814-Lanc«ster Farming. Saturday, August 17, 1906
Jerome Pasto, curator for the Pasto Agricultural
Museum, shows a poor man’s washing machine. The dis
play shows the progression of washing machines prior ot
electricity.
Ag Progress Contrasts
New With The Old
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.) —
Thousands of people visited Ag
Progress Days this year. Most
came to find out about the latest
research and technology available
to help them in farming or in their
agriculture-related businesses, but
the three-day show offers some
interesting sidelines.
A fascinating contrast to the
acres of new equipment is the Pas
te Agricultural Museum. It is filled
with antique implements that reve
al how people used to farm and live
before electricity.
Jerome Pas to, curator and asso
ciate dean emeritus of agricultural
economics at Penn State, said that
he started the display in 1978 with
the backing of the college’s alumni
organization.
A new display this year In the Pasto Agricultural Museum
is the chicken fountain collection. Jerome Pasto said that
all the Items are donated to the college for the display,
which Is opened year around tor tours In addition to Ag
Progress Days.
‘This is a technology museum
that shows progression and
improvements from the earliest to
the latestat the end of the cra,”Pas
to said. “This was the muscle pow
er era. People of all ages find this
(museum) interesting. The older
ones say, T remember that’ or ‘this
is the way we used to do it’ For the
younger ones who study pioneer
living, this museum brings that era
to life.”
Pasto believes the museum also
inspires would-be-inventors to
experiment While most of the
inventors in the past were men,
Pasto is excited that more women
arc involved in science and engi
neering today. “We can’t afford to
waste any brain. Women can
invent things as good as any man
and encouraging women in this
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Chris and Cathy Clemmer with 2-month-old Eleanor came the whole way from Chi
cago to see Ag Progress. The Clemmers had lived In the area 10 years ago. H Ag Prog
ress Is bigger and has paved roads,” Chris said of the difference between now and
their last visit. Shown with them are Amy Myers, 13; Ashley and Alana Judy, 12. The
teen-agers pass out $l.OOO bills (fake of course) as advertisement for their dad’s feed
company, which sells Cargill Hybrid Seeds In Spring Mills.
“Aa Progress Days mark the final promotion of my reign, butninever stop. _ ig
Ice cream—guaranteed,” said Pa. Dairy Princess Rhonda Ktehlak. New this
Progress are the strawberry and chocolate syrup pariahs * er ?^ulJinn
Dairy Princess and Promotion Services. From front left are Jan Hartlng,
director* Pa. Dairy Princess Rhonda Kiehlak and Alternate Yvonne Peterman. In the
traUerare Dorothy Nagle of Allied Milk Producers; Arlene Wilbur, assistant program
director; Melissa Campbell and Theresa Feldt of Dauphin County dairy promotion.
Walking all In a line down Main. are,. >nfli '•
Unt, 14; Adam Uni, 13; Shawn Stratton, 13; and Jeaae Stratton. 11. They coma about
every two years with Angela’s dad, Jell Johnson, a beel and crop farmer Irom Patton.
Angela said, “While dad looks at stun lor the larm, we collect balloons and all the Iree
stuff given away.”
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