V0L.~6 NO. 45 LANCASTER COUNTY’S 4-H dairy judging team which won first place over 37 oth er county teams at the annual State 4-H Days, on the Penn State campus, Aug. 14-16 xs shown above, from left: Victor Plastow, associate Lancaster county agent coach- Robert Wenger, goute 1, Quarryville; Paul Trimble, Route 1, Quarryville; Paul Welk Route 1 Strasburg, and Donald Trimble, Quarryville Route 1. The team won the right to' represent Ihe state at the national dairy judging contests held m conjunction with the National m ai ? r Congress in Waterloo, lowa. The team and Mr. Plastow left Lancaster County last Wednesday and compete on Monday,. October 2, in lowa. Ephrata Beef To Two Girls And Two Angus Two girls and two angus steers walked out of the ring with both - the rosettes at the Ephrata Fair beef show Thursday night. Nancy Louise Rohrer, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin G. Rohrer, Litite R 3 showed her Chester-County- Bred angus' to the grand championship of the show Hie 1,000 pound steer was bred by Morris Hitt of Lan denburg. Reserve champion honors went to the club project of Irene Bollinger, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Paul Bollinger of Denver R 2. Her steer was bred by Millarden Farms of Annville. Tlie fathers of both girls iWgie former members of •Lancaster County 4-H clubs. Judge Harold Stewart, Dauphin County agent, nam ed John Zimmerman, Rein holds Rl, champion show man Janice Showalter of Ephrata was champion litter Following are the placmgs m the show: ANGUS 1 Nancy Louise Rohrer; (Turn to page 13) Farm Calendar °ct 2 - 4 - 30 pm—Meeting cf Die Lancaster County Teachers of Vocational Agriculture in the Pequea Valley High School Oct 2 - FFA and 4-H Dairy cattle judging contests at "<i tor 100, lowa. 3 to s—North Eastern Poultry 'Producers Coun (il (NEPPCO) annual me hmg in the Farm Show Building, Harrisburg °ct 4 —New Holland Fair cuens. ■Aianheim Farm Show op- C‘ll3 °ct s —New Holland and Farm Show. Oh 5 - 8 p.m.—Southeast district 4-H Baby Beef 'Continued on Page 13) Aged cows collected both ' P^ li , c ' r ’ , 4 ’ Robt i i . I I I \*/ • the top spots m Guernsey It J °bert s ’ 6 ’ Jas- Mount Joy- -Lad Wins Cta ,, Lampeter Beef Show ysL?*,£ f Future F “ Swas extbSby'S: Millers from Donegal High School nudged his 1,000 pound Here- i m schnunn Gvosv Hill Rd reeQj lYllllerS ** to ““ ‘7 » £ «“ wooac-fcy. C* Z ZZe Elect Gravbill Reserve champion rosette Donegal High School made piacmgs, the aged cows were vjiaywm went to the angus shown by the treck to Lampeter this placed over the junior chain- B Graybill, Valley Elvin Hess, Bareville HI- week. Moving into a show pion in the final accounting. Road, Lancaster, was elect- Stauffer, the son of Mr. normally dominated by 4-H The runner up for senior cd president of the Pennsyl and Mrs. Wayne Stauffer, of c lub steers, the FFA boys champion, shown by Marvin vania Millers and Feed Mount Joy HI, garnered the carried off a good portion of Miller, Strasburg Rl, went Dealers Association at the purple ribbon in his first top Hereford ribbons, on to collect the reserve annual meeting in the Hotel outing in beef competition. The top Angus steers wore 4- breed championship. The jun- Hershey on Friday morning. His steer, Buster, purchased clu b projects. lor champion was the senior Graybill, vice president from Fenwick Farms in i n the showmanship con- calf of R. Edwin Harnish, of *jnd general manager of Maryland, went on feed last test, Kenneth Hess of Stras Christiana Rl. November 14 on the farm burg caught Judge Tony