VOL 28 Mo. 49
The first sfli> in Pennsylvama with permanent RjpN Seat
This time it’s for ‘Real’
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
MIDDLETOWN - The first silo
with a Real Seal permanently
affixed to the structure was
erected on a Dauphin County dairy
farm this week.
The Real Seal silo was erected cm
the WitLene Farms of Wilmer and
Arlene Martin along Colebrook
Road, southeast of Middletown.
The Seal, which is becoming a
regularly recognizable symbol for
“real” dairy products, was in
cluded in the manufacture of the
silo by Sealstor. It is now available
to farmers who wish to identify
Guess who came to dinner
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
NEW PARK No ants came to
this picnic.
But the raid did, not exactly a
full-fledged soaker, but a steady,
drizzly, foggy, gray mist.
Still, even that never dampened
the spirits of the 78 people who
turned out for a field-side feast at
the Maple Lawn Farms of Paul
and Gail McPherson, New Park
Rl. The unique buffet spread
served to portray for an upcoming
Farm Journal magazine issue the
statistic that each American
farmer feeds 78 other people.
From accountants to airline
stewardesses, lawyers to brick
layers, 78 relatives, friends,
neighbors, farm employees, and
business associates rode by wagon
to a grassed, contoured diversion
strip between two cornfields to
pose for the magazine’s
photographers.
Each came garbed in the
clothing or uniform appropriate to
Four Sections
their farms as the source of those
“real dairy products.”
Making the Real Seal available
on the silos came about as the
result of a suggestion in an
editorial in the May 28 issue of
Lancaster Farming to use the “big
blue billboards” on dairy farms to
promote the use of dairy products.
“I saw the suggestion in Lan
caster Farming,” Martin ex
plained, “and thought it was a good
idea.
“The National Office of the
American Dairy Association was
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the actual profession they
represented.
Central to the photo layout was a
full-sized flatbed farm wagon,
loaded down with beautifully
prepared and artistically
arranged foods, representing the
diverse commodities that originate
on the American farm.
Editors of the Philadelphia
based farm publication had con
tacted the orchard and grain
producing family in mid summer,
expressing interest in setting up
the photo spread depicting farm
efficiency.
While the original plan called for
only an assemblage of 78 in
dividuals representing diverse
occupations, the food idea evolved
during discussions between the
magazine’s staffers and the Mc-
Phersons.
Bulk of the cooked portion of the
sumptions buffet came from kit-
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, Octaber 8,1983
Pa. conservation still
in horse and buggy stage
BY JOYCE BUFF
Staff Correspondent
YORK Most farmers will
implement soil conservation
techniques only when they see a
real economic incentive, according
to Peter C. Myers, Chief of the Soil
Conservation Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Myers was keynote speaker for
the 31st joint annual conference of
the Pennsylvania Association of
Conservation District Directors
and the state Conservation
Commission, held Monday through
Wednesday at the Yorktowne
Hotel.
The soil service chiefs com
ments to the 250 attending the
convention followed closely the
conference theme on high
technology conservation.
Claiming Pennsylvania’s
present soil conservation methods
as “still in the horse and buggy
stage,” Myers predicted a new
-wave of soil and,water saving
techniques*' through com
puterization.
Computer services now in
planning for use by conservation
agencies will show in a brief
printout how much soil and money
a farmer can save through con
servation improvement. Agencies
now estimate that 80 percent of
America’s farmers utilize such
measures only through economic
motivation.
“Compatibility is the key,” said
Myers of the common computer
system planned for state' and
national agencies. A compatible
system between these agencies
will allow data exchange, while
cutting cost through volume
baying.
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Setting spread for'7B on a farm wagonin the middle of a field are, from the left
Suzanne Patrico and Al Cash, photo crew; Gail McPherson and Etheiind Anderson.
Welcoming Soil Conservation head Peter Myers, left, are
York District Chairman BiH Fleet, right, and vice-chairman
Charles Hess.
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