D34—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 16,1980
County Visitors
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try to keep the important
things m mind anduse them
when we return. Your far
mers have a higher
education than our farmers.
That is the secret of
development.”
Their three-week stay is
filled with visits to local agri
businesses, the Penn State
Research Center, fairs,
shows and extensive contact
with the local cooperative
extension service. Manuel
says, “We like to get to talk
to a lot of people and ex
change ideas. We need to
learn and to speak with
people to leam more about
the world.’’
The most impressive
programs Manuel has seen
are the 4-H and FFA
programs m this county. He
said, “It is difficult to
change the thinking of the
old. It is very interesting to
teach younger children. We
must give a lot of attention to
working with' youth. It is
very, very important.”
Manuel explains a basic
problem in his island
homeland in that there are
three times more people
from the Azores living in the
United States than living
there. He says, “They are
looking for a better way of
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life. The better people come
here, and we have old people
and very young.”
His native islands are on a
latitude with New York, but
he says, “It is not so warm in
the summer nor so cold in
the winter.”
He added, “We see a lot of
similar things about Lan
caster County and the
Azores. Many crops are the
same, with farmers growing
alfalfa and corn.” He said
there have been widespread
experiments with soybeans,
which grow well there.
Presently individual farms
do not grow soybeans but he
said, “They could be im
portant tons.”
“In Lancaster County you
say your farms are little, but
ours are more little,”
Manuel says. After con
sulation in Portuguese with
Mano, they agree that an
average farm might be 3540
acres of land with five or six
cows. But they were careful
to pomt out that there are
also very large farms and
some very small farms.
Agricultural acreage is
larger on some of the islands
than others.
Dairy animals on the
Islands are primarily
Holstems or Friesian-
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Visitors from the Azore Islands, off the coast of Sousa, Manuel Valadao and David Ishler,
Portugal, check out the bulls on a visit to the vocational agriculture teacher at Garden Spot
Atlantic Breeders Cooperative in Lancaster. From High School,
left, Atlantic representative Edwin Sauder, Mario
Holstems, according to
Manuel. Some herds may
have 10-12 cows, with herds
averaging about 6,000
pounds of milk. Manuel said
most of the milk is used m
manufactured products,
including dried milk, butter
and cheese.
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milked outside, often by which they take out to the men ex P ressed B reat
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