VOL. 11 NO, 37
Vo-Ag Teachers
Review FFA Hog
Show Results
The Lancaster County Voca
tional Agriculture teachers
were told at their regular
meetini Tuesday at Solanco
High School that this year’s
FFA hog show had been the
best one yet.
Vice piesident Lewis Ayers,
Ephiata. (acting president
since the resignation of asso
ciation president Gene Daugh
eity) reported that the 197
head entered made it the larg
est show since the event was
started in 1963, and continues
the steady increase in show
size which has been observed
each vear
■The average weight of 213
pounds was heavy enough to
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Karl Linde, Top Judge In Contest
At County Guernsey Gathering
Bj Everett Newswanger,
Staff-Reporter
A tv. elve-year-old youth won
top honois in the type judging
contest held Thursday morn
ing at Cbiques Glen Farms,
Manheim Rl, during the an
nual Lancaster County Guern
sey Bleeders Association field
day
Karl Linde, son of Mr. and
Mis Deiter Linde, Oxford, Pa,
took home the model Guernsey
cow by scormg 266 8 points
out of a possible 300
Following Karl in the youth
division was James Myer with
2501 points; Gilbert Linde,
249 2 points and Jesse Balmer
Jr, 233 points.
In the ladies division Dor
othy Bieneman, Willow Street
Rl, had the top score of 251
points Mrs Harry Mamma
THE CHIQUES GLEN FARMS, scene of the Lancaster County Guernsey
Breeders Field day, Thursday. Two of Mr and Mrs. Frank Eshelman’s registered
Guernseys head under the red covered bridge on their way to greener pastures.
L. F. Photo
GUERNSEY FIELD DAY WINNERS. (1. to r.)
Harry Mumma, Landisville; Karl Linde, Oxford Rl;
and Dorothy Breneman, Willow Street Rl. The Guern
sey Field Day- was held Thursday at Mr. and Mrs.
B. Frank Eshelman’s Chiques Glen Farms, Manheim
Rl. L. F. Photo
was second with 250 points
and third .was Louise L. Wit-
mer with 249 points.
Harry Mumma, Landisville,
turned in the best cards in the
men’s division with 266 7
points Second was C. Henry
Breneman with 266 6 points
and third, Robert Rohrer with
2501 points
The main feature of the
afternoon program was a panel
discussion by. four local Guern
sey breeders The panel mem
bers were Frank Hershey, Wil
law Street Rl; Deiter Linde,
Oxford, Melvin Stoltzfus, Ronks
Rl, and Raymond Witmer, Wil
low Street Rl After they told
about their own farming op-
erations, the 120 Guernsey
breeders, their families and
friends, gathered on Mr. and
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Lancaster Farming ,Saturday, August 13, 1966
ASCS Annual Tour
Schedule Announced
The Lancaster County office
of the Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Conservation Service
plans to hold its annual farm
tour on August 18, according
to Miss Dorothy Y. Neel, of
fice manager
Buses will depart from Penn
Manor High School, Millers
ville, at 9 am., and will re
turn by 330 pm The first
stop will be at the Muddy
Run Project where a hydro
pumping station and dam are
under construction Because of
the construction. Miss Neel
said, private oars are not per
mitted at Muddy Run Bus
fare for the complete tour is
$1 for adults and 25 cents for
children
New and remodeled cow
barns, diversion terraces, and
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Star Farmer Candidates Named;
Winner Will Be Chosen On Tues.
Seven outstanding Future
Farmers will be competing for
this year’s Lancaster County
Star Farmer award next week
Their names were placed in
nomination at Tuesday’s coun
ty vocational agncultuie teach
ers’ meeting at Solanco High
School, and the winner will be
determined by a judging com-
Ruth Konhaus, First
Entrant In NEPPCO
Princess Contest
HARRISBURG, PA. A
petite, 19-year-old Penn State
senior from Mechanicsburg
this week became the first en
trant in the annual “Poultry
Princess of the Northeast” con
test
Ruth Konhaus, a former 4-H
Club member whose ambition
is to become a teachei of the
blind, will vie with girls from
14 other states at the annual
Northeastern Poultry Produc
ers Council (NEPPCO) Exposi
tion in the Farm Show Build
ing here, October 4-5-6
The lucky young lady who
wins the Poultry Princess title
will receive a $5OO U S Sav
ings Bond and vast exposure
to the public through personal
appearances, photographs and
agriculture industry publicity
during her year-long reign.
