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
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Resigns At
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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<l tlie m hea d of
aKeg at the Lancaster
, ,
Stockyards. The judges were
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Paul Ca3e of P i easant Grove
wl „ show plctures and describe
the people and country o£
Arabla at the ammal mee ting
and banquet of Lancaster
County Guernse jr Breeders
next Friday at the Spanish
Tavern, Quarryville.
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. After a bam dinner beglnn
ing at 7 p,m, > 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.
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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.