Secretary of Agriculture of it that deals with farm
Bob Bergland recently found mechanization,
himself in the awkward While he may have won
position of sounding like he some temporary support
was against agricultural among farm labor unions
research. At least that part and a few other folks, he has
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF FARM EQUIPMENT &
DAIRY CATTLE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
AUCTION TIME 9:30 A.M.
Location: Take Route 419 East from
Schaefferstown, or Route 419 West from
Newmanstown to Krumstown Road, turn North
to first farm on left, Millcreek Township,
Lebanon County. Pa.
JOHN DEERE 2020 TRACTOR
with W.F.E., completely overhauled, tire chains, and
front weights. KELLEY HYDRAULIC DUMP
LOADER mounted on J.D. 2020.
INTERNATIONAL 300 TRACTOR
• with Past Hitch, Torque Amplifier with 3x16 Trip
Plow.
INTERNATIONAL 200 TRACTOR
with Fast Hitch Cultivator, Mower, Plow and Corn
planter; NEW IDEA 2-Row MOUNTED CORN
PICKER with Mountings for International Tractor;
JOHN DEERE 494 4-ROW CORNPLANTER with
Applicators; New Holland Smoker 30-Foot Elevator;
John Deere 14-T Baler; Massey Ferguson 4x4 3-Pomt
Plow; GEHL HAY KING Model No. HK44O; 4 Flatbed
Farm Wagons; John Deere 20-Disc Disc Harrow; John
Deere 3-Section Harrow; Goby Manure Spreader;
Campbell’s TRAILER TYPE SPRAYER with 400
Gallon Poly Tank and Centrifugal Pump; 3-Point Saw
Buck; 3-Pomt Post Hole Digger; 26-Foot Transport
Bunk Feeder; Iron Age 2-Row Potato Planter; New
Holland Com Shelter; 26-Foot Com Elevator on
Transport; Cardinal 16-Foot Elevator; Sears Disc
Harrow; Hay Tedder; Com Drag; Grass Seeder Drill.
1966 CHEV. STAKE TRUCK
Stationary Air Compressor; Air Greaser;
Portable Air Compressor with Engine; Portable Or
chard Sprayer; 60 Bu. Hog Feeder; 16-Foot Augar;
Platform Scales; Lot of Misc. Hand Tools; 2 Iron
Troughs; Poultry Equipment; Jamesway Water
Bowls; Hydraulic Jack; Log Chains; Chain
Tighteners; Bull Dozer Fencer; Bam Hinges; Lot of
Scrap Iron; Iron Bench with Vise; Cat Stands; Cir
cular Saw; Farrowing Crate; Feed Cart; Feed Chest;
Wheel Barrow; Rolls of Wire; Barbed Wire; Manure
Sled; 3-Point Row Marker; 3-Point Sprayer; Electric
Cords; Baler Twine; 2 Coal Chutes; Bag Wagon;
Welding Table; Power Winch; Potato Grader Bagger;
Roller Conveyors; Jamesway Staunchions; Diamond
Wire Cage; 36 Show Bird Cages; Model T Ford Parts
and Wrenches; New and Used Bolts; J.D. and Int.T
Planter Plates.
USED LUMBER & BUILDING ITEMS
Used Lumber from a 44’x98’ Bam with 44’ Logs; Pile
of New 1-Inch Rough Oak Boards; Lots of Fence Posts;
Tobacco Scaffolding; Chestnut Handsplit Fence Rails
and Posts; New Tapered Comcnb Boards; Shutters;
Porch Posts; Iron Railing; Lot of New Aluminum
Windows; Lot of other Windows; Yard Gates; 6”x6”
Glass Blocks; 500-700 Ton Sandstones; 200’ Redwood
Wooden Spouting; MASSEY FERGUSON SKI-WIZ 304-
T SNOWMOBILE; Peacock - Pea Fowl to be sold with
Pen; Kerosene Cookstove with Oven and other misc.
antiques and many, many other items too numerous to
mention.
