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Vol. 41 NO. 1
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
WEST MIDDLESEX (Mercer
Co.) The Pennsylvania State
Grange held its annual convention
recently at the Raddison in West
Middlesex and adopted some poli
cies on a number of issues to for
ward during the National Grange
Convention, under way in
Harrisburg.
The Pennsylvania State Grange
has 33,000 members in 66 counties
and is a rural and agricultural orga
nization dedicated to making the
state a better place to live through
legislative action, community ser
Lancaster Farmland Trust honors land banafactors, from left. Or. Floyd and Ruth
Landis, Ethel Stephan, and Ethel Van Matte.
Farmland Trust Honors Land Benefactors , Boyd
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
WILLOW STREET (Lancaster
Co.) “Remember, land is not
inherited from our parents but bor
rowed from our children,” Darvin
E. Boyd, outgoing president'for
Lancaster Farmland Trust, told the
400 supporters attending the annu
al dinner meeting on Nov. 3.
“There is no more noble cause
than to enhance the life of future
generations,” he said.
It was for this reason that three
more families donated a perpetual
conservation easement to Lancas
ter Farmland Trust The donation
of an easement prevents develop
ment while the farm continues to
stay in private ownership.
Although Dr. Floyd and Ruth
Landis no longer live on the
78-acre Upper Leacock farpi, they
wanted to make sure that it
remained a working farm.
“It’s too good of land to do any
thing else with it” Landis said of
the farm that his father Aaron had
purchased in 1912.
“He worked hard to save the
farm through the Depression.
Now, I’m doing this to honor him,”
Landis said of the family’s deci
sion to preserve the farmland.
Ethel Van Nana and her brother
Ai Rorabaugh Jr. also decided to
preserve the family farm in honor
of their father.
“It was my father’s wish,” Van
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Pa. State Grange Holds Annual Convention
vice and member services.
One of the oldest agricultural
and rural organizations in the
United States, it develops policy
locally, further refining it at the
state level, and also at the national
level
In addition to policy develop
ment, the Pa. State Grange also
honors outstanding achievements
by members, and holds contests,
such as talent and sign-language.
State Secretary of Agriculture
Charles Brosius addressed the con
vention and called upon the
Grange to pass resolutions that will
guide‘the administration toward
Natta said of the S3-acre Provi
dence Township term, which has
been in the family since 1910.
Ethel Stephan also donated the
easement on her Lititz farm. “It
was my husband’s dream place,”
Stephen said of the farm that she
describes as a 17-acre horse farm
with a “million dollar view.”
Benefactor awards also went to
FrariCes Bear, Joseph and Malinda
Fisher, Bob and Carolyn Kilgour,
Brooke Minnich, Richard Min
This Is ths All-Maryland Holstsin that has produced
100,000 pounds of milk, Hanovsrhill Columbus Echo, own
ed by Paul F. Harrison 111 of Burklttsvllle, Md. To see all the
1995 All-Maryland Holstein winners, see page A 21.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11, 1993
policies that will make agriculture
a more profitable and viable
industry.
Brosius said that the Grange’s
123 years of service to agriculture
and rural communities is com
mendable and asked that the
Grange keep providing “the power
that comes from speaking as one
voice.”
The agriculture secretary said,
“We need your input We need to
know what the Grange thinks. We
appreciate your resolutions and the
tithe you’ve put into them to make
agriculture an even greater
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nich. and Mary Schantz, for donat
ing easements.
Theie toms are a legacy of what
Boyd described as “a living nation
al treasure flourishing to die ongo
ing quality of life rather than a his
torical monument”
The trust’s executive director
Alan Musselman said that the trust
has preserved 60 farms totaling
4,000 acres since the trust’s incep
tion seven years ago.
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Betty Master accept* ■ bouquet of flowers and a plaque
as the recipient of the annual Pa. State Grange Granger of
the Year award. ~
Farmers’ Export/Import
Group Writes Russian
Partnership
EVERETT NEWSW ANGER
Managing Editor
RONKS (Lancaster
Co.) The Russians came to
Lancaster County last week with
visits to the farms of Jack Cole
man, Rooks, Ed Harnish. Christia
na, and Charles Tindall, Peach Bot
tom. And the Russians went hbme
this week with a partnership agree
ment between them and a group of
farmers known as the Pennsylvani
a Producers Research and Deve
lopment Commission, Inc. The
commission, a fledgling trade
association with the purpose to
export and import farm and other
products, has 500 members in
Southeast Pennsylvania, many of
them Amish.
After John Best, Holtwood,
Department Of Ag Hears
Cries Of Help
From Family Farms
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
GUTHRIES VILLE (Chester
Co.) More than 150 Chester
County Cooperative Extension
representatives and friends
gathered on Thursday evening for
the annual meeting and banquet at
the GuthriesviUe Fire Hall.
What they learned is that, in
these extremely trying times for
Four Sections
commission treasurer, and Allen
Weicksel, commission director,
visited St Petersburg, last month,
the Russian businessman, George
Komissarov and Yuri Ivanov, SL
Petersburg’s chief TV cameraman,
along with Irene Souchkava, inter
preter and employee of the com
mission, made a return visit at the
commission’s expense to check
out the products and services that
are available in Southeast
Pennsylvania.
As a result of these visits from
halfway around the world, an offi
cial' partnership agreement was
signed as the first step in the distri
bution chain the commission hopes
to develop so that nutritional pro
ducts can find their way from here
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farm families, the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture is hear
ing their cries for help and
admitting there is a lot of work to
be done. , .
Often, according to Charles C.
Brosius, Pennsylvania secretary of
agriculture, the department
receives a letter from a farm family
that is seeidng economic help.
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