VOL. 13 NO. 4
Hertzler Cow
Champion At
Chicago Show
Conewago Reflection Trudy,
a four-year-old Holstein owned
by Conewago Farms, 2623 North
Market Street, Elizabethtown,
won Senior and Grand Cham
pionship honor's in the female
Holstein division of the Chicago
International Dairy Show, No
vember 24.
Carl -Hertzler, co-owner of the
local farm, which borders Lan
caster said it was the
first time a Pennsylvania cow
ever won the grand champion
ship at the nationally known
show.
With a rating of ‘excellent
-92,” the animal was also nomi
nated for All-America four-year
old 1967.
Previously, the cow had won
the reserve All-Pennsylvania
three-year-old heifer competi
tion in 1966, and fourth place in
a three-and four-year-old dry
cow contest in a 1966 Pennsyl
vania All-American show.
She placed first in the three
end four-year-old dry cow class
and won the reserve senior and
reserve grand championship for
s Pennsylvania cow in the state
Blade and White contest in 1966
also.
Conewago Farms is operated
hy Warren Hertzler and his son,
Carl Hertzler.
County Heifer Places
Also taking Chicago Interna
tional Dairy Show honors was
Penn prings Bill Topper, shown
by Susan Ann Kauffman, Eliza
bethtown R. D. 1.
The animal won second place
in the junior yearling heifer
competition, and was nominat
ed for All-American in the jun
ior class for 1967.
Garden Spot
H. S. Plans
Welding Course
Am’evening -arc welding school
for farmers and other interested
persons will begin Thursday
evening, January 11, at 7:00 at
the ‘Garden Spot High School 1
Vocational Agriculture Dept
The .school will be conducted
one 'night a week for five con
secutive Thursday nights. It is
designed for beginners and oth- i
ers interested: in improving
their welding skill's.
Donald Robinson, Vocational
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Farm Calendar
Tuesday, December 26
Winter Small Gome Season
Opens
Thursday, December 28
7:30 <p.m. Bphrata Young
Farmers Tax meeting, school
Aig room.
Friday, December 29
1:30 pan. Judging 4-H To
bacco.and Corn Exhibit, Bay
uk'Cigar Company, 850 North
WaßeriSt.
SUPPER FOR TUTTIE. Nine-year
old Debra Landis, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James L. Landis, 1312 Shreiner
Rd., Lancaster, feeds her 80 pound calf
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f\ eW Potato Variety Foimd
,
superi or For Food Processing
“ **
The availability of a new po
tato variety especially bred to
■meet the needs of both growers
and food processors has just
been announced by the U S De
partment of Agriculture in con
junction with the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion.
The new potato, as tested by
the Wise Potato Chip Company
of Berwick, Pa _ has been found
to have especially high specific
gravity and excellent chipping
qualities Cooperative research
by Wise, which helped to de
velop the new variety, and Penn
State University, 'has established
that it has a combination of
qualities seldom found in one
potato.
“One of the most desirable
properties of this new potato,”
says James Watts, Wise’s com
pany hoaticulturist, “is its abil
ity to process into light colored
chips under a wide range of con
ditions, including storage at 50
to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. In
addition, it requires less stor
age and reconditioning after
harvest. We like the fact that
the shape is round to oblong.
This, and the white skin and
shallow eyes, makes these tu
bers particularly suitable for
the manufacture of an even
grade of potato chips.”
The new potato ha® heen
named Lenape after the Lemhi
iLenape tribe of the Delaware
Indians who once lived in Penn
sylvania. 'Main growing charac
teristics include medium-late
maturity, medi urn -resistance to
VeitimiLilium wilt, and good re
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 23,1967
si stance to late blight, tuber
symptoms caused by stem-end
browning, net necrosis follow
ing leafroll infection, and mild
mosaic
In establishing other desired
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Winter Small Game;
Archery Season Open
December 26
Small 'game and bow hunters
get their final chance to be
afield during the elevenday sea
sons starting December 26
Squirrels, grouse 'and rabbits
will be “in season” starting the
day after Christmas and ending
Saturday, January 6. Archers
wil also get thealr final crack at
deer of either sex during the
same period.
The season for snowshoe rab
bits (varying hares) also opens
on December 26, but the season
for this species ends on Jan. 1.
Daily bag 'limits in effect dun
tog the regular seasons will ap
ply during the late seasons.
Harvests of small game during
the regular seasons are includ
ed in the total 'limits for 'all sea
sons. For small 'game the diaiily
and season limits follow: squir
rels, 6 daily 'and 30 per season;
ruffed grouse, 2 daily and 10
per season; cottontail rabbits,
4 daily and 20 per season; hares
(snowshoe rabbits), 2 daily and
6 per season.
Only one deer may be taken
by a hunter during each license
year. A bowman must possess
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that is a project in the 1968 4-H Veal
Production Club that started this week.
Debra is the youngest member of the
club. L. F. Photo
Animal Nutritionist
Discusses Dairymen's
Filled Milk Problem
An animal nutritionist start
ed lus dairy seminar Tuesday
afternoon by warning faimers
about the serious threat of filled
milk to the dairymen
Dr. K L. Dolge, Animal Nu
tritionist for Agway, told a
group of 75 farmers and coop
erative representatives, at the
Blue Ball Fire 'Hall, “I doubt
if you know how serious this
can be”
Dolge said the bad part about
it is that the filled' milk product
can Ibe manufactured for $316
per (hundredweight, 'and can sell
to the store for 29 cents a half
gallon “The store’s suggested
retail pnce is 39 cents a half
gallon,” he said. “The store
makes more on it than milk ”
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readers. Do have a nice Christmas.
... from all of us on the Lancaster
Farming staff to each of you, our
i3BRESgQaa3Kee«S»9i:
$2 Per Year
Veal Calf
Club Starts
Second Year
A fairly new 4-H club was
started this week in Lancaster
County. Known as the 1968 MI
Veal Production Olub, it was
formed last year with seven
members and has increased to
17 members this year.
The club is designed to run
about ten weeks, and the rules
for raising the calves are very
strict. The reason for this is,
according to Victor Plastow, As
sociate Agricultural' Agent, that
even if the calf only eatts a lit
tle bit of shavings from the pen
or licks a water pipe, etc., the
veal meat may be discolored.
'So the calves must be kept on.
a raised slatted stall with no
bedding They must be fed a
high fat all imik-product re
placer
The members were to obtain
a calf born between Dec. 10
and 20
A roundup will be held the
latter part of February at New
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Plastow Lists
Reason For Low
Milk Output
Victor Plastow, Associate Ag
ricultural Agent, recently dis
cussed some of the reasons for
a fail milk production slump
being experienced in many Lan
caster County dairy hierdls.
“Some dairymen depended too
heavily on pastures in late sum
mer and fall,” he said “In addi
tion hay quality is considerably
lower and the forage supply 'has
resulted in reduced levels of
grain feeding and a tendency
to be more lenient in culling
low producers and problem,
cows.”
In a letter addressed 'to dairy
men, Plastow said:
“Pali forage generally does
not come up to expectations
based on its fineness and high
protein content. Forages tested
to date suggest that the T.D.N.
content of hay may be las much
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