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and comments flew through shopping area. It was such a
the air at the York Mall last success that they promised
Friday and Saturday as the to come back this year with
Women’s Committee of the enough to cover the whole
York County Farmers’ length of the shopping
Association took it over for center.
the American Agriculture
Day Display.
Two years ago, the women
ventured into the mall for the
first time with a display
covering just one end of the
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The undisputed favorites
of any farm display are
always the real, live baby
animals. Children, and
adults, too, flocked around
the calf crib to touch and ask
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“Hamming it up" is Aiiean Detter, secretary
for the York County Farmers Association, and her
unwilling four-legged friend. If you want to get the
attention of dozens of Mall shoppers in a hurry,
pick up a pig. The pig's shrieks brought astounded
people scurrying from all directions to see what
was happening.
questions about the day-old
baby Holstein. Two weaning
size piglets snoozed in a
playpen further up the mall,
generating endless questions
about age of market pigs,
location of various pork cuts,
■and marketing weights.
But the top drawing card
was the incubator filled with
two dozen hatching baby
chicks. It was a push
becomes-shove task just to
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get close to the incubator,
surrounded by faces
displaying emotions of
disbelief, awe, and pure
delight.
Static montages of mouth
watering fruits and
vegetables explained that
pesticides make cheap and
abundant food possible.
Cartoons accompanied some
displays, adding that touch
of humor to the facts and
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statistics farmers shared
with urban consumers,
A small utility tractor at
the one end of the mall
beckoned children to crawl
on and sit in the driver’s
seat. The accompanying
price tag reading $7470
helped explain the cost
factor end of farming to
observers.
“Pigs Is Beautiful” was
the theme the pork
producers chose to set the
stage for telling the leaner,
nutritious pork story. Ailean
Better, who was sporting her
famous “pork cuts”
jumpsuit, didn’t think they
were too beautiful when one
small porker almost jumped
out over his pen.
Shoppers sampled all-beef
bologna and listened to die
ballad of “The Great
American Farmer” while
they munched. On the other
end of the beef display, a
poster broke down the cost of
raising an animal from 475
pounds to market weight of
1075 pounds. The final figure
showed a net loss of $33.30.
And, even the men got into
the action. They helped
supply the muscle for setting
up some displays and
loading and unloading from
vehicles. Paul McPherson,
New Park, was discovered
running machinery, as
usual. The machinery was
not his big grain combine,
though. It was a movie
projector, showing films
telling the story of the
American food producer.
Are tiie women ready to go
back again?
“Well, next year we’ll
try ” someone was
overheard to say.