Runners-up will receive $lOO
U S. Savings Bonds.
Miss Konhaus, who stands
five-feet four-inches tall and
weighs 105 lbs., is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs Paul A
Konhaus She is a graduate of
Cumberland Valley High
School and is sponsored by
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County 4-H , ers Win 3 Titles At
“State Days”; Ribbon Count Up
Lancastei; County 4-H youths
emerged from the state com-
petition this week slightly rich-
er in ribbons, but with one less
big judging title than they
earned last year
The youngsteis gatheied 22
nbbons, compaied to last yeai’s
19 but 13 ol these weie “blue”,
repiesentmg a gam of six in
that topflight circle
The junior livestock judg
ing team, in its fust yeai of
competition replacing last
yeai’s state champion swine
judging team, lanked as num
ber one in the state m its divi
sion Team membeis aie Mich
ael Smucker, Ephiata R 2, who
paced the team by being sec
ond high individual in the
state Larry High, 346 E Main
St, Baieville, tied foi fouith
Lany Hen, 840 Penn Grant
Rd, Lancaster, sixth and Ron
ald Meek, Reinholds Rl, tied
foi seventh Blue nbbons went
to the top thiee boys on the
team
The four, county entnes in
the demonstration division talli
ed two state championships
and three blue nbbons
In a livestock demonstration,
the team of Audrey Yunginger
and Kathy Ney, both of Manet-
$2 Per Year
mittee after studying each boy’s
record and interviewing him.
The interviews will be held
on Tuesday, August 16, at
7 p m. at Penn Manor High,
School
Competing will be- William
Risser, Warwick; James S.
Huber, Solanco. Leon Rutt,
Elizabethtown; Robert Weaver,
Lampetei-Strasburg, Ken Rdh
rer, Penn Manor; Daryl Bol
linger, Ephrata, and Adaffl.
Zimmerman, Gai den Spot.
Until two years ago, the
highest-rated Keystone Fann
er was automatically named
County Star Farmer, and the
honor carried no award. Be
ginning in 1964, with Dale
Hershey of Manheim being
named County Star Farmer,
the honor earned a $175 award
to cover expenses to the Na
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“Grassroots”
Policy Planning
By Farm Assn.
A system of policy develop
ment enables ideas to move
upward from the level o#
county farms to state, and fi
nally, national levels and be
come incorporated in the pol
icies and programs of the
American Farm Bureau Fed
eration, according to Clyde E.
Wivell, chairman of Lancas
ter County Farmers’ Associa
tion policy development com
mittee
The committee met recent-
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ta Rl, won blue ribbons and
first-place state standing Their
demonstration was titled “Live
stock Need Minerals”,
A livestock conservation
demonstiation by Tom Houser
of Lampetei, ‘lnternal Para
sites In Cattle”, won him a
state title and a blue nbban.
A second place state rating
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Holstein Assn. Born
Meeting Set Aug. 16
The Lancaster County Hol
stein Association will hold its
annual bain meeting at John
Shelly’s iarm, Manheim HI,
on August 16 at 8 pni
Aecoi cling to the associa
tion’s barn meeting commit
tee, consisting of John E.
Kreider, Daniel S Stoltzfus,
and Paul N Biubaker, guest
speaker and classifiei will be
Roy Simpson Refreshments
will be served
The Shelly farm is located'
about one mile north of Pe
tersburg; the committee ad
vises going north on Route 72,
turning right at Binkley &
Ober, Inc. Shelly’s farm is the
first one on the left.