C22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1980 Century Farm award winner KINZERS - The agricultural roots of the Hershey family go back a long way in the Kmzers area of eastern Lancaster County Ken and Joanne Hershey mark the seventh generation to work the farm whose continuous family operation dates back to 1792. There are plenty of Her shey landmarks that serve I*" Z. * <***4 " **>« * ' r *>* * **■ • •V ' Z ? v , fc. Restored homestead dating to 1821 will soon be home of Ken and Joanne Hershey, seventh generation to operate family farm. Hersheys restore original family homestead as guideposts to the dairy farm It’s located along Hershey Church Road un mediataly across from the Hershey Mennomte Church. “The land was originally purchased from a William Morrison, of New Hamp shire, by Jacob Hershey, who moved to Lancaster County from Derry Town ship in Dauphin County,” Ken Hershey explained * The original purchase totaled 218 acres, which was later divided into three farms for the sons of Jacob Our farm was part of this original purchase. ’ ’ And there are some other Hershey ties between the Kmzers area and Dauphin County Milton Hershey, who went on to pursue quite a career in the field ot candy manufacturing, was born on one of the original neigh boring farms. Also, he originally worked in a print shop nearby before running the owner’s hat through a press and moving on to launch his career first in NOW YOU CAN LEASE THE MADISON® STRUCTURE OF YOUR CHOICE 'o * It’s a more complete, com prehensive program than you’ve probably ever seen anywhere! All the benefits of leasing... tax credits, tax reduction, improved cash flow, inflation hedge... can now be yours with a Madison feed processing system and manure storage structure if you qualify. £** (9f Why wait to make a logical capital investment if you need it. Now you can have your Madison structure and lease it, too. Stop by or call today. We’ll show you how the new Interim Financing Lease is making things better for you. Littlestown. PA ATI EE REBERT 717 359 5863 Lancaster. PA L H BRUBAKER INC 717 397 5i 79 Silverdale. PA I G AG SALES 215 257 5135 lew Pn DON R NISSLEY 717 786 7654 SWOPE & BASHORE 717 933 4138 Mt Joy. PA GALEN KOPP 717 653 1567 Ephrata. PA TOM ZARTMAN 215 267 6814 Pitman. PA CLIFF HERB 717 648 3092 Orangeville, PA FRANKLIN HESS 717 925 6939 New Bi ERBi HENRY EQUIPMENT 215 367 2169 Pottstown PA LEINBACH CONSTRUCTION CO 21 b 32 'O3lO MADISON" SILOS CMMMAUOV That’s right. Choose a Madison Silo" , Nutn-MatiC , Gram-O-MatiC or Manure Bank’ . One structure or a complete “System of Choice”. With a new Interim Financing Lease Agreement and credits from Uncle Sam, you could be using your new structures without cost the first year. ONLY AVAILABLE AT: idence, PA town. Pi irlinville PA farm systems vSa CHRQMALLOY DIVISION Lancaster and then in the town that bears his name. The family came close to losmg the farm back in 1887 when it was up for sale at public auction The farm had been passed on to a Margaret Hershey and when her husband, Indiana. PA CLAIR C BEATTY 412 465 7368 in roe v S JOHNSON HURFF 609 358 2565 Sussex. NJ WILLIAM SYTSEMA 201 875 5449 Belvidere. NJ G H BUCHMAN 201 475 2185 Elmer, NJ GEORGE COLEMAN 609 358 8528 Milford DE BENNETT MACHINE 302 422 4837 Rising Sun MD CECIL CO DAIRY SERVICE 301 658 6923 FiedencK, MD GLADHILL TRACTOR 301 663 6060 Galena MD DUDLEY CHANCE 301 928 3834 Mt Sidney. VA BLUE RIDGE AGRI SERVICE 703 248 1196 Idle. PA AVONDALE AG WAY 215 268 8238 Daniel Denhnger, died, it was put up for auction. But the family ties were retamed when it was pur chased by Peter Hershey, a younger brother who had been a minor at the time his (Turn to Page C 23) Tanevtown, MD TANEYTOWN AGWAY 301 751 1130 York. PA YORK WESTAGWAY 717 792 2674 Cha, iman CHAPMAN AGWAY 215 395 3381 Lebanon. PA LEBANON AGWAY 717 273 2621 Lancaster. PA LANCASTER AGWAY 717 394 0541 Temple, PA TEMPLE AGWAY 215 929 5264 Chambersbure. PA CHAMBERSBURG AGWAY 7 17 263 419/ Carlisle PA CARLISLE AGWAY 71/ 243 4J12 Dublin. PA DUBLIN AGWAY 215 249 3556 Harrisburg, PA AGWAY, INC 717 564 0181 DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME 717-464-4662
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