Farm Calendar / (Continued from Page AlO) Friday, July 11 Keystone Ram and Ewe Show and Sale; continues through July 12, State College. Pa. Angus Breeders Show, Centre Hall; continues through July 12; contact Chet Hughes, 717- 394-6851. Saturday, July 12 Vermont Sheep Sale, Addison Co. Field Days Grounds, New Haven, Vt. Contact Michael Clandon, 802-545-2249. Regional 4-H Demonstration Day, Sullivan County High School, 9:30 a.m. District 111 Jersey Picnic starting at 11 a.m. at Driesbach’s Long Meadows Farm. Sunday, July 13 National Ice Cream Day. Monday, July 14 Eastern Judging School; continues through July 15, York County, noon to noon. Adams County Dairy Tour to Franklin County. Sullivan County 4-H Roundup. IF IT’S WORTH YOUR INVESTMENT, TRUST IT TO HERSHEY. r - -i | YES! I want to know more about | | Hershey Equipment Co. and how I I can have the finest poultry, swine, j or grain handling system on the I market at an affordable price. I NAME ! ADDRESS | CITY I STATE | PHONE ■ I understand that there is no obligation to j buy. Wednesday, July 16 Couples Cooperative Conference, PAFC, Sheraton Inn, Danville; continues through July 18. National Corn Growers Con vention; continues through July 18; Clarion Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. Annual Meeting, Pa. Vo-Ag Teachers Association, Penn State University. Thursday, July 17 Bradford County 4-H Fashion Revue, Wysox Presbyterian Church, 9 a.m. Friday, July 18 Pa. Young Farmers Summer Conference, Penns Valley; continues through tomorrow. NEWARK, Del. The Delaware Cooperative Extension System has announced plans to survey Delaware farmers regarding their financial record-keeping prac tices. About 500 farmers (one out of every seven in the state) will receive the questionnaire. The ZIP Pa. Cattlemen’s Field Day, Rolling Ridge Farms, Karns City. Contact: Lowell Wilson, 814-863- 3659. Summer Picnic, Pa. State Beekeepers Assoc., Delaware Valley College, Doylestown. Mid-Atlantic Classic Hampshire Sheep Show and Sale, Manheim Fairgrounds. Pa. Ayrshire Field Day, Paul KemererFarm, Latrobe. Berks County Night at Reading Phillies (Between Games Promotion). Tenth Annual Snitz and Knepp Festival, Enders Grove, Pa. 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Delaware Plans Record-Keeping Survey information provided will be used to plan educational programs to improve farm profitability. Farmers’ names are not requested in the survey. According to extension agricultural program leader Dave Woodward, there are essentially three kinds of farmers-those making money and planning to Designers of Quality Systems for Poultry, Swine, and Grain Handling SYCAMORE INDUSTRIAL PARK 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE LANCASTER, PA. 17603 (717) 393-5807 Rta. 30 Watt at the Centerville Exit Saturday, July 19 How important is quality? Ask someone who settled for less than the best and has been paying for it in lower profits ever since! If it’s worth the investment, it’s worth the finest equipment, highly reliable service, and the most professional systems design available, and that means Hershey Equip ment Company. We have a reputation for quality in components and workmanship that’s backed by satisfied, successful poultry, swine, and grain producers world wide. Show us your land and tell us what you want to accomplish. Then let us go to work designing and building a system that will both please and profit you. Hershey Equipment Company ... for a quality system you can trust. HERSHEY EQUIPMENT COMPANY IS PROUD OF ITS AFFILIATION WITH THESE TRUSTED BRAND NAMES: Riley Bucket Elevators Varco Pruden Steel Buildings Brock Grain Bins Biq Dutchman. jS? Lancaster Farm Sells For $1,95 Million LANCASTER A mobile home dealer paid nearly $2 million for a Lancaster County farm in a public auction here this week. Larry’s Homes Inc. of Dover Delaware, who purchased the 113-acre Achey farm for $1,950,000, plans to put a 592-unit mobile home park on the land. The purchase price for the farm works out to $18,571 per acre, some $14,500 more than the average price county farmers paid for agricultural land in 1985. That figure is based on 105 acres planned for the mobile home park. The remaining acreage consists of pastureland. A local developer attributed the high price to the mobile park plan. continue doing so; those losing their records in making money but seeking solutions to management decisions,’' Wood their problems; and those who ward says. “We want to know what won’t know where they stand kinds of financial records financially or what their future Delaware farmers keep. We also prospects are in farming. want to know how many farmers “Farmers can easily wind up in would welcome extension the second and third categories if assistance in improving their they don’t follow sound financial record-keeping and financial record-keening nraotices and use analysis skills.’’ IPMENT I N C. Lancaster Famine, Saturday, July 5,1956-A3l Township officials and area residents opposed the proposed park, but the three Achey brothers, who are executors of the farm owned by their father, won the right to build the park when the 'state Supreme Court ruled in their favor last December. Fred A. Achey of Bethlehem, Lancaster attorney Charles A. Achey Jr., who now lives at the farm, and Phillip M. Achey, Gainesville, Fla., are executors and trustees of the estate of their late father, Charles A. Achey Sr. About a half dozen bidders participated in the bidding, which opened at $500,000, auction officials reported. Auctioneer was Elmer M. Murry of E.M. 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