s&—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 27, 1976 ’ -*:**~ - *" C*'~< vV;®** -' ‘: ' a i> * -v> "w * i*. , . /« V* V* *• a ' j. y, > ‘ •- -r. >Z'X±l'- - ■ The buildings of the Roy M. Hetrick farm near Shellsvilie finally found a permanent home atop the rolling hills on the property. By JOANNE SPAHR SHELLSVILLE, Pa.—The land has seen a lot of changes in its time. Over the past 200 years, four different sets of buildings have sprung up and disappeared at dif ferent spots on its hills, and everything from slowly plodding, overburdened horse and mule teams to swiftly pounding high hor sepowered trucks with tandem wheels have made their way over the topsoil. Only a few markers remain as monuments to the past. One of those is a spring which the present owner of the farm has taken pains to preserve, and another is a walnut tree which stands beside the present day bam, healthy and thriving although it has been struck five or six times by lightening, and survived a bam fire that scorched its limbs and trunk. The farm bemg described is owned by Roy M. and Mary E. Hetrick. It has been in the same family since 1873, and if any man knows its history, that man is Roy Hetrick because he was born and raised on the farm and never once left it. “I never did an hour’s public work,” says the one hundred per cent farmer COMPLETE FARM PAINTING We Use Quality PAINT AND IT DOES STAY ON" AERIAL LADDER EQUIPMENT * Modern and Efficient Method * Reasonable Prices * Spray On and Brush-In Method * Sandblasting if Necessary FOR FREE ESTIMATES WRITE ESH SPRAY PAINTING (DanielS Esli) (C Ralph Miller) SPRAY ON AND BRUSH IN PAINTER BOX 350 A 17572 RONKS PA f ' r 4 - with pride. Of course, he has helped out neighboring farmers and relatives when it was needed, but as far as a non-agricultural, paying job is concerned, he has never worked off the farm. “First I helped my father, then when my brother Mark owned it I helped him.” In 1932 Mark left the land and sold the farm to Hetrick, and he’s been farming on his own ever since. Right now the operation has about 109 acres which the Hetricks put to use m general farming. They have Hereford beef cattle and used to have dairy until two years ago “At that time, they wanted me to put in a bulk tank and a new milk house, and I’m just too old to do all that,” states Hetrick matter-of-factly. He is 68 years old. And, while at 109 acres, the farm is 15 acres larger than the original Hetrick pur chase back in 1873, it is nevertheless 18 acres smaller than it once was due to the fact that eight years Roy Hetrick wanted to be sure that was preserved, so he had a stone wall one of the three springs on the farm built around it. H Santa Says: There's Still Time to Open A Christmas Club! I IT PAYS TO PLAN AHEAD, 1./0/JV OUR 49' er CHRISTMAS CLUB t(YOU PAY 49 WEEKS, WE PAY THi X | AVAILABLE IN AMOUNTS FROM j.*l TO *2O PER WEEK THE FARMERS NATIONAL BANK OF QUARRYVILLE SMALL ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU LARGE ENOUGH TO SERVE YOU TWO CONVENILNT SOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY LOCAUONS QUARRiwIIIE PHONE 17171 78b 7337 AtOPPORTUNITY LENDER MCMBtR f 0 ! C lAi/h mCCOUNT INSURED TO STO 000 I 3 Bicentennial farm I , "5 Xssl 'SSi»*> &,*■ ***** „■* ** '4* -V *** * ** «* *&£u J .-» 2 ■* */ ' - '*v v'' 'tWf * ago Interstate 81 plowed right through it and ate up a fair portion of the land. “They put the northbound lane right where my stream used to be,” says Hetrick with consternation. “And, then, when they relocated the stream like I asked them to, you know where they put it?” he asks incredulously. “They put it right between the highway and their right of way line,” he concludes. As a result, Hetrick is not able to water his cattle at the stream on his land anymore. “Oh, if I want, I can truck them around to my land on the other side of the high way,” he admits. “But,” he continues, “there’s no sense to that.” At present, a beneficent neighbor who hasn’t lost the right of way to'the stream allows Hetrick to pasture cattle on his land. This isn’t the end to the headaches modern civilization has created for this farmer. At the same tune they put in 1-81, the electric company put up a * I 'T " V" v * $• * power line - the highest powered one that they had at the time. “The electric’s a lot easier to live with,” he says. “They don’t like to have to bother with weeds growing up, so -.J they let you farm right up Although they have ac under the towers.” Of cepted the fate of their course, they do have 200 feet present situation, the right of way, and they can Hetricks must still live with come in any time to do work it daily. The noise of the on the lines, but that rarely happens. I Continued on Page 861 * i 4a *■ M t * * r S' * . > v - -• '-*5.
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