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GRAND CHAMPION MARKET HOG of the Lancaster County 4-H Pig club ble mate 0 S top the annua i
roundup is this Duroc-Berkshire cross exhibited by Mark Nestleroth, Manheim R 3. 4.H pig club roundup Wed-
The 220 pound gilt was called the “most uniform” pig in the show by Judge Tony nesday at the Lancaster Un-
Dobrosky. L. F. Photd. ion Stockyards.
New Interest
Is Noted In
Poultry Auction
Increased interest in selling
birds through the ' Lancaster
Poultry Auction was appear
ant during the first six months
of this year according to John
Munro, auction manager.
During the first six months
of this year 309,445 more birds
were sold then during the, saipe
period, in 1962. There .have
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Farm Calendar
Aug. 26 Southeastern Re
gion 4-H dress review at
Strawbridge and Clothier,
Philadelphia.
8 p.m. Red Rose- Dairy
Herd Improvement Associa
tion meets at the Farm-Bur
eau Cooperative building.
Aug 29 State 4-H dress re
view at the Penn State Uni
versity.
9 a.m. Judging starts at
the District 4-H dairy show
at the Guernsey Sales Pavil
ion, Lincoln Highway east of
Lancaster.
8 p.m. Combined meeting
of all county dairy 4-H clubs
at the Lampeter Community
grounds. Sponsored by the
county 4-H Holstein club.
Aug. 3(F 9 a.m. Judging
starts in the regional FFA
d*iryi.show;--at:sthe^Guernsey
TBaj£j
- Mark Nestleroth, Nineteen-
Elizabethtown Future Farmer d^ Mrs
Carl W. Nestleroth, Manheim
Saw European Farming On Tour ™- sh ™ ed * he ? 20
r ® gilt to the championship of the
The lack of modem farm. Holsteins, Ayrshire, or the slloW over a 220 pound Duroc
machinery and the horror of Spotted Bohemian, a dual pur- which was named reserve
the Berlin wall were the two pose cow that averages about champion of the show,
most impressive sights' to greet 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of milk The win marked the first
Kenneth Myer, Elizabethtown a year. “They raise the heifers pig club blue for the four year
R 3, on a recent tour of 10 Eur- for dairy cows and fatten the veteran of pig club work. Nes
opean countries. bulls for beef”, he said. tleroth said he had observed
Kenneth, the seventeen-year- Kenneth, who had never tra- A l3 * rom Masonic Home
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam- veled by plane, Hew frbnr New Yarms “flier won the show or
uel'N. Myer, as a member of York tb I^e§lwick,: , S'c'otfelid“'6h'fPl* ce^- 5^ n . ear top * n A* e
the Future Farmer People-to- July 25. shows, so this
People good wIU tour, spent burgh, his club
three weeks touring cities and sylvania w'• the Elizabethtown
farms on the continent and the their chaperon, 'lvan "McGee, arrn -
British. Isles. president of the Pennsylvania He put 16 pigs on feed on
-Dual purpose cattle were also Vocational Agriculture Tea- May 6 and showed eight of
a source of interest to the chers Association, took in a them at Wednesday’s exlubi-
Elizabethtown Future Farmer. farm fair - tion. In addition to the grand
The 1962 star farmer for FFA “H seemed just about the and reserve champion he show-
Resion II said he saw very same 35 fairs here >” he said - ° n the reserve cham P ion York '
f gion 11, said he saw very „ fiut had more sh The shirei third and fourth place
few Guernseys on his tour. He judging was just the sarae as Hampshires, fifth place Berk
has a herd of 14 Guernsey cows here. Most of the cattle were shire and third place cross
on his father’s farm, but said British Friesian, out there were breed ‘
most of the cattle he saw were (Continued on page 6) At the sale of entries in the
v afternoon, the champion was
purchased by Kunzler and
Company, Inc. for 55 cents a
pound The Lancaster packing
firm also bought the reserve
champion at 30 cents a pound.
