VOL. 8 NO. 49 GRAND AND RESERVE CHAMPIONS at the Southeast District 4-H beef club show are exhibited by their owners. Left to right are Ronald Mentzer, Down ingtown Rl, with the Angus, and Clifford Holloway 111, Peach Bottom, with the Hereford. ' L. F. Photo. Wolgemuth & Resigns At ® X 7 TJ Fcirni OlUF6£tll John E. Wolgemuth, 40b Binchiland Ave., Mount Joy an nounced this week that he has resigned his iposition as Assis tant General Manager and Sales Manager of the Lane aster County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association. Wolgemuth will end his I‘s years of* affiliation with the cooperative on December 14 when he will move to lowa He has accepted a position as sales representative 'for mob ile feed mills and vitamin, piemix with the Baffin Manu facturing Corporation. Back in June 1948’'Wolge muth came to the county co operative as a mechanic in the i Continued on Page 6) Farm Calendar Nov. II S pm. Fulton Grange meets at Oakryn, Pa. Corn contest and !P i e contest Nov. 11-15 Pennsylvania 'Livestock Exposition in the Farm Show building, Hams- Iburg. Nov. 11-13 Pennsylvania Farmers Association annual meeting in the Hotel York towne, York N’ov 11-16 National 4-H Leaders foium in Washing ton, D. C. ' Nov 11 7 30 pm Coun ty Soil Conservation District Directors meet in the Court House. fContinued on Page 14) }; H , St T s B . ? ood n ic * s Under Local Business Urgmg Spurred T>y support rrom several local and area busi ness firms, baby beef at the Southeast Pennsylvania Dis trust 4-H show Wedn-esday sold nearly $4 a hundred weight over the Chicago price for prime steers. Seventy-three buyers, the largest in the history of the . show bought the 117 head for , an average of $28.77 per hun- j dredn eight. The Grand Champion of the show, a 920 pound Angus ex- . hibited by Ronald Mentzer, ( Downingtown Rl, went to Acme Markets, Philadelphia, for $1.02 per pound compared to the 87 cents for the chain 6 County Boys Will Scramble For Beef Calves Six Lancaster County FFA and 4-H club boys will be among the 75 from 28 coun ties named this week to be contestants for the five calf scrambles at the Nov. 11-15 Pennsylvania Luestock Expo sition at the State Farm Show Building, Harrisburg Fifteen of them will com pete in each scramble A $lOO feeder steer will be awarded in each eient to the boy who i& tnst to halter a calf and bring it to the center of the nig The Lancaster County boys are Larry Weaver, New Hol land, RD 1; Kenneth M Mar- tin, Denver, RD 1; Eugene Hosier, Manheim, RD 3; Jacob Long, Elizabethtown, RD 3; William Fisher, East Earl (Continued on Page 6) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 9, 1963 pion shown by Mentzer last year Kunzler and Company, Inc , Lancaster, gave 45 cents a pound for the reserve cham pion, a Hereford exhibited by Clifford Holloway HI, Peach Bottom. Champion Shorthorn, exhibi ted by Robert Hosier, Mann heim R4, was purchased by the Host Motel, Lancaster for 30 cents a pound. The steers averaged 946 pounds and returned a gross of $31,844 24 to club members (Continued on Page 11) Holstein Club Hears State Pres. At Banquet Milk will soon toe sold on the basis of total nutrients rather than oust one nutrient, the president of the Pennsylvania Holstein Association believes Olbie Snider, Holstein breed er from Bedford County, told members of the Lancaster County Hol’stem-Frlesian Asso ciation at the 13th annual ban quet Thursday night at the Blue Ball fire hall, that Total Nutrient Testing is the coming method for delei mining the \ahie of mflk 11l a talk entitled “Let’s Sell Eveij thing”, Snider sand a cow must ha\e the quauties that ■will make her able to milk and stay in the herd, but her “bea uty” is n'ot .worth a nickel if ave can’t sell hei milk. He said, “In the nett jear cows will be earning into the sale ring with So.hds-Not-Pat records on her (Continued from Page 6) Chester County Showman Wins Second 4 - H Crown A Chester County 4-. H mem- her made