Pr N Sts^.°|||f>lV ER SITV i- It*""* p |ancas|al^^Fajrnni^ VOL 37 NO. 32 Author Makes Distinction Between Taming, Domestication EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.) —The controversial issue of animal rights and one man’s view of it was the subject of the June edition of Ag Issues Forum. In the regular meeting of selected far mers and agribusiness leaders, Ste phen Budiansky, the senior writer for U.S. News and World Report, said part of the problem is the lack Berks County Alternate Dairy Princess Sarah Johnson is doing a dairy promotion the old way by entertaining. Johnson almost stole the show last Friday at Lancaster’s Penn Square during a Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Prog ram “Dairy Day on the Square” promotion. See story and related story on page A2l. DER Holds Hearing On Sewage Sludge Operation VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff ROBESONIA (Berks Co.) Public hearings with the state Department of Environmen tal Resources can be revealing, according to Donald Duncan, a Berks County farmer and political activist Duncan and about 100 citizens of Berks County’s Heidelberg Four Sections of recognition of the biological nature of the domesticated animal. "The key here is that a lot of us don’t make a clear distinction between taming and domestica tion,” Budiansky said. “You can tame a wolf, a lot of people have, but the wolf will still have territor ial reality, hunting instincts and (Turn to Pag* A2O) Township gathered Wednesday evening at Conrad Weiser High School to attend a public hearing held by DER as part of a waste dumping repermitting process. “I was surprised by some of the information which came out and the lack of good answers from DER,” Duncan said. “I feel that DER definitely goes by the book, (Turn to Pago A 27) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20, 1992 Three generations of Innersts call Dun-Val Farm, In the background, their home. Operating the family dairy farm together are from left, Jim and Wendy with Zachary, George and Orpha, Mark In center rear, and Dean and Becky with Paul and baby Sarah. JOYCE BUPP York County Correspondent RED LION (York Co.) Like a sheltering, cupped hand, a panorama of sleep hills curls around Dun-Val Farm in southern York County. Nestled at the foot of the undulating contours of hay, com, and grain is the farmstead of Mariano Vavela prepares a cow for milking on the eight-unit carousel at Wilkinson Farms. Children Part Of Farming’s Future ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Fanning Staff LANDENBERG (Chester Co.}. —Leon Wilkinson remembers die day before the President arrived. Three helicopters swept in from the skies, deploying secret service agents and special equipment. Their task: find the best landing site for the helicopter bearing Pres ident Ronald Reagan. To Wilkinson, the President’s visit to his farm symbolizes America’s past, in a way—a time when the country took fanning ser iously, when farmers were upheld and where people were thankful for the abundant, inexpensive food. District Names Innerst Farm Clean Water Award Winner George and Orpha Innerst family. Bon and raised on this Red Lion R 3 family farm, George Innerst has become accustomed to cultivating slopes that might send a flatland farmer fleeing his lean ing tractor seat "When Dad bought the farm, he said it would never be farmed with Now, he worries that schools are riding the “less-fat-is-healthy” bandwagon, reducing outlays of milk products in school. And what this dairy farmer doesn’t under stand is why the same kids who are LOOKING AHEAD Due to the July 4th Holiday, deadlines for July 4 Issue of Lancaster Farming will be as follows: Mailbox Markets, Monday, June 29, noon. Public Sales, Monday, June 29, noon. Classifieds, Horses & Mules, Trucks & Trailers Real Estate, Tuesday, June 30, 5 p.m. Classifieds, Farm Equipment, Wednesday, July 1, 9 a.m. General News, Tuesday, July 2, S p.m. Late-Breaking News, July 3, noon. Closed FrL, July 3. 609 Per Copy a tractor because of the steep ness,” said the veteran dairy fanner. But in 1942, some years after his father’s Depression-era purchase of the Dunkard Valley Farm, the Innersts’ first tractor arrived to begin replacing the horse-team (Turn to Page A 26) forced to accept a nearly tasteless, lower-in-fat product in school are allowed to go hone and sip even less healthy sodas. (Turn to P«fl* A 24) $19.00 Per Year
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