—Lancaster Farming, Friday, November 7, 1958 12 County Plowing Champ E-Town 4-H’er, 18, Proves All-Around Farm Skills ELIZABETHTOWN folks who didn’t know a certain smiling, blond youth who arrived at this year’s Lancaster Count> Plowing Contest held in connec tion with the Mt Joy Farm Show, piobably dismissed him a young ster out for fun, and not the championship ' That would have just pioven 11 ey didn’t know 18-yeai-old Christ S Miller, Elizabethtown For this outstanding young conn G farmer has compiled a record during the past five years which -ndicates he derives his “fun” in competition mostlj from winning lop honors Christ compiled 549 of a pos sible 600 points, including a per fect safety scoie, to win the 1958 county plowing title His nearest nval, Maurice Nissley, Manheim FD 1. was edged by four points vhile the chamn of the previous two years, Marlin Witman, Mari etta RD 1, finished fourth with 532 Miller has been a regular trac tor operator on his father’s 120 acre farm, about three miles southeast of E-Town, since he was •<,bout eight or nine years old” His plowing career started when he was 13, at about the same time he started collecting trophies in the 4-H contests That w'as 1953. and his first jear in club work, when he ex -1 ’bited the champion steei of his class in the Harrisburg Farm Show, and won the Highest Daily Gam trophy in the Red Rose Baby Beef Club This was the first indication that here is a young farmer who studies not just livestock breeds and crop varieties, but the proper way to go about every job on the farm, in order to obtain maximum efficiency and the very best le sults In 1954 he had the grand Champion of the E-town coinmun itv fair, and placed high in the class with his steer at Timomum NOW IS THE TIME To install LOUDEN STEEL BARN EQUIPMENT Lever, Chain, Arch Stalls Litter & Feed Carriers Automatic Gutter Cleaners Water & Salt Bowls Calf & Maternity Pens Windows & Ventilators Call for Prices, Terms, etc. L H. BRUBAKER 350 Strasburg Pike, Lane Lititz. P.D. 3 Ph. Lane. EX 3-7607 Strasburg OV 7 bOO2 Lititz MA 6 7766 In 1955, ho again won class cnampionship honors at Harris burg, and exhibited the E town Giand Champion In 1956 he again won the Red Rose Highest Daily Gam Tiophy, had the Elown Champion Heic ford steer, and won the Show manship competition there This year he again won the E town showmanship, collected the County Plowing Crown and is aiming toward the Farm Show with his Hereford steer, which was among the 29 county beeves seeded foi the Harusburg con tests Those The only time you 11 catch tins perennial collector of winnings \ olunteenng information is when he pioudly informs you that his l'7-\ ear-old sistei, Jean, exhibited the Giand Champion steer at Ftovvn, and placed second in Showmanship (indicating she has been picking up some expert pointers from somewhere ) (nmn ■* t'° m - kee \ i p ! i ! L low puc«.<l pat k ikc fan irises Ufjcunt \«nuJitu»n m ixiinimi amount of air at lo\\<st possible operUiny <o t West Willow NATIONAI CttflMPfON HONEGGER WERS THESE HONEGGER LAYERS PLACED FIRST in income over feed and chick cods in the Florida Random Sample Test, completed on August 9th, 1954. Here's their official record: • $4.97 income over food and chick costs, • 244 eggs per chick started - • 94% livability from day old • 4.3 lbs. feed per dozen eggs • Over 80% large and extra- large eggs s Hatchery &ueto 0/ This new Vent-O-Matic system actually conditions dairy barn air— circulates and changes air, con trols humidity at all Junes automatically. It will pay big dividends in healthier herds and increased milk production, for you to investigate this revolutionary new dairy air conditioning system. Check up on its unique advantages today' Implement Store Ph Atglen LY 3-5941 Christ will represent Lancas ter County m the state plowing matches, before next year’s Na tional plowing meet, in an at tempt to repiesent Pennsylvania in the “big time ” He doesn’t know yet if he’ll be using the old stand-by John Deere ‘A.” tractor and two-bottom 16- mch trailer plow, but since this is the equipment he knows figmes he iust might He assures you quickly that after spending several years in developing talents vital to suc cessful farming he has no interv tions of heading for the bright lights “I intend to stay on the farm a 1 long as I can,” he declares “As foi my plowing, well I just tiy tn do a neat job, so I won’t have to work the ground so often ” He plows from 45 to 50 acres annually, with tilling practices calling for furrows from six to e ght inches deep The day he was interviewed lor this story, Christ was harrow ing a field near ihe farmstead. ‘l’m having to go over this again,’ he admitted with a grin,” because this is the field I worked to polish Hit plow for the contest It was a httle too wet, and I didn’t do a very good job I’m sure glad this wasn’t in the judging” nV Iyntmls‘c yds huHh HERR’S Ph. Lane. EX 3-8311 HONEGGER LAYERS ARE TOP-PROFIT LAYERS On The Farm —ln recently completed (1957) farm per formance tests, 7,113 Honegg er Layers on 15 separate farms averaged 250 eggs per pullet housed on an annual basis. In Egg Laying Tests —NEW Honegger Layers entered in random sample egg laying tests return consistently high incomes. Here are their offi cial records from tests where they were entered: 1856-57 Utah _. $4 67 New York »4 01 Honda $4 22 Penn $3 60 Tennessee $3 88 1957-58 Cochranville '4jir ' \>»w -„A,* ''v, . .1 *» “ f' « ’ ;4 - i w *. f r * 4 1 r CHRIST DISPLAYS trophies won during five years of 4-H membership, along with two taken bv his sister Having placed his steer among the top group for entry in the State Farm Show, he is aiming for the more honors at Harris burg in January - LF PHOTO | Darby Leghorns again the winner | | in 1958 out of the ten highest pens of the i | nation. Darby Leghorns are on top.. 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