VOL. 11 NO. 35
COUNTY PLOWING CHAMPION Marvin Zim
' merman, East Earl HI, receives permanent possession
of the rotating trophy following the plowing contest
-held -on the Isaac Geib farm at Manheixn R 3 Tuesday.
Area -Dairy Princess Carol" Ann" of'lSffasbtirg Ri
was on hand to congratulate the fchamp and present
him with the trophy on behetif of tlie Conservation
District. L. F. Photo
Zimmerman Retains Plowing Title
And Retires Rotating Trophy At
Annual Conservation Field Event
When the dust generated by
the seven contestants in Tues
day’s county plowing contest
had 'settled, the judges de
clared the champion plowman
from East "Earl, Marvin- Zim
merman, had retained his
crown and won the $25 State
Consei ration Dept, award Zim
merman scored 174 of a pos
sible 200 points, and according
to one observer, clinched the
win on the turn of the last
furrow
Placmgs were extremely
clpse, - judges reported, with
only 17 points separating the
Holstein Field Day Hosts 600
Countians; Frey Top Judge
by Everett Newswanger,
Staff Reporter
Although it didn’t rain Wed
nesday at the Lancaster Coun
ty Holstein Association Field
Day, much of the conversation
among the 600 persons ga
thered under the maple, cherry
and pine trees on the lawn of
Trout Spring Farm, 523 Wil
low Road, Lancaster, was re-
Farm Calendar
August 1 All-day, Inter-
State--Milk Producers Co-op
picnic and dairy meeting at
Lenape Park, Chester Co.
August 2 —„ 2nd and 3rd. 4-H
County "Dairy Roundup at
Guernsey Sales Pavilion,
Route 30 East, Lancaster.
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first and last place operators.
Second place developed into
a tie between Ivan Yost of
Narvon R 2 and John Camp
bell of New Holland. Each re
ceived second-place ribbons
and awards of $l2 50 Finish
ing fourth was level land plow
ing champion Robert Groff,
Lititz R 3 Fifth place went to
Loren Zimmerman, East Earl
Rl.
County champion Marvin
Zimmerman won the top tro
phy with his skillful operation
of a 20-10 John Deere tractor
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lated to rain—or a lack of it.
Even the speakers on fhe
afternoon program included
comments-about the dry weath
er Obie Snider, official judge
and main speaker from Imler,
Pennsylvania, said that out in
Bedford County they have had
only one-fourth inch of ram
since the middle of June. At
one time' while telling of the
growth of his Singing Brook
Farm, Snider interrupted him
self to ask, “Was that thunder
I heard? I hope so!”
Associate Lancaster .County
agent Victor Plastow told the.
Holstein' "breeders ' assembled
in front of the John Kreider
family’s 112-year-old brick
farm house, “I wish I could
make it rain right now. The
corn is at -a crucial stage. If -
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNlYEßSfflfi
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/°\JL AU6 4 1966
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 30, 1966
Honan To Speak
At All-Day
Dairy Meeting
Dr. James E. Honan, general
manager of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative, will
appear at Lenape Park, Ches
ter County, on August 1, to
discuss actions taken by Inter-
State to divert an expected
milk shortage
Honan will be addressing
dairymen from southeastern
Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Delaware who will be attend
ing an all-day dairy meeting
and picnic.
Inter-State’s actions, which
resulted in milk price increase
of 40 cents per hundredweight
to Delaware Valley dairymen,
were taken because of the ris
ing cost of producing milk
and the present drought con
ditions that exist throughout
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ASCS Committeemen
Now Being Nominated
It is time once-
choose nominees to on
the Lancaster County Agricul
tural Stabilization & Conser
vation committees in the 16
county communities, according
to ASC committee chairman
Fred G. Seldomridge
Any local resident who is
eligible to take' part in an
ASCS farm program may vote,
and he may hold office as a
committeeman.
Farmers who are eligible to
vote in the community com
mittee elections also have the
right to nominate any other
eligible farmer as a candidate
for committee membership.
To nominate a committee
man, a petition, signed by six
or more eligible voters, should
be filed at the county ASCS
office any time before August
15. Eligible voters may sign
as many petitions as they wish,
ASCS says
Election of committeemen
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IT s WINNERS NOSE TO NOSE for Bob Fisher at the 4th annual FFA hog
"•show! Shown above giving a pat on the back to his grand champion Yorkshire-
Duroc barrow which brought him $142 at the FFA s*ale which followed the show*
-At left is the trim 210-pound Hampshire-Landrace gilt with which Fisher took re
serve"honors. The Hamp sold for 41 cents per pound. L, F. Photo
Bob Fisher Scores Big At
4th Annual FFA Hog Show
Adding the music of his
■ fitting and showing skill to
| the words of an essay, Bob
‘ Fisher of East Earl R 1 came
up with a champion-producing
1 combination at the 4th annual
’ FPA hog show, held at the
Lancaster Stock Yards Tues
day.
Fisher took the grand cham
pionship of the show with a
200-pound Ycrk-Duroc barrow
, which he won several months
ago as first prize in an essay
contest sponsored by the New
Holland Jaycees
He then bounced back with
a 210-pound Hampshire-Land
race gilt to wrap up the re
serve title Next, he put three
crossbreds through 'their paces,
taking the Pen of Three class.
Then, still rolling, Fisher
showed the hog judged best
fitted. He may have relaxed
just a little in the showman
ship contest, and the judge
gave the nod in that event to
„ an.outstanding performiance by
Ronald -MuU "of- Eph ra ta.
Fisher, the 18-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs Earl Fisher,
and a senior in vocational ag
riculture at Garden Spot High
School, entered eight different
breed classes and a pen of
three He came out of the con
test with ribbons for five firsts,
one second, and one third
place. In addition, he accumu
lated three trophies grand
and reserve champion trophies
were presented by Warren
Leminger on behalf of the
Lancaster County Swine Pro
ducers Association; the fitting
and showing trophies wore
awarded by Joel Habegger for
Eby’s Feed Mill, Lititz
A rotating trophy goes to
the highest-scoring chapter
each year For the first three
years of the show, Cloister
Chapter retained possession of
the trophy' but this year it
was all Grassland, led by Bob
Fisher’s "record-breaking sweep
$2 Per Year
of top awards The rotating
trophy was donated by Baum’s
Bologna, Inc, Groff’s Meat
Market, and Hershey Quality
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ABC “Parade”
Day Set Aug. 4
Atlantic Breeders Coopera
tive general manager David
Yoder announced this week
that the second annual “At
lantic On Parade” will be held
on Thursday, August 4, for
dairymen throughout the serv
ice area
Beginning at 10 30 a m.,
there will be tours of Atlan
tic’s facilities at its Lancas
ter headquarters on the Route
230 By-Pass This will be fol
lowed by a chicken barbecue,
beginning at 11:30- am., and,
the afternoon program.
Sires will be paraded and
breeders of recent additions
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Danger!
Nitrate
Poisoning
Don’t graze or green chop
your forage for feeding this
weekend, warns Lancaster
County agent M. M. Smith.
The danger of nitrate poison
ing is very high for 3 to 5
days following a -soaking rain
on drought-stricken forage
crops, Smith said.
Almost any weather condi
tion that upsets the normal
growth of a crop may result
m nitrate accumulations in the
plants, he said But the most
dangerous situation involving
excess nitrates is in drought
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