by pa_friendly_guy » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:19 pm
I went to the Pa Farm Show last week, it was a great time. Our Farm Show is located in Harrisburg and has a huge following. The Farm Show Building has 24 acres under roof so there is room to show off every aspect of Agriculture in Pa. They had a room for Nuts, one for corn, another for hay, and another to display small grain crops. Then there was the poultry room, the rabbit room, the area for draft horses, another area for sheep, pigs, goats etc. I got to see eggs hatch right before my eyes and I saw a duck slide which was fun to watch. There was a display of maple syrup equipment as well as how to lectures on the subject. The state Bee Keepers had displays and also gave daily lectures. Old tractors and hit & miss engines were on display and there was a tractor pull. The Butter Sculpture is always a big hit, it is life sized and the same guy and his wife have done the sculpture each and every year for many years now. It is of course made entirely out of Butter. There is a tractor square dance and people square dance, sheep to shawl contest , horse pulling, quilting display and the list goes on and on. I have lived in Pa all my life and never went to the Farm Show until last year. This was my 2nd show and it was very enjoyable. I am guessing that many states have similar shows and I wonder if others from the group have attended and had similar experiences to mine. There were many venders with a wide variety of produce from combines to sheds, to out door wood furnaces to chain saws. If it has a use on the farm it was there for sale. All in all I thought it was well worth the time. There is a web site for the show if any one has an interest in what Pa does and how they do it.
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