Berks Little Miss (Contbwwd from Pag* BIO) which are registered. Neither Rachel nor her sisters are old enough to help extensively on the farm yet And her dad doesn’t want to rush it “I had some farm accidents when I was a kid,” he says, watch ing his three youngsters cavort in the yard beside their home. “She’s only a kid once; let her be a kid.” But Rachel does have a special chore of which she is immensely proud. She gets to provide some of the care of the four calves, whose tongues tickle her hands when she feeds them hay. “When she gets older, if she wants to show animals, she can,” her dad said. “But that’s up to her. We’re not going to push her,” In the meantime, Rachel is also busy with junior choir at St Paul’s Berks County's Little Miss Dairy Princess Rachel Hartman, 6, of Hamburg, feeds one of the calves on her farm. # MORTON BUILDINGS, INC. Excellence Since 1903 3368 York Rd. Gettysburg, PA 17325 717/624-3331 Call or writ today lor mow MOrmailon WdfTlliy’r'Mfe l UCC in Kutztown and Brownies, as well as attending the many func tions throughout the year which call for the attendance of the dairy princesses. At these times, Rachel can see her special friend, Kelly Gelsinger, the Berks County Dairy Princess, who Rachel says is the neatest per son she’s met while being an ambassador for milk.” In one of Kelly’s last appear ances, she came to Rachel’s school on March 18, did her magic-show presentation about the benefits of milk, and went room-to-room with Rachel proclaiming the same message. That was a day Rachel will remember “She was like a superstar,” said Bruce about the attention shed on Rachel. “Everyone loved her.” CONTACT: 1-800-447-7436 P.O. Box 126, Phlllipsburg, NJ 08865 908/454-7900 Mnola only, call HOOIMWM Burnside Festival Highlights - BETHLEHEM (Lehigh C Burnside Plantation’s Bam Rais ing Festival promises to be one of the most rewarding tasks in which volunteers will participate and the most dramatic, historic event of this decade that attenders will wit ness. Scheduled for Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17, the Bam Raising Festival will help realize a long range goal set by Burnside Plantation to become a living his tory farm museum where visitors can experience firsthand, die pre industrial agricultural life of the Moravian community between 1748 and 1848. - Once the bam is finished, it will be used for processing and storing crops and housing equipment and animals. It will also serve as a re source for area civic and educa- Rachel has a natural gym nasium in her yard a hill for tumbling and doing cartwheels. Ton can’t control the weather, bnt yon can increase yonr dry weather yield by controlling soil fertility - 'ii Hl-Calcium arftiii I IMUeCTAiUS UHnnwIVIK r i _L_L tkmal organizations, and make available unique resources for stu dy and research. To raise the bam. volunteers are needed to serve as post guides, and on the rope crew, lift crew and pegging crew. Post guides will monitor the progress of the post/ sill alignment during the early stages of the lift and prevent the posts from ‘lacking out" while the rope crew will assist in the later stages. Lift crew volunteers will lift.by hand or man pikes of vary ing lengths. Pegging crew volun teers need to be agile as they will be checking and adjusting the alignment between timbers and driving the pegs into place. Other highlights of the Bum side Bam Raising Festival include craft displays, food and entertain ment About 40 crafts people are ex pected to be featured at the festival selling and demonstrating wood carving, pottery, weaving, spin ning, quilting, blacksmithing, rug making, ftakturs, needlework, em broidery, primitives, basket mak ing, herbs, straw hat weaving, fur niture making and wood graining. A variety of foods from chicken barbecue to roast pig and apple dumplings to strawberry short cake will be sold. Saturday’s entertainment will begin at 1 p.m. with a performance by Jens and Brandywine Friends. The group’s repertoire includes some Appalachian and bluegrass fiddle tunes, country tunes, nostal gic melodies and new songs. At 2 p.m. Bruce Gaston takes the stage. On Saturday night, activities will culminate with The Fresh Vegetables calling for the square dance which will run from 8 p.m. Proper lime application can increase your dry weather yield - *TL J ‘ h * , I s* "i -W,. 1 Porpra«|it4«llvcnroß^iMt 4udcr wcatf lUne&idtfe*' Barn Raising tol 1 p.m.Tbc dvertt requires a $5 per person, admission. Music, food and drinks will be served. Sunday’s performers will be Roy Justice with his minstrel, storytelling and music program at noon, and Bonnie O’Donnel at 1 p.m. Lectures provided by the Heart land Guild of Craftsmen from Fleetwood, Pa., include “Pennsyl vania German Folk Art” on Satur day, May 16 at 3 p.m., and “SOO Years of Design” on Sunday, May 17, at 2 p.m. Children’s activities such as po tato printing, barn-bent making, a feather or walnut relay race, sack races, a water relay race and a Maypole, are provided by the Jun to League of the Lehigh Valley. Festival admission fees of $5 per family, $2 per individual and $1 for children under 12 years of age will be charged. Festival operating hours are 9 a.m. to S p.m. both days. For more information call Burnside Plantation at (2IS) 868-5044. Vendors Wanted Flea market and craft vendors wanted for Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair on Sunday, August 2, 9 a.m. rain or shine. Spaces available, 24' x 24’, for $2O. If you would like a contract or for in formation, call or write Gene Fish er, 2903 Cedariiurst Rd., Finks burg, MD 21048. phone (301) 861-8353 or Joan Eline (301) 848-1384. ‘-i (800) 2354805 (717)8544185 rAj. ! '/ f
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