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Like anything else that gets used
every day, we pay very little at
tention to a bale of hay or straw.
Cows munch through mountains of
them in a year’s time, neighbors
occasionally stop by to buy one for
their dog’s box or to mulch a
strawberry patch, and most of the
summer is spent in pursuit of more
of them.
By itself, a bale doesn’t amount
to too much - or go very far in
feeding. But piled in stacks, layers
high, they’re precious cache for
the winter, cozy hide-a-ways for
nests of kittens, building material
for forts, and unending exercise for
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Grand Champion Steer Shown by Kim Hopple of the
Cumberland Valley FFA. Purchased by Richard Shaw,
Shaw Bros. Packing (Penns Pride Meats) - Newry, at
$1 05 per pound
Exhibitor
Reserve Grand Champion Country Butcher Shop
Sandy Hopple
David Shultz
Exhibitor
Reserve Grand Champion
Tom Gordon
Champion Rambouillet
Cindy Frey
Champion Dorset
Scott Lemmon
Champion Southdown
Bruce Lemmon, Jr.
Champion Cheviot
Jason Kutz
Champion Cornedale
Betsy Kiner
Champion Columbia
Chris Hopple
Reserve Champion Suffolk
Sandy Hopple
Reserve Champion
Hampshire
Tom Gordon
Reserve Champion
Rambouillet
Cindy Frey
Reserve Champion Dorset
Betsy Kiner
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all of us who lug them around.
Somewhere in the accumulating
stores are a cluster of bales just
patiently waiting to snag me some
unsuspecting day.
They’re “Crackerjack” bales.
You all know about “Cracker
jacks ” That’s the caramel-coated
popcorn that comes in little boxes,
complete with peanuts and the
“surprise in every box.” (I think
they still put a surprise in every
box.)
I cut my consumer teeth on
crackerjacks - it was a favorite
church picnic purchase. And
among my precious possessions
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
FFA LIVESTOCK SALE
Thank you to the many supporters at our 6th annual sale held at the Shippensburg Fair.
3 Steers
Champion Steer
MARKET STEERS
Buyer
Carlisle
Wayne F Craig & Sons
Lvstk
RKET LAMBS
Buyer
Greencastle Lvstk Market
Newville Print Shop
Country Mkt Nursery Florist
Hulse Associates Insurance
Carlisle Lvstk Market
North Mountain Butcher
Shop
Dr ChitraNagana
Carlisle Lvstk Market
Wayne F Craig & Sons Lvstk
Georges Flowers &
Shepherd's Crook
Huntsdale Stock Farm
were various prizes from the
boxes.
I’m still finding surprises in
packages - in the “Crackerjack”
bales.
Just the other day I split the
strings on a hay bale and out
tumbled a flattened stack of
cardboard. This is one of the less
unusual treats.
The farmer has always prac
ticed hayfield anti-littering. When
he opens a new pack of baling
twine, he simply throws the
wrappings in the windrow to bale
up with the harvest. That keeps the
trash from blowing around and
messing up the neighborhood.
Occasionally part of a magazine,
or newspaper, or advertising flyer
turns up in a hunk of hay. Parts of
feed bags and bits of plastic gar
bage bag are pretty common, too.
Once in a while, a jagged-edged,
flattened soft drink can is the
surprise in the bale. That never
fails to stir a fleeting wish that I
could shove the residue into the fan
blades or carbueretor of the car
driven by the passing motorist who
tossed it into the field in the first
place.
Every now and then, a big hunk
of tree limb finds it way through
the baler’s mechanism and is left
lying, untouched, in an otherwise
Sale Total $18.880.70
20 Lambs
Champion Lamb
Grand Champion Lamb shown by Sandy Hopple of the
Cumberland Valley FFA Purchased by Gary Blakey,
Shaw Bros Packing (Penns Pride Meats) - Newry, at
$2 55 per pound
Exhibitor
Reserve Champion
Southdown
Bruce Lemmon, Jr
Reserve Champion Cheviot Larry Wert
Jason Kutz'
Scott Lemmon
Kim Hopple
Michelle Walker
Chris Hopple
Michelle Walker
Sunday's Mill Co
Farm Credit Service
Carlisle Lvstk Market •
Country Mkt Nursery Florist
Rita Gould & Shepherd's
Crook
First Bank & Trust-Mech
RKETHOGS
Kim Hopple
Reserve Grand Champion
Ed Goodhart
Champion Pen o( Two
Scott Lemmon
Champion Lightweight
Mark Bricker
Champion Light-
Heavyweight
Ed Goodhart
Reserve Champion
Lightweight
Steve Helm
Reserve Champion
Mediumweight
Brandon Weary
Reserve Champion Light-
Heavyweight
Jeff Warner
Reserve Champion
Heavyweight
Bruce Lemmon, Jr
Mark Lehman
Mark Lehman
Jeff Nolt
relatively bare teed alley.
