ClO—Uncaster Farming, Saturday, July 11,1981
HAY THERE....
Oh cow, can you appreciate
The love we’ve tied up In these bales,
So you can lounge and chew your cud
Through Winter’s cold and stormy gales?
We till the fields, then plant them thick,
Alfalfa stands all lush and green,
Their purple blooms in contrast sharp
With golden grain fields set between.
Mid summer’s warmth the hay is mown
Then tumbled into windrows thick.
With hopes the sun will glare intense
To cure the hay for harvest quick.
The baler gobbles up each row
With clanging parts and noisy din
Then tosses bales toward wagons deep.
With luck, they’ll sail and land within.
Chocked to the brim with twine-tied packs
A wagon lumbers to the mow.
In wrestling hay from field to barn.
The job’s worst moments come right now.
‘Midst screeching chains and scraping slats
The elevator activates.
While bales start up to headaloft
Through clouds of dust this task creates.
From high atop the load of green
Six bales go tumbling off askance,
And earn the kid atop the load
A somewhat less-than-thankful glance.
Sun’s heat beats down upon the scene
While beads of sweat pour from the brow
To trickle into bleary eyes
Of those who stack bales in the mow.
As muscles ripple in the heat
The towering load appears diminished.
A tired sigh, the floor’s in sight,
Another wagon load is finished!
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He noted the Agricultural Areas
act would work hand-in-hand with
other measures in the Governor’s
family farm preservation
initiative.
“'The family farm has
traditionally been the backbone of
Pennsylvania’s economic
stability,” he said. “The actions
taken by the Governor and the
General Assembly in the past two
years should have a positive
economic impact on the farm
community, help .preserve our
farmlands and support new
development in the rural
economy.”
The state’s farm organizations
Rt 501 IVi Miles South ot
Schaelferttown, PA
Phone 717-949-6817
Hallowell praises Areas Act
HARRISBURG - State
Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell recently called Governor
Dick Thornburgh’s signing of HB
143 “a major sten forward in our
efforts to help protect the family
farm and our farmland resour-
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Hallowell told representatives of
thfe state’s farm organizations,
“The Agricultural Areas Act could
well be the foundation on which our
efforts to preserve agricultural
land is built. The idea of agri
cultural ‘enterprise zones’ created
voluntarily by landowners with the
cooperation of local governments
is certainly a step toward a final
solution to this highly important
issue."
A drink of water soothes the throat
Of this exhausted, scratched-up mother.
And just the time we think we’re through.
Oh no - good grief - here comes another!
So cow - as you commence your cud
Take note, these bruises black and blue,
And meditate that they were earned
To put this hay away —for you.
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and the Agriculture Department
had given the passage of HB 143
top priority during the current
session of the General Assembly.
Fldllowi;]! said the cooperation and
dedication of farm and local
government organizations finally
helped win passage of the act.
In the past 20 years, more than
four million acres of Pennsylvania
farmland and 45,000 family farms
have been lost to agriculture due to
economic and development
pressures. Hallowell said the loss
of these farms had not had a
serious detrimental effect on the
food supply only because of
“farmers’ tremendous record of
production.
“However,” he noted, “as the
best lands near urban areas—well
suited for development go into
other uses, lesser quality land
must be used, resulting in higher
costs to the farmer, increased
York Holstein Assn, picnic
YORK Dairy promotion and
cattle judging will be among the
highlights of the York County
Holstein Association’s summer
picnic and chicken barbeque,
scheduled for Thursday, July 23, at
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erosion and lower yields.
“Governor Thornburgh’s family
farm initiatives, which allow local
control, voluntary participation
and positive incentive for fanners,
are helping us keep our prime
farmlands in productive
agricultural use. The Agricultural
Areas Act will give fanners and
local governments another tool to
protect our family farming
operations,” he said.
“The needs of the fanner and
consumer are interdependent. We
cannot afford to neglect the
protection of our family farms,
because as land goes out of
production, the consumer even
tually pays the price in the store,”
he said. “Preservation of the
family farm in Pennsylvania is
essential to the continued
economic and environmental
stability of the state and each local
community.”
Bupplynn Farms near Seven
Valleys.
Judging of cattle classes will
open the program at 10 a.m., with
prizes to be awarded to winners in
several divisions. Features
speaker is Dick Norton, manager
of the Middle Atlantic Milk
Marketing and Promotion Agency
of Towson, Maryland.
Final deadline for ticket
reservations is July 16, and tickets
can be obtained through the Ex
tension office at 757-9657 or any
Holstein director. Cost is $2.50 for
adults, and $1.50 for youth, 4-H and
FFA members.-JB.
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