GAIL STRUCK
Mifflin Co. Correspondent
MILROY (Mifflin Co.) The
Ray Byler family of Penn Canal
Farms received the Farm City Bus
iness Award at the Mifflin County
Farm-City banquet held at the Mil
roy Fire Hall recently.
along' with his wife Arlene, son
Steve, and daughter-in-law Juani
ta, said that to be successful, you
must must surround yourself with
good people. He acknowledged his
nephew Ben Zook with whom he
started fanning in 1976.
Byler began whitewashing dairy
bams in 1959. He and Zook began
fanning in Centre County in 1976.
At that time, Byler started Union
Mills, a fertilizer and spray opera
tion in Belleville. Byler sold Union
Mills in 1985 and formed Penn
Canal Farms, a wholesale fertilizer
and grain import business. He sold
Spina Bifida Craft Show
QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster
Co.) The Spina Bifida Associa
tion Open House and Craft Sale
will be held at 209 E. State St.,
Quairyville, in the Stone Business
Center from now through Decem
ber 21, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday-
Friday. Amish-made wooded
items, ceramics, Christmas deco
rations and ornaments, as well as
items made by the children will be
available.
Christmas cookies, poinsettias
and other plants will also be for
sale. Country Cooking H cook
book and Que Bueno! (Tex-Mex
cooking) cookbooks will both be
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Bylers Receive Mifflin County Award
the grain operation in 1995 but
continues to farm 1,200 acres of
com, soybeans, wheat, and green
beans in Mifflin and Huntingdon
Counties with his son Steve and
nephew Ben Zook.
The City Family Business
Award went to the Hartley family.
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Celebrating 60 years in business.
Hartley’s Potato Chips was started
in 1935 by Carl Hartley’s grandpa
rents. Hartley operates the busi
ness along with his son Dan and
daughter Kellie Johnson.
The business employs 19 local
people and five independent con
tractors who distribute Hartley’s
Potato Chips to Harrisburg, Sun
bury, Williamsport, Bedford, and
Selinsgrove. Die business uses
65,000 pounds of potatoes each
week.
Frank Bonson received the
Farm Service Agency Award for
available. Entertainment books
(half-price dinner books) avail
able for Lancaster/York, Harris
burg or Berks County are only $25
each. Several pieces of used office
furniture are also for sale.
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30 years of service in ASCS. now has been coming together to appre
called Farm Service Agency date each other’s work.”
(FSA). Carl Shaffer, chairman of Eckel told about the first
FSA, presented the award to the Thanksgiving that was held in
dairyman, recognizing his dcdica- 1621. About 102 Pilgrims landed
tion for 30 years as country and but only half survived. At the end
community committee man. of the first year, they celebrated
Featured speaker was Keith and gae thanks. In 1621, everyone
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nia Farm Bureau and a partnership cent of the population is engaged
farmer with more than 1,400 acres, in production Agriculture. Of that,
300 of which are green wrap toma- 1.4 percent, 27 percent produce
toes. three-quarters of the food and fiber
“It is appropriate that Farm-City
week occurs in November, the
week before Thanksgiving,” said
Eckel. “For 374 yean, our country
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau president Keith Eckel, left, loins Farm Family Business
Award recipients Ray Byler, his wife Arlene, and son Steve and wife Juanita.
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four our country. In 1933, one
third of the population were
farmers.
Eckel said that in 40 years, our
world population will have
doubled. This presents agriculture
with a tremendous challenge to
increase productivity while
remaining environmental friendly
because there are less acres culti
vated today than in 1900.
Eckel encouraged everyone to
walk in the other’s shoes. He said
Farm-City Week is geared towards
gaining a better understanding
between rural and urban
occupations.
“Our message to our urban
neighbors is that we do need your
help. We need public policy driven
by scientific fact, not emotion.”