11 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN HEIFERS
4 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COWS
3 Heifers from Sire Power Job 9H143; 3 Heifers from
Lime Rock Clarion Belle; Cows by Pennstate Ivanhoe
Star, Back-Brook Master Posch and Lime Rock
Astronaut.
AUCTION BY:
HOWARD C. & CONSTINE F. MILLER
RD2, Myerstown, Pa.
717-949-6862
Auction Conducted By,
John E. and Paul E. Martin, Auctioneers
717-733-3511-717-733-3305 Ephrata, Pa
Food At Auction
NOTE: Make plans now to attend this Auction. Lots of
unlisted items, come early.
Farm
Talk
Jerry Webb
surely stirred up a hornet’s
nest in the farm machinery
complex and among farmers
themselves.
There is a line of reasoning
quite prevalent in some
places that says a lot of
agriculture’s ills can be
blamed on bigness, and that
bigness is the result of ad
vances in mechanization.
If you buy that line of
reasoning, then you must
also select the proper time
when mechanization ad
vances must stop and the
status quo must be main
tained. For without ad
vances in agricultural
mechanization, most of us
would be living on farms and
we’d be doing most farm
work by hand.
It’s now realistic to say
that research in the area of
2400 FEEDERS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
TWO FEEDER CATRE SALES IN ONE BAY
1:00 P.M.
CULPEPER FEEDER CALF ASSOC.
sells 1400 Feeder Calves
at
Culpeper Agricultural Enterprises
(3 miles south of Culpeper, VA on Rt 29)
Phone 703-547-2188
7:00 P.M.
MARSHALL FEEDER CATRE ASSOC.
sells 1000 Yearlings
at
Fauquier Livestock Exchange
(1 mile east of Marshall, VA on Rt. 55)
Phone 703-364-1566
I AUCTION :
I OCTOBER 30,1980 |
♦ On Premesis, 6 PM X
X Directions: 3 miles East of Intercourse and 2Vz ♦
X miles West of White Horse on Rt. 340. ♦
♦ Concrete block garage located on Rt. 340, Salisbury ♦
♦ Township, Lancaster County, Pa. Approximate size 36’ X
X x 66’ on 1/4 Acre lot + or - Gas heat, 240 volt electric ♦
♦ service, rest room and office. 2nd floor storage, 2,000 X
X gal- fuel storage tank & pumps, a well insulated clear ♦
X span bldg, suitable for many uses. #
♦ Also-an adjacent lot separated by a 14’ R.O.W. to X
X farm. 185’ Xl62’ with well. Driveway & parking area ♦
♦ graded and filled to carry truck traffic. X
♦ To be sold m 2 parcels or as an entirety. ♦
♦ TERMS: 15% down, 60 day possession ♦
♦ INFORMATION: Call Robert Coates, Realtor, 717-442- X
X 4134. ♦
t DELAWARE VALLEY AUCTION CO. |
♦ Clay C. Hess, Auctioneer ♦
REAL ESTATE AUCTION
2.9 Acres M/L BARN, STREAM.
2 MOBILE HOMES, GUNS. »/ 2 TON TRUCK,
TOOLS, SEASONED LUMBER. ELEC. DRILLS,
SAWS, ETC, 7’ GRASS MOWER
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15,1980
At 9:00 A.M.
Located on Rt. 895 E. of village of Rock,
approx. 5 mi. W. off Rt. 183, 5 m. E. off Rt. 501
Washington Twp., Sch. Co.
REAL ESTATE AT IP.M.
2.9 acres M/L with*3o’xso’ bank barn, Rt. 895 road
frontage, fishing stream. Property offers home site,
camping, hunting and/or income potential. Inspection,
Sunday, October 26,1-4 p.m., or by appointment.
10% down, bal. upon settlement.
TERMS: Cash or approved check.
Lunch available
Not Responsible For Accidents
Estate of
CLAYTON SCHWARTZ
Jay Riegei Jr. Auctioneer
717-739-4718
agricultural engineering, as
it’s done by the Department
of Agriculture and the land
grant college system, is not
in the best interest of
agriculture.
