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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-
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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. Ailes buys in young
Holstein heifers, settles
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then sells them to dairymen
as milking string
replacements at freshening
time.
Some steers and hogs
remain for market diver
sification.
Com and hay are the
prime crops on the rolling
farmland, but this year the
Ailes’ are experimenting
Farm labor force slips slightly
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during the survey week of
April 6-12 was estimated at
109,000, a decrease of three
percent from the 112,000
farm workers during the
same week in 1979, ac
cording to the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service.
The number of farm
family workers declined 14
percent to 72,000, but hired
workers increased by 32
percent to 37,000 workers.
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.
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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. Farm family
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visitors to the Aiies family
operation when the first
wagon rolls in on Saturday
morning.
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.
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