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The Marlin Becker Family, Manhelm, received a special
award for their help and commitment in many of the clubs
activities. Marlin, his wife Nancy and daughters, Karen, 14;
Melissa, 10; and Amy, 7; helped organize the hog roundup
and chaired the club’s sausage stand at the Manhelm Farm
4-H Swine Club
Notes Successes
Show.
BY LOU ANN GOOD
MOUNT JOY (Lancaster)
Although the 4—H swine club
held their first banquet on Wednes
day night, they are not novices
when it comes to competition.
Members include some of the
county’s top swine producers who
consistently earn top placings in
swine competition. Until the coun
ty club was organized in April, the
4-H swine projects were carried
out independently.
Chester Hughes, extension
livestock agent, said it’s been his
desire for many years to have a
swine appreciation banquet since
the county has such a successful
swine industry.
Young and old were recognized
at the banquet for numerous
achievements. Eight-year-old Der
rick Frank, Rhecms, launched his
swine project this year and ended
with the title of “Rookie of the
Year” for his hog that claimed the
grand championship at the 4-H
Fair in August. Derrick is son of
Charlene Frank.
USDA Audit Criticizes
Spending Of Check-Off Funds
BY KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Dairy fanners’ money isn’t being
spent as wisely as it could be to
promote milk, if you accept the
conclusions drawn by auditors for
the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture’s Office of Inspector General.
In a recent report that has been
circulated widely in the industry
and the press -- although it’s never
been officially released - the OIG
auditors detailed a variety of
“administrative and management
weaknesses that require corrective
action” by some of the groups that
spend funds from the mandatory,
nationwide IS-cent a hundred
weight promotion check-off.
The auditors also criticized
“duplication of efforts” in adver
tising dairy products by the indus-
Four Sections
“Without dedicated 4-H leaders,
the club would not be successful,”
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Road Through Heartland Dropped
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER —Because of
public 'outcry from around the
world, what started out as one
proposed highway project through
Lancaster County has now become
two separate projects. That’s what
John Rautzahn, Penn Dot project
development engineer, told the
Routes 23/30 Task Force meeting
in Lancaster Chamber offices
Thursday evening.
Two years ago when Penn Dot
got started on the feasibility study
to find one corridor through the
county that would serve the needs
of both routes 23 and 30 they deve
loped seven alternates. Some of
these proposed routes were to the
north following an earlier feasibili
try’s two national organizations,
the National Dairy Board and the
United Dairy Industry
Association.
Industry insiders agree the latter
situation needs improvement.
Merger discussions have occupied
Dairy Board and UDIA represen
tatives for the past two years, to
date, without success. However,
local promotion organization offi
cials appear unconcerned about
the former charges, saying they’re
more the result of differences in
accounting procedures than mis
use of funds.
The 38-page report focuses on
the spending of check-off dollars
by the many state and regional
promotion and education dairy
units across the country - the so
called “qualified programs” -
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 22, 1988-
The Year Was 1867 . . .
PA Grange Master Announces Convention
HARRISBURG (Dauphin) “This was a time
when cows produced 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of
milk per year, when 125 bushels of potatoes per
acre was good production, when wheat, cut,
shocked, and threshed by hand was produced at
the rate of 12 bushels to the acre and sold for 60
cents a bushel, when 28 bushels-to-the-acre com
sold for 35 cents,” from History Of The Grange
by Charles Wismer.
This was 1867. This was the
background against which the
Grange was launched as a vehicle
for defining and meeting individu
al and group economic and social
needs and aspirations.
Against the difficulties of life in
these times were the advantages of
a strong family life -- husband.
ty study and some to the south
along historical corridors. . They
also adopted a modified version of
the alignment that was proposed
by the county ay board. Many of
these proposed corridors
crisscrossed over route 772
between Leola and Intercourse.
When Penn Dot held their first
Berks Mayor And Tree Farmer Swap Jobs
BY LOU ANN GOOD
SINKING SPRING (Berks)
Dressed in work clothes, Berks
County Mayor Warren Haggerty
looked right at home while work
ing on the Tom DeLong Christmas
Tree Farm. But when he took his
turn at operating the tree baler, he
was all thumbs.
“You watch while I do one; then
we’ll let you fix it,” Tom DeLong
told the mayor.
On October 14 and on the 19th,
DeLong, a Christmas Tree farmer,
and the mayor swapped chores.
They did it as part of the Farm-
Business Person Exchange, spon
sored by the Berks County exten
sion service in an effort to encour
age public relations and better
understand each others’
responsibilities.
DcLong, his skin weathered by
the sun and seasonal winds, nimb
ly manipulated a heavy sprayer on
his back while he explained how to
detect and spray diseased trees on
his 50-acre Christmas tree farm,
Sinking Springs. As he fingered
the needles of a Fraser fir tree, he
remarked, “It’s a beauty.” But the
casual observer will never know
the hours put into producing this
beauty unless he has worked the
land.
DcLong explained how his
father had laid out 4x4-feet plant
ings over 35 acres to produce max
imum growth. Thirty years ago
BY PAT PURCELL
wife, and children working
together for common purposes -
and the Grange had the wisdom to
reflect and enhance these ties as a
family fraternity.
1867 in rural America was a
time of great isolation, tremendous
distances, and slow and tortuous
(Turn to Pago A 34)
public meeting on these porposals
only about 100 persons attended.
But at the second public hearing
held at Pequea Valley High School
after extensive media coverage
including a lead headline in this
publication that warned farmers a
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Berks County Farm-Business
Exchange, Thomas DeLong and Mayor Warren Haggerty,
swapped jobs. Although both enjoyed the switch, DeLong
summed up the exchange by saying, “I’m thankful he’s
doing his job and I’m doing mine.”
DeLong purchased the property
from his father. Today two-year
old seedlings are purchased from
northern slock, planted in the
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HARRISBURG (Dauphin)
Pennsylvania State Grange Master
William H. Ringler announced
plans for the 116th Annual State
Grange Convention at at a press
conference held Monday at the
Marriott in Harrisburg. The three
day convention to be held October
23 through 27 will be hosted at the
George Washington Motor Lodge
near Allentown on route 22 in
Lehigh County. Some activities
will be scheduled at nearby Days
Inn & Conference, also located on
route 22.
On Tuesday Pennsylvania’s
Secretary of Agriculture Boyd
Wolff will speak to Grange mem
bers at a 2 p.m. meeting. Featured
speaker of the convention will be
Governor Robert Casey of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
who will address members at
Tuesday evening’s banquet
state.. Grange Master
has recently assumed his leader
shifMtoties following the tenure of
Charles E. Wismer who served ten
years at Master of Pa. Grange. Rin
gler comes from Berlin in Some
rset County where he has farmed
for 47 years. The 180-acre W-J
Farm, owned and operated by Rin
gler and his son James, supports
dairy and beef cattle and among
forage crops also produces
potatoes.
transplant bed for two years before
permanent planting.
Deterrents to the seedlings
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$lO.OO Per Year