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made syrup every year since he
was four years old.”
The Voughts tap about 1500
trees, half which are rented, using
mostly buckets to catch the syrup.
But according to Harvey, they
have a couple hundred taps which
they use with tubing. He feels they
don’t get as much sap from the
trees with the tubing, but that it’s
less work.
A wood-fired evaporator is used
to boil down approximately 22,500
gallons of sap need to make 450
gallons of syrup which is then sold
partly in bulk and partly retail. It
takes 50 gallons of sap, Harvey
reminds us, to make one gallon of
syrup.
Although all three generations of
Voughts take part in the potato and
maple syrup operations, Carl, a
recent graduate of Penn State with
a major in animal production,
cares for the flock of Suffolk-
Rambouillet cross ewes and
lambs.
Lambs are sold at the lamb pool
at Wyalusing. The Voughts shear
their own sheep in January just
before they have their lambs.
According to Harvey, when they
are pregnant is the time they are
most easily sheared. Then, in April
and May Harvey and Carl travel
through Sullivan, Bradford, and
Lycoming counties to shear ap
proximately 1,000 sheep.
David recalls that when he was
16 years old he used to travel to
farms surrounding their place,
shearing as many as 3500 sheep in
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one season by himself. But things
have changed now, he reflects
since the price of wool dropped
there are very few farms in
Sullivan and nearby counties that
keep sheep anymore.
Besides the above mentioned
enterprises the Voughts do a little
crop farming to the extent of
putting out 40 acres of oats, 10
acres of corn, 16 acres of rye, and
50 acres of hay, most of which is
fed to their flock or to the 10
Charolais-Hereford cross beef
cattle they raise.
According to Harvey, the
Voughts experience few out of the
ordinary difficulties juggling all
these endeavors, but he does admit
sometimes he has to set priorities.
To single out a favorite operation
is tough for Harvey, but he men
tions the maple syrup endeavor
first. In the next breath he says he
likes to see the potatoes grow He
seems to like the challenge of the
potatoes ‘Potatoes keep you
thinking,” he says.
Along with versatility, tenacity
is certainly also characteristic of
the Voughts It was in 1850, David
says, that his grandfather pur
chased the 100 acre Vought
homestead for three dollars an
acre, for a total of $3OO. “It took 30
years to pay the mortgage off,"
David observes.
When his grandfather died,
David says, the farm was split
between David’s father and
another relative. David notes after
he took the farm over from his
father, he was able to purchase the
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The
expansion of the Charolais Roll of
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the Show Sire, Bull and Female of
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1986-87 show season to be very
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designed by the American-
International Charolais
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cattle shown extensively during
the show year of July 1 to June 30.
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points earned by an animal in
individual competition. ROE
points earned in junior get-of-sire
competition are included only in
calculating the Show Sire of the
Year.
There are two levels of ROE
shows, Class A, which are pre
designated, and Class B For a
show to qualify as a Class B event,
at least 50 entries must be shown
with no one exhibitor owning more
than 25 percent of the entries. Also,
the AICA show classifications and
rules must be followed, and the
show must be judged by an AlCA
approved judge.
At the end of the 1986-87 show
season, 403 female entnes and 310
original 50 acres from a cousin.
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displayed by the Voughts for the
past 137 years, one imagines there
will be Voughts farming the family
homestead for the next five
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Junior Div
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First Year Members
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