B2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 12,1984
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
EPHRATA - The Women’s
Committee of the Lancaster
County Farmers Association
began their Ladies Day Out last
Thursday with a tour of four farm
homes in the Ephrata area and
concluded with fashions from an
Ephrata area shop. In between,
they offered the 275 women at
tending a challenge to participate
in the Ag in the Classroom project
which will be offered as a pilot
program in the Penn Manor School
District as a prelude to a county
wide program.
Caroline Holleran, an economics
teacher with the Berks In
termediate Unit, told the women of
the programs’ success in Berks
County, and said the merits of the
program are in the multiplier
effect.
“If there is one teacher who is
enthusiastic about agriculture,
there will be 35 children who are
enthusiastic,” Holleran said. This
number increases dramatically if
the teacher is in secondary
schools.
Holleran said, “You’ve got a lot
to teach the rest of your com
munity. Agriculture must tell non
agriculture its story. Appreciation
for your industry will be built
nationwide,” through these efforts.
Involved with the program in
Berks County since its inception,
she is enthusiastic about its
reception by teachers and the
community.
“There will be a terrific impact
over the next year or two,” she
remarked.
Through an effort by the Berks
County Chamber of Commerce and
its agri-business committee, this
committee produced a program to
educate teachers, both on a small
scale and during a workshop for
credit. They have involved agri
businessmen, farmers, FFA
students and 4-H’ers in the
teaching of the information.
Saying that Ag in the
Classroom is a priority with
Agriculture Secretary John Block,
Holleran said the program has
been a true partnership program
with the farm community offering
talent and expertise, farm wives
developing brochures and tours
and agri-business making con
tributions to help defray costs of
materials.
Materials are developed and
made available so that teachers
can begin using them as soon as
Carolyn Crouse and Dairy Princess Boni Gochenaur work
together in distributing a delicious milk punch to the many
Lancaster's Ladies Day Out
features Ag in the Classroom
Caroline Holleran, Berks Intermediate Unit, urged the
women to work with the Ag in the Classroom project as a
means of telling the agricultural story to teachers who can
use the information in teaching every day. She spoke about
the successes already enjoyed by the Berks County program.
they leave the workshop.'
“The school districts have been
overwhelmingly pleased,”
Hollerman said. One of the specific
aides offered is an agricultural
vocabulary list so that one ag word
can be included each week with
other lists. Holleran added,
“Agricultural concepts can be
taught daily in areas of nutrition
and American history. Food and
agriculture are part of everyday
teaching.”
She said that part of the program
teaches conservation and
preservation of what we have. “We
bring into play some very im
portant values.”
Jane Eshleman, chairman of
Lancaster County’s Ag in the
Classroom project, urged the local
women to sign up as contact
persons for their local school
districts as the program expands.
Shirley Garner, representative
to the state women’s committee,
asked for more women willing to
work with fire and emergency
crews on the topic of farm safety.
She also announced that the
regional Ladies Day Out will be
held July 10 at Donegal Mills
Plantation, and the topic will be
“Where’s the Beef?”
Earlier in the day the ladies
toured several farm homes. Earl
and Grace Martin’s home on Royer
Road, included a wide variety of
handcrafted items which Grace
enjoys making. The Martins have
beef cattle and raise rye, com and
tobacco.
At Galen and Carolyn Crouse’s
dairy farm, near Schoeneck, the
women were treated to a milk
drink distributed by Lancaster
County’s Dairy Princess
Gochenaur and to stenciling
demonstration by Wanda Gaston.
In Carolyn’s music room, a trio
performed music for the tour
goers.
Terry and Sandy Scheetz’s farm
home is on the outskirts of the
village of Stevens, and featured
original corner cupboards, doors,
woodwork and floors. The
“country” look throughout the
home was welcoming, as was the
fire in the walk-in fireplace in the
kitchen. The Scheetz’s have a hog
farm.
