, AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
VOL. 11 NO. 39
A PAIR OF WINNERS Franklin Ruoss, right, shown with his grand
champion 200-pound Duroc-Jersey barrow. This Masonic-Homes-Farm-bred pig is
the seventh in a row of that breeding to top the 4-H pig show. At left, Phillip
Leminger poses with his reserve grand champion, 180-pound Spotted Poland China
gilt Phillip’s gilt was bred by Warren Leininger, Denver-R2. L. F. Photo
Near Sweep In S. E. Regional FFA
Holstein Class for County Showmen
„
Paced by members of the
Cloister Chapter, county Fu
lue Famei-s concentrated on
he 100-head Holstein Class at
Monday s Southeast Regional
T5 6 K? n * 'taking
all but the top title
Eight county boys captured
n.ne blue ribbons, including
tmee first placmgs and four
majoi titles The only double
blue nbbon wmnei fiom Lan
castei this year was Earl
Stauffer, Ephrata R 1
Lady Ivanhoe Joan-Twm,
shown by' David D Zimmer
man of Reinholds Rl, repeated
hei last year’s State Junior
Dany Show performance of
i eserve senior and * reserve
eiand championships on Mon
el a v
Farm Calendar
Only scheduled meeting an
nounced for this week is a
DHIA directors meeting at
Faim Credit Office, Lancaster,
on Monday at Bpm
Temperatures for the next
five days are- expected to
average near or above the
normal range»of 82 to 61
degi ees. It will be _ warmer
over- the -weekend with cool
®* temperatures, about- Tues
('aj and Wednesday.
The weatherman sees lit
he rain coming our way dur
mg the period. Scattered
Miowers about Wednesday
,uav yield 1/lb inch. -
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 27, 1966
,
The junior champion am
ma a senior yearling named
Valley Lane Posch Cochran,
was exhibited by Linford L
Weaver Reserve junior cham-
pion an i intermediate calf
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Cow Numbers In
State Continue
To Skid
According to the latest sur
vey of the dairy cow popula
tion in Pennsylvania, released
this week by the State Ciop
Repoiting Seivice, cow num
beis on hand in June were
down five percent fiom last
June’s 788,000 head Compaied
to the 1960-64 average of 861,-
000 cows on Pennsylvania
fauns, the current figuie re
flects a 13 percent decrease
Farmers have fared some
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Pomona Grange
Opposes Firearm
Restrictions
'At its regular, meeting last
Saturday, the Lancaster Coun
ty Pomona Grange No 71
went on record opposing any
and all legislation to control
the sale of firearms or am
munition in the following
terms:
WHEREAS, There has been
an honest effott by ceitain
legislators to place the sale of
all types of firearms and am
munition under federal con
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Suggestions Monday
At their regular quarterly
meet on Monday> August
29/directors of the Red Rose
D Herd lTnprDV e m ent As
socla,tlon Wlll consider some
of the rec o mm endations sug-
ted at a recent
supeiV isoi joint meeting
Association adviser Victor
plastow urged all directors to
atten d Monday’s meeting to
, n ®
(Continued on Page 81
JUNIOR CHAMPION of Southeast District Black & White Show went to
this senior yearling, Valley Lane Posch Cochran, owned and exhibited by Linford
L; Weaver,. Ephrata RL... _ L, F. Photo
Grand Champion 4-H Pig Title To
Duroc Shown By Franklin Ruoss
One “tradition” tumbled this
week at the 4-H County Pig
Roundup, but another was per
petuated When Franklin
Ruoss showed his medium
weight Duioc-Jersey barrow to
the grand championship it
marked the first time in foui
years that the title was not
ivon by a Nestleroth (Mark
Ne-stleroth won the title in ’63
and ’64; his sistei Nancy in
'65) It also pushed to seven
the string of consecutive years
that the grand champion 4-H
pig had been bred by Masonic
Homes Farm of Elizabethtown
The reseive champion was
again a Spotted Poland China
The light-weight gilt was
shown by Phillip Leminger, a
13-year old grandson of well
known Lancaster County Spot
ted Poland China breeder War
ren Leirunger Phillip is a 9th
County Holstein Showmen Go Dry
At District Black & White Show
Lancaster County’s two-year
' reign ‘over the Southeastern
Pennsylvania District Black &
White Show came to a virtual
halt at Hershey on Wednes
day The only major title re
tained by county showmen was
junior champion, won by Lin
ford L Weaver, Ephrata R 1
Weaver’s senior yearling, Val
ley Lane Posch Cochran, was
also named junioi champion
at the Regional FFA Holstein
Show at Hershey on Monday
Weaver is a senior agricul
ture student at Ephrata High
School, and a member of the
Cloister FFA Chapter He is,
the son of Mr and Mrs Luke
$2 Per Year
grader at Cocahco Union
School, and is in his third
yeai in 4-H work
Ruoss, the 13-year-old son
of Mr and Mrs William Ruoss
of Ephrata R 2, is in his fourth
year of club woik, and is
leadying a York-Duroc cross
bred for show at the New Hol
land Fair at the end of Sep
tember
Judge He my Gruber of A&B
Packing Company, Allentown,
described the champion Duroc
banow as having “the most
balance . and the 'type of
hams we like to see ” He rat
ed the barrow as the smooth
est animal in the final show
down of winners.
At the afternoon sale,
Ruoss’ prize Duroc was
knocked down to Kunzler &
Co., Inc., Lancaster, at 60
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■ Weaver His junior champion,
i a daughter of Cochran Gener
: al, was won by Weaver in a
. chain-calf essay contest at Eph
■ rata High School In her first
year of competition at last sea
i son’s PFA Regional Show she
was fust-place intermediate
calf
Although by-passed in .titles,
aiea Holsteinmen scored well
in the übbon department, tak
ing a total of 86 44 blue,
30 red, and 12 white With
judging on the modified Dan
ish system, all blue and red
übbon winners will be eligi
ble to compete in the State
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