The photos that accompany the essay with the report on the Draft Horse and Mule
Progress Days were taken Tuesday afternoon. Some of the photos were on the Gideon
Stoltzfus farm located between Gap and White Horse. The team was hitched to the
corn planter resting at the end of the field while the operator was In the barn attending
a sick cow with the veterinarian. Other photos were taken on the Elmer Lapp family
farm where Lillie (Lapp) Martin was working a team Registered Belgians. The Lapp’s
Pequea Valley Farm will be the site of the scheduled Progress Days. Photos byEvaratt
Newswangsr, managing editor.
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Put my foot down!
Modem farming equipment.
lurry up, we’re thirsty!
Draft Horse, Mule Lovers
Set ‘Ag Progress Days’
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor'
KINZERS (Lancaster Co.) —With all the talk about larger
farms, huge tractors, and humongous equipment, you may find
it hard to believe that a growing number of small farmers and
parttime hobbiests have created a market for draft hoses and
modified equipment you can maneuver with horses and small
tractors. But it’s true. And the hose and mule lovers
ag progress days June 24 and 25 at Elmer
Lapp’s Pequea Valley Farm, located on Martin
Road, should help to convince you.
“We hope to have an “Ag Progress Days” for
draft horses just like they do fo modem farm
machinery in State CoUege,” Lapp said.
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On E*Z seat.