Century
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Hamish, Lancaster R 6, 93
acres since 1860;
Daniel K. and Joretta
Hershey, Manheim R 5, 92
acres since 1832;
Glenn and Helen Hershey,
Gordonville Rl, 82 acres
from 1801;
H. Rme and Grace D.
Hershey, Gordonville Rl, a
100 acre farm since 1827;
Mark S. and Helen T.
Hess, Lancaster, 105 acres
from 1754;
Richard H. and Thelma J.
Hess, Strasburg Rl; 116
acres from 1867;
John H. and Carol M.
Hottenstein, Lancaster, 46
acres since 1831;
John and Ruth Miller,
Lancaster, a 93 acre farm
from 1717;
Galen and Lilli Ann Kopp
and Sons; Mount Joy R 3, 21
acres since 1857;
John E. and Betty J.
Kreider, Lancaster, 99 acres
since 1813;
Clarence D. and Alverta
Rohrer, Lancaster; a 54 acre
farm from 1784;
Harry C. and B. Lila
Rohrer, Manheim R 2, 106
acres since 1734;
Kenneth A. and Anna G.
Skiles,Narvon R 2, a 113 acre
farm from 1841; and
Harry Weaver and Meta L.
Zimmerman, East Earl Rl,
a 38 acre farm from 1717.
Speaker for the evening
was Robert Rumler,
executive chairman of the
Holstein-Fnesian Associat
ion of America, Brattleboro,
Vt, and a native of the
Chambersburg area.
He spoke of the role of
American agriculture in
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international trade today,
telling that farm products
have become a national
asset, adding $l3 billion to
the U.S. balance of
payments.
And Pennsylvania con
tributes heavily to this ex
port supply, he said, in
cluding products of “dairy
and beef semen, apples,
fresh meats, canned fruits
and vegetables, baked
goods, sausage, goldfish, eel,
fertile turkey eggs, and
feathers”.
He stated that one-half of
the nation’s wheat and
soybeans are exported as
well as one-third of the rice
and cotton and one-quarter
of the field com.
Japan is the largest single
importer of American
products, he noted. America
has more acreage producing
food for Japan than Japan
does.
He stated that Japan
imported $4 billion worth of
U.S. farm products last
year, compared to the $6.4
billion purshcased by the
nine European countries.
In fact, he said that the
U.S. will export a total of $26
to $27 billion worth of farm
products this year.
He told that the
agricultural exports create
jobs for one million people in
the U.S. m addition to the
five per cent of the
population that does the
actual farming.
He stated that the fanners'
are running efficient
businesses to lower
production costs. He called
for full production of farms,
saying that it was needed for
an adequate food supply and
the most efficient produc
tion, ultimately serving the
public consumer and the
national and public in
terests.
“We have the cheapest
food m relation to income
and the greatest variety
compared to any other
country in the world,” he
noted.
“It is critical that we
become more conscious as a
nation just how much of our
future will be wrapped up in
international trade,”.
Summing up the con
tribution that agriculture
has made, he stated
“Seldom have so many owed
so much to so few as the
American citizen to the
American farmer.”
Included in the list of Lancaster County century Hess, Strasburg Rl; Clarence and Alverta Rohrer,
farms were, from left to right, John and Betty J. Lancaster; and Harry C. and B. Lila Rohrer
Kreider, Lancaster; Richard H. and Thelma J. Manheim R 2.
the farmers who were honored for G. and Ruth J. Harnish, Lancaster R 6; Daniel K.
Amonj
working century farms were, from left to right, H. and Joretta Hershey, Manheim R 5; and John H.
Rine and Grace D. Hershey, Gordonville Rl; Carl and Carol M. Hottenstein, Lancaster.
Also receiving awards for their family farms Gordonville Rl; Galen and Lilli Ann Kopp and Sons
were, from left to right, Paul N. and Ethel M. Mount Joy R 3; Kenneth A. and Anna G. Skiles,
Buckwalter, Lancaster; Mark S. and Helen T. Narvon R 2; and Robert E. and Anna H. Brandt,
Hess, Lancaster: Gienn and Helen Hershey, Elizabethtown R 3.
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