VOL. 26 No. e .3
With show stick and halter in hand, Lancaster's
Red Rose Beef Club Queen Debra Grader was
selected as the top showman during the stiff
competition between 4-H’ers from Dauphin,
Lancaster and Chester counties. .
MacCauley, Greider
top District Show
BY SHEILA MILLER
LANCASTER - Bill
MacCauley, 111, a fifteen
year-old Chester County 4-
H’er, led his 1035 pound
lightweight steer to the
grand championship during
the Southeast District Show
held at the Lancaster
Stockyards on Tuesday.
Before tagging the
purebred Angus champion,
judges Ron Bolze and Lee
Wagner selected the Mac-
Cauley steer as champion
lightweight
Go 4 agricultouring 9 this weekend
PENRYN The farm of
the Barry Haldeman family,
along with eight other
agricultural operations in
Lancaster County, was a
beehive of activity last
evening and this morning.
The activities were in final
preparation for this
weekend’s tours in which a
total of nine farming
facilities will be opened by
rural folk to their city and
suburban neighbors.
Preparations were par
ticularly brisk at the
Haldeman farm because it
will be the center for an
extensive and varied display
Showing steers is a new
sideline for the Chester
County youth who has been
showing Suffolk sheep since
he was 8-years-old. This was
MacCauley’s second attempt
at raising a 4-H steer.
The steer, called Midnight,
came to the 18 acre farm
owned by Bill’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William Mac-
Cauley at R 1 Atglen from the
Sam Wylie farm, near
Nottingham.
Said Bill, “I made the
switch to beef from sheep
of 4-H projects and club
activities.
But agricultural activities
to be viewed will be just as
diversified at the eight other
locations, ranging from
large dairy and poultry
operations, horse training
and fruit growing to ar
tificial insemination.
Directions to the nine tour
locations, which will be open
today and tomorrow (Nov. 15
and 16) between 1 p.m. and 5
p.m., include:
Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative - 1575 Apollo
Drive. Exit Et. 283 west at
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 15,1980
R. McSparran elected
head of Inter-State
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
.LANCASTER - Robert
McSparran, Peach Bottom
dairy farmer, was elected
president of the 3000-
member Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative this
week
The County
dairyman, a long-time
leader in co-op activities,
succeeds retiring Inter-State
head Lester C Jones, a
Medford, N J. dairy farmer
McSparran’s election took
place at Inter-State’s 63rd
annual meeting held
Tuesday and Wednesday at
the Host Farm Resort Motel.
Other important action at
the session in the form of
approved' resolutions in
cluded:
-An increase in mem
bership dues from 10 cents to,
12 cents per hundredweight
to “help improve Inter-
State’s equity position. ”
-Approval to opt out of
contributing to the Penn
sylvania Milk Producers
Security Fund.
-Reaffirming the concept
that milk hauling
because I always liked the
bigger animals they’re
more fun.”
They also produce more
profit since Lancaster
Stockyards, Inc. purchased
the steer with a bid of $2 for
each of its 1035 pounds a
total of $2070.
What will MacCauley do
with this new wealth 7
“I’ll probably save the
money for college,” he said,
“so that I.can study animal
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McGovemville Road and
turn onto Apollo Dr.
Haldeman farm - From
Rt. SOI north qf Lihtz, turn
west on Newport Road to
Penryn, then north on Gish
Road to the first farm on the
right.
Lower Hopewell Horse
Center - Turn south on Long
Lane Road, the first road
west of the Rt. 501 in
tersection on Rt. 322 at
Bnckenolle. Then right on
Speedwell Forge to the farm
on the right.
Jesse Balmer family -
Home of the Lancaster
County dairy princess. From
negotiations and deductions
be handled at the local level
by the individual hauling
committees.
-A continued expression of
support for the work of the
Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board
, Support for the increase in
the dues had been expressed
at the meeting by retiring
president Jones, James E.
