Making Ends Meet And (Continued from Pago A2O) Melinda said that public reac tion has been very good. People say they are amazed and surprised once they find out where different cuts come from and how the whole process is performed. The butchering at the Folk Festi val isn’t as complete as the annual, week-long, family butchering pro cess. The types of cuts are more CLOSED THURSDAY, MAY 28 ■ ASCENSION DAY PAUL B. TRACTOR & CATTLE GUARD For Ran Kee, Cs Of PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN, INC. Call or Write For 295 Woodcorner Rd. Additional Information Lltltz, PA 17543 And Your Nearest Dealer 1 Mile West of Ephrata Phone: 717-738-1121 limited at the public demonstration than at home. But people ate genuinely interested. They ate not offended, she said. Her own involvement in the Grange gives her the opportunity to educate others in a mote effective manner. Both Melinda and Robert are active in the Grange and the Kutz town Young Farmers organization. They both have held officer posi gm in gran oo Corn Grow tions. Melinda is currently reporter for their YJP. They said that education is not just for the nonagriculturalist. That’s why YF. and Grange is important, they said. “We don’t just set up programs specifically for agriculture. We like other things too,” Melinda said. “We visited a neighbor who is a taxidermist and another neigh bor, who (rents from the Tercha’s) is a glass blower. “We like to see other things, just like anybody else,” she said. “We try to keep our group updated and knowledgeable. I think you have to be, because the government is becoming very dominating when it comes to fanning and operations. “The regulations nowadays, compared to 5 years ago, are becoming so strict, I think,” she said. “We have to keep all kinds of strict records. On top of all the paperwork we have to keep, the government wants to check up on you.” The national award she got from the Grange she said is more from working to promote agriculture, rather than actually doing it “I don’t really drive the tractor and do field work,” she said. “I’m kind of the ‘go-fer,’” she said. “If they (Bob or Stanley) need a pan, or some chore. I go for it or do it. I feed the bulls. Bobby and his father have gotten to where they don’t really need me.” However, she has acres of grass to mow at the rental places, the home farm and their own farm. She also has a garden at die home farm to take care of and harvest from. She freezes the produce and she Lebanon Farm Family The neighbors in a residential development which crests the southern hill are frequent custom ers for the farm fresh eggs. Some of the children from the develop ment are workers also. Spreading manure is not a prob lem. Yet. The people in the residential area are not hostile to agriculture. They seem to appreciate it and the open spaces it creates, Maulfair said. He said he likes having the neighbors he has. Some of the loc al youth find summer work on the farm. Receive $232,000 LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service recently issued cash payments totaling $232,000 to Lancaster County farmers for crops lost during the 1991 drought The disaster payments were made to fanners on 288 separate farms. located primarily in the northeast area of the county. Some of the crops that suffered losses included com, soybeans, to bacco, sweet com, potatoes, green beans, and alfalfa, according to County Executive Director Ray Brubaker. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 23,1992-A23 helps with butchering. “That’s a big thing (with the Ter chas) that was passed on from Bob by’s grandfather,’’ Melinda said. “If you go to a lot of forms they don’t do it anymore. I don’t know if it’s a lost art I admit it’s a log of wok. “Bobby goes to the Kutztown Folk Festival (to demonstrate butchering). He’s one of the few of his generation who can do it from start to finish,” she said. Her hobby since high school has been photography and for the last several years she’s taken photo graphs and written text for family butchering photo albums. “In years to come, it’ll be some thing to look back on.” Bobby said he is proud of Melin da’s achievements. “I think it’s a great honor to be honored by your peers,” he said of Melinda, “that you’ve shown an interest in agriculture and spoken out for it. It seems to me you need to get the message out, in agricul ture and outside of agriculture. “You don’t have to be a prefect. 100 percent modem farmer, but you should be aware of all the tools available to you.” (Continued from Pago A2l) Hosting the state association’s annual field day was a big move that was decided several years ago. Dale said. He’d offered his farm as site for the event then and it wasn’t until this year that his turn came up. But he shouldn’t have any trou ble getting guests to attend. Not with several state champion Ary shire’s in a row. See them for your self, attend the field day July 11. For more information, contact the Pennsylvania Ayrshire Breed ers Association, in care of Earl Keefer, RDI Box 188, Millers burg, PA 17061. In Crop Losses ‘To be eligible for the program, farmers with crop insurance had to lose more than 35 percent of their 1991 crop production during the drought,” said Brubaker. Those without crop insurance had to lose more than 40 percent of their crop production. Forty-four of the 67 agricultural counties in Pennsylvania had qualifying disaster applications. Many of the eastern counties had normal or sufficient rainfall. Areas of Lancaster County that re ceived adequate rainfall were in the south and east.
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