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FFA Thank* Pm. Poultry Federation
Lynn Hwmlnger, chairman of Iha board of directors of the Pennsylvania Poultry
Federation, receives an award from Pennsylvania FFA President Wayne Hasslnger
and state FFA Reporter Michelle Kerdeman In appreciation of the efforts by the Poul
try Federation to help support FFA in the Mate. The award, called a Diamond Award,
was presented during the 25th anniversary annual fund raising banquet at the Her
shey Convention Center Wednesday which saw a record I,6ootickets sold. The hinds
go for promoting better legislation. Entertainment tar the evening was by Country
Western recording star Ronnie Milsap.
INDEX
Sec. A... Market Reports
& General News.
Sec. B... Women’s News,
Mailbox Markets.
Sec. C... General News
Sec. D... Business News
Sec. E...Classifleds 4-36.
Sec. F... Classifieds 1-3.
Inventor Of Baler Dies But Contribution To Farming Lives Forever
Ivan J. Click
Writer Friend
Edwin B. Nolt, Baler Inventor,
1910-1992,
We’ve lost a Mend, Ed Nolt
passed away last Tuesday. But his
example, his Christian testimony
and his work remain with us. Not
many people knew him very well
because he shunned publicity. He
usually didn’t have very much to
say unless you talked Pennsylvani
a Dutch. A stranger would never
have guessed his genius. He was
associated with the New Holland
Machine Company from 1940
until a few yean ago but he main
tained a quiet reserve even there.
Not many Machine Company or
Speny people got to know him.
But his invention, the automatic
pickup baler, was the foundation
of that company’s success. For
years, thousands of jobs were
based on Ed Nolt’s invention.
Around the world, livestock farm
ing changed as a result of his baler.
Lancaster County would have
been a different place without him.
But not many people know much
about that, either. Ed wanted it that
way. In his view, as a Christian, it
would have been just plain wrong
to accept fame or to have people
know about his charity. Brother
hood and Christian Fellowship
were more important to him. Being
a stand-out would have interfered
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Allied MUk Producers Hold Annual Dinner
GAY N. BROWNLEE
Somerset Co. Correspondent
JONESTOWN (Bedford
rn WThe Allied Milk Producers’
"coopSfflfve Inc., representing
nine counties, held its annual din
ner recently at the Masonic
Temple.
The gathering of members was
for a two-fold reason, according to
Dorothy Naugle, dairy marketing
specialist. It was to thank the
Allied supporters and to share with
with things he believed.
Ed was bom in 1910 near Vog
ansville. Like many Lancaster
County fanners, he was a natural
bom mechanic. His father had a
small farm but mainly he ran a
threshing rig. In the off season he
operated a saw mill and crashed
rock for local fanners with a port
able crusher. Ed’s mother was the
daughter of a miller. So between
mills, threshers, the saw mill and
the rock crusher, young Ed grew
up with mechanical things.
He was 14 when he finished the
eighth grade and could quit school.
He said he was sure glad to be done
with that and have it over with.
School didn’t agree with him
much. He went along threshing
with his tether during die harvest
season before he was out of school.
He bought the “Rig” from his
father and became a custom
thresherman on his own by the
time he was 19. He opened a gar
age at Vogansville the same year.
Each year, by the time the
threshing season was over, the
equipment had to be overhauled.
Young Ed decided to put a stop to
that So he went over the thresher
and rebuilt it He took off the old
oil-soaked wooden block bearings
and replaced them with bronze or
anti-friction bearings and made a
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Lancaster Raining, Saturday, April 25, 1992
them how the promotion dollars
are spent
To show how the cooperative
targeted promotions, a number of
reports and viewed colored slides
were presented by Naugle.
Bill Parise, president of the Pen
nsylvania Special Olympics, head
quartered in Rochester, was a spe
cial guest at the banquet
In his remarks, Parise, (whom
Naugle dubbed "the star of the
show) praised die Allied Milk Pro
Relive history. Here, a 1939 or 1940 9-N antique Ford tractor pulls a 1948 Model 76 New
Holland baler. This Isst of the first series baler invented by Edwin No It was pulled out of the
museum In July 1990 and put to work on the Aaron Click farm near Lampeter In Lancaster
County. The ocasslon was the 40th anniversary of Nolt's baler invention and the 50th
anniversary of the 9-N. Martin Denlinger Jr. drives the tractor.
Nolt passed awsy this week, but left behind a quiet legacy of mechanical genius from a
grade school education that exceeded many doctorates. Photos auppHadby author, aomaara
by Earl Ainsworth, Pam Journal.
Groups To Grapple
With Dairying’s
Decline In Maryland
KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md. The
declining status of the daily indus
try in Maryland has prompted
action on several fronts in recent
weeks.
State officials led by Secretary
of Agriculture Bob Walker and
Ray Miller, president of the Mary
land Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, have appointed
a task force of fanners and other
industry figures to study the prob
lems of dairy fanning in Maryland.
The 30-member task force, which
held its first meeting on Monday in
Baltimore, is expected to generate
a report before the state’s General
Assembly reconvenes in January.
ducers' Cooperative for its
involvement with Special
Olympics.
In addition to giving the Special
Olympics its largest cash donation
in history. Allied Milk Producers'
Cooperative helped to raise thou
sands of additional dollars through
a coupon booklet in conjunction
with area businesses.
Finally, Parise presented a
plaque to die cooperative on which
was engraved words of gratitude
609 Par Copy
At the same time, members of
Maryland Farm Bureau’s dairy
committee have begun discussing
initiatives that can help fanners
stay in business. The committee
sponsored a marketing forum
Monday that drew about SO far
mers to an evening meeting in
Walkersville, Md.
The actions underscore concern
for what has long been the second
largest agricultural enterprise
behind broilers—in Maryland. As
has been the case throughout the
Northeast and much of the country
in recent years, the number of both
dairy farms and cows in Maryland
has continued to shrink.
In Maryland, however, the
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for all that has been accomplished
by the cooperative for the Special
Olympics Winter Games.
The board of directors will lose
long time member. Jim Harteis,
Cambria County, who is retiring
after 10 years.
Board president, Joel Rose, told
the group that Harteis had given
invaluable support to the Allied
Milk Producers' Co-op during his
tenure on the board with words of
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