VOL- 13 NO. 8
BEST -PEN* OF 4-H LAMBS-was--
shown by Ted- Hess, Le'ola HI (right)
Ted & Tom Hess
1m Top Honors
With 4-H Lambs
Lancaster County 4-H mem
ben: won the majority of cham
pionships in 4-H Club market
lamb classes at the 52nd Farm
Show.
Two, brothers, Ted and Tom
He;;?;, of Leola, RD 1, captuied
the two top places m champion
ship competition Ted exhibited
the grand champion pen of
lambs and Tom showed the in
dividual grand champion The
winners were Hampshires Last
year Tom won the reserve cham
pionship in the Hampshire
clafr.es
Becky Bushong, of Columbia,
RD 2, also a former Farm Show
champion, exhibited the reserve
champion pen of lambs and re
seive individual champion, both
Dm sets.
DORSET Becky Bushong
continued hei winning ways by
capturing the championship in
both individual and pen of
lambs judging This is the third
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Farm Calendar
Monday, January 22
8 00 p m —4-H Leaders, meet
ali home of Victor Plastow.
800 p.m.—Southern Lancas
ter County 4iH Soil & Water
tX'ub meet, at home of Vin
cent Hoover, New Provlderce.
Tnesday, January 23
Noon—DHIA Banquet, Holi-
Inn, Lancaster.
m ‘ . Garden Spot YF
meet, school Vo-Ag Room
>3O pm -Ephrata Youn*
Scunner Animal Health Meef
iiM£, School Vo-Ag Dept.
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His brother Tom, bad the individual
champion. L F Photo
Parents Of Multi Keystone
Farmer Sons Are Honored
HARRISBURG—SpeciaI re
cognition was given to four sets
of Lancaster County parents
with three of more Keystone
Farmei sons here Wednesday,
at the 39th Annual Awards
Convention held at the Forum
Building in conjunction with
the Farm Show The Parents so
honored and their sons ai e Mr
and iMrs Daniel Erb, Columbia,
(Daniel ’65, Da\e ’66, Clair ’63,
Mr and Mrs John A Breneman,
Willow Stieet R 1. (Arthur ’5B,
J, Roy ’6l„ Carl ’68); Mr and
Mrs J Wilbur Houser, Lamp
eter, (James ’63; J William ’66,
Thomas ’6B). and Mr and Mrs
Robert B Risser, Lititz Rl, (R
Eugene ’65; J. William ’66;
Thomas ’6B),
Also a local high school prim
HONORED PARENTS. Special recognition was
g[ ven f our se ts G f Lancaster County parents with
, ,
three or more Keystone Farmer sons Wednesday, at
t* l6 39th Annual Awards Convention held at the
Forum Building in conjunction with the Farm Show.
They' are (left to right) Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilbur Hous-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 20, 1968
cipal and a Vocational Agricul
ture teacher were given honor
ary Keystone Degree Awards
Donald A Sheaffer, Prinapal
of Garden Spot High School,
New Holland was one of 11
school administrators across the
state so recognized And Ralph
D Layman, Vo-Ag teacher at
Solanco was one of 9 state
teachers honoied The awards
were given for outstanding help
to the FF'A organization
Featured speaker for the con
vention was the Honorable
Kenneth B Lee, speaker of the
Pennsylvania House of Repre
sentatives
Also 23 local youths received
their Keystone Farmer Degrees
STEER SHOW
Lancaster Youths Content With
1 Breed Champ & 2 Reserves;
Cumberland Has Grand Champion
Lancaster County 4H Batov
Beef Club membeis started out
well Thursday in the annual
Faim Show Steer classes but
Bull Tells Farm
Women Dieting Boosts
Skim Milk Sales
Skim milk saues aie up 12
percent because of die‘lll3,
weight watching and sales pro
motion, the Society of Faun
Women of Pennsylvania weie
told on the opening day of the
52nd Farm Show
State Sect clary of Agncul
tme Leland H Bull sud the de
mand for skim milk has raised
the puce ot the product until
jL*t is only a few cents less tluui
the whole mJk price
Bull said that in ceitain sec
tions of New Jersey stain irdk
is selling for two cents moie a
quait than whole milk
“When I was a boy we had
,no use for skim milk on, oui
dairy farm and used to consid
er it as a nuisance,” Bull said
Agriculture must promote
and find new markets lor its
products. Bull told the farm 01-
gamzation which met at Harris
burg in conjunction with the
Farm Show
Leininger Has
Spotted Swine
Reserve Champ
HARRISBURG Swine
championships for Lancaster
County were hard to come by
here Monday, as only one local
breeder managed a reserve
championship
C Warren Leimnger, Denver,
showed the reserve champion
Spotted Swine with a second
place win in the Senior Spring
Gilt class The championship
hog stood first in class and was
from York County Leimnger
also had a first place entry in
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er, Lampeter; Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Risser, Lititz
R 1; Mr. and Mrs. John A. Breneman, Willow Street
R 1 and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Erb, Columbia R 2. In the
second row are the third son in each family to re
ceive the award; Thomas Houser, Thomas Risser,
Carl Breneman, and Clair Erb. L. F. Photo
$2 00 Per Year
after winning both champion
and reserve champion in the
Shoi thorn Division, thev had to
be content with two other first
plaeings and the reserve cham
pion Hereford
Eugene Bollinger, Denver R 2,
and Dairy Herr, 840 Penn Grant
Rd, Lancaster, weie the winn
ers with Shorthorns Bollinger,
son of Mr and Mrs Paul Boll
ingei had the champion with his
Ist place in the Heavy weight
The steer was named Vic
toiy
Restive honois went to Herr
on h s fast ir the Light weight
class Lai iv is the son of Mr.
and Mis Cail H ir
In the Herein 1 breed, John
Long, Manheim R 4 was first in
the Light-heai y weight class
and went on to win the reserve
champion awaid behind the
Yoik County entry of Nina
Knapei, Dallastown R 1 John
is the son of Mi and Mis Silas
Long
Jeffrey Greider, Columbia R 2,
was first in the Heiefoid Light
weight class
When it came to the over-all
grand champions of the day it
was Angus all the way. Judge,
Harlan D Ritchie, Michigan
State University, picked the en
tiy of Patricia Peffer, Carlisle
R 6, Cumberland County, for
both Angus breed and Show
grand champion
Reserve Angus breed and re
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County Turkey Grower
Shows Best Display
A Lancaster County turkey
grower took championship hon
ors in the dressed turkey show
at the Farm Show this week.
Harry Laraparter, Mountville,
had the champion carcass and
the best carcass display
In the ready to cook class,
Lamparter placed 1,3, and 6
and in the large young hens
over 16 pound class he was 1,
2, and 3