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VOL. 35 No. 21
Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey and Mrs. Casey visited the Earl Landis
dairy farm in Manheim Twp., Lancaster County, on their way back to Harris
burg after the city of Lancaster was capitol for a day last week. The first couple
visited the historic farmhouse decorated with family antiques and then toured
the bank barn with the cow stable on the lower level and the hay mows above.
In the photo, Landis explains DHIA records to Gov. Casey while Boyd Wolff,
Trends In Agriculture
Are Varied, Complex
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
CHEVY CHASE, Md. Agri
culture in the United States appa
rendy will be more complicated
than current-day farming, accord
ing to predictions offered last week
during a Northeast symposium on
future trends in animal agriculture.
The symposium was held at the
National 4-H Center and consisted
of a morning session devoted to
discussions on animal production
and welfare and an afternoon ses
sion focusing on environmental
impacts of agriculture.
According to symposium co
chairman David Brubaker, execu
tive vice president of PennAg
Industries Association, Ephrata,
the purpose of the event was to
bring together a number of people
who represent a wide variety of
interest in animal agriculture, and
allow them to openly and rational
ly share views, opinions and facts.
No other goal was set, according
to Brubaker, than to listen to each
other and ask questions and to pro
vide for one-to-one idea-sharing
without fear of emotional outbreak
or name-calling.
“We wanted to establish dia
logue between animal rights
■groups and agriculturalists and *o
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Gov. Casey Visits Landis Dairy Farm
try to get people to see that issues
are complicated and not amenable
to simplistic solutions,” Brubaker
said.
Brubaker and others said they
hoped that none of the participants
held hidden agendas for the
information-sharing activity.
Out of the 69 people registered
to attend the symposium, about 50
showed. They represented special
interest groups, activities or
businesses. Included were those
concerned with animal rights, ani
mal welfare, animal production,
agricultural research, other types
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Daylight Time
Starts Sunday
If you want to keep up
with the rest of the world,
set the clocks at the house
and at the barn ahead one
hour this weekend. Day
light Savings Time official
ly starts at 2:00 o’clock
Sunday morning. But you
can lose the hour just as
well by re-adjusting the
clocks ahead on Saturday
night.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 31,1990
Inspired by the pictures that appeared on the Kid’s Korner page in Lancaster Farm
ing, Martha Hershey embrodiered and quilted this quilt.
Quilt Inspired By Kid’s Korner Pictures
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
Quilt enthusiasts are always on
the lookout for new designs. They
get ideas from nature, printed
designs, and art.
Recently Martha Hershey
unveiled a work of art that she
stitched by tracing pictures that
appeared in Lancaster Farming on
state ag secretary and former dairy farmer from Westmoreland County, right,
explains the finer points of the dairy business to the first lady. The cows
seemed to have as much interest in their famous visitors as the state’s first
couple showed interest in the business of milking cows. See Lou Ann Good’s
family interview Page A-26. Photo by Everett Newswanger
the Kid’s Korner page.
Martha, a farmer’s wife from
Columbia Avenue in Lancaster,
said that she cut out the pictures
that appeared in the paper during
the 1970 s and early 1980 s.
She traced the designs on 49 yel
low patches. After painstakingly
embroidering the animals and
flowers in the crewel embroidery
Five Sections
technique, she interspersed them
with 50 mint green patches to get a
full-sued quilt.
Martha started the embroidery
about one and a half years ago. It
took her an average of one day to
complete each square with colorful
floss embrodiery.
She said, “I thought I’d never
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