A3B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September IS, 1981 Lancaster plans downtown ag expo Oct. 2 BY DICK ANGLESTEIN LANCASTER County agriculture is coming to downtown Lancaster on Friday, Oct. 2. The Lancaster "ag stravaganza” will include farm machinery and livestock displays, milking contest, produce and held crop exhibits, tree mini lunches tor the first 500 attending, musical entertainment and a children’s theater. The livestock exhibit will teature swine, sheep, cattle and poultry. The County Poultry Association is handling the poultry display; the Warwick High School vo-ag department, the swine and sheep and John Barley, ot Star Rock Farms, the dairy cattle. Stautter’s ot Kissel Hill is directing the produce and Held crop exhibit. These displays are planned in Penn Square trom 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The farm machinery display in Lancaster Square during the same hours will be staged by area equipment dealers. The machinery display will include inmtormation on the cost ot various pieces ot equipment, its lite expectancy and operating and maintenance ex penses. Educational tours through the ag expo will be conducted tor third and tourth graders by the Historic Lancaster Walking Tour. The milking contest at 12:30 p.m. will include city and county political leaders and presidents ot various major industries, such as banks and manulaclurers. At noon, the tirst 500 people attending will receive a tree mini lunch, including a beet and pork roast, omelets and ice cream. The beet is being donated by Lancaster Stockyards, the pork by Kunzler and Co., the ice cream by Penn Dairies and the omelets by the County Poultry Association. Between 10 and 11 a.m. a HEDLUND-MARTIN GIVES YOU A CHOICE!!! ™ E VANGUARD Both offer you Value for your Dollar Compare Price & See children's theater will be staged in Steinman’s Park by the Fulton and Co. on tour. Musical entertainment by Country Freedom will be presented trom 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Twenty-three agricultural organizations in Lancaster County have been invited by the Agricultui <il l'i miii.it m Hie Lancaster Association ot Com merce and Industry to set up educational exhibits telling various commodity stories. A number have already accepted. The Harvest Festival celebration will continue on Saturday, Oct. 3, with an art show. Some 100 area artists will be showing their works. The artists will be displaying and selling their works along Queen and King streets. .The show will be judged in live categories, including sculpture, oils, graphic arts, watercolors and photography. Art show judges are Don Winer, curator tor the William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg; Elizabeth Jarvis, curator ot the Philadelphia Museum ot Art; and Carol Anderson, product designer tor Armstrong World Industries. The art show and sale continues trom 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Lan caster’s tinest restaurants will hold a "Many Tastes ot Lancaster Restaurant Fair” outside ot Central Market. The restaurants will tealure eat and carry portions ot items trom their menus which have made them downtown tavonte eating spots. A Folk and Fiddling Celebration will be held by the Lancaster County Folk Music and Fiddlers Society in Penn Square trom 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, will be Art Sunday. (Turn to Page A 39) Mayor Art Morris, of Lancaster, gets some to County Commission Jim Huber, who is also tips from Darvin Boyd, chairman of downtown an “experienced” milker. Cooperating cow j) Ag Expo, in preparation for milking contest, on was graciously donated by Doug-Hershberger Friday, Oct. 2. His honor extended a challenge at Solanco Fair Thursday. for Semi- Solid Manure... or our I LIQUID TANKER for Liquid Manure MARTIN MEASURES UP 841 Kutztown Rd. Myerstown, PA 17068 717-933-4151 V) - N 'JO)
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