Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, October 07, 1967, Image 12

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    12—Lancaster Fanning,
Saturday, October 7,196
Earl Stauffer
Has Champion
At Ephrata
Two Cloister Future Farmers
of America Chapter members
won the grand championships
of the Ephrata Fair Junior
Dairy Show Friday evening.
Earl Stauffer, 15, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Stauffer,
Ephrata HI, won the grand
championship with Swampy Hoi
low Smokey Beauty, a two-year
old bred by John Umble, At
glen.
Jay Smoker, 16. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Smoker, Stevens
Rl. was awarded the reserve
grand championship for Spring
Shade Della Smoker, a junior
yearling bred by Carl Martin,
Ephrata Rl.
Lewis C. Ayers, show chair
man, announced that both
champions were chain animals
donated to the youths by the
chapter. Under the arrange
ment. chain animal winners are
obligated to return a calf to the
chapter, and it, in turn, is
awarded to another youth.
Stauffer, a junior at Ephrata
Union High School, also won
the grand champion showman
awaid Reserve showman honors
went to Cynthia Balmer, Lititz
R 4
Positions were reversed in
the fitting contest, with Miss
Balmer as champion and Stauff
er as reserve
Judge for the show at Eph
rata Community Park was Ray
Seidel, Richland Rl, Lebanon
County. He also judged the
West Lampeter Community
Fair Dairy Show Thurs. Seidel
had the grand champion female
of the Pennsylvania Black and
White Show earlier this month
at Harrisburg.
The Jesse Balmer family
made a clean sweep of all the
Guernsey placmgs, with Cynthia
winning both the grand and re
serve championships, a 2-yeai
old and intermediate calf, res
pectively
NEPPCO Poultrymen
To Get British
Point Of View At Show
HARRISBURG - What’s the
British poultry industry got
that we haven’t’
A number of things, good
and bad, according to Ray Felt
well, chairman of the British
Egg Association The veteran
author, broadcaster and poul
try industry leader from the
Isles will keynote the 30th an
niveisary convention and ex
position of the Northeastern
Poultry Producers Council on
the initial day of its October
10 11-12 gathering in this city’s
huge Farm Show Building.
Feltwell is expected to scan
Biitish advances an poultry
housing in which Ameri
cans might be interested, some
of the problems of bureaucra
cy, and the British i e-bound
from the depths of a wiar-m
-flicted taodyblow to the nation’s
poultry industry
He has been a senior poul
try advisor with the British
Ministry of Agriculture, the
author of books on layer,
broiler and turkey manage
ment and is a director of a
number of companies engaged
in contract egg production He
has talked on egg and poultry
matters throughout the world
Feltwell’s talk will keynote
a dozen other topics by experts
on such subjects as nuisance
law's, encroaching zoning regu
lations, manure disposal, the
started pullet “shortage”, san
itation - vaccination troubles,
leukosis research, egg pricing
forces in the Northeast and
the family farmer versus the
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