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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
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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.”
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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.