard (Sarah) Jackaon. Quarryvlllc R 2,
Lancaster County, la a busy farmer's wife, mother, a
practicing registered nurse and musician.
Dick and Sally are the third generation to own and
operate their 144 acre farm on Jackson Road, in Utile
Britain Township. Dick’s grandfather, John Jackson,
bought the farm 100 years ago and his family lived in a log
house for ten years when he built the present 12 room
white frame house. He planted an American elm tree on
the lawn that is now 100 years old and is 70 feet high. Dick
and his brother John were born in the present house as
well as their father Edgar. Edgar owned the farm until his
death two years ago and both sons operated it. Now John
has bought his other farm near Tayloria which is operated
by Elwood Bames. John has been living with his mother in
Quarryville since his father’s death.
Richard keeps 10 Yorkshire blood sows and a Landrace-
Yorkshire cross boar. He finished all of the offspring
which amounts to about 140 hogs a year. He raises
Holstein heifers for herd replacement on John’s farm
which means he has about 30 head all of the time. He
finishes about 30 Holstein bulls a year but is thinking of
changing to raising steers. He also keeps 500 Rhode Island
Red and Golden Buff cross laying hens. He sells the eggs
at the farm and at Yost’s store at Uttle Britain and
Beckenstrater’s store at Chrome. He sells the hens at two
years of age. Each year, about March twenty-first, he
buys 250 sexed pullet and 50 White Cornish cockerel
chicks. They have the cockerels dressed at 8 to 10 weeks of
age and put them in the freezer.
He raises SO acres of corn, 20 of barley, 14 of wheat, 10 of
oats and 18 of mixed hay to feed his cattle, hogs and
chickens. He also grows 8 acres of tobacco. This Jackson
homestead is well kept and a beautiful farm situated away
from the noise and confusion of heavy traffic. Richard has
been a tobacco buyer for Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Com
pany for 18 years.
Sarah and her sisters, Anna Mae Forbes and Katherine
Ambler, own the “Goshen Farm” which contains 244
acres and has been farmed by their uncle, Thomas
Bradley, for many years. It has three or four dwellings.
Solanco nurse combines farm life with her profession
They had the old stone house completely restored this
year. The three sisters are daughters of the late Arthur
and Edith Weaver, who owned and operated the farm until
Mr. Weaver’s death. The farm is for sale now.
Sally was in 4-H canning, sewing, cooking and child care
clubs for four years in Fulton Township when she lived
with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bradley. She
attended Fulton High School and was graduated from
Solanco High School. She is a registered nurse, having
graduated from the Lancaster General Hospital School of
Nursing in 1953. She went back to nursing a year ago,
nursing four days a week at the Quarryville Presbyterian
Home. She says she enjoys geriatrics.
Dick and Sally are both musically talented. Dick sings
Mrs. Richard Jackson is a registered nurse and works at the Quarryville Presbyterian home.
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Country Comer
Lancaster County
Milk Producer
By Melissa Piper
Lancaster Cows Provide a Whole
Lot of Milk!
While Lancaster County has always been billed
the "Pa. Dutch County" a new title would seem just
as appropriate ■ perhaps it should be denoted as
the "milk shake capital of the country" or at least
"one of the greatest milk producing counties in the
world."
According to the 1974 Crop and Livestock
Summary, Lancaster still remains the leader in milk
production throughout the state, for the county's
73,500 milk cows produce some 786 million
oounds of the commodity to remain in first place.
That's a whole lot of milkshakes!
Berks County placed fourth in the official tally
with 326 million pounds while Chester and
Lebanon Counties received honorable mention for
producing over 200 million pounds.
While Lancaster Farming’s coverage area
dominated the milk production scene, farmers also
saw the cost of such production take a 9 percent
increase above the 1974 figures. It is estimated
that it cost farmers $8.25 to produce 100 pounds of
milk in 1974 with the cost of feed causing the
largest increase of individual inputs.
Wholesale Milk Takes a Leap
According to the stats from Harrisburg, the
wholesale milk price increased 14 percent from
$7.86 blend price in 1973 to $8.93 m 1974. This
leap seemed to stem from record high prices
during the first eight months of 1974.
