VOL. 10 NO. 21
DAVID AND CHARLOTTE HUBER POSE WITH THREE OF THEIR FIVE
CHILDREN and the family airplane on their dairy farm at Peach Bottom R 2. Left
to right the children are; Joyce, Jim (an FFA member of the Solaneo Chapter),
and Jarrcrt-The lwo missing Hubers are Thomas and Lois L F Photo.
County Guernsey
Breeders To Tour
Maryland Farms
The Lancaster County Guer
nsey Breeders have announced
arrangements for their annual
spring tour They will visit
two Maryland farms on Wed
nesday, April 28
First stop on the tour will
be at Doughoregan Manor
Farm at Elliot City, Maryland
This farm has been in the
same family since the original
grant The Doughoregan Mart
or herd numbers over 100
Guernsey cows in loose hous
ing with free stalls Feeding
is done with a bunk feedei,
and cows are milked in a
herringbone parlor. The own
ers bottle and distribute their
own milk and ice cream.
Next, the tour will stop at
Maple Spring Farms, owned by
the Garrett Brothers of Rock
ville, Maryland. This farm has
about 80 Guernsey cows, uses
a milking parlor, but keeps the
cows tied in stanchions
The group will go by bus
ficm the Conestoga Transpor
tation Company, Lancaster Bus
leaigs Lancaster at 7 45 am
All those going on the toui are
lequested to bring their own
lunch.
Farm Calendar
Apr 27 630 pm Lancas
ter County Honey Produc
er annual spring meeting,
at ISameon 'Beider's at ilnter
course
8 pm. Paul; Harvey
speaking at MeCaskey High
School Auditorium.
Apr 28 2.45 am. Lancas
ter Comity Guernsey Breed
ers- anmtal spring toory will
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Umble Bull Receives
Gold Medal Sire Award
Stvampy Hollow Pabst Lead
er, a Holstein bull owned by
John M and Earl L Urrlblc of
Atglen, was recently designat
ed as a Gold Medal Sire by
th e Holstem-Fnesian Associa
tion of America
Only those registered Hol
stein bulls having daughters
that met exceptionally high
standards in milk production
and body eofifolmation are
qualified foi this award, the
Holstein Assn says
Paul Harvey To Speak
At McCaskey High Sch.
Paul Haiv e y, American
Broadcasting Company nelwa
analyst, will appear at the M'c-
Cdskey High School Auditori
um on April 27 at 8 pm This
appealanoe is sponsored by
the Paradise Rotary Club, and
benefits fiom the $2 50 re
served ticket donations will
go to the Paradise Commun
ity Memoual Paik
Hirvey, consideied by many
to he one of ladio’s top com
menta f ois has been awaided
s x honomiy doctorate dsgi ces
foui Gold Medals flora Val
ley Foige's iiPPdoras Founda
tion, and numerous Veteians
and Ameucan Legion cita
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures foie the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average about normal for
this time of year. Normal
high and low would be 67
and ’44 'degreejs.
Precipitation may total
about lock oecaning. as
rasn late aM ag»»
•n Hbafagi.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24, 1965
County Agent
Reports on South
American Trip
by Max Smith
The nine hour jet flight
from New York 'City to Rio de
Janeiro indicates hiow small
the world actually is these
days and the need for all
countries to get along the best
possible way We departed
from a chilly 30 degree tem
perature m New York and
dropped into a humid 70 de
grees at seven o’clock in the
morning in Rio.
The Partners of Allian'ce
piogram is sponsored by the
Department of .State, Wash
ington, D C and is an office
within tbe U ® Agentey for
International Development
The objective is to develop
and coordinate the direct- as
sistance activities between
various states in this countiy
and those in Latin America
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Co-Op Petition
To Amend Fed.
Mi!k Order No. 2
If all Class ,1 (fluid) milk
was to be used to pioduce
steule whole milk, then farm
ers shipping to the New Yoik
pool could lose up to $l2O
million per year
This amounts to a loss of
$2860 pel year to the average
size dairy farm, the prospect
of the greatest loss dairymen
may ever experience in the
Northeast.
These- paints are brought
out ins ai petition which the
hoard of directors of Eastern
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Huber’s “Big Wing Farm”
Combines The Best Of Two
Worlds, Farming & Flying
Big Wing Faun appeared
to 'be a typical Lancaster
County dairy farm when we
fast picked it out from 800
feet in the air barn, well
tended fields, silo. Large, at
tiactive farm house Then we
spotted the difference that
sets it apart fiom most farms
—an airplane parked on an
1800 foot landing strip'
We weie able to view the
faim fiom such a vantage
point through the courtesy of
the Lanco Flying .Service, iand
as pilot Claude Hess of Lan
co a Pennsylvania Flying
Faimei nosed the little
plane ovei into an appioach
path, we glided down tluough
the hazy afteinoon to meet
the Huber family
David Hubei, his wife Char
Co. Holstein Assn. Visits Four
Unusual Cumberland Dairy Farms
by /Everett ,Newswanger .
Staff Reporter
Cumberland County Foui 17 calves (none were twins)
of the most progressive Hoi- in 18 years. She has the falgh
stein establishments in the est lifetime production record
Cumberland County area play- in Pennsylvania with 243,000
ed host this week to the ,154 lb of milk and 9,950 lb. of
persons traveling on the Lan- butterfa’t There are 20 liv
caster County Holstein Asso- mg descendents of this cow
(nation's annual tour m the Ashecoi.nbe herd.
Leaving the Lancaster ga- VALLILEA FARMS
rage Wednesday morning the A Jack Sunday . s vallilea
four Conestoga Tiansporte- F Carlisle R 1 me wori _
tion Company buses made f economy milk production,
then way to Ashecombe j k feeb he could get more
Farms, Grantham, where a duchon jf , he fed more
modern jugging operation con- g rain But [he 1S very con
sumes ovei 50 percent of toe SCIOUS of monthly feed
mnlk pioduced by then 80 involce The grain mix Sun
cow herd They fill 250 hot- d uses conslsts of 60 per .
ties of mlk an hour from cent ear coin mixed Wlth soy
tben' botthn S bean oil meal, wheat, oats,
plant that has been in opei a- vßamins and mmerals. This
tion since .September 15, 1964
Of special mteiest was (Continued on Page 5)
ON THE HOLSTEIN TOUR: (1. to. r.) Victor
Plastow, associate Lancaster County agent; Paul B.
Hess, tour committee chairman- and John Fogel, Cum
berland County agent serving as a tour guide. A group
of 154 Lancaster County Holstein breeders this week,
visited four progressive dairy farms in Cumberland
County, on their annual, one-day tour. L. F. Photo
$2 Per Year
lotte, and their five children
tanging in age from 5 to
15 yeais .live on a 135-
acie dairy farm at Peach Bot
tom R 2 They milk 32 regis
tered Holstein cows, and aie
presently raising about 17-
head of young stock The cows
aie stabled and milked in a
conventional stanchion barn,
and the milk is held in a bulk
tunk for pick-up toy the
creameiy Bleeding is done
artificially using the Atlantic
Bleeders Co-Op mating guide
and seivice DH/IA i ecords
are kept on the entire herd,
and last yeai’s herd average
was 12 139 pounds of milk and
459 pounds of (butterfat The
Hubei s laise 35 acres of corn
and 35 acies of hay, the bal
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Boiling Sipnngs Lucifer Bose,
a 19-year-old cow that has had!
HP**