Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
VOL 24 No. f £.
Century farmers honored
ByKENDACEBORRY
LANCASTER Six-
Ln Lancaster County
ma families were honored
fhursday night for keeping
jie farm in the family for
nore than 100 years.
The awards were
iresented at The Second
Innual Agriculture-Industry
anquet sponsored by the
Both families having farms in the family that dated from 1717, John and Ruth
Miller, Lancaster, on the left, and Harry Weaver and Meta L. Zimmerman, East
Earl Rl; were honored Thursday night at the agriculture-industry banquet.
PLA honors Henry Gruber
By JOAN LIES AU
HARRISBURG - Henry A.
W. Gruber, New Tripoli R 2,
was named the Penn
sylvania Livestock Man of,
the Year at the Penn
sylvania Livestock
Editorials 10
Farm Calendar' 10
Homestead Notes 50
Junior Cooking Edition 53
fcoyce Bupp 54
bendy’s Kollumn 55
Ladies have you heard 56
Farm Women Societies 57
Home on the Range - 58
Agriculture Committee of
the-Lancaster Association of
' Commerce and Industry and
held at the Good’n Plenty
Restaurant, Smoketown.
Lancaster County Extension
Agent Max Smith made the
awards.
Calling the family farm
the “backbone of American
agriculture”, he presented
Association Annual Awards
Banquet held November 5 at
the Crossgates Inn,
Harrisburg.
Gruber is presently head
of livestock procurement at
Arbogast and Bastian Inc.
In this issue
Ida's Notebook 59
Recipe Swap t 60
Farm Women Calendar 60
Lane. Co. Farm Women 61
Harford Co. Farm Bureau 63
KILE stories 65,66,
107,110,122,130
Classifieds 66
Lane. Co. tour 98
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11,1078
the awards to the following
families:
Robert E. and Anna H.
Brandt, Elizabethtown R 3,
with a 100 acre farm dating
from 1861;
Paul N. and Ethel M.
Buckwalter, Lancaster, a 57
acre farm since 1747;
Carl G. and Ruth J.
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He is also manger of A & B
Farms.
Gruber organized the
Eastern Pennsylvania Pork
Producers Association and
helped in the organization of
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British 102
Lebanon dairy herd 108
Sheep survey 112
Chester-Del. tour 114
Conservation goals 117-
KILE scenes 120
York Co. Farm Women 125-
Sales reports 137
Sale register 138
John Zimmerman
Ephrata
Area FFA’ers post triumphs
at national convention
By DIETER KRIEG
“ KANSAS CITY, Mo. - FFA
members from southeastern
and southcentral Penn
sylvania fared well in
contests held here during the
National FFA Convention,
Which ended here yesterday.
The convention, which
lasted the entire week, was
highlighted by visits from
President Carter - who
received a rousing welcome -
Harvesting weather ‘fantastic’
ByKENDACEBORRY
UTlTZ—Talking to many
,of the com and soybean
farmers in the Lancaster
Farming area, you get the
impression that they have
big smiles on their faces. It
all has to do with the har
vesting weather this year.
“I’ve never seen anything
like it,” was one man’s
enthusiastic comment. “I
can’t remember such a good
growing season followed by
such beautiful weather to
harvest the com. We didn’t
' Henry Gruber of Allentown, center, was named Livestock Man of the Year at
the Pennsylvania Livestock Association annual awards banquet, November 4.
John Henkle, a former recipient, (far right) and Isaac Yates, president of the
Association present the award to Gruber while his wife and son Seth look on.
Wendy Shaw
Oley Valley
and' other speakers, in
cluding famed radio
newscaster Paul Harvey and
North American Soccer
League star Kyle Rote Jr.
Capturing some of the top
honors in judging events
were Wendy and Steve
Shaw, dairy cattle judges
from Oley Valley High
School in Berks County. Both
were awarded gold, medals
during awarfi ceremonies on
lose one day due to the
weather.”
He went on to tell in detail
about the lack of rainstorms
or windstorms that may mar
the harvest time in a normal
year. But this year there
were none of those problems,
the weather continuing
dear, warm, and sunny
throughout the Fall.
Another farmer too
pondered when he seen such
a good harvest time. “You
just don’t get weather.like
$6.00 Per Year
Steve Shaw
Oley Valley
Friday morning. Also
capturing a gold in dairy
competition was John
Zimmerman of Ephrata,
whose specialty was dairy
showmanship. Another
Ephrata youth, John Weiler,
was honored for being one of
four regional winners in
agricultural sales
proficiency. He has been
employed by Atlantic
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this to harvest your crops,”
he related. *
The fanners reported
above average to good
harvests of com this year,
and stated that the com
stood-that there wasn’t
much loss due to knocked
down stalks. All com was
reported in by the fanners
spoken to, and most of the
soybean crop was “just
about done”.
As one farmer put it, it was
a “far different situation”
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