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WINNER OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY
plowing contest for the second year in a
row is Martin Witman, R 1 Marietta He
also came in in sixth place in the state con-
test this summer in Hershey. Witman op-
Miss Mary Keene Tops Mt. Joy Fair
With Pen of Three Southdowns
Miss Mary Keen, R 1 Christiana,
proved again last week that she
knows how to fed and show sheep
A championship winner at the
last State Farm Show, she topped
the field at the Mt Joy Commun
ity Farm Show with a pen of
three Southdowns
Reserve championship in the
show was taken by Fred Hess, R 1
Bareville, with a pen of Hamp-
shires.
Tom King, Inestock specialist
from Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, nidged the 10 pens in the
show.
Darwin Boyd, R 1 Ephrata, had
the first place Shropshire pen and
David Witmer, Neffsville, had the
best pen of Cheviots.
In the Swine show, a Yorkshire
was the Grand Champion The 234
erates a 65 acre farm near Donegal Airport
and is married to the former Miss Lois
Becker They have two tons, one four, the
other eight months (LF Photo)
pound barrow, raised and shown
by John Risser, R 2 Hershey, was
sold Friday night for 41 cents a
pound to Longenecker s Meat
Market, Elizabethtown
The reserve champion, also a
Yorkshire, was shown by Janet
Miller, R 3 Elizabethtown It was
knocked down at the sale for 25
cents a pound to York Livestock
Market.
In the baby beef show Mary
Louise Miller, 20, R 2 Manheim.
took home the purple rosette by
winning with her Shorthorn steer,
Dandy.
In second place was an FFA
entry shown by Luke Brubaker,
R 1 Mt Joy The steer, a Here
ford, is scheduled Fo be shown at
the Pennsylvania Livestock Ex
position next month.
Here are the results of the
swine sale and the lamb shown
SWINE
Jay Bixler, Rl Marietta, York
shire, 237 pounds, Willis Hack
man, Elizabethtown, 23V2 cents
David Longenecker, Rl Elizabeth
town, Yorkshire, 201 pounds,
Kunzler & Co, 24 cents John
Martin, Rl Marietta, Yorkshire,
232 pounds, Kunzler, 23V2 cents
Joanne Bixler, Rl Marietta, York
shuc, 257 pounds, Kunzler, 2314
cents Dorothy Miller, R 3 Eliza
bethtown, Berkshire, 169 pounds
Ira M Good, Rl Middletown, 23
cents Floyd Risser Jr, R 2 Her
shey, Beikshire, 161 pounds,
Good, 24 cents Jams Bixler, Rl
Marietta, Berkshire, 156 pounds,
Good, 23 cents
LAMB
Grand Champion Pen Mary
Keene, Rl Christiana, Southdown.
(Continued on page 13)
Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 18, 1957
KNOWING HOW TO ADJUST a plow went a long way in
helping Mrs Raymond Miller-w in second place in the coun
ty plowing contest last week She and her husband operate
a 76 acre dairy and general farm with 18 head of Holstein
cows. (LF Photo)
Martin Witman Wins Second Title
In County Level Land Plow Contest
For the second consecutive
year, Martin Witman, Rl Mariet
ta, won the level land plowing
contest neld in coniunction with
<he Mt Jov Fair Second was Mrs
Raymond E Miller, Rl Denver
Witman was sixth in the state
contest at Hershey this summer
To win the contest, he drove an
Allis Chalmers WD 45 pulling an
IHC Little Wonder plow This
plow was one of the earliest that
was made for ti actor use, and is
no longer in production
Witman now uses it only for
plowing contests. He also had it
equiped with cover boards, which,
he said, make a real difference in
the finished job.
The runner-up, Mrs. Miller, is
eligible to compete next summer
at Hershey in the contpur con
test. She is the mother of a three
year old son, Galen Ray. She and
her husband, operate a 70 acre
general farm. To win the contest,
she drove a CA Allis Chalmers
with a mounted two-share 14 inch
plow.
Mrs. Miller beat out her hus
band by 2 9 points.
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Here are the standing of the
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Christ S Miller, Elizabethtown,
154 5 Wayne H Miller, R 1 Mt.
Joy, 152 6, Robert Kauffman, R 1
Man'heim, 152 5, Raymond E Mil
ler, R 1 Denver, 1519; John M.
Harnish, R 1 Elizabethtown, 150 8;
Glenn Becker, R 2 Mt Joy, 148 9.
Wilbur Snyder, R 1 Mt Joy,
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139 5; Richard L Ober, R 1 Mt.
Joy, 134 0, Raymond Martin, R 1
Columbia, 1331, C Witmer
Shearer, R 4 Manheim, 132 9;
Daniel Heisey, R 1 Manheim,
126 9, Glenn Snyder, R 2 Mt. Joy,
124 1, Michael Grove, R 1 Maneta
ta, 118 6.
Witman’s total score was 159 5
of a possible 200 points.
Judges for the contest were
Stanley Musselman, QuarryviUe;
Martin Muth, Lititz; and Wayne
Rentschler. East Lampeter.
Charles Ricedoif, Rheems, head
ed the committee which arranged
the event.
The contest was held on the
farm of Henry Miller, R 1 Mt Joy.
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