B3o—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 7,1982 Regional ladies day out features South African farm woman GRANTVILLE - A South African farm woman was a featured speaker during the Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association’s Regional ladies day out program, held recently at the Grantville Holiday Inn, to the theme “Farm Women, the Pefect Ten.” Sylvia Lambert, a widow, lives with her son and his family on their livestock and vegetable farm in the Texas-size country of South Africa, located on the southern tip of the African continent. Originally from England, Lambert has lived in the partly-tropical, partly-arid country for 35 years. “Oil is our problem” she told the over 100 PFA women in at tendance. Although oil exploration is being conducted off the South African coast, the country is the first in the world to be comercially manufacturing oil from coal. The Lamberts, in addition to cropping vegetables, raise beef cattle, some dairy animals, lambs, thoroughbred horses, and her daughter-in-law raises purebred Animal rights movement opponent Pat Sueck, left, and South African farm wife Sylvia Lambert, were two of the featured speakers for the PFA regional ladies day out, in a program devoted to “Farm Women, the Perfect Ten.” dogs of a German breed. While the vegetables that Lambert grows in her South African garden are similar to those of American plots, she related the finding of one species in her garden that made her luncheontable listeners cringe. “I kill about four cobras a year,” she very matter-of-factly com mented on the deadly poisonous snake species that is common to that area. Crops commonly raised in the home tropical part of South Africa include citrus fruits, and a by product, of agriculture, wine. Wool, sugar, maize (corn), timber and poultry are other crops widely grown, and exported to other countries. Dairy products however, run In short supply, especially during the long dry winter season, and must be im ported. Some parts of the arid areas of the country are so barren it takes twenty acres to support one sheep. Sections with greater amounts of rainfall grow grasslands, which support a beef animal on eight acres, or a sheep on six. A fairly new growing industry to South Africa is game farming. Much of the meat and hide from game animals is exported to other countries, while numerous species are also stocked for hunting reserves. South Africa, says Lambert, remains a country of various tribes, Rural and urban blacks follow widely different cultures and traditions, with tribal squabbling not uncommon in the rural areas. Six permanent Zulu tribesmen employees help operate the. Lambert farm. They receive free board and lodging, and are given off two weekends per month. Per month, each employee recieves a 25-pound bag of maize, the staple grain product of the diet. 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June Honaman 97th district, of Lan caster, told the farm women that the greatest right of women is to make their own choices, and that they’re too reluctant to face change. “Women have a lack of faith, of confidence, in themselves,” she said. “They also suffer from the ‘time-syndrome,’ claiming they’re too busy to try new challenges.” Pat Sueck, York County farm woman and animal rights speaker warned women that the animal welfare movement is alive and well, and conducting an intensive, if quiet, letter writing campaign. Regulations are being drafted that, if adopted, would prohibit certain types of confinement and restrict husbandry. Some of the emotionalism of the issue, she says, comes from the “Walt Disney” syndrome, of crediting animals with the same emotions people experience. The welfarists behind the movement, which includes vegetarians, draw on that emotional angle, and have gotten materials in to some school programs that question youngsters as to how many animals they’ve eaten that day. Farm women are urged to write to Rep. Tom Harkin, in Washington, and state their op position to the welfarists proposals in H.B. 305, which would set up a committee to recommend codes on confinement and husbanding procedures. Earlier, Harkin, who is the chairman of the House Ag Committee’s subcommittee on livestock, dairy and poultry, had received some 2,000 letters sup porting the welfare legislation, and only ten from farmers opposing it. Included in the day-long program were reports from program chairlady Sara Market, (Turn to Page B 38) EAR CORN Paying Top Prices For Good Quality Ear Corn Wet or Dry No Quantity too large or too small Fast Unloading - Dump on Pile & Go Easy access - 2.2 miles off 283 bypass- Manheim, Mt. 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