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All the Dale and Darla Doll family of Dar-Dale Farms expect to turn out to help with
the Farm Show cattle showstring. In the photo from left are, front, Dana with Ben and
Aaron. Back, Leslie, Darla, Jon Weaver, Downa, Dale, Stuart Cornett, Daphne, and
Dixie. Photo by Joyce Bupp, York Co. correspondent
Ed, Peg, and Tawnya Woifhope with T-Bird and baby
Frosty. All plan to attend the Pennsylvania Farm Show this
week. See story page A 24. Photo by Undo Williams, Bedford
Co, correspondent
While the hogs play in new straw bedding, for the Brubaker children, Jacob and
Rachel, “playtime” goes into full speed next Tuesday when they will compete with
4-H’ers across Pennsylvania at the Farm Show's junior swine contest. Competition
begins Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 8:30 a.m. in the small arena of the Farm Show Complex.
Photo by Andy Andrews
Six Sections
Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 8, 1999
Pennsylvania Farm Show 1999
Tells Agriculture’s Story
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) There arc plenty of rea
sons why the Pennsylvania Farm
Show has survived World War 11,
the exodus of people from farm
ing, an increasing lack of general
public knowledge about farming,
and occasional severe winter
weather.
• It is the premier agricultural
exposition in the state for farmers
and non-farmers alike.
• It draws more farmers as parti
cipants than most other events
attract farmers as visitors.
• It is centrally and conveniently
located to an airport and to major
$29.50 Per Year
Three-Generation Family
Packs For Farm Show
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
GLENVILLE (York Co.)
For York County Holstein breed
ers Dale and Darla Doll, the Farm
Show is a part of their youth they
revisit each year.
Their younger children have
grown up with the same tradition.
And now, their oldest grandchild
is eagerly helping to pack up
showboxes, cattle halters and clip
pers.
Four-year-old Aaron Doll spent
his first overnight stay at the Penn
sylvania Farm Show last January.
The son of Dana and Leslie Doll,
Aaron enjoyed helping his aunts,
Dixie and Daphne Doll, with the
family’s Dar-Dale showsting.
Still, a call home to his mom in the
middle of the night helped ease the
uncertainty of snoozing in a cattle
traffic corridors for the state and
the East Coast.
• There ate sufficient hotel,
restaurant and service providers
within the proximity of the
16-acres-under-roof Farm Show
Complex to handle the week-long
population increase to the state’s
south central capital.
• It offers a wide range of infor
mation about production agricul
ture and finished products, and
point-of-purchase opportunities
for visitors and commercial
exhibitors.
The Annual Farm Show Issue
This issue of Lancaster Fanning is dedicated to the Pennsylvania
Farm Show that runs January 9 to 14. Advertising messages and the
building layouts will help you find the products, services, and events.
Meeting and judging schedules will get you there on time. See page
three for our tegular index and page A 22 for Farm Show references.
Perhaps Hog Heaven
Can Provide Blue Ribbons
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
KINZER (Lancaster Co.) To
some Farm Show livestock exhibi
tors, “hog heaven” begins with a
fine, fresh bed of straw.
The Brubakers of Kinzer under
stand this.
After the Brubakers spread
straw on the dirt floor pens inside
the Christian Brackbill Farm bam
used for the show animals, the
purebred Berkshire gilts looked
pleased as ... . well, pigs.
“It’s like heaven to them,” said
Brenda Brubaker. “We like to keep
the hogs as comfortable as possi-
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bam instead of his own cozy bed
that night.
The family’s Farm Show in
volvement took even before the
couple’s marriage, while Dale and
Darla Myers Doll were 4-H mem
bers. Both grew up on family
dairy farms on opposite sides of
the village of Glenville, within al
most the proverbial’s stone’s
throw of their present 90-head
dairy operation. As rural neigh
bors, they grew up knowing one
another through school and church
events.
“During those years, a 4-H ani
mal had to be selected to partici
pate in the Farm Show ” remem
bers Darla, who was a senior 4-H
dairy member of age 18 or 19 be
fore getting her first show slot for
the January event. “Our county
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• It is an event more likely to
attract or help develop a beginning
or about-to-be fanner than any
other industry specific event.
• It provides a safe atmosphere
of congeniality and tolerance, even
with the sometimes heavy crowds
of non-farming visitors.
• It has great food.
But perhaps the continued suc
cess of the Pennsylvania Farm
Show is owed to the fact that it
does more to advance the cause of
the state Department of Agricul-
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ble, the pen as warm as possible.
They’ll make their beds. When
you put in new bedding, it’s
playtime.”
For the Brubaker children,
Jacob and Rachel, “playtime” goes
full speed next Tuesday when they
will compete with 4-H’ers across
Pennsylvania at the Farm Show’s
junior swine contest. Competition
begins Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 8:30
a.m. in the small arena of the Farm
Show Complex.
Jacob, 14, and Rachel, 11, are
the siblings of Doug and Brenda
Brubaker.
Jacob, Lancaster County 4-H
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