Farmers story being publicized
■ By DIETER KRIEG
■ DARLINGTON, Md. -
■Henry Holloway has been on
■a whole bunch of TV shows, ,
■has made headlines in
■newspapers, and confronted
■both consumer groups and
■union leaders. But he hasn’t
■done all that because he likes
■the limelight, but rather
■because he wants non
■ farmers to know about
■ agriculture.
I It all started three years
■ago when a group of women
I who called themselves
■“Housewives Against Rising
■ Prices” started to capture
■ some publicity' with their
Bpmarks about rising meat
■prices.
I Holloway, who in part-
I nersbip with his brother,
I Richard, raises hogs and
I beef cattle, didn’t think the
I ladies from Fallston had all
I the facts, so be decided to
I call up the leader of the pack
I and attempt hr straighten
her out.
To his surprise, the lady
invited him out to their next
meeting so he could tell his
side of the story.
, A likeable fellow with an
innate sense of humor,
Holloway recollects bow he
became a little nervous
about what he had gotten
imnself into.
“So I thought of the biggest
| farmer I could think of, both
| Physically and otherwise, to
Lgelp me out,” the witty .
manner said. That was
Hawrason Sayre, an
'ngineer turned farmer
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whom Holloway describes as
a big fellow who excelled
athletically and
/academically, at Yale.
Together they confronted tibe
75 women who were looking
for someone to blame for
/
Hospital farms controversial
Editor’s Note: More than
6400 acres of farm land
currently operated by eight
state hospitals may be up for
grabs In the coining months
because the Welfare
Department claims the
farms are losing money. The
Dairy judges win state event
By MELISSA PIPER
LANCASTER Cloister
' FFA membeis, representing
Ephrata High School,
captured three top place
awards in die State In
vitational Dairy Judging
Milk jugger tells his story
By DIETER KRIEG
CAMPBELLTOWN
“Farming is (me business
working with the public
that’s another,” Marlin Hitz
began, as be was about to
reveal many of the hurdles
be encountered prior to his
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24,1976
high prices. They were in for
some surprises.
Cameramen from a
Baltimore TV station were
there to record the activity
for a newscast.
Holloway told the group to
issue Is creating somewhat
of a controversy and was the
subject of a symposium held
in Harrisburg last Tuesday.
Pennsylvania Agrlcnltne
Secretary Raymond Ker
stetter, Grange legislative
chairman Charles Wismer
Contest held earlier this
month, at Penn State.
Cloister’s B Team* scored a
total of 1,561 points to top the
field of 39 teams from all
• across the Commonwealth.
Members of the first place
family going into the milk
“jugging” market
“I never realized there
could be so much red tape, so
many regulations, and so
many inspections,” he
continued. Preparations,
come down to an “benest-to
goodness farm, instead of
sitting around < in a
development”
The ladies accepted the
invitation and came to
Holloway’s property where
Jr., and State Represen
tative Kenneth Brandt,
among others, made their
opinions known at the day
long meeting. Following are
summaries of statements
made by Kerstetter and
Winner and remarks made
team were Bob Fox, Unford
Frey, Kevin Smoker and
Mark. Weller.
Third place booms went to
Cloister’s A team with
members John Weiler,
Curtis Martin, Cliff Martin
including zoning, take about
a year and all permits have
to be approved before a
shovel of ground can be
turned. “The government is
not in any hurry,” Hits
remarked. He has seven
licenses on display in the
they were taken on a tour
and given a thorough ex
planation of what’s involved
in producing beef and pork.
Again, to Ms surprise, the
ladies didn’t come by
themselves they were
by Brandt in a telephone
interview with this
newspaper.
HARRISBURG Ap
pearing before the House
Agriculture Committee,
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and Cheryl Bollinger
competing. Fourth place in
the contest was also won by a
Cloister Team. The “C”
team consisted of Larry
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dairy store and a few others'
elsewhere.
One of those licenses is for
food handling which is
required in his case since his
“Dol-Mar Dairy Store” dips
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$3.00 Per Year
One of the nation’s
outstanding spokesmen
for agriculture, Henry
Holloway, right, looks
over some of his beef
cattle with four-year old
son, Andy, and brother,
Richard. The Holloways
farm approximately 700
acres in partnership and
produce beef cattle and
hogs. The ag spokesman
has made numerous TV
appearances and has
been the subject of many
newspaper stories.
accompanied by TV
cameramen, more
housewives, and children.
. All this eventually
snowballed until Holloway
was making headlines in the
papas and invited to make
TV appearances in
Baltimore. At one point he
was even in attendance at a
meat cutters’ union meeting.
“That was really
something,” the trim farmer
recollected. “They had body
guards all over the place,
and cars were checked for
bombs —it gave you a funny
feeling.”
Prior to each TV ap
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In this issue
Farm Calendar 10
Editorial Comments 10
Classifieds 26
Country Comer 42
Homestead Notes 42
Home on the Range 45
Womens’ Calendar 45
Life on the farm 24 52
Mini-vacation story 54
FF A procedures
contests 62, 63
Old-time farm show 64
Thoughts in passing 71
Bicentennial farm 72
Lancaster DHIA 78
Candidates introduced 86
Konbaus Turkey Farm 93
York DHIA 94
Marylanders honored 96
Public Sales Register 101
Sale Reports 106