Stewartstown library offers farm book collection
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research center at Beltsville,
where they have put together a
catalog of farm publications that
was a big help.”
Other sources, according to York
County Library System’s Evelyn
Minick, who handled the ordering
and the grant paperwork, include
some lists from a few scattered
midwestern libraries with farm
collections.
While some of the materials
have not yet arrived, and Mrs.
Davis has through June 30 to
complete her orders under grant
regulations, the collection already
fills a special shelf-section labeled
for farm interest.
The range of titles covers a
variety of farm needs, with crop,
horticulture and viticulture in
formation, animal care materials
for the whole gamut of domestic
livestock, estate planning, tax
regulation, building and pond
construction, tractor lore, farm
antiques, extension publications,
yearbooks of agriculture and both
magazine and newspaper
periodicals.
“We haven’t had a big influx yet
of farmers coming in to borrow
books, but expect circulation to
increase through word-of-mouth,”
librarian Davis anticipates.
To acquaint area farm families
with the new service, the library
recently hosted a buffet dinner for
local farmers and their wives. A
slide show detailing the materials
in the farm collection, and
featuring pictures of several area
farms as well, was shown during
the program.
Another of Mrs. Davis’ farm
collection promotions is a colorful
bookmark-sizes flyer, listing
several featured volumes, and
distributed at local town and ag
related places of business.
On the flyer she dubs the
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program “REAP,” an acronym
for Read and Enlarge Your
Agricultural Production.
Recent new additions to the
collection featured on the latest
promotion flyer are; “The ABC’s
of Farm Estate Planning,” by
Paul M. Levitt; “Com,” by Paul
C. Mangelsdorf; “Doane’s Tax
Guide for Farmers,” by John C. 0-
Byme; “The Invisible Farmers-
Women in Agricultural Produc
tion, by Carolyn E. Sachs; “Feed
Formulations,” by Tilden Perry;
“Building Small Bams, Sheds and
Shelters,” by Monnie Burch.
Also, “Earth Ponds,” by Tim
Matson; “A Veterinary Guide for
Animal Owners,” by C.E.
Spaulding D.V.M.; “Farm Lease
Guide,” by Robert M. Dunaway;
and “Farmland or Wasteland - A
Time To Choose,” by R. Neil
Sampson.
Through recent changes in
policy of the county’s library
system, a cardholder in good
standing from any of the libraries
in the system may borrow books at
other lending branches throughout
the county.
Through a computerized inter
library-loan networking system
that reaches out of the county to
other state and national libraries,
the Stewartstown collection is also
accessible to library book
borrowers across the country.
While most libraries with rural
patrons carry a number of pet care
and horticulture-related volumes,
books with agriculture-industry
topics remaion relatively scarce in
most.
Gerald Bruce, a reference
department staffer with the
Lancaster County Library System,
says their agriculture materials
deal mostly with animal care, plus
some on ag history, careers and
statisical information. Callers
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Stewartstown volunteer Anna Zembower has her arms
filled with just part of the library's comprehensive collection
of detailed repair and maintenance manuals for over 100
makes and models of tractors.
seeking specific, detailed printed
matter about agriculture are
frequently referred by Bruce and
his colleages to the Extension
Service for information.
“Actually, we haven’t really
been asked very often for ag
materials,” he adds.
Kathy Liebler, press
spokesperson for the state
lorougl
iversed
Department of Education, concurs
that the Mason-Dixon library farm
collection is one-of-a-kind in
Pennsylvania. While hundreds of
grant applications have been
submitted over the years for the
acquisition of books and learning
aids, none before Mrs. Davis’ was
so specifically geared toward
agriculture.
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Separate courses dealing with
farm resources available to
librarians are not taught in Penn
sylvania’s library classes, ac
cording to Bernard Vavrek,
director of the College of Library
Science of Clarion University of
Pennsylvania, at Clarion.
“That would be included as a
part of rural services studies,”
affirms Vavrek. “But we find that
our rural libraries are becoming
more non-farm all the time. I can’t
recall of any farm collection like
this one that’s ever before come to
my attention.”
Individuals interested in more
information on the Mason-Dixon
Library’s farm collection or
promotional slide program may
call Mrs. Davis at 717/933-2404.
Holstein sells
for $l6OO
REEDSVILLE Stone Gables
P Comet Candace, the 3-year-old
Holstein donated to the Perry
County Junior Holstein Club, sold
for $1,600 at the Central Classic
Sale held April 24 at Reedsville.
Consigned by the Richard
Knebel Family of Millerstown,
Perry County, Candace was
bought by David J. Peachey, R 1
Reedsville. The proceeds from the
sale of this cow will help finance
the Pa. Holstein Dairy Bowl team
on its trip to the National Holstein
Dairy Bowl Contest set for June 18
and 19 during the National Holstein
Convention in St. Louis, Mo.
The state’s dairy bowl team is
made up of junior members from
Perry County. The members are
Joe Albright, Daniel Albright,
Irene Benner and Kim Kriebel,
captian.
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