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home in 1953. He said that
while the group is here
primarily to see dairying,
“They are interested in all
kinds of farming. They are
interested in making a few
breakthroughs in dairy
mechanization. They do
some very sophisticated
tarming, but it is labor in
tensive and they expend
more labor to do it. China’s
been farming for 4,C00
years.”
The group was ac
companied from China by
Hinton’s sister Joan and her
husband Irving (Sid) Engst,
who have lived and worked
with the Chinese for 30
years.
Engst, who is presently
with the Chinese Ministry of
Agriculture organized the
trip with contacts in this
country. It was paid for by a
budget from Liu’s office, and
hosted, in part, by the U.S. -
China People’s Friendship
Association, of which there
are chapters across this
country.
Joan said, “This is to leam
about dairy mechanization
at the grass roots level, and
to see fanners work. They
have stayed in homes and
took part in milking.”
Engst added, “We will try
to get model farms going
when we return; farms
which are far advanced over
the average. Our purpose is
to study the best of what the
United States has.” He
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Visitors toured the Pennfieid Hog Research Facility at Mountain View Farm,
Frystown, as part of their visit in Southeastern Pa.
explained that they will
purchase some American
equipment and will make
some equipment to help
move ' toward more
mechanization.
At each stop the Chinese
showed great interest m the
farming operation. They
were courteous and friendly,
and despite the language
barrier, seemed genuinely
pleased with the hospitality
of their hosts.
Xing said, “Our American
friends were extremely
warm. We are eating well
and enjoying it. The first 20
days went very quickly.”
Xing added, “It is all in
teresting - not just the cows,
but the whole agricultural
scene.
It is not difficult to un
derstand why the time is
going quickly. The group
arrived in the United State
on August 9 and will depart
September 18. They have
already spent one week in
the Chino Valley in
California, and one week in
the Madison, Wisconsm,
area. They are m Penn
sylvania for nearly one week
and will travel to New York
state, the home of Engst, and
spend two weeks living with
four farm families there.
They have managed trips to
Disneyland and Philadelphia
and mil see New York City
beforereturnmg to China.
They will not return
empty-handed. They will
have their ever-present
notebooks filled to over-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 1,1979
flowing with facts, statistics
and figures.
Most of the visitors were
technical workers, including
dairy equipment
technicians, animal
husbandry workers, forage
technicians qnd engineers.
Twelve of the group was
from the Beijing city
leadership, one is from the
city of Sian and one is in the
Ministry of Farm
Machinery, working on its
research farm.
Liu explained that the city
of Beijmg includes an eight
county area surrounding the
city which makes up a large
portion of a province. There
are 3,800,000 peasants in the
outlying district and 5,000,00
city residents. There 280
communes, or farm
cooperative units in this
geographical area, with 16
state-managed and under his
directorship.
At Fernhost Farm,
operated by Albert Moyer, m
Lebanon County, the visitors
were enthralled with each
piece of large equipment.
They watched demon
strations of it being operated
and asked specific questions
including the cost of the
equipment.
Moyer told about his 80-
cow milking herd and show
ed the group some outstan
ding cows. Perhaps the thing
which stirred the most atten
tion was his mention that
they just successfully
transplanted two embryos
from a cow. This generated a
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lot of questions from the
Chinese, with one man
taking a specific interest in
the details involved. Hinton
explained, “They don’t have
the genetic background to
choose from.” The in
terested Chinese later with
County Extension Agent
Newton Bair and questioned
him more thoroughly,
through Engst, on the
procedure. All cows are
currently bred with artificial
insemination.
Moyer also hosted the
Chinese to a chicken bar
becue lunch, "which they
seemed to eat with gusto.
At the Hershey Bare farm
at Lebanon R 2, the visitors
took the opportunity to drive
a tractor. One of the women
in the group is a tractor
driver with the commune.
They also visited the
Dutch Country Egg Factory
and Pennfield’s Hog
Research Facility at
Mountain View, Farm,
Frystown. There, the
Chinese visitors gamely took
the required shower and
changed into the coveralls
and sneakers provided for
disease prevention. There
was much laughter and
good-natured joshing about
their appearances.
After touring the facilities
which produce MO,OOO tat
pigs a year, they
extensive questions of
Melvin Huber, farm
manager. They wanted to
know how much feed it takes
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