Agri-Women conclude
week-long convention
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
HERSKEY - The
American Agri-Women
convention concluded
Thursday afternoon
following a week of elec
tions, workshops, business
meetings and tours of
Lancaster County.
Over 200 members par
ticipated in the week-long
session representing 24
states.
Highlights of the con
vention included
Washmgton-on-the-lme, with
AAW members directing
questions to foreign at
tachees; election of the first
national officer from Penn
sylvania and one members
seemed to enjoy immensely,
“The Double Burden of
Soviet Farm Women.” For
more information on the
convention see the index on
page A 32.
A bridge of friendship has
been formed between
Australian farm women and
the American Agri-Women
meeting through three
“down under” pioneers in
farm woman involvement
Lynn Johnson, Wilma
Bum and Domen Mason
Rt. 501 north of UUtz, turn
east on Newport Road to the
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In this Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Ayrshire meetings, 17;
Lebanon conservation fanner, 22; York-Adams beef
show, 30; Agri-women meet, 32; Chester DHIA meeting,
34.
SECTION B; Lancaster steer roundup, 2; Cattlemen
forseechange, 7; York-Adams pomona, 9; Ask VMD, 10;
China grain sale, 14.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Joyce Bupp, 4;
Home on range, 6; Lancaster sheep roundup, 14;
National Grange meets, 19; Milk Check, 22; 19S1 farm
bill, 34; Agri-Women election, 35.
SECTION D: Berks beef show, 2; Controlling veg
costs, 7; Berks 4-H sheep, 8; Farm Talk, 14; Lebanon
DHIA, 15; Dauphin beef roundup, 15.
Honan, general manager;
and Robert Dever,
treasurer
The three officials
stressed the absolute
necessity for improving
Inter-State’s equity position
so that the cooperative could
fit into the changing future
patterns of cooperative
organizations.
Honan told the members
traveled several thousand
miles to observe the AAW’s
organization and activities,
hoping to carry some idea
back to Australian farm
women interested in banding
together to boost theif in
dustry.
According to Lynn
Johnson, some 800
Australian-farm women did
meet for a conference in
recent years, but little has
been done since. After
visiting the United States in
1978 and hosting foreign
farm groups at the Victoria
dairy operation, Lynn
learned of farm women’s
activities in America. She
wrote to a California
acquamtenance and was put
Legislative roundup
Farm nuisance bills
to get extra push
BYCURTHARLER
HARRISBURG - Two
bills to protect farmers from
outside interference will
receive a big push from farm
groups Monday when the
state legislature reconvenes
in Harrisburg.
Meanwhile, chances for
any state-funded weather-
$7.50 Per Year
that in the Middle Atlantic
and Northeast regions he
sees new cooperative
relationships being analyzed
and discussed He reported
on meetings and con
versations among Mid-
Atlantic and Northeast dairy
cooperatives and between
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in touch with California
Agri-Women.
Although the three visitors
were asked to speak as the
impromptu program in
place of The Great Debate
speakers, who were unable
to attend, it quickly became
apparent they were a
highlight of the sessions and
received a standing ovation
from the Agri-Women
audience Tuesday afternoon.
“Together, women of the
world can achieve great
things,” said Lynn Johnson,
who presented AAW
president Evelyn Landis
with the “Order of the
Kangaroo.” She called at
tention to the fact that it was
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related disaster relief money
look dim.
Both the Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association and
the state Grange are pushing
for passage of HB 1793 and
H 81794.
HB 1793 is one of the top
items on the Senate Ag
Committee’s docket when it
meets Monday.
HB 1793 would allow
•municipalities to establish
ag districts and will allow
purchase of development
easements. It would protect
agricultural areas from land
grabs by state agencies,
notably the Pennsylvania
Department of Tran*
sportation or Department of
Environmental Resources, if
those areas were in one of
the ag districts having the
eight year renewability
penod allowed under the
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