Sheep Industry Boosts
Marketing In Budget
DENVER, Colo. Directon
of . the American Sheep Industry
(ASI) Association boosted lamb
and wool marketing in the
1993-1994 budget, passed daring
the annual summer meeting in
Rapid City, SJ).
Directon pasted an $8.5 mil
lion budget, including $2.86 mil
lion for lamb-marketing programs
and $1.63 million for wool mar
keting-Hie lamb budget pumps up
funding in the lamb area in retail
and foodservice areas where mar
keting studies have identified the
greatest potential for lamb sale. In
the wool area, additional funding
will help support successful inter
national efforts.
Abo funded were activities in
production, research and educa
tion, producer communications
and public relations, and resource
management work. The board
stressed its commitment to con
tinuing support of public informa
tion on the industry and to image
enhancement through all areas of
association work.
Ten percent of the tool promo
tional budget, about $776,000,
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• Welght-Tronlx • Bucket Elevators • Feed Bint
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• Transport Augers • utility Augers • • Grain Bins
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• Nuts
will be returned to stale associa
tions in all SO stales for slate pro
motion, education and communi
cation programs.
Finding in the government-af
fairs area was approved at
$240,000, the amount proportion
ate to the dues paid to ASI by state
affiliates.
The board also approved the
following actions:
• Gave official support to the
forage-fee formula for grazing
fees developed by the Western
Livestock Producers Alliance, a
formula reflected in Senate Bill
1326 introduced recently by Sens.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D-CO)
and Malcolm Wallop (R-WY).
• Summer meetings to be held
in Madison, Wis., in 1995; San
Angelo, Texas, in 1996; and Her
shey, Pa., in 1997.
* Regional nominations to the
executive board were Norm Braun
of Michigan for a second term in
Region 1.
• Change in Ac name of the as
sociation publication from “Na
tional Wool Giower” to “National
Lamb & Wool Grower.”
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SCHAEFFERSTOWN (Leba
non Co.) Schaeffers town’s
23rd annual Horse Plowing Con
test begins at 10 ajn. on Saturday,
September 11. The annual Horse
Parade begins Sunday, September
12 at 12:30 p.m. followed by the
horse pulL
The 16-hone hitch will be de
monstrated both daya pulling a
large, heavy disc to till the freshly
plowed limestone soil on the
Alexander Schaeffer Farm. Oxen
will plow and there will be a
multi-oxen hitch pulling a covered
wagon.
The early Swiss settlers in this
area were interested in soil good
enough to yield good bread. In the
year 1737, Durs Thommen, from
Neidcrdorf, Switzerland, writing
to Basel, Switzerland from the
Schaeffer Farm said, “The plow
ing is very good, with two horses
one man can plow one ‘great acre’
in one day.” Some immigrants
said you could not get good bread
from the soils in North Carolina
but that Lebanon County soils
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 4,1W3-A33
Horse Hitch
Harvest Fair
yielded good bread.
A harvest of pies, traditional
foods from the dutch kitchen, fam
ous Krall sausage sandwiches,
freshly pressed apple cider, apple
butter making, samples from the
numerous cooking demonstrations
in the farm house, summer kitch
en. and surrounding grounds will
entice the visitors. Roasted com
meal will be available for cooking
mush and a number of recipes will
be available.
Open to visitors will be the
unique Schaeffer House, circa
1754, with its distilling fireplace
and massive 1771 bake oven. The
log bouse over the spring, the new
summer kitchen, the blacksmith
shop, gift shoppe, dry house,
smoke house, and the bam with its
antique farm implements are other
interesting sites to see. The garden
and orchard may be viewed in
their original 18th century loca
tions. Wagon and train rides will
be provided.
the Harvest Exhibit will show
prize-winning local fruits and ve-
getables, the Cider Press will be
pressing apples, die unique ring
power will drive an antique
threshing machine, die 100-year
old Frich sawmill will saw logs,
and there will be a log pulling de
monstration.
John Hickemell, a folk-infor
mant and native of Schaeffers
town , will be on hand. Robert
Bucher will be available to discuss
the Swiss origin of our Pennsylva
nia barns and houses, to provide
literature on these subjects, and to
tell of new discoveries made re
cently in the Schaeffers town area.
There will be crafts both days
and entertainment on Saturday af-
temoon by folk singer Linda Rus
sell and entertainment Sunday af
ternoon by Ellen Kepper, Separate
Realty.
Admission is $230 for adults
and children under 12 are free.
Parking is free. Historic Schaef
fers town is located north of Lan
caster at die intersection of Routes
SOI and 897.