35—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 8. 1975
Farm has girl for herdsman
"1 hate being called a
hcrdapcrson'," say* Estelle
Tallots, a one-year veteran
"herdsman” at the
University of Delaware
experimental farm in
Newark, Delaware. Estelle
graduated from the
University of Delaware in
1973 as a "senior with
distinction" and has worked
on the farm for over a year.
Estelle was working as a
“new accounts clerk" at a
Baltimore savings and loan
association when she heard
the herdsman job was open
She applied Immediately and
was hired. You might
assume that Estelle is from a
farm family, but actually
she was raised in Baltimore.
Her grandfather owned a
beef farm, but the beltway
sliced it in half when Estelle
was ten. and she hadn’t had
any farm experience from
that time until she went to
college.
Her only other farm ex
perience was after her junior
year in college when she
worked for a "gentleman
farmer” in Maryland. She
laughs at her own ignorance
of some things and says she
is learning things now that
"farm kids learn when
they’re ten years old.”
She’s always known what
she wants, though, and that
is to work outdoors and with
animals. She majored in
animal scmece at Delaware.
As an undergraduate she
worked on a project aimed at
helping sheep breeders get
more uniform lambing in
their flocks. What’s more,
her experiments demon
strated the feasibility of
breeding yearlings. Her
advisor, Dr. Richard
Fowler, foresaw practical
advantages to sheep
breeders in labor and
management economies as a
result of Estell’s research.
This project earned her a
“degree with distinction.”
What does she do? “mostly
chores right now, but during
the school year I’ll prep labs
and be a lab assistant,” she
answers. She also keeps
records for sheep and beef
cattle and generally does
“anything that needs to be
done.”
Estelle and the others
work from 7:00 - 4:30 each
day, including two weekends
a month, but that isn’t
always enough to get the
work done, so they work until
it’s finished. Estelle is
philocophical about the
hours, though “If I want to
rarm, I may as well get used
to it,” she laughs
The herdsman sa>s she
isn’t limited in her aoiluv L
perform the work because
she is a woman. “Your
muscles develop,” she says
When I first started I
couldr. * ift a hundred pound
bag of feed ” Estelle admits
she still can't throw a bale of
straw over the fence as
easily as some of the men,
but “I learned to use my
knees for leverage and now I
can get it over very well ”
She says being tall helps
is’lo”j, but "even a short
vvoman rould devise some
method for doing the job
right if she wanted to ’’
But it's not just physical
labor, says Estelle “You’ie
using your head too, and I’m
learning more here than I
would anywhere else
because I’m here on an
experimental farm I’m
learning new things as they
come out as well as the
practical things that must be
done on a farm." The words
"women’s lib” arc not
popular with Estelle. She
prefers the term “equal
rights." "Women’s lib may
have accomplished getting
women to be aware of how
they have been used, but all
the slang and things
associated with it arc
superfluous. It doesn't mean
anything and it antagonizes
a lot of people," she feels.
"I do a job that is usually
associated with men, but I
really appreciate being
treated like a woman," says
Estelle.
She enjoys all the
"chores” and the more
challenging parts of her job,
and doesn't even mind the
Christmas Seals are
68 years old
Have you seen the 1975
Lung Association Christmas
Seals? If you’ve tucked them
away to use on your holiday
mail, get them out and look
at them. They have a youth
ful “new look” this year. For
the first time, they’ve been
designed by school children
throughout the United
States.
The uninhibited
imaginations of 54
youngsters from 6 to 12, each
representing a state or
territory, have contributed a
not of color in the form of
merry Santas, smiling
snowmen, airy angels,
caroling children, and gaily
decorated Yule trees.
The Pennsylvania Seal
was the creation of Carol
Emery, a fifth grade student
in Schuylkill School in
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
Miss Velma Hart of the
Lancaster County Lung
Association said today that
the child-created Christmas
Seals are being mailed
nationwide to more than 60
million homes and
businesses, including about
90,000 in Lancaster County,
as part of the 1975 appeal for
funds during November and
December by the American
Lung Association and its 200
affiliated lung associations.
The annual Christmas Seal
campaign helps finance the
prevention and control of
emphysema, chronic
bronchitis, asthma, tuber
culosis and other lung
ailments that afflict all ages.
