I&—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 15, 1977 Farm Show (Continued from Page 171 praise for Harrisburg’s annual ag expo. “It’s always a good show, we always look forward to coming, and it pays all five of us to be here,” a spokesman said. “It’s the biggest and best show on the East Coast,” he concluded. “It’s very definitely to our advantage to show here,” the man at the Schuld exhibit exclaimed. He was pleased with the facilities, very well satisfied with 1976, and very optimistic for 1977, based on the inquiries he was getting from farmers. “The Farm Show stacks up very, very fine to others in the country - it’s one of the finest in the slates,” he concluded. The people at White Motors considered at tendance here to be ex cellent, in spite of adverse weather and road conditions. They had brought in seven tractor-trailer loads of displays, including $32,000 worth of props. In the 16 years that a gentleman at the Mathews Company display has been coming to Harrisburg, he has “never been disap pointed.” He went on to relate that' “this is one out of basically six major shows that we go to, and this is the best or tied for the best.” Who’s the Farm Show tied up with? If that’s so, the M-C man was asked. Auto Service Tips AIR. FILTER. KEEPS PUST OUT of tF/E CAREURETdR ANP ENGINE. A PTR7VA/R F/L7EE Costß CAS MILEAGE, n'/G REFLACEP EPER' MILES. /ESEVERE. ARE ENCOLTNISREP, ELEMENT GHoULP EE CLEANER OR REPLACE! IMMEPIATELY “Louisville,” he replied Asked about space availability, the company representative said it was the Farm Show’s major shortcoming. The other was that the structure was aging noticeably. “Maybe we should build a bigger building even if the exhibitors have to end up paying higher space ren tals,” he concluded. Another exhibitor disagreed, af firming he’d prefer to stay with the old facilities if a new building means higher rental rates. The representative at Hamilton Equipment con cluded his remarks by saying: “the Farm Show itself is the high point of our year in respect to showing new and interesting concepts of machinery to farm associated people and farm implement dealers. It’s a very important show for us. There aren’t too many good outdoor shows anymore, most have degenerated to a circus-like atmosphere. This show is on a higher plain.” Next on this writer’s list for interviews were the fellows outside. It was 5 p.m., the sun had disap peared and the icy weather held a tight grip on the nearly deserted scene. Company representatives were apparently keeping warm somewhere, as was most anyone else. So ends this story. Impressive and spacious is what visitors to the inadequate to put on the kind of exposition they’d Farm Show consider the main exhibition hall. But like to see. to some who exhibit here, the facilities are Tylan: * tylosln The Feed Saver. 23,838 farm-raised hogs proved Performance results from only a handful of pigs just won’t cut it anymore. You need facts. Plenty of them. Tylan proved in thousands of hogs, in programs just like yours it’ll save feed, boost gains, cut production costs. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE YOUR FEED SUPPLIER BY NEW HOLLAND SUPPLY CO. it.
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