VOL. 11 NO. 36
4-H County Dairy Meet
Leads To District Show
For Thirty-Two Entries
Blue ribbon wins in the
county dairy roundup this
week opened the door to dis
trict competition later this
4-H Dairy Team
Judges Named
With the exception of one
change, the 4-H dairy team
fielded by Lancaster County
at State 4-H Days next week
will be the same as last year’s
team John Kurtz of 1160 N.
Maiket St, Elizabethtown, will
replace Earl Wengei, Quarry
ville HI.
Returning for the competi
tion this year will be James
E Kettering, Lititz R 3, Paul
Brubaker, Lititz Rl; and Alfred
Wanner, Jr, Narvon R 2
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Guernsey Field
Day Aug. 11th
Lancaster County Guernsey
breeders will hold their annual
field day activities on Thurs
day, August 11, at the B. Frank
Eshehnan farm, Landisville, it
was announced this week by
the field day committee.
The morning program will
begin at 10 a. m. and will in
clude judging of three classes
of Guernseys.
At noon, fried chicken will
be available at- $l5O per per
son. Reservations for lunch
should be made with J. Rohrer
Witmer, Willow Street R 2, by
Monday.
During the afternoon session,
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GRAND CHAMPION SHOWMAN Mary Ellen Kettering with
her homebred senior yearling Henket Jim Carrie. Mary Ellen, of
Lititz R 3, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kettering; she
will be a junior at Manheim Township in the fall.
month for thirty-two Lancaster
County 4-H entries
The county roundup, held
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion, saw
champions and reserve cham
pions, and senior and junior
showmen and fitters emerge
for each of four breeds—Hol
stein, Guernsey, Ayrshire, and
Jersey plus grand champion
showmen and fitters for the
show
Type judge Edwin Fry, Fair
Hill Farm, Chestertown, Mary
land, moved rapidly through
the 74-head Holstein show on
Tuesday, tapping four-year-old
Twinkle Edgefield Star Sequoia
for the breed championship
Twinkle, owned by 16-year-old
Richard Rutt, Quarryville R 2,
was bred in the Rutt herd and
is an Osborndale Ivanhoe
grand-daughter.
Rutt, a junior at Solanco
High School, has been active
in 4-H woik 'for six years, and
has shown in the county dairy
roundup for the past four
years. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Amos Rutt.
Thd reserve Holstein title
went again this year to Jarties
Kettering’s Henket Reflection
Sara. She also placed second
to the champion in the three
year-old-and-over class. Jim is
the son of Mr and Mrs. Henry
E. Kettering of Lititz R 3..
HOLSTEINS
Showmanship And Fitting
The champion showman and
fitter for the Holstein breed
each continued their winning
ways on Tuesday m competi
tion with the champions in the
other breeds to become grand
champion showman and grand
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 6, 1966
TOP HOLSTEIN at 4-H County Dairy Roundup, Twinkle Edgefield' Star Se
quoia, is shown with her young owner Richard Rutt of Quarryville R 2 'following
her championship on Tuesday. L. F. Photo
Sod Waterway Seeding
Exhibit By E'Town FFA
Next Thursday, August 11,
at 1 p. m., the Elizabethtown
vocational agriculture depart
ment will hold a sod waterway
seeding demonstration which
will be open to the public, ac
cording to agriculture teacher
Elvin Hess.
With the cooperation of the
Soil Conservation Service, a
waterway in back of the Eliza
bethtown Elementary School
will be seeded and mulched
to prevent the seed being
washed away before grass
starts to grow.
The elementary school is lo
cated just east of the Eliza
bethtown High School
Nothing New In The Handler Pool
Situation, Honan Tells Dairymen
by Everett Newswanger,
Staff Reporter
LENAPE PARK Nothing
new has developed in the
“Handler Pool” vs the “Market
wide Pool” controversy in the
Delaware Valley Milk Market
ing Order No. 4, according to
Dr. James E. Honan,, general
manager of Inter-State Milk
Producers Cooperative. Speak
ing to 1700 members and their
families here Monday, Honan
said, “We have heard nothing
to date with respect to our
Delaware Valley situation I do
not even feel the Secretary ot
Agriculture knows what he
will do, or when he will do it ”
BEST-FITTED ANIMAL in the county 4-H dairy show was
this very clean junior yearling Blossomelle Golden Bubbles shown
by Averril Royer of 2025 Oregon Pike, Lancaster. Averril is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Royer. L. F. Photos
$2 Per Year
Hearings were held in the
fall of 1965 in Philadelphia on
alleged kickbacks within the
Delaware Valley Order. A com
plete “airing” of the condi
tions within the order was
conducted by the United States
Department of Agriculture and
the Pennsylvania Milk Control
Commission.
At that time, Inter-State of
ficials said that to change
Order 4 to a market-wide pool
would cause a $10,000,000 loss
to the 5,800 farmers supplying
the Philadelphia area market.
Honan reaffirmed the cooper
ative’s position to the picnic
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