Gruber Wagon Works Preserved through the care and concern ot many people, the wagons and the wagon works will With a tug on the lever, John shows how this into a tapered spoke in just 10 seconds. Each Gruber-designed machine called a spoke tenon spoke would be cut the same since the tenon would peel one side of a plain piece of wood used a completed spoke as a pattern. With tools that appear to be resting on work tomorrow. Here grandson John demonstrates benches until wagon makers return from how a "felloe”, or outer wheel rim. would be lunch, the Gruber Wagon Works looks like it attached to the hub and spokes, could easily go back into full-scale production With the addition of the West tire shrinker, had to be heated to extreme temperatures so the wagon works switched from hot to cold the metal could expand and be hammered over ironing of the wheel tires. Before, the iron tires the wooden felloe. (Continued from Page Dl2) continue to set ve as a remmdei ot the pride, hardwork, and deter mination tounded by a simple way -—* , ii ■ j .j Ojj^g TPh'** 5, ■ ■% <■ T ul lit e in a country where a man like Kranklm Gruber could build an empire out of a wagon shed "'IK* fey Celebrate Gruber’s HEADING Ihe Grubei Wagon Works is celebrating its io«th birthday this year and to help make this a special occasion the Berks County Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring a Centennial Celebration next Sundae, Mae lb This special day ve ill be tilled with aclieilies that would make any eeagon maker abandon his iron at the forge Even though the wheeli ight s hammer no longer rings inside the Gruber Wagon Works, the tactory will watch over the festivities that will go on from 12 noon until 6 p m at the Berks County Heritage Center, located off Kt 18J near the Reading Airport Along with its doors being open for brief tours, visitors helping to celebrate the Gruber Wagon Work’s birthday will find exhibits and demonstrations of horse drawn vehicleds and related crafts u £ **■ & -4* Vehicles that will be on display include a butcher wagon and a dump wagon restored by Grubers from the Bo\ ertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, an ice wagon, a phaeton, a Bronson wagon, a sidebar buggy, a Conestoga wagon, and more than a half dozen Gruber wagons Paul Waltermyer of Windward Farms, Manheun, will demonstrate plowing, hitchma and plans on WASHINGTON, D.C. - Plans for the 1982 Census of Agriculture are on schedule according to Bruce Chapman, director of the Com merce Department’s Census Bureau. The census, to be taken starting next January, will provide basic information measuring the trends in number of farms, commodity production, land use, and income levels in agriculture Chapman indicated that the rapid changes occurring in agriculture due to the declining farm mcome situation, along with continuing high interest rates, makes the information from the agriculture census extremely important to the nation’s policymakers as well as farmers themselves Chapman points out that complete and accurate responses by farmers will ensure a high quality picture of the agriculture industry to everyone’s benefit Census forms will be mailed out in late December to 2 5 milbon farmers and ranchers to collect data for the 1982 calendar year Designed to reduce the burden on respondents through greater ease in reporting, the census form will vary by region, and questions have been reworded to be more un derstandable. While the basic census program is included in the proposed 1983 budget, the agriculture censuses of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam, a large-scale sample survey supplemental to the basic census, and a senes of later sur veys were dropped These deletions were among other Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 8,1982—D13 100th birthday Ag Census ’B2 timing using Mr and Mrs Donald Rule s learn ot Belgians lantaslei s Robot t Good iv ill hitch his six mules to a replica Conestoga wagon, and Jacob Macs of lA'banon will drive his Faints proving that light horses aren t neccssaiilv outweighed b\ the drafts in held performam e While these demon strations lake place on a glassy field, members of the Red Rose Horse and Fonv Club will hitch up their teams for a 4-mile drive along the Union Lanai towpath. located on the Heritage tenter grounds Berks County craftsmen Hon and Cindy Kunkle will be on hand to demonstrate horseshoeing and their special craft of upholstering carnages and hand-stitching patent-covered dashes and fenders the owners of Cm- Ron Carnage Shop, Cen treport, will also display their collection of carnage lamps, bells, lap robes, foot warmers, and assorted tools and carnages For anyone who developes an appetite during all the festivities, local Granges will be serving up refresh ments throughout the day Regardless of whether you’re a carnage enthusiast or just a person who wants to witness history first-hand, next Sunoay will definitely be a Centennial Celebration you don’t want to miss And it’s all free schedule changes in bureau programs resulting from budget reductions, according to Chapman The report form for the 1982 Census of Agriculture which already has been tested with several thousand farmers, has been updated from that used for the 1978 census Several items have been dropped and several added to meet current data needs For example, a question asking for expenditures for interest has been added Bureau officials point out that regional versions of the form for 1982 will simplify the com pletion of the report Much of the data gathered next year will be similar to that in 1978 and earlier censuses It will in clude the number and charac teristics of farms, acres in farms, average value of land and buildings, harvested acreages, and numbers of livestock on farms Questions on expenditures include purchase of feed, fertilizer, pesticides, lime, gasoline, and other farm fuels, customwork, farm labor, and livestock and poultry purchases Information reported by farm and ranch operators is held con fidential by law Data from the reports are seen only by sworn Census Bureau employees who are subject to fine and imprisonment if revealing any individual in formation Published reports contain numbers only to prevent identification of single farms Chapman pointed out that the confidentiality provisions of the census law just recently were reaffirmed by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court
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