VOL. 12 NO. 19
Top Awards To
Thomas, Rohrer
At Manor FFA
The DeK a 1 b Agricultural
Award for scholarship and
leadership was presented to
outstanding senior Richard
Thomas last night at the Man
or Chapter Future Farmers of
America annual parent-son ban
quet held at Penn Manor High
School.
Thomas, 17-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas of
Millersville Rl, is a holder of
the Keystone Degree and has
served in several offices in the
Manor Chapter He plans to en
roll at Penn State University
following graduation, where he
will major m dairy science.
Another recipient of a top
award was Kenneth Rohrer, of
Lancaster R 6. The son of Mr.
and Mrs Paul Rohrer, Ken
was named Chapter Star Farm
er He is also a holder of the
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County Calf Tops
StSteTHblstein '
Sale •
by Everett Newswanger,
Staff Reporter
HARRISBURG —A straight
topped, growthy Lancaster
County consignment drew the
highest bid last Saturday at the
first Pennsylvania State Hol
stein Calf Sale, held at the
Farm Show Building, Harris
burg.
Winding Glen Paramount Ca
nary, a September calf, entered
by John Metzler, Christiana,
brought $560 on the bid of Wil
liam C. Kepler, Middletown,
Maryland, for his 13-year-old
daughter Brenda Brenda will
show the Canary calf as-a 4-H
project. •
Newswanger
Maryland State' milk record.*
The sire of the top selling
calf is Waybrook Paramount
(V-88), and she is out of Wind
ing Glen Reflector Carrie, who
is classified Good Plus at 84
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Farm Calendar
April 10-10th & Hth, State 4-H
Capital Days, Harrisburg.
-1:30 pm. Area FFA Dairy
, Products judging contest at
1 Ephrata High School.
-7:30 p.m, Lancaster Coun
ty SWCD directors, at Court
house.
April p.m., Seminar for
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THIS IS THE KIND OF COW we like to work with,
says Gideon Stoltzfus in referring to Willo wland Imper
ial Brenda. One of the best registered Holsteins at Wil
lowland Farm, Atglen, Brenda’s current lactation stands
at 19,547 pounds of milk and 872 fat, in 313 days. A five
year-old, she was last classified at 87 points. Wiilowland
was one of the stops on this week’s Lancaster County
Holstein Assn. Tour. L. F. Photo
It is to ,be
noted that a
Lucifer daugh
ter went from
the Me tzler,
he r d to the
Kepler’s in the
first Golden
Harvest Sale
held at the
same location.
This cow was
later classified
Excellent arid
-com pleted a
MEMBERS OF CLOISTER FFA champion par
liamentary procedures team include, from left, seated:
Levi Henly, reporter;, Raymond Bdllinger, secretary;
Earl, Stauffer, -president;.,Jay- Smoker, vice president;,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 8,1967
County Holstein Breeders
Tour Chester County Area
Three bus loads of local Hol
stein breeders and wives vis
ited four outstanding dairy
farms in Chester County Wed
nesday on a 150-mile Lancas
ter County Holstein Association
tour
AUTOMATION &
EFFICIENCY
A liquid manure system, au
tomatic feeding, pipe-line milk
er, fan ventilation, and thiee
boys—ages 11, 14, and 16—en
able Donald Hostetter of Paik
esburg R 1 to care for 68 regis
tered and grade Holstein cows
in about one hour, morning
and evening
Hostetter told the Lancaster
County Holsteinmen that he
was interested in saving labor
when he invested $59,000 in a
pole barn and automatic equip
ment two years ago, and was
well pleased with the results
he has gotten since.
In discussing his feeding pro
gram, which is built around sil
age '' augered from a 20x74-ft.
Cloister FFA Procedures Champs;
Newcomer, Best Public Speaket
After finishing in third place
for the past two years, Clods-
ter Chapter Future Farmers of
America parliamentary proced-
ures team nosed out the peren-
nial favorite—Grassland Chap-
ter— to win the county FFA
title monday night.
Competing at Manheim Cen-
tral Junior High School, coach
Charles Ackley’s procedures
team consisted of. president,
Earl Stauffer; vice president,
Jay Smoker; secretary, Ray-
mond Bollinger; treasurer, Ray-
mond Burkholder; reporter,
Levi Henly, sentinel, Glenn
Raymond Burkholder, treasurer; and standing, John
Merkey, student advisor; Larry Mowrer, chaplain; and
Glenn Martin, sentinel. Charles E. Ackley, Jr., is the
- coach.
52 Per Year
concrete silo, Hostetler said he
feeds an average of 20 pounds
of grain and 45 pounds of sil
age per head a day, plus a to
tal of about eight bales of hay.
The grain enters the building
from a 13-ton bulk bin outside,
and is led from a cart on an
individual cow basis.
Hostetler originally installed
thiee, 30-inch, thermostatically
controlled fans, but later add
ed two more 30-inch booster
fans He noted that bam tem
peratures are maintained at 50
degrees in the winter, and that
neither odors nor flies have
been problems. Lack of the
latter he attributes largely to
the liquid manure system.
Although he presently turns
his cows out during the sum
mer months, he predicts the
day will come when cows will
be stabled year-round in com
pletely air-conditioned bams.
HEAVY SILAGE PROGRAM
Milk production at the Wil
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Martin, student advisor, John
Merley, and chaplain, Larry
Mowrer With the exception of
Mowrer, who is a junior, the
entire Cloister team comes
from the sophomore class,
Finishing third in the coun
tywide competition was the
team from Manheim Chapter. -
Cloister and Grassland chap
ters will meet again on April
12 for the Lancaster-York area
contest at York County’s Ken
nard-Dale High School,
Last year’s area competition
saw Solanco Chapter upset the
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