The grand champion pen of
ten, exhibited by William Mau
le, Quarryville R 2, was sold to
Ezra Martin, Lancaster, for 19.
75 per pound.
The only other exhibitor to
win more than one breed cham
pionship was Eugene Bollinger,
Denver R 2. His Poland China
and Hampshire topped those
two breeds.
John Frey Is Honored At Banquet
For Work With Swine Ring Gilt
Fifteen-year-old John Frey, Wolgemuth, Peach Bottom, in
Quarryville R 2, was named June of 1962, and agreed to
outstanding manager in the pass on a gilt from her first
Lancaster County Future Far- litter to a schoolmate at Sol
mers, Sears Foundation swine anco. In May of this year his
ring at the annual banquet gilt farrowed 10 pigs and he
Wednesday night in the Hotel passed on one gilt to George
Yorktown, York. Eisenberger, Hew Providence.
„Thd son of Mrs. Fred Frey, The sow has been rebred and
-i purebred is due to farrow again in Oc
;l^<^‘S.,Ydrtcsl*tttr gilt fTOMf Robert t (Continued on Page 12)
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 24, 1963
Two County Dairymen
Named American Farmers
Two youthful Lancaster are at present operating dairy
County dairymen have been sue- farms.
cessfully nominated to receive Mentzer, the 21 year old son
the American Farmer Degree, of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Mentzer
the highest degree awarded by is farming 307 acres in part
the National Association of Fu- nership with his parents, while
ture Farmers of America Trimble, the 21 year old son of
According to James Fink, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Trimble,
state advisor of the FFA, Don- is engaged in farming on a
aid Trimble, Quarryville El, rented farm a few miles from
and Roy Mentzer, New Holland his parents’ home.
R 2, have been accepted for Mentzer and his parents have
election to the degree by the approximately 100 registered
national FFA committee Ayrshires in partnership. In
The degrees, awarded to not addition, the partnership feeds
• more than one Future Farmer out about 80 head of steers and
for each 1,000 members in a between 200 and 250 hogs. Roy
state, will be conferred in Octo- breeds 10 sows and feeds out
ber at the National FFA con- most of the pigs using a limited
vention in Kansas City Elec- grain feeding program and an
tion to the degree is based on experimental cycle feeding unit
leadership activities and farm- he is testing for a local reach
ing program inery manufacturer.
Both Trimble and Mentzer A graduate of Pequea Valley
received die Keystone Farmer High School, Koy has been a
degree in January 1960 and member of FFA for six years
graduated from high school in and the 4-H for 12 years.
June of that same year. Both (Continued on Page 10)
Nestleroth Shows Both
Top Pig Club Winners!'
A trim Duroc - Berkshire
$2 Per Year
The only girl in competi
tion, Teresa Walton, ten, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Walton, Christiana Rl, in
her first year of competition
carried off the blue rosette in
the Landrace breed.
Robert Hoover, Denver H 2,
had the champion Spotted hog,
and Wilbur Hosier, Manhein*
R 3, took the championship in
Chester White judging.
Mark Nestleroth was edged
out of the Yorkshire champion
ship by the trim entry of J.
H. Michael Roop, Christiana
Rl.
Judge Tony Dobroski, assis
tant York County Agent, said
the crossbred champion was
the trimmest pig in the show.
Auctioneer, Claude Smith
sold the 173 head on exhibit
for a total of $6,977.01 or an
average of 20.05 per pound.
All entries totaled 34,7 7 5
pounds for a pig average of
201 pounds.
In addition to Kunzler and
Martin, other buyers placing
successful bids in the sale ar
ranged by the Lancaster Live
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during 1 the
next five days are expected to
average 2 to 6 degrees above
the normal range of 61 at
night to 82 in the afternoon.
Warm weather is expected to
prevail during thru most of
the period. Precipitation is
expected to total over Ms
inch falling as scattered
showers and thundershowers
towards the end of the
period.