Al4~-Uncaster Farmisg, Saturday, January 19,1980
Letters To
The Editor
As a member of the Ap
palachian Trail Conference
for 30 years, I fmd myself at
odds with them and the
National Park Service over
the taking by eminent
domain of farm land m the
Cumberland Valley for the
trail.
I am basing my opinion on
the facts as given in your
article claiming that an
alternate right of way for the
trail has been offered by the
townships in the area.
If, in fact, these are wide
enough to protect hikers
from vehicular traffic then it
would appear to be
adequate. The money that
the National Park Service
has been granted should be
used to improve these and
other road areas where the
trail now goes.
The Appalachian Trail has
given me many hours of
enjoyable recreation and the
need for it is mdesputable m
this age. Those twelve miles
in the Cumberland Valley
are minute compared to the
many magnificent miles of
rugged scenic country
through which it passes.
Finally, taking this land
this way sets a dangerous
precedent for other
recreational uses of private
land for such equally
deserving groups as hor
semen, recreational
vehicles, hunters and so on.
Perhaps farmers and farm
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of haylage per
minute to 80 feet
high or more...
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land should be considered an
endangered resource.
MamaMackay
Boyertown
I have been irked at the
tone of the Rural Route
cartoons in “Lancaster
Farming” quite often,
because of the put-down-of
women angle so often used.
Now I know, having been
raised on a farm, and now a
farmer’s wife for 27 years,
that there is a lot of humor m
the farm husband-wife
relationship. The “Hoard’s
Dairyman does a good job
of playing this angle m their
Ed and Emma Cartoons ....
but they are of a softer, more
general, and more true-to
hfe tone, I think.
The Rural Route I’ve
enclosed about snow
shoveling from last week’s
issue really gets me .... no
rural wife I know would be so
absolutely stupid .... farm
wives accept the leaf-raking
job and do as much as they
can, even tho’ their subur
ban counterparts leave it to
hubby on the weekends. But
none of us, NONE OF US,
would be this mane.
Another recent one that
bothered me concerned the
wife informing that tubby
little jerk of a husband that
she was going to be away for
the afternoon to go to the
beauty shop. He then in
forms her that she’d better
Shoulder level
(J-shaped bar for
easy start of vee-
belt drive. Push to
start. Pull to stop.
Take a closer look
at the Super 121
Forage Blower.
Ono, PA 17077
Phone 717-865-4915
make it a week! there she
is, In the barn helping him,
which doesn’t do a thing for
one’s beauty except for rosy
cheeks, and he cuts her up.
Do you have to use this
male-chauvinist cartoon
strip? And do you have to put
it on the Editorial Page,
which gives it more em
phasis?
Is it really your attitude?
Can’t it be buried some
where in the back with the
classifieds if you insist on
using it?
I’m not one of these that
says, “I’m going to cancel
our subscriptions,” but I do
think farm wives in general
deserve better treatment
than this cartoon gives them.
As I said. I’ve been a
farmer’s daughter, a far
mer’s wife, and in between
an agricultural extension
service employee in two
states.... farm wives are not
this stupid.
Editor’s Note: The
opinions expressed or im
plied by all of LANCASTER
FARMING’S columnists are
their own, and not
necessarily those of the
paper, editor, or publisher.
This mcludes Tom Arm
strong’s Rural Route,
modeled on his 25-year,
marriage (a happy one
we’re assured). While we
hope to present a broad
spectrum of informed
editorial comment, we do not
seek to offend any of our
readers. Your remarks have
been passed along to Arm
strong.
Farmers never get the
publicity they deserve for a
job well done.
I’m enclosing a page from
a daily paper which says
Americans are spending two
and a half times as much on
See It At:
Furniture and household
equipment went from $36.7
billion to $77.7 billion. Other
durable goods went from
$13.3 to $30.0 billion.
Clothing and shoes went
from $46.6 billion to $89.0
billion while fuel oil and coal
jumped from $5.4 billion to
$14.9 billion.
And housing went up from
$94.0 billion to $207.3 billion
while transportation jumped
from $21.1 billion to $52.6
bilhon and other services
climbed from $115.7 bilhon to
$264.9 billion.
If we look at those figures
for just a couple of minutes it
becomes obvious that far
mers are doing their share to
help fight inflation.
Why don’t the people in the
Joanne Passmore
R 1
Townsend, Del.
motor vehicles and parts
today as they did 10 years
ago.
In contrast, they are
spending less than twice as
much as they did on food.
Why is an item like this
burned at the very bottom of
page 13 next to a big ad in
stead of given the display it
should be to give farmers
credit for the good job they
are doing?
The article also gives
some figures showing total
personal spending m 1970
and 1978.
Food does quite well as
you can see:
Food prices rose from
$136.3 billion to $296.4 billion.
At the same time motor
vehicles and parts jumped
from $34.9 billion to $89.7
billion.
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