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Rick Noll, of Manheim, works this field at Colebrook and Landlsville
roads in preparation for spring planting. Noll apparently got the fieldwork
Warm and Wet Weather Patterns Affect Farm Activity, Push Insects
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.) —■ Wet and warm weather for the next couple of days
will probably keep most farmers out of the fields, even though that would be the ideal
place to be getting work done, according to officials.
The warmer than average temperatures all winter and spring have pushed insect
activity from one to two weeks earlier than normal, according to entomologists at Penn
Slate University.
Dealer Collects Antique Tractors
VAL VANTASSEL
Berks Co. Correspondent
LYNNPORT (Lehigh Co.)
Antique collectors are known for
their passion for items from the
past Kermit Kistler is no excep
tion. While others fancy well
preserved quilts and depression
Joan Staudt, left, her daughter Cheryl, Ronald Klstler,
and Beatrice and Kermlt Klstler enjoyed the open house
they held for members of the Antique Engine, Tractor and
Toy Club.
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glass, Kistler and his family have
developed a fondness for antiques
with a more rugged beauty.
The Lehigh Co. John Deere
equipment dealer collects antique
tractors and engines. On Sunday,
the family opened their collection
to fellow enthusiasts from the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 5,1990
Antique Engine, Tractor and Toy
Club. More than 300 people spent
a rainy afternoon admiring the
wide-ranging collection.
Kistler was surprised and
pleased by the turnout. “The rainy
weather may have been a good
thing. Many of these people
wouldn’t have been able to come
if the weather had been good,”
said Kistler.
Kistler’s collection includes
more than 50 antique tractors and
more than 60 hit-and-miss
engines. Most of the collection is
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1,700 Poultry Fans Jam Convention Center
EVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
More than 1,700 poultry fans
jammed into the convention center
here Thursday night for the annual
fund rasing banquet of the Pen
nsylvania Poultry Federation.
started In time. Wet and warm weather may delay such activity for a couple
Of days thiS Week. Photo by Everett Newswanger
Also, many across the southern tier, gearing up for a first alfalfa cutting, will have to
wait. And pesticide spraying will also have to be delayed until the threat of rain
disappears.
According to Victor Cruz, meterologist with the National Weather Service in Harris
burg, precipitation for the year, up until Thursday, had been below average by 1.74
inches.
Gift Of Milk
In New Atlantic Program
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks
Co.) —A new agreement between
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative and the
service agency known as the Men
nonite Central Committee (MCC),
allows dairy farmers to designate a
portion of their milk (in pounds) as
a gift to world hunger needs. The
value of the donated milk will be
deposited in an account at the dairy
cooperative. MCC will then purch
ase milk from the cooperative in
line with the credit in this account
to produce powdered milk. The
Chairman Paul Sauder, Penn
Dutch Farms, said the support of
the Federation by the industry at
the $lOO-plate dinner was gratify
ing in light of the present problems
of consumer misinformation.
Stale Secretary of Agriculture
Boyd Wolff said the $lB5 million
Five Sections
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powdered milk will be fortified
with vitamin A and shipped to
under-developed countries where
food shortages have caused great
need. Costs of shipping the milk
powder will also be covered by the
credit in Atlantic’s special
account. .
“This is a dream come true,”
said John Hostetler, MCC material
resources coordinator. “We have
been working on and off since the
early 1980’s to establish such a
program. We want to thank Atlan
tic board members J. Wade Groff,
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poultry industry was very impor
tant to the Pennsylvania’s eco
nomy and chided other states for
the “undeserved” bad rap given to
the poultry industry. The statement
was an obvious reference to New
York’s restrictive ban on eggs
$15.00 Per Year
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