Witmer, Top County 4-H Showman
At Southeast District Dairy Meet
Five championships were Rl; senior calf, 6, John E.
won by Lancaster County Kurtz, Elizabethtown Rl; 10,
youths in last Friday’s South- Kenneth Kisser; junior year
east 4-H Dairy Show competi
tion at Hershev • Susan Ann Kauffman
Leading the list of local (reserve 3 unior champion);
champions was Mark 7 w.t senior y earlm & Mal ’y Ellen
np wnw ItSi mu Kettering (junior champion);
mer, Willow Street Rl. Wit- « n.„ ° ■< un~ do
mer won the senior Guernsey
titlp with Penn riel Mum two-year-olds, 13, Maiy Ellen
inff. L Jlnt Kettering; 19, Avernl L. Royer.
Anita, then went on to take 0q25 Oregon Pike - three and
lhfD G *The !e «nfm»1 d if’T’twn four old, 3 Glenn M.
Jear • o?d Conne'ctleut ■ toed £ eider; 12 ’ C ' Robert Glelder '
eifer ’ Ayrshire
Other countians garnering intermediate calf, 1 Brenda
championships were Douglas Eshleman, Elizabethtown Rl;
Weidman, Manheim Rl; Mary senior calf, 1. Paul M. Brubak-
Ellen Kettering, Ldtitz R. 3; e r, Lititz Rl; 4, Donna Eshle
and Susan Ann Kauffman, Eli- man, Elizabethtown Rl; junior
zabethtown Rl. yearling; 5, Mary Jane Eshle-
Weidman showed Kuernsey man; 6, John B. Clark, Lititz
junior yearling Har-Len T. C. Rl; senior yearling, 2, Carol M.
Beautiful to the reserve junior Brubaker,
championship. The animal was Guernsey
bred in the Harry S. Mumma Junior calf, 4, Randy O’Con
herd at Manheim Rl. nell, K i r kwood; intermediate,
Miss Kettering repeated her Mark Z Witmer.
performance of Wednesday’s
Black & White Show by win
ning the senior Holstein cham-
pionship with her home-bred 0. j. Of •
senior yearling, Henket Apollo jtdt6 irlOWlllSf
Ellen. TT'il T 1 \T 1
In the Holstein reserve jun- IIII6S 1 O I 01*K
ior championship spot was a
junior yearling, Penn Springs A crowd estimated to be “at
Bill Topper shown by Miss least 5000” by one county ob-
Kauffman. ’ seiver, was on hand Wednes-
In the county group compe- day for the statewide Forage
tition, Lancaster placed fifth Progress Days and Plowing
in Holstein, groups; fifth in Contest on the Somerset State
Ayrshires; second in Guern- Hospital Farm
seys, and seventh in Jerseys. In addition to numerous dis-
County placmgs by breeds plays and demonstrations, the
and class were: highlight for area plowmen
Holstein
Junior calf, 5, James Ketter- Two of th e top three champion
ing, Lititz R 3, Roy William ships went to York County
Book, Ronke Rl; intermediate, plowmen Jesse Krout, York
3, Carol Ann Hess, Strasburg Rl, in the contour division,
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Below normal tempera
tures during the next five
days is the forecast this week
from the Harrisburg Airport.
The weatherman expects no
real day-to-day change with
daytime highs of 70 degrees
and nightly lows of 50. The
normal range for this period
is 81 high to 60 low.
No rain is expected for the
period except maybe a few
showers over the mountains
about Wednesday.
and Charles Hess, Dallastown
Rl, in the big plow division.
Robert Miller, Millersburg Rl,
Dauphin County, took the top
level-land title.
Lancaster County plowing
champion Ivan R. Yost of Nar
von R 2 placed eighth in the
field of 13 contour contestants
The Lancaster champion oper
ated his own Farmall 656 trac
tor pulling a four-bottom plow
supplied by C. B. Hoober and
Son, a farm machinery dealer
in Intercourse. While those
pulling four-bottom plows were
alloted 48 minutes to plow
their assigned acre, the three
bottom operators had 65 min
utes In the recent county con
test no time limit was set.
Judges for the event were
Glen Ellenberger, Lehigh
county agent: Ed Weaver, Soil
Conservation Service, Blooms
burg, and Ralph H. Snyder,
York.
The three, 1967 state cham
pions will compete in next
year’s national plowing contest
which will be held at Heishey
It’s great to have a great
idea, but it’s greater to put
it to use.
Harold H. Goad
Terre Hill
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