150—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 8," 1977
Adams County Master Farmer John H. Baugher checks his apple crop
grown by using wire trellis.
The graham cracker was named after the Reverend Sylvester W. Graham who in the 18th
century recommended a diet of bread made from coarse flour eaten slightly stale.
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feeing phased out.” i
Labor is the reason this I
operation w6nt into peach i
production.'~Baugher starts, 1
, the season digging and i
shipping nursery stock. Next I
he plants his lining out stock
anddoes nursery-work. Then
he handlesharvest cherries ,
on steep>slopes where the
machine won’t go. Peaches
fill in nicely between the
cherry and apple seasons.
Machinery costs per acre
on this farm run only $75.88.
This includes irrigation; 10
tractors; 5 sorayers; a
shaker, 6 trucks; and other
farm equipment. “One
reason we can keep per acre
costs low is by taking care of -
the equipment and making It
last. We don’t buy anything
unless we really need it,” -
Baugher relates.
As with any Master
Farmer, he is actively in
volved in numerous civic and
agricultural activities.
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Fruit grower
(Continued from Page 146) Baugher has held all. the
1% - offices in the Adams County
slipping the bud down tft the Association
tree we are slipping it up
r ilv t xj and is a member of the utdtG
from the bottom, lie says. HorHeultural Association
“It has been used-in New « or ? lc wturai Association,
York State with good sue- P® nns yl vania Farmers
cess I’m eager to see if it Association, Masonic Lodge,
cess, i m eager to see nit d Gettysburg Elk club.
will work for us. Presently
we have .about 500 trees A( f e *f ~
'Kndrinfi .1 ... m Adaros County Extoilsion
Association, Mountain Or-
Most of _ the nursery _ stock chard cooperative, Apple
Blossofil Queen Contest ’ 311(1
is barely adequate to take
care of' the demand. Most
other nurseries will not
expand because of the
problem of getting good help.
For this reason, Baugher is
going to try to cover the mail
order and backyard
markets
In his own orchard the
Master Fanner likes to grow
dwarf apple trees on wire.
“We probably > will be
shaking apples by the time
this year’s plantings come !
into production,” he
predicts. “For this reason I
like semi-dwarfs. _ Our
standard-sized trees are
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Abe Diffenbach, Manager
president of the Christ
Lutheran Church of Aspers.
He and his wife, Nadine,
are the parents of four
children. Julia, the oldest, is
married and a graduate of
Madison College. John, Jr.,
is a student,.at Delaware
Valley College majoring in
horticulture; Phillip works
on the farm taking care, of
bookkeeping; and Chris is in
high school.