Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, May 28, 1994, Image 51

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    LANDIS VALLEY (Lancaster
Co.) Create memories for you
and your family at Lancaster’s
Landis Valley Fair the weekend of
June 4-5. Visit a 1700 s hunting
camp, lacemaker or baker, watch
horses pull plows or carriages,
help your child play dress up or
use early lighting devices.
Fairgoers may enjoy more than
65 activities and events, ranging
from a magic show, performances
by the Lancaster Co. Folk Music
& Fiddlers’ Society, sheep, rabbit
and peep hatching exhibits to
blacksmithing, knife, and band
box making.
This 38th annual event at a
scenic museum complex includes
many hands-on activities for
children and adults, such as cake
walks, pie-eating contests, and
making old-fashioned toys like
button whizzers. The young at
heart will also want to join in hay
play, spelling bees, and many old
fashioned games like sack races,
sing along with Übi Adams, take a
pony ride, use an auger and have
an 1890 s school lesson.
Landis Valley, rated “excep
tional” by AAA, is the largest
Pennsylvania German museum.
Its many historical buildings, from
farmsteads and a tavern to craft
shops and a firehouse, will be
open. Visitors will also enjoy see
ing kitchen gardens, groves, and
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Create Memories At Landis Valley Fair
orchards, and browsing at the herb
and heirloom plant sale. The Fair
includes tasty country food such
as sausage sandwiches.
On Saturday of the Fair the
Shop will feature Louise Stoltzfus
and Jan Mast signing their book,
LANCASTER COUNTY COOK
BOOK.
Visitors will learn about tradi
tional crafts and skills with
demonstrations of 1700 s angling,
the autoharp, basketry, bookbind
ing, brick making, broom making,
chair caning, coppersmithing, flax
processing, guqsmithing, leather
working, printing, punched
embroidery, rug hooking, shoe
making, stone carving, tin
smithing, early veterinary prac
tices, wagon making, weaving,
wood carving and many other ear
ly arts.
The museum’s historical farm
ing program is adding two new
major features. On Saturday a
Plowfest will be taking place most
of the day. Visitors will see skilled
horse teams plowing a field. On
Sunday the Red Rose Carriage
Club will perform precision
movements (dressage), displaying
a variety of horses and carriages.
To raise funds for the museum’s
farming program, volunteers will
be running Cow Chip Bingo at the
Log Farm.
Your Jamesway Dealer has loads of
information—including an in-depth
video—about Big Jim BU C S the
Bottom Unloader Conversion System
by Jamesway See how you can get
faster unloading increased capacity
better quality feed and reduced
maintenance m your steel poured
concrete or concrete stave silo You
can even tour a farm with a B U C S
installation at work So call your
Jamesway Dealer now and get the
expert advice you need'
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The Plowfest shows oUMime plowing by horses, mules, oxen, and ponies. Particip
ants will plow down the field, drag It, disk It, and plant. Visitors can watch the entire
process.
The public will delight in meet
ing a variety of Civil War era per
sonages - The Patriot Daughters of
Lancaster, deeply concerned
about the welfare of Union troops;
the Lancaster Guard, showing
camp life and medical procedures;
Southern women visiting Wheat
land, who find themselves behind
Union lines at the War’s start.
Most activities will be under
roof and will go on rain or shine.
Admission is free for ages S &
under, $5 for ages 6-17, $6 for
TMR Rouging* Master*
four-auger mixers process and
ration—including dry baled
(o a fully blended TMR
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able, with an accuracy rate of 995%,
i new EZ Series of indicators give
you total control with more
features and functions.
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ages 60+ and $7 for adults. No
discounts or group rates apply at
the event. It is located 2.5 miles
north of Lancaster on Rt. 272/Ore
gon Pike, a marked exit off both
Rt. 30 & Rt. 222. Call (717)
569-0401 for more information.
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