If you believe that, then
you surely believe that all
progress is bad and that
things, should be the way
they used to be. But I have
trouble deciding how things
used to be because for me
the good old days were filled
with good old tractors,
electric motors, windmills,
and farm trucks.
I hated the hard hand
labor of pulling weeds,
stacking baled hay, pitching
bundles, and picking com.
And those were the ad
vanced days of agriculture
compared with turn of the
century farming when there
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 25,19t0—019
was no farm power other
then people, horses, and
oxen. Or even further than
that, when manpower did
everything.
Look back at early 18th
century agriculture and you
see very little horsepower
and a lot of hand work, and a
nation’s population devoted
to food and fiber production.
Even then the southern
planters and other serious
agriculturists were looking
for better ways to handle
(heir production.
The parade of agricultural
inventions was endless and it
continues even today. So an
effort to justify an end to
farm mechanization
research, at least on the part
of public institutions, is
ridiculous.
We’re the best fed nation
in the world and it’s done
with only three percent of
our population. And that’s
due in large part to
agricultural research. Some
of it is done by industry,
some by the Department of
Agriculture, some by the ag
colleges, and a lot done by
farmers themselves.
Maybe the lettuce pickers
can now say that we need no
more mechanization, thus
insuring themselves a place
in the industry. But is that
really fair to the generations
of Americans who follow?
What if the cotton pickers
had said that 100 years ago?
Think what agriculture
would be like if for some
reason agricultural
mechanization research had
TERRA ALTA
LIVESTOCK AUCTION
SPECIAL FEEDER CATTLE
SALE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:00 P.M.
Located at Terra Alta Livestock Market, Inc.,
Terra Alta, West Virginia.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 - Fall Roundup Sale -
All kinds of calves, yearlings & 2 yr. olds.
These cattle will be put together by State Graders
In order to try to help you with your health problems
all cattle & calves will be brought in on day of sale &
sold that night. This is one of the only one day State
Graded Sales in West Virginia.
Be sure to attend this sale for good, fresh, healthy
cattle
TERRA ALTA LIVESTOCK
MARKET, INC.
Russell W. Stover, Jr. - Manager *
For Information Call 304-789-2788 Market Ph. or 301-
334-3940 Residence.
ANNUAL FALL
HEIFER SALE
Located on the Robert Mullendore Farm, 10
miles south of Hagerstown, MD on Boonsboro-
Williamsport Rd., Rt. 68, 3 miles west of
Boonsboro, MD and 2 miles east of Sharpsburg
Pike, Rt. 65 at Lappans Crossroads on
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31,1980
6:30 P.M.
250 HEAD OF HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 250
Consisting of mostly holstem heifers including small
weaned heifers, open heifers, breeding age, bred
heifers and springing, few fresh, Angus and Holstein
service sires. This is a nice consignment of good
quality cattle all necessary animals bangs & TB tested
within 30 days of sale. 1962 Ford 1 ton truck with cattle
body.
Terms: Cash, not responsible for accidents.
Managed and Conducted by
Robert C. Mullendore
301-582-0546
Sale Held in Tent. Luncb available.
Cattle may be inspected day of sale.
faltered a century ago.
Would America still be able
to feed its millions?
No doubt most of us would
be out there trying to grow
something to eat and we
wouldn’t enjoy the standard
of living that we now have.
It’s true that mechanization
has displaced millions d
people in the last century,
but all but a few have found
equivalent jobs in other
sectors of the economy.
Many of those jobs have in
turn led to other products
and services that allow us all
to live a better life.
Personally, I don’t want to
go bade to the farm of the
19305, nor do I think my
grandchildren will someday
want to farm the way it’s
done today. So I get a little
irritated at anybody who
wants to stand in the way of
progress and invention.
Without it, we’re all going to
go hungry someday. With it,
it’s still a nip and tuck battle
over the next hundred years
to see whether America
feeds its own people and has
anything left: for die millions
of foreigners who are
already clamoring at our
gates.
It would be possible to cut
out publicly funded
agricultural mechanization
research and still make
some progress, but it would
be at a slower rate. That
would mean disappearing
farm jobs would vanish at a
slower rate, but they would
still vanish. It might also
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