AIS-Lmcaster Farming, Saturday, November 24,1954
Over 300 attend initial Berks F
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
LEESPORT-Berks County’s
first annual Farm-City Banquet
proved very successful as over 300
farmers and city friends turned out
for a night of sharing experiences,
animal and produce judging, and
good food. Held on Wednesday,
Nov. 15, at the 4-H Community
Center, Leesport, the banquet was
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce Ag-Business Com
mittee and the Berks County
Farmers and Friends.
Pennsylvania Dutch hors
d’oeurves, including fried
mushrooms and a variety of
cheeses were enjoyed by the crowd
as they judged Holstein cows,
supplied by Reu-Hel Farms;
poultry provided by Muard,
Naugle, Berks County Poultry
Fanciers Association, and apples
provided by Ontelaunee Orchards.
Everyone attending received a
free hat donated by many county
businesses, and the 4-H Center was
filled with “hats” as farm and city
friends became acquainted during
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the pre-banquet social hour.
“Green tags" were farmers and
“red tags” were the city people
and seating instructions for the
banquet cautioned one color not to
sit alone or the meal would not be
served. The atmosphere remained
jubilant throughout the Penn
sylvania Dutch meal as the cows in
the back of the room provided the
animal sounds straight from the
farm.
Dr. Buffer, president of Albright
College, summed up the purpose of
Farm-City Week, “to develope and
sensitize the understandings of
each other.” He spoke on his ex
periences in the farmer
businessman exchange program in
October. Buffer spent a day on the
beef farm of Dennis Manbeck.
Manbeck then finished the ex
change with a day at Albright
College.
“A farm is a large number of
skills,” Buffer continued. “It’s a
family enterprize ... involved
people... an entire business.”
When Manbeck spoke, he
compared their two jobs, “we both
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ship’em in and ship’em out... and
try to make them gain as much as
we can.”
The President of Metropolitan
Edison, Floyd Smith, also par
ticipated in the exchange and spent
a day on the dairy farm of
Clarence Sattazahn, Rl,
Womelsdorf. “I never realized that
a farm family is really a cor
poration all by itself,” he stated.
Clarence Sattazahn agreed, but
added, “he had quite a few vice
presidents. At home we have one,
and she has all three titles.”
Sattazahn enjoyed his visit and
tour of the Met-Ed offices and
training sites.
Radio personality, Charles
Adams, exchanged a day with
swine producer, Mike Moore. “A
lot of money can be circumvented
by their skills,” Adams observed
about farmers after his day at
Moore’s. “Those people on the
farms are just as talented as we’ll
ever be,” he continued. His
greatest realization came as he
related how much he appreciates
Friday’s and weekends to relax. “I
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Tony Grimm, left, Berks County Chamber of Commerce,
receives honor for starting Chamber’s Ag-Business Com
mittee, from Ernest Miller, dairy farmer.
City program