VOL. 8 NO. 27 *?&s*' y ' * > • v, '?* ■. v v-. - _ -BLOSSOMJ&I»LrE -ZSA ZSA AS A Two year old produced 23,958 pounds of and ifl92_pouads of butterfat-in 365,, days. Now, w afterJ3B days of her second lactation, she has 4-,324 pounds of milk and 160 pounds of butterfat. She made 113.8 pounds of milk with a 3.7 per cent test at her first official test. Zsa Zsa is in the herd of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Royer, 2025 Oregon Pike. Miss Milkmaid Ten Youth Is Carol Wilson Will Attend Miss Carol Lee Wilson was Co-op Confab crowned Lancaster County’s Miss Milkmaid Wednesday Ten young farm people and night. two adult advisors hay e been The 18 year old dairyman’s daughter, who plans a career as a physiotherapist, is a grad uate of Solanco High School Born and laised on the farm of her parents, Mr and Mrs William A Wilson, near Nine Points, Miss Wilson was selec ted by a panel of thiee judges during ceremonies in the Lanc aster County Farm Bureau Cooperative building. Four othei farm girls com peted in the contest sponsored by Lancaster County Milk For HJealth, Inc Jean Kreider, daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. Everett' Kreider, Quarryville Til, and sister of the 19G2 Miss Milkmaid, Joyce Kreider, A-..-, 1-lffciiC** was runner-up Other contes- FIOUSC tants were Miss Marilyn L | Bohrer, daughter of Mr. and iJvIICUUICvI Mrs. P Edwin Rohrer, Para (Continued on Page 14) Farm Calendar June 8 130 pm Man hem Township 4-H Sewing club meets at the Farm Bur eau Cooperative Building, DBlerville Road. June 9 1 - to 4 pm. Open House at Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Bree ders Cooperative, 230 By- Bhfis, wiest of Lancaster June' 10‘ —r, 8:30 am. Cou nty ffiPAi dairy judging prac tice asb Lampeter-Strasburg High School. (Continued on Page- I4i>' ' v selected to attend the annual PenusyUama Association of Farmei Cooperatives Institute at Shippensburg State College The youth represeiuatn es ot 4-H and FFA clubs, will be sponsoied by a committee le piesenting the fanner co operatnes ot Lancaster Coun ty They will lea\e the county on Sunday, July 14, and leturn on Thursday July IS Representing Future Farmers ot America will be Frank Yost, Narvon R 2, Pe quea Valley' Chapter, Dale Hershey, Manheim R 3, Man fContmued on Page 14) By SPABC Co-op The Southeastern Pennsyl vania Artificial Breeders Co operative has scheduled an Open House for Sunday after noon In former years, one annual open house celebration was held in the fall, but since participation was so large last year, officials of the coopera tive decided to schedule two this year in addition to Open House week during the annual show the last week of July. Tours of the bull barns, collection room, laboratory and offices will begin at 1 p.m. and continue until 4 p.m. - (Continued on Page 14) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 8, 1963 V' TREMENDOUS TRANSMITTING ABILITY is shown by comparing Caernarvon Rose Elaine with her daughter, Blossomelle Zsa Zsa. The resemblance be tween the two cows is striking, even though Zsa Zsa carries more of the greater stretch of her sire, Osborn dale Ivanhoe. SPABC Buys Local Bull A Lancaster County bred bull has been purchased by the Southeastern Pennsylvan ia Artilicial Breeders Coopera tive and was taken to the stud on the 230 bjpass east of Lancaster on Thursday. The young Holstein, Blos somelle Black Gold, was hied by Herbert and Rhelda Royer, 2025 Oregon Pike. Lancaster. He is b> Osborndale Ivanhoe out of Caernarvon Rose Elaine. The 17 month old sire is a full brother of Blossomelle Tender Loving Care Is Dairy Success Formula Tender Loving Care - just like you would tieat your chil dien, is the (formula for suc cess in dairying, according to Mrs Herbert Royer Mr and Mis Rojer, 2025 Oregon Pike, Lancaster, have won the Progressive Breedeis award from the national Hol stem-Fnesian association for two consecutive >ears, and aie about to qualify for the thud time The coveted awaid came to the young couple in less than 10 years after they began a breeding program with the black and white cattle Mrs. Royer, who admits that it was her beginning in 4-H dairy club work that got her interested in the dairj busi ness, insists that dairjing must be a family ventuie to be pro table. “You have to put your whole heart and soul into it. and don’t give up the first time things go wrong ’’ she said this week. Mrs Royer began 4-H club work 22 years ago with a baby ibeef,, but ~a(f?ter -wttmtng the district championship, was so attached to her animal that she did not want to sell him. The following year, she decided Zsa Zsa who just completed her first lactation with 23,958 pounds of milk and 992 pounds of butterfat in 365 days In the first 38 days of her second lactation, Zsa Zsa has produc ed 4,324 pounds ot milk with a 3 7 per cent test, and ICO pounds of butterfat. Black Gold, bom January 2 19 62. will go into the stud as a young sire, be mated to 2500 cows and retired until his daughters furnish produc tion proof During the prov ing period his semen will be available for selected mating',, but he will not be on the re gular sire schedule. The purchase price was not rev ealed. $2 Per Year to buy an animal she would not have to sell at the end of the 'project She became interested in Holsteins and selected a calf, Caernarvon Ragap'ple Cream elle (which she ipromiptly dub bed “Blossom”) fiom the herd of Naaman Stoltzfus Today nearly hallf the milting herd of 25 cows are decendants of Blossom, and the breeders pre fix, Blossomelle, which is car ried by all the cattle bred on (Continued on Page 12) Three Breeders From County Consign Sheep Three Lancaster County Breeders are among the 46 breeders from eight states (30 of them from Pennsylvania) who have consigned 160 sheep for the annual Keystone Raih and Ewe show and sale, July 6, in the Pennsylvania Pam Show Building, Harrisburg The local consignors include Mrs Milton K, Morgan, New Holland Pike; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brubaker, Lancaster R. D , and Green Meadows Farm, Leola Rl, Francis KreuZberger, man ager for the event, said the show will be held in the morn ing, the sale in the afternoon, starting at 1 o’clock. Offerings will include 52 yearling rams, 33 ram lambs, 52 yearling ewes, and 23 ewe lambs Eight bieeds will be represented. Suflolks lead with 49 entries. Othei breeds Hampshire, 39; Dorset, 21, Cornedale, 15; Shropshire, 14 Southdown, 11, Cheviot, 10, Oxford, 1. Pa. Slaughter Up 12 per cent Livestock slaughter by Penn sylvania commercial slaughter ing plants totaled 14G 5 mil lion pounds, liveweight. during April 1963, 12 percent above April 1962, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. The increased production of beef, veal, and pork, 8, 15, (Continued on Page 14) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperature*, during the nevt Inc da>s are expected to average ne.nv the normal range of 50 at niuht to 80 in the atteinoon. Cooler neather at the beginning of the period will ghe way to a warming trend toward the •'.ml ol the period. Precipita tion is expected to total about 0.2 inch falling as showers about Monday.
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