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Mastersonvllle third graders check the pulsation of a
milker unit.
Third Graders Attend Classes At Hershey Farm
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
About 260 third graders found the
farm is a great place for schooling
last week. As part of the social
study curriculum, students from
seven Manheim schools visited
Hershey Brothers Farm operated
by Dale, Steve, and Clair Hershey.
Groups of students took turns
visiting five different learning sta
tions on the farm. At learning sta
tion I, Lancaster County Dairy
Princess Elizabeth Smith, Alter
nate Elisa Ranck, and Laura Welk,
ambassador, taught dairy nutri
tion. Graybill’s Dairy donated
milk for each participant
Learning Station EL, taught by
Steve Hershey, was called “Follow
the Milk From The Cow To The
Tank.”
And Learning Station m, taught
by Dale Hershey, was in the daily
torn where students heard about
“Housing and Feeding Cows.”
Derek Hershey lead Learning
Station IV in the calf bam, where
students were delighted to see the
nursery for toby calves.
Clair Hershey taught “Agro
nomics and Farm Safety,” at
Learning Station V.
Dorothy Myer organized the
four day event. She and her hus
band Carl live on a dairy farm and
Sporting Hill third graders, Heather Elker, Ariel Seachrlst,
and Samantha WRmer drink milk after learning that they
should drink four servings a day.
iKids &
raise potatoes, so she knows the
importance that students learn
where food comes from.
“I try to pick out the best spokes
person for each commodity,” she
said.
Assisting in teaching students
about farm lift was Joe Mayer,
agronomist, and Tim Markowitz,
sales manager for Pioneer Hi-Bred
Seed of Mount Joy.
Carroll Barton, retired nutrition
ist for Esbenshade Farms taught
poultry.
Herb Hoover, buyer for E.K.
Bare, showed the students what it
takes to grow the perfect potato.
Barry Geib, fanner and sales
technician for White Oak Mill
taught about hogs.
In addition, each student is
given a bagged filled with things to
remind them of the importance of
farm. The items are donated by
local businesses: McCracken’s
Feed Mill, pencils, G&G Feed and
Supply, rulers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Myer, litter bags; National Pork
Producer’s Council, coloring
books and bookmarkers. Middle
Atlantic Milk Market (MAMMA)
coloring books, milk recipe pamp
lets, and milk stickers; and Key
stone Farm Credit, fact sheets on
cows.
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Cows waning to bo milked In the Hershey Brothers milking parlor.
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Fanner Dale Hershey shows a handful of ground com stalks so
stand what silage looks like.
Samantha Wltmar halps Fannar Date Harahay damonatrata tha position of a baby
calf at birth.
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