*3o—Uncastor Faming, Saturday, Jam 14,1900 Baldwin, Ailes family farms highlight BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent DELTA A Century farm owned by the Joe Ailes family and the cow-calf operation run by the family of John Rush Baldwin m are the livestock highlights of the Delta centennial farm tours set for next Saturday. Two tours covering six area farms are scheduled as part of the opening day activities when Delta begins its eight-day-long centennial salute on June 21. Two-hour hayride tours will leave from the community building periodically from 9 a.m. through 2 p.m. Barbara and John Rush Baldwin Ill’s livestock setup at R 1 Delta is scheduled as the final stop on Tour 1. Charolais-Angus crosses are king here, with a 65-head cow-calf herd maintained and about 35 steers fattened and direct-marketed to customers annually. Some 660 acres of owned and rented land goes into crops, with some of the yield of the com, hay, oats, barley and wheat earmarked for the livestock herds. As part of the original Cooper family land grant, the Baldwin’s 160-acre farm lies in the heart of farmland nch in the culture and history of the hardy people who settled the plateau high above the Susquehanna. One bit of local lore focuses on the Baldwin’s double-decker barn, reportedly one of the few remaining of its type. Basic building material for the sturdy structure was white pine and chestnut, which local legend says was retrieved when the lumber floated down the Susquehanna from somewhere upstate. While details are vague after years of passing along the story, the Rush family speculates that those timbers may have come downstream during flood, to be salvadged by the thrifty York County pioneers on the Cooper grant. Baldwin’s father pur- DAIRYMEN! w A A LEHIGH VALLEY farmers Has It All Together ... 'rii*' 1. Stable Milk Market Sales. 2. Fluid Milk Sales. 3. Balancing Manufacturing Milk Facilities Sales. 4. Profit Oriented Milk Sales. 5. Bonus Milk Price Sales. We Invite You to look us over JOIN! JOIN! JOIN! For Further Information Write or Call: JOHN C. YORK, V.P. LEHIGH VALLEY FARMERS Member Relations 1000-1160 N Seventh St 629 No Derr Drive Allentown, Pa 18001 Lewisburf, Pa 17837 “ PH 215-433-5111 PH 717-524-0377 chased the rolling farmland in 1951 from Thomas Galbreath, with the land having been farmed for many years by Caleb Beard. Agriculture had long been in the Baldwin heritage, with the family’s earlier roots in neighboring Harford County, Maryland, where John’s grandfather once operated a gristmill. When the younger Baldwin was discharged from the service in 1954, he took over the operation of the place. A graduate of the University of Maryland’s ag college, and member of the winning livestock judging team that had competed in national competition at Chicago, Baldwin had a solid interest and background i" beef production. Although a flock of sheep roamed part of the pasture for awhile, the cow-calf herd has been a mainstay of the livestock and gram farm Truly a farm operation, the Baldwin’s and their three children are the management and prune labor force. Their oldest daughter Cathy is graduating this year from Millersville State College with a library science degree. John is 19 and training as a farm equipment mechanic at Miller’s Sales in Stewart stown. Steve is a senior at Kennard-Dale High School. “Farm children learn the value of work while they’re youngsters,” reflects Barbara, originally from the suburbs of New Jersey. “They like being part of something important something worthwhile. Ours have especially enjoyed the outdoor physical work of farming and feel so satisfied when they finish making hay or hauling out manure.” Other stops on Tour 1 include the dairying operation of David and Barbara Stewart and the Cooper Boyd family’s Susquehanna Orchards. While the Baldwins are explaining to their guests the intricacies of silage preservation and direct marketing steers, Tour 2 participants will be winding up their look at the Joseph Ailes farm at R 2 Delta. Family roots go deep on the Ailes Century Farm, where Joseph F. and his son Ed are m business raising crops and HoMein dairy replacements. Joe’s father, Joseph H., and an uncle, Edwin Hollingsworth, ran the farm in years past; while before that, their grandfather had been raised on the homestead. The 156 acres previously supported a dairying operation, when milk cans were loaded up and hauled away for processing in nearby Delta. For about the first dozen of their 26 years on the Delta farm, Joe and his family kept up the dairying operation. Later the facilities were converted for beef and hogs; and for several years, pork production was the mam commodity. again in the spotlight, but only until they reach milking age. 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Farm family workers include farm operators working on farms one hour or more, plus other family members working 15 hours or more without receiving cash wages during the week. WOULD YOU LIKE A TEMP MATIC SOLID STATE RECORDER/COHTROLLER in your MILK HOUSE? The Tank with Features no other tank can offer Pump shroud shown removed for detail v v'' ★ ummmmmwm-mmmmm* with their first plantings of soybeans. For several years, sweet com had been raised for the nearby Whiteford Packing Company. Son Ed is continuing the family tradition on the Delta farm and will marry and settle on the homestead in a few weeks. Daughters Lisa Dawn, 13, and Dena Kay, 10, will also be helping to greet Hired workers include all persons working one hour or more for cash wages. The average work week for Pennsylvania farm operators was 49.0 hours, 14.0 hours more than in January 1980 and 5.7 hours more than the same survey week m 1979. Pennsylvania’s hired workers averaged 39.9 hours, 3.0 hours more than the national average. Nationally, the farm work week averaged 35.8 hours for farm operators, up 4.6 hours from January 1980 and 1.2 hours from April 1979. The total number of farm workers in the United States decreased about one percent from 1979. 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Other farms included on Tour 2 are Dave and Kate Thompson’s dairy production and processing plant and the Sleepy Hollow pick-your-fruit and vegetable establishment. workers continued to decline from 2,424,400 to 2,239,000, while hired farm workers increased from 1,056,200 to 1,196,400 from the previous year. Nationally, farm wage rates for all methods of pay, converted to an hourly rate, averaged $3.61 during the survey week. This was 21' cents above the average of $3.40 per hour paid a year ago. TTiese wages do not take into consideration room and board or other benefits. t J tiTOx-v* ttnmttt a
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