Mary Schantz’s home has been
placed on the National Register of
Historic Places, and was built in
1803. A recently restored hearth
room is believed to have been part
of the original home, built previous
to that. Original woodwork, corner
cupboards, fireplaces and colors
were a few of the features of the
home. The farm is a working dairy
farm.
Red Rose Baby
Beef Club
The Red Rose 4-H Baby Beef
Club met at the home of Abe Flory
on May 2 The meeting began with
three demonstrations of fitting -
how to fit the legs of a steer, how to
do a tail and how to do the tail head
and poles
The next meeting will be on June
(i at West I .ampeter Fairgrounds.
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Clapper Farm
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Star Route
814 669 4465
Annville, PA
BHM Farm
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R D 1
717 867 2211
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B&R Farm
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RD 1, Box 217 A
717 658 7024
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Ivan J Zook
Farm Equipment
Belleville, Pa
717 935 2948
Carlisle, PA
Paul Shovers, Inc
35 East Willow Street
717 243 2686
Chambersburg, PA
Clugston
Implement, Inc
RD 1
717 263 4103
Oavidsburg, PA
George N Gross Inc
R D 2, Dover, PA
717-292-1673
Elizabethtown, PA
Messick Farm
Equipment, Inc
Rt 283 Rheem’sExit
717 367 1319
Everett, PA
C Paul Ford& Son
RD 1
814 652 2051
Gettysburg, PA
Ymglmg Implements
RD 9
717 359 4848
Greencastle, PA
Meyers
Implement s Inc
400 N Antrim Way
PO Box 97
717 597 2176
Grove City, PA
McDowell Farm
Implement Co
Rt 173 North
814 786 7955
Halifax, PA
Sweigard Bros
R D 3 Box 13
717 896 3414
Hamburg, PA
Shartlesville
Farm Service
RD 1 Box 170
215 488 1025
Honey Brook, PA
Dependable Motor Co
East Mam Street
215 273 3131
215 273 3737
Honey Grove, PA
Norman D Clark
&Son Inc
Honey Grove, PA
717 734 3682
Hughesville, PA
Farnsworth Farm
Supplies Inc
103 Cemetery Street
717 584 2106
Lancaster. PA
L H Brubaker Inc
350 Strasburg Pike
717 397 5179
Lebanon, PA
Keller Bros
Tractor Co
RD 7, Box 405
717 949 6501
Lititz, PA
Roy A Brubaker
700 Woodcrest Av
717 626 7766
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Paul Shovers, Inc
Loysville PA
717 789 3117
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Kermit K Kistler Inc
Lynnport PA
215 298 2011
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Forshey s Inc
UOForshey St
814 793 3791
Mill Hall. PA
Paul A Dotterer
RD 1
717 726 3471
New Holland. PA
ABC Grotf Inc
110 South Railroad
717 354 4191
New Park, PA
M&R Equipment Inc
P O Box 16
717 993 2511
Oley, PA
C J Wonsidler Bros
RD 2
215 987-6257
Pitman, PA
Marlin W Schreffler
Pitman, PA
717 648 1120
Quakertown, PA
C J Wonsidler Bros
RD 1
215 536 1935
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C E Wiley & Son Inc
101 South Lime Street
717 786 2895
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Rmgtown Farm
Equipment
Ringtown, PA
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I G Sales
Box 149
215 257 5135
Tamaqua, PA
Charles S Snyder Inc
R D 3
717 386 5945
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The Warner Co
For You The Farmer
Troy PA
717 297 2141
West Chester, PA
M S Yearsley & Son
114 116 East
Market Street
215 696 2990
West Grove, PA
SG Lewis & Son Inc
R D 2, Box 66
215 869 2214
Churchville, MD
Walter G Coale. Inc
2849 53
Churchville Rd
301 734 7722
Rising Sun, MD
Ag Ind
Equipment Co Inc
1207 Telegraph Rd
301 398 6132
301 658 5568
215 869 3542
Washington, NJ
Frank Rymon & Sons
201 689 1464
Woodstown, NJ
Owen Supply Co
Broad Street &
East Avenue
609 769 0308