B2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Novambar 10,1984
A hearty salute
to agriculture's
hard-working women!
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff,Correspondent
Nov. 11-18 is Women in
Agriculture Week, and we salute
all women who help sustain
agriculture. It is well known that
women work as equal partners on
farms, making important
decisions and carrying their share
of the workload.
Women can be found in almost
every job on the farm - from
milking, to feeding to driving
tractors to keeping records - and
each contribution is valued.
But their importance goes far
beyond the obvious. Keeping
nutritious food available and
delivering food to fields during
harvest helps keep things moving
Hog operations tend to be very automated, but there is still
a need for the human touch. Norma Frey checks feeders at
the fattening operation she and her husband. David H.,
operate on their Washington Boro farm, where they have up
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because they are so good at it. Here Doris Landis, Colebrook
Road, Lancaster, takes her place in the milking parlor. She
and her husband, John, now milk 150 cows three times daily.
smoothly. And what about all those
phone messages and “letting their
fingers do the walking” to track
down the right part for the tractor
or the best price for a product?
Driving children to 4-H meetings,
soccer practices, ballet classes
and band rehearsals are also
important contributions. And farm
wives who choose to work off the
farm are contributing in their own
way.
Thousands of hours of volunteer
time at churches, community
organizations and in promoting
agriculture also count as valued
donations.
At Lancaster Farming, we
salute all women in agriculture -
your job is an important one! -
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What farm wife hasn't been called on to get parts? Here Ruby jnger pi ,up a part
from Bob Keeport at Lancaster Ford Tractor. Ruby and Daryl have a 40-cow dairy herd
at R 7 Manheim. Ruby’s two assistants, Denise, 3, and Danny, 17 months, often go along
on her errands.
Ruth Brenneman can be found in the poultry house twice each day, presiding over the
egg collection. She has done this job for 21 years. She is married to Amos Brenneman,
' R 2 Columbia. I
Georgia Fry loves living on a farm and enjoys the outdoor work that goes with it. She
supervises the tobacco crop on the farm she and her husband, Larry, operate at
Washington Boro Rl.
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