VOL. 7 NO. 38 //
CHAMPION OF THE GARDEN SPOT Club show was this
meaty angus exhibited by David Witmer, 321 Valley Road, Lancaster. David
showed the 920 pound black to the championship Wednesday over the other
3ft steers in the show. The annual show and sale of beef steers is sponsored
by the Lancaster Livestock Exchange and the Union Stock Yard Company.
Witmer’s Angus was purchased at the sale of calves last October. At the sale
on Wednesday afternoon, Wm. W. McCoy of the stockyards company bid in
the champion for $45 per hundredweight. L.F, Photo.
Three County 4-H’ers
Win Keystone Awards
Three Lancaster County 4-H
club members were among 62
named to receue Keystone
Awards at the final assembly
of the annual State 4-H Club
days at the Pennsylvania State
University.
The top 4-H award winn
ers from the county are David
L. Denlmger, 2351 Horseshoe
Hoad, Lancaster for agricul
ture; Wilbur Hosier, Man
heim R 3, for beef, and Miss
Mary Jane Herr, Refton, for
recreation.
The winners were selected
from more than 45,000 of
the state’s 4-H club members
for their outstanding work,
according to Dr. William M
Smith, assistant director for
family, youth and community
development, who made the
Farm Calendar
August 20-21 Farm Tour
from Cayuga County, New
York will tour Lancaster
County. Tour guide on Mon
day will be Henry Ketter
ing, Lititz R 3, and on Tues
day the guide will be Harry
Mumma, Manheim HI.
August 21 7 a.m. to 12
«oou Yarding of Lancas
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presentations,
Denlmger, 16, the son of
Mi and Mrs Paul L Denlmg
er, has completed projects in
steer raising, electric, ento
mology, tractor, garden, straw
berries, tobacco, photography
and wildlife. He has served
the Red Rose Baby Beef Club
as game leader, secretary,
treasurer, vice president and
piesident, and on county coun
cil has served as vice presi
dent and junior leader.
David recently attended
4-H citizenship short course
in Wshxngton D.C. He was a
member of Lancaster county
vegetable judging team, at
tended Pennsylvania 4-H Con
gress in 1961, was winner of
county entomology medal, and
winner of first place in en
tomology demonstration at
State 4-H Days, 1960
A student at Conestoga Val
ley senior high school, David
is a member of the chorus,
band, student council, tennis
team, and yearbook staff His
local 4-H leaders are Elvm
Hess, Wilbur Houser, and
Mrs Walter Overgaard
Hosier, 20, son of Mr. and
Mis Mark Hosier, is a farm
er and licensed auctioneer.
He showed the grand cham-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 18, 1962
Conservation
District Plans
Watershed Meets
Conservation watershed meet
ings were tentatively planned
for this fall and winter by
the Lancaster County Soil Con
servation District directors at
their meeting Monday night
The meetings are tentativ
ely scheduled to be held in the
areas around Eliabethtown,
Elstonville, Fannersville, Par
adise and Penryn. In addit
ion, it was jannounced .that
Forney Longenecker, LitPz
R 3, an asociate district dir-
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Pig Roundup
Is Scheduled
For Next Week
Approximately 50 4-H club
members will exhibit their
project in the annual round
up ot the county’s Market Hog
show and sale next week.
The hogs will be weighed
and yaided on Tuesday after
noon On Wednesday, August
22, judging will get under way
promptly at 8 am. Judging
will be by breed in three
weight classes. Light weight
hogs will weigh under 190
pounds, medium weights be
tween 195 and 225 pounds
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Meaty Angus Steer Wins
Garden Spot Beef Show
David Witmer came back
for Ins second try at the
championship in the annual
Garden Spot Baby Beef show
at the Lancaster Union Stock
Yards and nudged his meaty
Angus into the winners circle
The 16 year old showman
of 321 Valley Road, Lancas
ter carried away the final
purple losette of the show
sponsored by the stockyards The Witmers feed out about
company and the Lancaster 500 head of cattle yearly on
Lnestock exchange Accord- their 140 acre farm They also
mg to Robert Heilbron, pie- laise turkeys
sident of the lnestock e\- Wednesdays win was the
change, the Wednesday e\- first grand championship ever
hibition will be the last ot won by Dai id who had shown
the senes of shows sponsoi- 4-H lambs to second and third
ed annually as a show place place awards
and sale foi calves purchased Judges John Totura of Con
at the annual calf sale oi from sohdated Dressed Beef Corn
one of the commission agents pany of Philadelphia, and A 1
on the exchange Shatter of Armoui and Corn-
Second place m the judging pany of Reading, placed the
went to the 935 pound angus 935 pound Angus of William
ow r ned and exhibited by Karl Frey, Quarrynlle R 2, in third
Hess, Heishey Karl is the place Fourth and fifth places
son of Mark Hess w r ho owns respectively went to Joanne
a farm at Lancaster R 6 where Rohrer, Lititz R 3 and Maria
the steer was fed. This year Frey, Quarrynlle R 2. Judging
maiked the fourth try for was on the basis of dressing
Karl ,and brought him his percentage and meatiness
first prize. from the packer’s viewpoint
Witmer, the son of Mr and and all breeds were judged
Mrs. David S. Witmer was ah, (Continued on page 4)
Grassland Field Days
Draws Crowds of Farmers
HERSHEY, Pa -- Despite
its great iportance, “grass is
still man’s most neglected
crop,” Dr. Glenn W. Burton
of the U. S Coastal Plains Sta
tion, Tifton Georgia, declared
as the first National Grassland
Field Days and Conference
opened Wednesday
However, grass did not ap
pear to be a neglected crop at
huge Hershey Estates farms
this week as ideal weather
and a perfect setting combined
to bring out an estimated 10,
000 interested spectators on
the first day of the event. The
crowd swelled to 15,000 on
Thursday with farmers from
38 of the 50 states and many
foreign countries making vol
untary registration
As Lancaster Farming goes
to press, indications were that
the biggest day of the event
would be Friday when the
state plowing contests followed
by speeches by both major
Gubernatorial candidates w r ere
expected to attract farmers
and their families from all
coiners of the state
In an official opening cer-
Guernsey Men
Plan Field Day
Dr. Gil H. Porter, well
known for his work in dairy
research, will be the princi
pal speaker at the annual field
day sponsored by the Lancas
ter County Guernsey Breeders
$2 Per Year
entrant in the show last year
when his steer finished eigh
th. The Itlh grade student at
Manheim Township High
School bought his steer at
425 pounds last October at
the annual calf sale sponsored
by the exchange His steer
was purchased at the sale by
William McCoy for $45 per
hundred weight
emony Gov David L. Lawrence
paid tribute to farmers for
their skill and ability in pro
ducing food for all the
people. He called attention
also to the interdependence
of agriculture and industry.
Ohio farmers took two- of
three top honors in the first
North American Hay Show,
.an event that attracted entries
from twelve states and Can
ada. The top honor, iiay
grand champion of North Am
erica, went to Robert L. Mik
esell, Fraeysburb, Ohio. Two
reserve grand championships
went to M L Baird & sons,
Springfield, RDI, Ohio, and
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday-Wednesday
Temperatures during the
no\t live days are expected
to average three to seven
degrees below the normal
range of 83 in the after
noon to 63 at night. It will
be cool Saturday with a ris
ing trend Sundaj and Mon
daj and cooler again Tues
daj and Wednesday. Precipi
tation during the live days
is expected to be 0.1 to 1.3
inch falling as scattered
showers or thundershowers
late Monday or Early Tues
day