Ladies events
planned for NEPPCO
HERSHEY, PA. • A unique
educational and social
program awaits the ladies
iwho will be attending the
44th anniversary Exposition
of the Northeastern Poultry
Producers Council to be held
here Oct. 21*23.
On Tuesday, Oct. 21, they
will join the men for the
opening luncheon featuring a
dramatic, illustrated
keynote address by Dr.
Robert Spitzer of the U.S.
Department of State. Af
terward, they will have an
opportunity to visit special
attractions in the area on do
it-yourself tours. Kits of
information will be provided
for this purpose. Returning
to the Hershey Convention
Center, they will be guests of
NEPPCO at a President’s
Reception staged in the
Exhibit Hall.
On Wednesday morning,
several young participants
in the NEPPCO Youth
Program will visit the
Ladies Hospitality Center to
demonstrate their skills in
poultry food preparation.
Afterward,' the ladies will
journey to the Groff Farm
near Mount Joy in Lancaster
County, where the mid-day
meal will be prepared and
served family style. Betty
Groff, author of the recently
published “Good Earth
Country Cookbook”, will be
the hostess as well as the
guest speaker. Also at
tending will be Anne Nesbitt,
director of the National
Chicken Cooking Contest.
Thursday will begin with
an event in the LadieS
Hospitality Center at 10:30
a.m. hosted by Dona Kuipers
of New Holland. She is the
artist and author of an im
pressive 11 x 16-inch coloring
book entitled, “The Chicken
and the Incrediable Edible
Egg”. Copies of the newly
published book will be given
to the ladies and its theme
and implications discussed.
Throughout the thrCe-day
NEPPCO Convention, they
will be welcomed on the
exhibit floor at the Con
vention Center, featuring
today’s and tommorrow’s
poultry equipment and
products, as well as at the
market egg show and
educational sessions.
On Thursday evening, the
ladies will again join their
men for the big annual
banquet and floor show that
Corn and Wheat Were Bulwarks
Of the Growth of Agriculture
No two farm crops arc likely
more representative of the
amazing historical advance
ments of U.S agriculture
than corn and wheat.
When the very survival of
the Pilgrims was at stake,
mai/e or corn was chief among
the many plants the Indians
introduced to the Colonists
Although wheat was not
native to the New Land, it
became a major crop for do
mestic food and export by
1640
The Pennsylvania German
farmers of the area west from
Philadelphia to the Susque-
climaxes this year’s
NEPPCO Convention.
Copies of the complete
Convention Program and
registration forms are
available from NEPPCO, 322
Oxford Valley Road,
Fairless Hills, Pa. 19030,
telephone 215-547-0190. Room
reservations should be made
directly with the Hershey
Motor Lodge.
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hunna Kiver tilled the rich
land known ns the "Colonial
Breadbasket,*' which fueled
many of the military cam
paigns of the Revolution
Corn and wheat growing
largely remained a manual
task for many years to tome
B\ IH'25. some 60 man-hours
were needed to produce an
acre of wheal, using a walking
plow, bundle of brush for
harrow, hand broadcast of
seed, harvesting by sickle and
threshing by flail
Mechanical improvements
were soon to come In three
short years, 18.33 to 1837, the
steel plow, mechanical reaper
and threshing machine had
made their appearance
Hut still to be learned was
the value of good farming
practices
Top wheat fields in New
York State yielded more than
.50 bushels an acre after the
Revolution But within a half
century, average yields would
be down to 8 bushels
One Ohio farmer com
mented "Among anti-book
farmers, it’s com, corn, corn
for 40 years and then move
West Among the progres
sives, it's clover two years,
potatoes, com, wheat, clover ”
The agricultural push west
had begun In 1840, Pennsyl
vania was still the top wheat
state Within 20 years, the
wheat-growing center shifted
to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois and Wisconsin
Labor requirements to pro
ducc the crops were dropping
Some 35 man hours were still
needed to produce an acre of
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct. 11.1975
corn By 1930, only 3 man
hours were needed for an acre
of wheat and 6 for an acre of
corn
Spurred by the Civil War
and a tremendous demand for
food, the commercial Corn and
Wheat Belts began to take
shape
The combine made its
appearance and had only a
short life in Michigan before
the war I ater it was trans
planted to the Pacific wheat
fields, powered by as many as
40 horses, and was ' i factory
production in Cali 1 jrnia by
1880
It wasn’t until the late
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1930’s that the scll-propcllcd
combine of today made its
appearance And it was just in
lime to fill the food needs of
another war
Numerous improvements
have since been made to the
combine, but what about the
future of this miracle machine
Researchers at Sperry New
Holland, a leading farm ma
chinery manufacturer, see fut
ure development following two
ditferent paths
First, efforts at improving
their harvesting efficiency will
provide less field toss and less
kernel damage
Second, electronic guidance
of combines through fields will
reduce harvesting time and
fuel consumption and permit
the operator to devote more
attention to other monitored
functions of the combine
Therefore, corn, wheat and
other crops harvested by a
combine will continue to play
a major role in the future of
U S agriculture, just as they
have done throughout its rich
historical past
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