Mrs. Richard Jackson
bass and played the trumpet in the Tri-Township Band
(Little Britain, Fulton and Durmore) while he was in high
school. Sally took piano lessons for nine years from Leslie
Brown. She had the ability to follow someone playing
another instrument or singing. While in high school she
accompanied the chorus. She accompanied her sister
Katherine who played violin and other soloists and
choruses. She sings the alto part and has taken part in her
church choir and choruses. It is not strange then that their
children enjoy music and can sing and each one has
selected a musical instrument.
Peggy was enrolled in the business course and was
graduated from Solanco High School. She took a
correspondence course in Weaver’s Airline School of
Remains Top
in the State
While milk production was high in Pa. there was a
9 percent decrease in the amount of milk used in
manufactures dairy products. Even ice-cream took
a jump backwards with a substantial decrease over
two years previous. Pa. still placed second in ice
cream production throughout the United States,
however and held unto third in producing low fat
cottage cheese and ice milk.
If statistics tend to bore you, think of it in this
manner. Milk A substancial amount of milk was
produced in Pa. this past year but with higher
production costs. And much of the milk was not
included in manufactured dairy products such as
ice cream and butter.
Other trends cited
- More vegetables and potatoes were harvested
this past year then in 1974 with a 2 percent in
crease.
- The 1974 peach crop overwhelmed the markets
by an increase of 48 percent.
- Small grains harvested were up by 14 percent
over the previous year.
- Lancaster County had more farms included in
its boundaries then the Northeastern Counties
combined and the East Central Counties combined.
- Lancaster County received $26,917 in cash
receipts from the sale of agricultural crops.
So to those individuals who content that farming
is no longer a big business - we politely say
“bunk.!"
Kansas City while in her senior year in high school then
graduated after being there six weeks. She worked with
the C.I.A. a short time in Washington, D.C. and has been
employed as a secretary for Mutual of Omaha in
Washington for one year. She lives in Silver Spring, Md.
and commutes each day. She is also going to a secretarial
college there two nights a week. Peggy sang in the Solanco
High School chorus. She took piano lessons for six or seven
years from Miss Adrian Fite. She was in the Kirkwood 4-H
cooking club one year and the Little Britain 4-H sewing
club one year.
Janet is a senior at Solanco High School where she is
taking the Academic course. She sings in the chorus and
plays the piano and harp when there is a part for it in the
orchestra. She took piano lessons for five years. Janet
liked the story of David and his harp in the Bible and it
was probably through this that she wanted to take harp
lessons. Everyone realizes that the harp makes beautiful
music but is a very expensive instrument to buy. When
Janet asked her parents to buy a harp for her they told her
they would if she would stick to it. It also meant taking her
to Philadelphia to take lessons so it was quite a sacrifice
for them. She has taken harp lessons for six years from
Miss Marilyn Costello, who is first harpist in the
Philadelphia Orchestra and is head of the harp depart
ment of Curtis Institute of music. Janet showed a natural
talent and exhibited the graceful poise of a real harpist
from the start. She has always enjoyed practicing and
spends many hours at it. She belongs to the American
Harp Society which was founded by Carlos Salzedo forty
four years ago. Janet was one of 60 who spent six weeks
this past summer at Maine Harp Colony, Camden, Maine.
There are 30 students there at a time. They came from
Australia, Canada, South Africa, California, Georgia,
Texas and Pennsylvania. While there each one rents a
room in a private home and keeps her harp there. Each
one walks to Salzedo’s home where she takes two lessons a
week. Janet took ten lessons and practiced regularly each
day. Janet also takes musical theory lessons from Miss
Joyce Huber. She plans to pursue her music education
after graduating'from high school.
Tom is a Junior at Solanco High School. He is taking the
Ag course and has had a Charolais-Angus steer for the
last two years His steer was entered at the Southern
Lancaster County Community Fair in September and
weighed 1200 pounds. He took a third prize in the heavy
weight class. Tom received a beautiful plaque from the
Lancaster County Conservation District in July of this
year for placing first in the land judging contest. He helps
with all of the farm work at home. He plays trumpet in the
high school band. He took lessons from Donald Reed who
is head of the music department and directs the'Senior
Band. Tom was in Cub Scout three years.
Joan is in eighth grade at Swift Junior High School. She
is in the school chorus and plays violin in the orchestra.
She takes lessons from Miss Zoe Cummings at the Darnell
Music Store in Lancaster. She and Tom plan to go with a
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