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The KEN ROYAL Daughters we see around the country are nice
sized cows with a nice blend of dairyness and strength. They have
wide rumps, set legs, and very uniform udders. We feel he is very
underrated for type. KEN ROYAL is a very good buy at $9
per unit.
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Allenwood, PA., George Showers—
Bangor, PA., Eric Heinsohn
Carlisle. PA., Wayne Piper
Clifford, PA., William Horton
Coburn, PA., Wendel Musser
Columbia, PA., James Charles
Dornsife, PA., Steve Kieffer
East Earl, PA., Darvin Yoder
Holtwood, PA., Paul Herr
Lebanon, PA., Paul Martin
Leola, PA., Lynn Gardner
Linden, PA., Larry Bower
Mansfield, PA., Harold Robson, Jr...
Mifflinburg, PA., John M. Beachy. ..
Mifflintown, PA., Mervin Zendt ....
Millville, PA., Wilmer Hendricks . .
Prospectville, PA.. William Tyner....
Reading, PA.. Andrew C00per......
Reedsvllle, PA., Chester G. Self ridge
Rothsville. PA., Keith Campbell
Stewartstown, PA.. Tom Engle . ■
Thomasville, PA., Ira Boyer
Ulysses, PA., Bonnie Barker..
West Grove. PA., Brian Geesaman .
INNEWYO i
Johnson, NY, Peter Vender Schaaf
Pen Yan, NY, Calvin Crosby .
IN DELAWARE
lan Rush
Kirkwood, PA.,
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Baptistown, NJ, Cindy Gordeuk.
Elmer, NJ, Cyndy Hetzell .. .
Lambertville, NJ, Robert Fulper
Port Murray. NJ, Robert Kayhart
IN MARYLAND
Detour, MD, Jim Carmack
Mt. Airy. MD, Allan Pickett
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN
SEEING AMERICA
This may not be the best time or
place for a travelogue, but after
returning from a 6000 mile drive
around the country I find it hard to
keep silent about what I saw.
Always impressed with the size,
scale and scope of our land, I look
for anything that is different from
local experience as I travel. The
differences in climate, soils, rain
patterns, and geography are most
striking, particularly as these
things affect the pattern of far
ming. It’s hard to be bored when
you travel with both eyes open and
your mind alert for the new and the
different.
Spring weather was still trying
hard to get off the ground when we
began our odyssey in early April.
Heading south, we soon realized
that we were catching up to
summer long before it would reach
Pennsylvania. In eastern Ten
nessee we saw the first com fields
with the green showing along the
row.
In Alabama and Mississippi,
cotton and rice fields were ready
for planting. Some rice was
already growing in Louisiana and
eastern Texas.
Paddy rice is a fascinating crop.
The paddie must be as level as the
kitchen floor, because right after
planting they are flooded with
about six inches of water. That
assures quick germination as well
as guaranteed weed control. The
paddie are kept flooded most of the
growing season until near harvest
time, when they are drained and
expected to dry up enough to
support the big combines with wide
flotation tires.
The levees that sustain the
floodwater follow strange patterns
of contour. They must be ab
solutely level, so that even in a
field that appears level to the eye,
the contoured levees twist and turn
like a snake across the terrain.
They may vary in width from a few
feet to a thousand feet, producing a
surrealistic pattern when viewed
from higfi ground.
The other essential requirement
is the abundance of water that can
be easily controlled. That’s why
the river flood plains of the
southern Mississippi valley lend
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themselves so well to this type of
farming.
So, when travelling through
southern Mississippi, Louisiana
and eastern Texas, you are not so
likely to see silos and hay or grain
storage structures. You are most
likely to see lots of rice elevators,
mostly owned by local co-ops. Next
in abundance are the cotton gins,
with dozens of large, mesh-covered
wagons sitting around.
And every John Deere or IH
dealer has a yard full of odd
looking contraptions that I finally
figured out are cotton pickers.
They look somewhat like a com
picker, with row crop snouts, and
have a large mesh-enclosed basket
mounted on top to hold the fluffy
cotton. The freshly plucked cotton
balls, with seeds and trash still
mixed together, are dumped into
the oversized wagons for transport
to the local gin. Most gins also have
a seed processor nearby to process
the seed for oil and livestock feed.
And while we are on this
discussion of river-bottom far
ming, I must mention aquaculture,
specifically, catfish fanning. It
requires acres of shallow fresh
water ponds, and a very
specialized type of management.
The catfish are fed a specially
blended ration, and with good
management will produce three to
four tons of meat per acre harvest,
they can be harvested several
tunes a year, rain or shine.
We met a farm family from
Mississippi who make their living
on sixteen acres of catfish ponds.
Ponds are harvested on a rotation
basis, taking everything over
about two pounds and leaving the
smaller ones to grow some more.
They are marketed through a
quick freeze co-op that supplies
thousands of restaurants with fish.
Obviously, they don’t spend their
time lounging on the pond bank
with a can of worms and hook and
sinker. It’s all very businesslike,
gathering the catfish with a special
seine that lets the little ones
through and only holds the big
ones.
And if you haven’t eaten broiled
catfish, you’re in for a real treat
when you do! Look for a place that
advertizes all you can eat for $3.50,
and fill up on a real delicacy.
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