VOL 25 N*. 3
Seven Lancaster County Century farms were honored Thursday evening at
the third annual ag-industry banquet. The banquet is sponsored by the
Agriculture Committee of the Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry.
This barn stands on .the property owned by Dennis and Linda Umbrell, R 3
Elizabethtown. They are the direct descendents of the first Risser family who
purchased 325 acres from the sons of William Penn, 240 years ago.
Century Farms honored
*at Ag-industry banquet
BY DEBRA STRICKLER
LANCASTER - Seven
Lancaster County farm
families were honored
Thursday evening at the
Third Annual Agriculture -
Industry Banquet, held at
Good ’N Plenty Restaurant.
The banquet is sponsored
by the Agriculture Com
mittee of the Lancaster
Association of Commerce
and Industry. It served as a
“kick-off” to Farm-City
Week, November 16-22.
The seven families were
honored as owners of Cen
tury Farms. They have kept
the farm in the family for at
least 100 years.
The Century Farm t
recognition program was
initiated during the
Bicentennial year by the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture.
The purpose of the
program is to emphasize the
importance of rural tradition
in Pennsylvania and the
longevity of farm ownership.
In 1977, 25 families were
honored. Last year, 16
In this issue
Editorial 10
Century Farms 16
Manheun Capon Roundup 32
Classified Ads 46
Homestead Notes 82
Junior Cooking Edition 84
Home on the Range 88
Joyce Bupp 93
Farm Women Societies 94
Farm-City Week 110
Farm Talk 118
k Lebanon Co. DHIA 123
Ag Land Worshops 127
Beef Referendum 134
families received the cer
tificate.
Designed to provide the
community with a sense of
pride, a certificate and
marker are given to each
farm family.
This year’s Century farm
families included: Milton M.
Brubaker and Mary B.
Clark, Brunnerville Road,
Lititz; Albert E. and
Kathryn Fry, R 7 Manheim;
Miles W. and Babette Fry,
R 3 Ephrata; Morton F. and
Beckie Fry, R 3 Ephrata;
Calvin D. and Valeria
Keene, R 1 Christiana;
Mervin E. and Emma
Peifer, R 1 Manheim and
Dennis L. and Linda Um
brell, R 3 Elizabethtown.
(See the related farm stones
on pages 16 and 17.)
Describing the evening as
a night when “industry and
agricultural gets together”,
Max Smith, ■ Lancaster
County Extension Agent,
presented the certificates to
the families.
Damn Boyd, director of
National Central Bank’s
National Grange elects new Master
BYCURTHARLER
LANCASTER - Edward
Andersen, Waterloo,
Nebraska was elected the
new Master of the National
Grange this week at 'the
Grange’s 113th annual
meeting being held here.
Andersen follows John W.
Scott, a Pennsylvania
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, November 17,1979
Agn-Fmance Department;
Jean Mowery, Lancaster
County Commissioner and
Charles K. Perella, vice
president for manufac
turing, Lancaster
Association of Commerce
and Industry assisted in the
presentations.
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Chickies Cr. dam no threat to farmers
BY SHEILA MILLER
MANHEIM Farmers
will be extremely happy with
the outcome of a watershed
study for contolhng flooding
on the Chickies Creek.
In alternatives presented
at a meeting held in
Manheim on Wednesday
afternoon, Soil Conservation
Service experts reported
that the construction of a
flood control dam was not
economically feasible.
What this means for
farmers in the watershed is
that the likelihood of losing
valuable farmland for a
Passes several agricultural resolutions
native, who was first elected
National Master m 1968.
Andersen runs an Angus
cow-calf herd on the farm.
Ke recently sold his Holstein
dairy herd. He grows a
typical rotation of corn,
soybeans and alfalfa.
He was elected Master of
the Nebraska Grange in 1970
Processors pay all,
say PFA members
BY SHEILA MILLER
The Pennsylvania Far
mers’ Association took a
position beside the milk
cooperatives in their stand
on tiie milk security fund.
In a policy almost iden
tical to one adopted by the
co-ops, PFA has decided to
throw the financial
responsibly for the proposed
milk security fund into the
laps of the dealers.
Staring at PFA across the
controversial fence are the
Grangers, Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture,
who favor a split assessment
and the milk handlers who
say they definitely will not
foot the whole bill.
The Grange and PaDA call
for the dealers and
producers to split the cost of
the security fund down the
middle. And the handlers are
calling for the farmers to
pick up the tab.
On PFA’s side, the milk
co-ops are opposing any
proposals where the dairy
farmer would have to con
tribute to a fund.
The PFA decision to take
this position was not an easy
one. In several heated
debates at a number of late
night sessions, the PFA
delegates tossed out and
amended last year’s policy
and even the original
resolution.
They came up with three
flood control project is very
slim.
Sponsors for the flood
control project listened to a
detailed review of fifteen
alternatives for solving the
borough’s problem. The
report included the cost
benefit ratio of each, along
with a description of what
the alternative would in
volve and where it would be
located.
The possibility of a flood-'
control dam below White
Oak was said to be too en
vironmentally damaging by
the SCS technicians. The
and National Overser in
1971. Andersen is active on
many Nebraska state
agencies, 4-H, and American
Legion activities.
New Overseer of the
Grange is Russell Stauffer,
Sprmgfield, Illinois, who is
Master of the Illinois State
Grange.
Senator John Heinz received a standing ovation
for his pertinent, yet entertaining, speech to the
PFA. “Not all the bugs farmers have are in their
fields”, he declared when speaking about
government policies and programs.
options for the dealers; 1.
either obtain collateral or a
security bond equal to 60
days worth of milk pur
chases; 2. secure bonding for
30 days worth of milk and
pay producers weekly, or; 3.
pay into the security fund at
a rate of 2 cents per hun-
cost of building such a
structure was estimated to
be over $8 million, with the
estimated benefit coming to
only slightly over $3 million.
It was pointed out that the
great cost of constructing a
dam in the area was the reult
of findings obtained after a
complete geological study
had been done.
Underlying the dam site is
rock material that the
engineers and geologists
found too unstable for safe
construction. The rock easily
erodes down to soil, and
therefore would not provide
In addition to electing
officers, Grangers also took
action on a number of im
mediate issues and passed
numerous policy matters in
the agriculture committee.
They sent a telegram to
Herman Talmadge,
chanrman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee,
$7.00 Per Year
dredweight on milk pur
chased.
The initial fee to join the
security fund would be 2
cents per hundredweight
times six months of pur
chase.
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the needed support for the 46
foot high dam.
This site would have af
fected eight farmsteads and
forty-eight homes, along
with roads, and utilities.
Another dam site that was
investigated was between
Elstonville and White Oak.
This site was said to be too
far upstream from Manheim
to be totally effective in
controlling the flooding
problem, and would have
required the construction of
a concrete channel through
town.
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requesting that the House
passed bill to extend the
price support program for
dairy products at 80 percent
of parity through September
30,1981, be given immediate
consideration by the Senate
Ag Committee and reported
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