—Lancaster Farming, Saturday',November'S, 1977 38 Northumberland-Monroe farmers told farm city relations began 8000 B.C. STOCKERTOWN - Pennsylvania Farmers Association members from Northampton and Monroe Counties and the Eastern Chamber of Commerce held their annual Farm-City dinner Thursday night, with approximately 180 persons attending. Master of ceremomes for the evening, and president of the executive committee of the Northampton County Extension Service, David Paul, related how agriculture spawned civilization about 10,000 years ago. Up until agriculture evolved as an art, man had no stable civilizations, the dairyman and crop farmer from Mooresville told the group. “Two things were needed to support a stable civilization - water and wheat,” Paul continued. It was around 8000 B.C. that man successfully cultivated wild plants which eventually Horse, mule, tractor (Continued from Page 3 3) horses and farmed with big Percheron draft horses, Curt preferred mules. He kept some horses and he bought and sold horses, but he was convinced that a mule would work harder, pull more, eat less and not have to rest as often. He always claimed that a medium-sized mule, weighing less than 1500 pounds, could out-work a 2000 pound horse. Although his claim was probably right, he didn’t win many converts. His neighbors kept their horses because they preferred them, and Curt sold his mules farther south where they were better liked. Meanwhile tunes changed and those farmers who preferred horses found they really preferred tractors. And so one at a tune the jobs that required animal power were eliminated. The last job planting com was taken over by tractors soon after the war and the great debate between horses and mules became academic. That’s about the tune that tractor colors became important. It’s a funny thmg the way tractors are associated with colors. Automobile brands came in a rainbow of colors colors that change with each new model. But a John Deere tractor is a certain shade of green-the same green for 50 years. That’s also true for International Harvester (red) and Allis Chalmers (orange). Ford started out gray, then turned blue. Some of the others have changed colors as they sought to change an unage or were brought up by another company, but those were one-tune changes. Once deemed, a tractor color stays the same for years-even generations. And so the final question must be asked-would a John Deere m any other color still be a John Deere? Ah yes, a rose is a rose is a rose.. evolved as a form of wheat which could sustain a population in one place. No longer did man have to be nomadic. Instead of sear ching for food and following herds of animals for possible kills, man grew his own food where he lived and soon after began domesticating animals. From that moment for ward man could direct his intelligence' and energy towards a multitude of things. With the food supply stationary, he was free to build cities. With that came different occupations to support agriculture and a new way of life. Things have changed a lot since then, but the basic relationship between farmer and non-farmer still exists. Each needs the other, Paul told the group. Farm-City relations have the purpose of bringing about a better understanding between rural and urban segments of society. The two segments of society are “Partners in Economic Progress,” a phrase which is serving as the theme for Farm-City activities in Pennsylvania this month. Dedicated to fostering better relations, Paul proposed that county farm organizations produce a program which can serve as vehicles to better un derstanding. A good and dynamic public speaker from the farming com munity, plus a few slides were suggested. Such a program should then be advertised by way of a letter to the heads of numerous service clubs and other organizations in town. 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Helping m the efforts for better farm-city relations aside from the Northamp ton-Monroe Counties Far mers Association and the Easton Chamber of Com- merce, was the Cooperative Extension Service of Nor thampton County. Drivers watch for deer The Game Commission reminds Pennsylvania motorists that more deer will be killed on the state’s highways during the hunting seasons than at any other time of the year. Whitetails will be par ticularly active during the period. 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At this time he owns four cows-three of which are Holstems and one Ayrshire, which he and his family chuckle about “I got the Ayrshire in FFA when I wrote an essay,” Ken explains. “I was the only guy who wrote an essay, so I won her.” A chain calf, her first heifer calf had to go back to the chapter, which has been done. Ken also has four heifers of his own. Ken’s philosophy about game seasons stir up spooky whitetails which head for other hiding places, often crossing highways to reach their destmation. Drivers should be con stantly alert for whitetails which may suddenly bound onto the road in front of vehicles. The danger can be Ramik is a pesticide Handle it as you would any other orchard chemical Never allow exposure of drums to non target species Do not expose bait in small piles, or in a constncted pattern- The bait should be scattered evenly over the orchaid floor at the rate specified on the label Reseal any unused portion of the bait and store in a closed storage area FFA is much like that ex pressed by Ray Martin. “I have to laugh at myself when I think back on how worked up I used to get about awards,” he says. “But, they motivated me, and that was important.” Lake Martin, to Ken, the American Farmers degree will be an honor, but it will not be the ultimate goal in his life as it once might have been. But, FFA has done a lot for Ken and Ray, and on Thursday when they pick up their awards in Kansas City, the organization will recognize their efforts as jobs well done. as great in the daytime as at night. Reduced speed lessens the danger. Deer, like most forms of wildlife, are creatures of habit and often follow the same trails and cross highways at the same locations. Warning signs have been placed along roads where whitetails frequently cross.
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