“Roughage,” the farmer calls it.
Such wooden extras prove to be
better fuel for the woodstove
kindling pile than the cows’ inner
milk processing plants.
Even flattened, dned-up pieces
of some poor luckless groundhog
who met his fate before the mower
and baler have been known to
occasionally appear. Balers are
not yet computerized to accept hay
and straw while spitting out such
harvest unwanteds.
All that I can handle. But thg
load of straw that recently came in
polluted with snakes, and is
stacked somewhere, just waiting
WASHINGTON,D.C. - The
nation’s capital will become the
classroom for more than 4,000
teenage 4-H’ers from different
states during a week-long
citizenship and leadership training
held at the National 4-H Center.
Among those 4,000 participants
will be 75 Pennsylvania teens from
35 counties.
The Citizenship-Washington
Focus program for teens began on
June Zand will continue each week
fam
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Buyer
Mark & Carolyn Gutshall
Shaw Bros. Packmg-Newry
Hatfield Packing Co
Kreider Meats
Orrstown Bank
CV Co-Op-Shippensburg
Joanne’s Kountry Kitchen
Hatfield Packing Co
Hatfield Packing Co
Country Butcher Shop
Country Butcher Shop
Souder Feed & Grain
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 3,1985-BS
4-H'ere focus
45 Hogs
Champion Hoi
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Grand Champion Hog shown by Scott Souders of the
Big Spring FFA Purchased by Wayne F Craig & Sons
Livestock represented by Wayne F Craig 111 and Wayne
F Craig. The purchase price was $5 00 per pound.
Exhibitor
Kim Hopple
Duane Kough
Duane Kough
Ben Myers
Chris Hopple
Chris Hopple
Robert Allen. Jr
Betsy Kmer
Brandon Weary
Ben Kutz
Bruce Lemmon, Jr
Mike Allen
Jeff Warner
Sandy Hopple
Andrena Sites
Steve Helm
John Sigler
Tom Gordon
Robert Allen, Jr
Bill Sigler
Kim Hopple
Sandy Hopple
David Varner
Ben Kutz
Betsy Kmer
Andrena Sites
Mike Allen
Jason Kutz
Mark Bricker
Ben Myers
Jason Kutz
Dave Varner
for me, will haunt me for the next
many months.
I wasn’t actually helping unload
this batch, so this is second-hand
observation. But I understand
there are - or at least it seemed -
more than just a few bales with
snake residue. The elder offspring
who did unload these recounted in
horror how she saw the tail end of a
reptile protruding from a bale,
gingerly poked it, and liked to have
died when the tail began furiously
wriggling.
And somewhere in hundreds of
bales, they wait. Maybe for me.
If I had my druthers, I’d druther
get my surprises from Cracker
jacks.
on citizenship
through Aug. 10.
Participants will visit Capitol
Hill for a close-up view of the
political process; meet with their
congressional representatives and
senators for a discussion of
legislative issues; visit historical
and cultural sites within the
metropolitan Washington, D.C.
area, and interact with other 4-H
members from across the country
to exchange ideas and learn dif
ferent customs and interests.
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Buyer
Greencastle Lvstk Market
Farmers National Bank-
Newville
Country Butcher Shop
Doug C. Wallick Insurance
Country Butcher Shop
C.V Co-op-Mechanicsburg
Hatfield Packing Co.
JohnC Diehl & Sons Lvstk
Gutshall's Inc. -Carlisle
Hatfield Packing Co.
Kessler’s Meats -Lemoyne
CCNB-New Oxford
Huntsdale Stock Farm
C V. Co-op -Newville
White Oak Mills
Monn Real Estate -
Shippensburg
Doug C Wallick Insurance
Emery Buying Station
Fred Potteiger & Sons
W.R. Sellers Buying Station
G Leonard Fogelsonger Ins
C.V. Co-op -Mechanicsburg
North Mountain Butcher
Shop
Fickes Silo - Newville
Agway - Newville
Joanne's Kountry Kupboard
Kessler's Meats -Leymone
Hatfield Packing Co
Vigortone Ag Products
Orrstown Bank
Gwaltney of Smithfield. Ltd
Shaw Bros Packing-Newry