10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 22, 1963
STARTING YOUNG ARE THESE TWO 4-H mem- gres, but this time the beds
bers, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Balmer, Lititz were at home, and we found
R 4. Jesse, left, and his sister Cynthia pose their Guern- family busily pulling
sey heifers for Associate County Agent, Victor Plastow. * Donna stopped
This is the first year either has had a club calf. work ]ong
enough to halter
Li. r. ir'noto. eir Ayrshire heifers and par
ade them around the barnlot.
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• Extension Agent '
(Continued from Pfge 1>
Agent, Arnold Lueck, takes
most of the problems dealing
with field ftjd horticultural
crops Homemaking activities
are coordinated by Miss Jane
Thurston, Extension Home
Economist.
Plastow came to the county
in 1955 with a year’s expen
ien.ee in extension work m
Northampton County He had
been hired on a temporary
basis in that county, and when
the county agent came back,
Plastow was transfer! ed to
Lancaster as an Assistant
County Agent
His seven years and two
months as a DHIA milk tes
ter and his positions as herds
man at the B D King farms,
Coopersburg and later at the
Nomstown state hospital, gave
him a good bacTTgiound for
his dairy work in the county
Flastow did not start out
with the idea of becoming a
county agent He giew up on
a Columbia County dairy farm,
lived with an Uncle while he
attended Benton High School,
and graduated from the voca
tional agncultuie couise in
1938 In the Spring ot 1939
he took a two months course
in milk testing at the Pennsyl
vania State Unuersity and be
came the DHIA supemsor for
all of Carbon and Lehigh Coun
ties and part of Northumber
land Countv
All during the seven yeais
I was testing milk, I hoped to
be able to go back to Penn
State and eam a degree, le
said In 1916 he took the job
as herdsman with the King
farm, but aftei two months,
he was made heidsman at Noi
nstow-n State Hospital wheie
he woiked for foui veais
In 1950 he lealired his am
bition of letuniuig to college
wheie he enrolled in the dany
production cumtulum Dunug
the four >eais in college he
continued to do some milk
testing lor Paul Williams, the
head of DHIA woik in the
state He did check testing of
iheids on Adianced (Registiy
almost e\ery week end duung
his college davs, and continued
to work with Williams until
October altei he graduated in
1954
Our first stop was, s at thei
idim of Hairy Man-1
lieim Rl Plastow wanted to
.see Mu mm a about somfe f I)HIA‘
business, but tobacco planting
>vas underway and Hauy was
not at ho*m6 - -S.W- *Srl ..
At the farm of Elam Bol
linger, Manheim Rl, tobacco
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planting Was completed, but we
found the family in the field
cultivating tobacco.
As Bollinger,* a leader in the
County 4-H Holstein club,
drove the tractor, Mrs. B’Ullih
ger and son Donald worked the
hoers around the young tobacco
plants. As we arrived, they fin
ished the cultivating 30b and
came to the barn to show us
Donald’s 4-H Holstein heifer.
Seventeen year old Donald,
treasurer of the club, produced
his project book, which Plas
tow scored, and then paraded
his heifer up and down the
bacco was also in pi ogress, but
walkway to show us she is hal
ter broken.
After some suggestions on
heifer management for Donald
and some discussion on fly con
trol and a look at a young bull,
we were on our way to the
farm ot Kenneth Eshleman,
Elizabethtown HI,
At the Eshleman farm, to
bacco planting was also in pro-
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THE JACOB BOLLINGER FAMILY seems to be
posing for a family portrait as they exhibit a 4-H pro
ject heifer for the county agent. Left to right, they
are Mrs. Bollinger, Betty, Nancy, who is also a 4-H
club member, Jacob Bollinger, and John, holding the
halter strap. Associate county agent, Victor Plastow, is
at far right. The Lititz R 4 family have a Guernsey
herd. , L. F. Photo.
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