history Thursday bv becoming the first in the his- tory of the Southeast District Beef show to win a second con- secutive grand championship Ronald Mentzer, Downing- town Rl, showing a chunky, -920 pound Angus, earned away the championship rosette with a steer from the same herd which bred last year’s cham- P lon - The Reynard Run-bred black weighed in at 510 pounds last fall when he went on feed Ron ald said he purchased the sec ond steer from Mr. William L Batcheloi, the Cnester County breeder, after his last ca'f d.d so well The 17-year-old student at Downmgtown High School is the son of Mr and Mrs Char les Mentzei and is in his fifth Mar fin finrirl lilt VJUUU T-fio’ll Hpir] A * UgXA * ICI u 11l CO. D.H.I.A. High average in the Red ’ Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Association during September was posted by the 26 register- ed and grade Holstein cows m the herd of Martin H. Good, ® 1 The herd produced an aver- age of 66 pounds of butterfat in 1,903 pounds of milk with a 3.5 per cent test. The herds of Dan S Stoltz- fus, Mount Joy Rl, and Amos M Lapp, Kmzers Rl, each had an average of 57 pounds of butterfat for the month. The 29 registered and grade Holstein cows in the Stoltz- fus herd had 1,459 pounds of milk with a 3 9 per cent test, and the 36 registered Holstems owned by Lapp made 1,457 pounds of milk with a 3.9 per cent test. ® toltzfus / E ! ver - son R 2, had the cow finishing her lactation with the highest record during the month. El- len, a registered Holstein made 1,012 pounds of butterfat in -22,468 pounds of milk with a 4.5 per cent test. The 305 day record was made as alO year old. Two cows in the herd of Furry Frey, 1343 Gypsy Hill Road, finished 305 day lacta- tions with identical butterfat records of 957 pounds. Gay produced 21,540 pounds of milk, and Nina made 20,961 pounds Charles Tindall, Peach Bot tom had a cow with 916 pounds of butertat in 22,047 pounds of milk Four other cows in the association finish ed lactations with over 800 pounds of butterfat. They were in the herds of Robert C Grotf, Melim G Stoltzfus, J Mowery Frey and Son, and The Red Rose Research Center Fifteen other herds had 50 or more pounds of butterfat average for the month. $2 Per Year -year of 4-H beef club work, A first year member from Lancaster County showed a New Mexico-bred Hereford to the reserve championship spot, Clifford Holloway 111, 10-year old son Of Mr. and Mrs Clifford Holloway, Peach Bottom, nud ged his 1,080 pound steer, na med Gold Dust, “because he cost so much", to the second spot in district competition af ter finishing in fourth place at the Sblanfco Community Fair earlier this year Robert Hosier, Manheim R 4, received the rosette for Short horn championship, but he was not on hand to accept his prize The son of Mr and Mrs Mar vin Hosier, came home only this week from an operation at a Lancaster Hospital. Robert's sister, Janice did the honors in the show ring on Wednesday. Reserve breed champions in Hereford and Angus went to Lancaster County showmen, while the runner up spot in the shorthorn division went to Dan- PMnOuonty. Nancy Rohrer, Lititz R 3, showed a 9‘3‘5 pounder to the second spot in the Angus claas es, while Joanne Rohre-r, also of Lititz R 3, had the reserve Hereford. Following are the placings of the three man panel of judges who place mem^ers el6Ct new directors to t^ ree year terms > bear finan cial re P° rts - committee reports, an< * witness the presentation sev ® ra ( awards, The banquet committee Is Charles McSparran, K. Linde, and Robert Antrum. T7T-\rT7i rv \ y rlVil(“UAl WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the next five days are excreted to I verage 2 to 8 degrees above the normal range of 5t in the afternoon to 37 at night. Mild weather during the first half of the period mil give way to cooler tem peratures during the latter half. Precipitation is expec ted to total more than 0.4 inch falling as rain late Sunday through Tuesday.