Lung associations also are
active in combatting the
hazards of smoking and air
pollution
Miss Hart announced that
the original paintings
created by the child artists
will be part of a special
exhibition at the National
Collection of Fine Arts in
Washington, D C ,
November 14, 1975, through
January 4, 1976 The young
designers also will see their
Seals featured in television
spots, newspaper stones,
posters and Christmas
card* < .adci’/le from Lan
cs ,u. County Lung
Association
Christmas Seals wen.
introduced into the United
States in 1907 bv Emily
Bissell, Miss Hart recalled
Miss Bissell, a social worker
in Wilmington, Delaware
borrowed the idea which was
originated by a postal
worke l in Denmark, to raise
more boring joba, such as
cleaning out horse stalls. She
can operate all the farm
equipment except the front
end loader, which she has not
tried, and drives a pick-up
instead of a car.
Her ambition is "even
tually to own and operate my
own farm." She is engaged
to a Michigan State
University graduate student
in zoology and plans to be
married within the next two
years. Her fiance, even
though a nonfarmer, is
agreeable to living on a farm
and helping with the
operation.
It’s simple for Estelle to
sum up her feelings about
her job as herdsman, “I’m
really lucky.”
money for a financially
distressed TB hospital on the
banks of the Brandywine
River in Delaware. Miss
Bissell designed the first
United States Seal herself. It
was a wreath of holly, with
the simple greeting, “Merry
Christmas.”
In later years well-known
artists such as Rockwell
Kent, Howard Pyle, Dale
Nichols and Stevan Dohanos
created Christmas Seal
designs. More recently, Seal
designs were chosen by the
lung association from entries
in an annual nationwide
competition open to amateur
and professional adult ar
tists.
About two years ago the
American Lung Association
decided on a complete
departure. With the
cooperation of the National
Art Education Association,
the first children’s Christ
mas Seal art project was
launched. Art teachers in
elementary grades asked
their classes to make
paintings expressing their
ideas about the Christmas
holiday season.
Teams of art teachers and
lung association
representatives selected six
paintings in each state and
the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands and Samoa-Guam to
be sent to the nationwide
selection committee. This
was composed of John J.
Mahlmann, Ed. D.,
executive secretary of. the
National Art Education
Association; Joshua Taylor,
director of the National
Collection of Fine Arts, and
Evart Brink, art director for
Fleming-Potter Lithography
in Peoria, one of the
Christmas Seal printers. In
January, 1974 this group
chose paintings by 34 girls
and 20 boys to compose the
sheet of 1975 Christmas
Seals.
Miss Hart pointed out that
each sheet of the Seals bears
the heading, “Christmas
Seal Greetings from the
Children of America ” She
added
“Let’s not let the children
down The best Christmas
greeting we can send in
return is a generous con
tribution to help the lung
association continue its work
of protecting the lungs of
children and giownups
Answer your Christmas Seal
letter today It’s a matter of
■if.* and breath ’
Area tack shop
Tandy Leather dealer
Carson’s Tack and
Western Store, Route 23,
Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, is
now a Tandy Leather
Authorized Sales Center.
According to Edward S.
Carson, the store’s owner,
Carson’s Tack and Western
Store will stock a selected
line of products from Tandy
Leather. Their products
include Leathercraft In
struction Books, Tools and
Supplies for better
leathercrafting, kits for
purses, holsters, billfolds,
etc., and assorted other
What’s New
Aflatoxin Detector
Numerous incidents of
contaminated grain have
recently been reported by
the FDA which could result
in financial loss for the
owners. Aflatoxin con
tamination can be readily
identified using long wave
ultraviolet lamps. This
technique was developed at
the Northern Regional
Research Laboratory, U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Ultra-Violet Products, Inc.
in San Gabriel manufactures
blak-RAY Ultraviolet Lamps
which can help the grain
It’s definitely "tender loving care"
for the animals at the Experimental
Farm. Herdsman Estelle Tulloss is
using her Animal Science background
as well as her affection for her four
footed charges.
leather projects for all serving the Blue Ball area
members of the family. since June, 1975.
Tandy Leather, a Division
of Tandycrafts, Inc.,
headquartered in Fort
Worth, Texas operated a
chain of leathercraft stores
in the United States and
Canada. The company ex
pects to establish a network
of 2000 Authorized Sales
Centers, like Carson’s Tack
and Western Store across the
nation.
Carson’s Tack and
Western Store has been
handler protect himself
against such a loss. When a
sample of grain is scanned
with these lamps a greenish
gold fluorescence confirms
the presence of aflatoxin.
When the handler sees this
fluorescence he should take
immediate action to prove
the gram is contaminated.
The B-100A high intensity
lamp has proven to be the
most popular device for
flatoxin detection. The 100
watt spot bulb makes
detection easy, even in well
lighted areas.
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