Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, July 29, 1967, Image 7
• Holstein Field Day If we register them • Countv Plowmen (Continued from Page 1) ’• ESS*!*-? I .* ' CROP ADVICE (Continued from Page 1) County agent Max Smith’s pile up 500 of a possible 600 becona nigh score went to timely remarks on <*mn a,nrf , , r York County on the 266.7 point livestock prtoductioS were wSi P ° ints : Zimmerm,n was 8 <- ose eoore of Phiililip Laughman, received by the 300 dairymen second Wllh 466 > * nd Loien ThomasvilJe. and friends gathered on the Zimmerman, also of East Earl Jacob Houser, Jr., Lampeter, shady, green lawn of the Rutt Rl, placed third with 483 was third with 266.6 points. homestead. points. In the ladies division, Mrs. Smith recommended sowing Robert Kauffman, Elizabeth n ' ew ’ alfalfa seedings in the Judging the three-man con town Rl, was tops with 252 next week. “The last several test at the Edwin Kurtz farm points which won her a table years,” he said, “many of you at Ephrata Rl were Richard service set. The youth class was have tried fall seedings and Brown, Chester County work won by Miss Patricia Eby, they have burned out because unit conservationist with SCS; daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don- of lack of moisture. But with Herbert Wetzel, associate coun aid Eby, GordonviUe Rl. Miss the better weather conditions ty agent in Berks County: and Eby won a model cow and this year you may want to try Cm* l Herr, farmer, 940 Penn trophy, at again.” Grant Road, Lancaster. HEARS CONVENTION n.J? e als ,° strewed working Yost, who will represent the REPORT „™ an( ? totalizer into the soil, county in the state plowing Featured speaker and cattle limp s*/ batter t™ 6 to get contest in August in Somerset Judge for the all-day affair was Li ««» alfa ?» County ’ was Presented with Edwin C. Fry, Fair Hill Farms, y ° U S ° W ltj h,s P eiman ent trophy by Lan- Ohestertown, Maryland. He re- r7T,i ’ , caster County Dairy Piincess poised on the 82nd National °. rat, n f 6 c,!!™! 15 £ °i r Anna Mae Doaough. He will Holstein Convention held re- f ,L, bluce ' receive the new rotating tio cently in Minneapolis, Minne- iitS ”v ed ' k Th f a2e P hy later according to plowing sota, calling it a “grass roots” . accir >atin o has been lower- contest chairman Aaron Z. organization controlled by the three mont j ls to Stauffer, and wall need to suc local breeders in the field. . defend his title next “Pennsylvania had one-seventh -.JrV"ft, Sudan “ sor S b ‘ year to gam permanent pos of 'all the delegates at the con- L f® session of that t«>Phy. Yost vention,” Fry said. „ ahead of you it operates a 125-acre dairy farm. He also ren or ted that “no U f be t 0 ™ ake them in ‘ Last yeai's champion Marvin tie also reported that no to silage rather than hay.” Zimmerman retired the rntat longer will we be able to reg- The countv comment f™™ eil “ an iemea tne rotat ister animals over two years ed on S llnse cS H old. We feel we .are more ac- fields in the area, but urged Sln Z^- jfarmeis not to get in a hurry merman was runnerup to put corn into the silo. He explained that an acre of corn cut for silage in the silk stage yields only 2,000 pounds of dry matter; left to mature to the well-dentated stage it will yield 8,000 pounds. “The longer you let it mature,” Smith said, “the more TDN per acre you get.” Smith also introduced new assistant county agent Jay Ir win, ••••• •••••• •••••• •••••• •••••• •••••• •••••• •••••• •••••• # • Other speakers included Dairy Princess Anna Mae Do« nough, David Slusser, fieldman for the Pennsylvania Holstein Association and Elvin Hess, Jr., state director. John Harnisb, Henry Ketter ing and Ira Welk served on the field day committee and presi dent Robert Groff was master of ceremonies. Additional winners in the judging contest were: Men’s Division: Elvin Hess, Jr., Stras burg Rl, 254 points; Marlin Hershey, Gordonville, 250. Ladies Division: Eileen Thom as, Millersville 250: Kathryn Deiter, Lititz R 3, 2343; Vivian Stauffer, Ephrata, 233 3; and Mrs. J. Robert Hess, Strasburg Rl, 216 Youth Division; Mar lene Harbold, Mount Joy, 234.- 3; Karen Hershey, Lititz, 233 - 3; Richard Hess, Strasburg Rl, 216 7, and Calvin Martin, Eph rata. 215.7. Today 45% of all 4-H’ers live on farms; 33% in rural non farm areas; 16% in towns of 2.500 to 50,000; 6% in larger cities. PENAR ■ Available at ORGANIC PLANT FOOD CO. Grofftown Rd. Next to Waterworks Ph. 392-4963 or 392-0374 PENAR* Available now at P. L ROHRER & BRO. SMOKETOWN, PA. Ph. 397-3539 SOME OF THE ELEVEN LAND cavation in the contest sponsored by the JUDGES competing Tuesday at the county vo-ag teachers’ assn. The test Lancaster County Conservation Field was set up and judged by ,SCS county Day are shown studying one sample ex- conservationist Orval A. Bass. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Amos H. Funk climbs onto the wagon to greet the several hundred persons at tending the County Conservation Field Day & Plowing Contest Tuesday, spon sored annually by the couunty Soil & Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 29.1967—7 NEW CHAMPION of the county’s contoured fur rows, Ivan Yost of Narvon R 2, receives his trophy from Lancaster County Dairy Princess Anna Mae Donough at the county Plowing Contest held Tuesday on the Edwin Kurtz farm at Ephrata Rl. L. F. Photo Water Conservation District. Funk par ticularly praised the youths attending, noting that their generation “ will have to be far better conservation farmers than we were”. L. F. Photo f s * i. L. F. Photo , (? - / >. \ *■ N * * ■**. •* I i.l 1 »X i'- j!