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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 7, 1976
From
By JUDY MITCHELL
Berks Co. Reporter
LENHARTSVILLE - As
the numbers of farmers who
produce the food for our
continuously growing
populations dimmish,
concern about young people
leaving the farms each year
to seek outside employment
increases. It now appears,
however, that at least a
small percentage of city
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Linda’s chores include feeding the calves.
Flushing to Lenhartsville
city girl comes to the farm
youth may be moving in to
help fill the gap.
Over a year ago, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Haas of
Lenhartsville saw an article
in an agricultural
publication about a New
York City school that offers a
program for a select group of
high school students in
terested in a career in
agriculture. One
requirement for completing
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the course was that students
spend at least two summers
working on a farm. The idea
appealed to them, Haas said
because here were kids who
really wanted to get into the
dust and dirt and find out
what farming was really
like.
The Haas’s subsequently
contacted the John Bowne
High School in Flushing New
York, but learned that all
students had already been
placed for the summer of 75.
Although they have three
grown children of their own
(Paul, age 23, Emily 22, and
Cathy 18) still living and
helping in the operation of
the family farm, the idea of
having an ag student from a
city school spend a summer
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1976
10:00 A.M.
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7000 Modified 7000
7000 Super Stock 8500
9000 Super Stock 11,000
9000 Open 13,000
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with them stuck, and this
year the Haas’s again made
application to John Bowne
and were given the name of
Linda Guaghano.
Linda and -her mother
visited the Haas farm during
the Easter vacation, and
according to Haas, after only
a few hours they seemed like
old friends. It was agreed
that Linda would spend the
summer living and working
with the Haas family.
(According to the school
regulations, the host family
pays a first year ag student
$25 and a second year
student $35 for work per
formed.)
Seventeen-year-old Linda,
who appeared as com
fortable in her bib overalls
as any Pennsylvania farm
girl might, explained that
she had entered the ag
program at John Bowne in
her sophomore year. Linda
belongs to what might be
considered an elite group at
her school, Haas pointed out,
because, unlike here in
Pennsylvania, students
wishing to enroll in John
Bowne’s ag program are
tested and personally in
terviewed prior to ac
ceptance. Once in the
program, the ag students
Compare this blower to conventional blowers
The Gehl F 899 has staggered fan blades, six on
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of available soace in the nine inch pipe Result
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a steadier flow of air and material Pressure and
velocity is maintained as material is blasted up
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215-273-9730 717-665-2271
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717-285-4844
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717-263-8424
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CHESTER SPRINGS, PA
215-827-7414
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RT. 4 LEBANON, PA
(FONTANA)
717-867-5161
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QUARRYVILLE, PA
717-786-3521
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133 Rothsviile Station Road
Litib, PA
717-626-4705
must maintain a high grade
average or, according to
Linda, “you’re out.”
Linda is one of about 60 ag
students entering their
senior year at Queens
County High School, which
numbers approximately 200
ag students in all.
Linda’s summer at the
Haas’s completes the course
requirement for two sum
mers of work experience,
proceeded by one summer at
the school’s land lab. The
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215-932-2615
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