D2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1980 Century Farm award winner
MARTICVILLE -
Looking down over the living
Martin's home shows the farm as it looked about 75 years ago.
including a press house and a spring house, which date back two centuries
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P. L ROHRER & BRO.. INC.
239 years of history recalled in Martin deeds
room on the Andrew H. and
S Virginia Martin farm is a
painting of the operation as
it looked in 1910.
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Seeds
But the history of this R 1
Pequea farm goes back 239
years - to 1741 when the
farm was acquired for 76
Pounds Sterling (the British
coin of the realm then in use)
from the sons of William
Penn
Purchaser of the 100 acre
farm at the bargain price
was Ulnck Stauffer, Andrew '
Martin’s grandfather seven
generations ago
Andrew is the eighth
generation on the farm. The
title pases through his
father’s father and his great
grandmother’s side of the
family.
The bite of inflation on
Lancaster County farmland
more muscle
fora strong favorite.
ALLIS-CHALMERS 7045 One of the biggest
favorites in the Rising Power Family Now
this proven reliability has a new 146-horses
worth* of muscle Turbocharged work
power that runs cool with oil cooled pistons,
alternated intake and exhaust valves, big
flow cooling systems, all which add life to the
engine And more The quiet comfort of
Acousta Cab II Standard 20 speed Power
Director XX Transmission with 14-speed
selections below 10 mph, 8 in the critical 2 5
The
A Rising Power
A in forming
ALLIS-CHALMERS
ROY H. SUCH, INC.
Ephrata, RD2
717-859-2441
WERTZ GARAGE
Lmeboro, MO
301-374-2672
AGRONOMICS INC.
Box 64. R.D 2
Factoryville, PA
717-945-3933
PAUL DOTTERER
FARM EQUIPMENT
R.D. 2, Mill Hall, PA
717-72M471
NICHOLS FARM EQUIPMENT C ’
R D 1 Bloomsburg, PA R 2 New Tripoli, PA
717-784-7731 18066
215-767-7611
MARSHALL MACHINERY
R 0 4, Honesdale, PA
717 729-7117
was being felt even 23? years
ago. By 1804 the farm was
transfered for 2100 Pounds
Sterling, or 27 times the
original purchase price.
The seller wasn’t going to
take any chances on con
tinental paper money. The
deed specifies payment m
gold and silver com
Little by little the farm
was mcreased in size to 148
acres. The youngest Martin
son works on the farm. Of
the current generation’s
crop of seven children, four
are working on dairy
operations
Today the Martin farm is a
dairy, a change from days
past when it was a typical
to 6 5 mph work range There’s in
dependent, dual PTO speeds Hydraulics
that use volume and pressure only when the
load demands it And adjustable front axle
Put time proven reliability together with
new increased power Put yourself m an
Alhs-Chalmers 7045 tractor
Power Director is an Allis-Chalmers trademark
•Manufacturer s maximum estimated observed PTO horse
power at rated engine speed
LH. BRUBAKER, INC.
Lancaster, PA
717-397-5179
PETERMAN FARM
EQUIPMENT, INC.
225 York Road
Carlisle, PA
717 249-5338
SHARTLESVILLE FARM
SERVICE
Shartlesville, PA
215-488-1025
H Daniel Wenger, Prop
MECKLEV’S LIMESTONE
PRODUCTS INC.
R D 1 Herndon, PA
717-758-3915
B. EQUIP., INC.
8422 Wayne Hwy
Waynesboro, PA
717-762-3193
- self-sufficient farming unit
with a few cows, a few hogs,
a few chickens and the like.
Of the buildings on the
land only the summer house
may be original. The present
farm house was built in 1889
Much older is the unique
barn, put up in 1834. It is a
double-decked barn with
three foot thick walls.
The press house has seen a
lot of history, too. At one
tune it was used to make
whiskey from corn and
gram, an honorable old
Pennsylvania farm product.
Later the press house was
used to squeeze grapes for
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GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE
Quarryville, PA
717-786-7318
BHM FARM
EQUIPMENT, INC.
Annville, RDI, PA
717-867-2211
CJ. WONSIDLER BROS.
ROl, Quakertown, PA
18951
215-536 1935
215-536-7523
AG. INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT
R 2, Rising Sun, MD
301-658-5568
AIRVILLE EQUIPMENT, INC.
P 0 Box 37. Airville, PA
717-862-3358
A. J. NOSS & SON, INC.
RD2, Oley, PA
215-987-6257
CANYON IMPLEMENTS, INC.
RDI. Mansfield. PA
717-724-2731