Do- Ayrshires, Guernseys and lh duties nf hi<? office on where the Stauffers annually broski’s eye and took the judged by Har- r annnrv i ioro we served feed out about 60 head of championship while Mary ry Mumma, a, Guernsey the organization as first western-bred steers. j ane Herr of Refton was breeder from Manheim Rl. v j ce president during the Five other Future Farm- runner up. In the youth showmanship p as t year. ° * ers of America from the (Turn to page 6) contest, John Wclk, Stras- Wilbur Hicstand of H. S. Siestand and Co, Inc of Sa lunga, and Paul Grubb of Grubb Supply Company, of Elizabethtown will continue as directors of the organiza ”* lion for another year. Many feed dealers and millers from Lancaster Co unty wore on hand to wit ness the election of Ihe new president. GRAND CHAMPION HEREFORD STEER in the Lampeter Fair was this 1,000 pound blocky fellow exhibited by his owner, Lee Stauffer of Mount Joy Rl. Lee put his steer on feed last November after purchasing him from a Maryland breeding farm. Although “Buster” was the first show steer Lee ever exhibited, he is no novice at the feeding of cattle He helps his father, Wayne Stauffer, feed out about 60 He refords each year —L F Pholo Lancaster Farming. Saturday, September 30. 1961 Lampeter Fair Dairy Show Features Senior Champs The Holstein herd of Rob ert Kauffman, Manheim Rl, almost dominated the black and white division of the Lampeter Fair Dairy mdging Thursday afternoon; Marilyn Harmsh, Quarryville R 2, re turned to her winning ways with her Ayrshire cow, and Hohrer Wilmer, Willow Street R 2, showed both senior and Grand champions in the Guernsey Breed. Phyl lis Landis, 172 Oakview Rd., having no competition m the Jersey classes won all rib bons in that division. burg R 1 took top honors while Harold Welk of the same address did the same in the fitting contest. Following is a list of the placmgs in the judging. HOLSTEIN Junior Calf —1, Richard Hes's, Strasburg Rl; 2, Har old Welk, Strasburg Rl; 3 J. Mowery Frey Jr., Lancas ter R 7, 4, Harold Ranch Jr . Lancaster R 7; 5, Donald Mus ser, Mount Joy Rl; 6, Melvin Peifcr, Wilow Street R 2 Senior Calf —1, J Mow ery Frey Jr ; 2, Robt Kauff- In the large Holstein class- man > Manheim Rl; 3, Linda es, Glenn Musser, Mount Welk, Strasburg Rl; 4, Glenn Joy Rl, showed his Junior Musser, Mount Joy Rl; 5, yearling to the junior cham- harry McComsey, Christiana pionship, but Kauffman’s Richard Hess, Stras aged cow was followed from burg Rl senior champ to grand cham- Junior Yearling —1, pion by the reserve cramp- Gform Musser, 2, Melvin Pei ion aged cow of Robert Hess, er > 3, Clarence Bauman, ol Strasburg Rl. Judge Jonas Lancaster R 7, 4, Robt Kauff- Gruver, Holstein breeder of man > 5, Harold Brubaker, ol York County, stayed with M° un t Joy Rl; 6, Paul Welk. the aged cows tor his grand Senior Yearling —l, Mol ancf reserve champions of the vin Boiler. Gordonville Rl; show. J Mowery Frey Jr; 3, $2 Per Yeai FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday ■ Wednesday Near normal tempera tures are expected during the next live days except slightly cooler Monday and Wednesday. Normal tem peratures for the week range from 51 at night io 72 in the afternoon. Pis cipitation may total 0.1 to 0.5 inch falling mainly <js showers Sunday night and again late in the period. The month ending today was the third driest Sep tember on record with on ly .29 inch recorded at Lancaster. September '43 had .18 inch and Septem ber 1891 had .28 inch of rainfall.
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