VOL. 13 NO. 36
PLOWING CHAMPIONS WITH THE
QUEEN OF THE FURROW. Miss Lynn
Heistand, Manheim R 4, the Lancaster
County Qrreerrofthe Furrowrpresented the-
trophies to the winning plowing champions
Geni Hiestand Is Selected To
Represent County Poultry Assn.
A brand new poultry queen
was selected Thursday night at
the meeting of the Lancaster
County Poultry Association di
rectors regular monthly meet
ing. She is Gem Hiestand, 20-
> ear-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul L Hiestand, Marietta
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Geni Hiestand
Farm Calendar
Monday, Aug. 5
—5-7, 4-H State Days, Penn
State University
10 30 a.m.—lnterstate Milk Pro
ducers Picnic, Lenape Park,
Chester County.
8 00 p m.—Lancaster County Soil
and Water District Directors
Meet, Farm and Home Center
Wednesday, August 7
10.30 a.m. Atlantic Breeders
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■ at the contest held Monday at the Tony
Grumelli farm near Nine Points. (Left to
right) Ivan Yost, Miss Heistand, Merle
Groff and John C. Campbell.
Miss Hiestand, a gray-eyed,
120-pound, 5’6” brunette, will vie
for the state poultry queen title
during the Pennsylvania Dutch
Days at Hershey, Aug 20 to 25
The Hiestands are in the egg
business, and Gem has had ex
perience in gathering and grad
ing eggs and blood-testing breed-
ers Her father is president of
Hiestand, Inc, and has been ac
tive in the county poultry associ
ation foi the past 25 years
'Since high school days (she
graduated from E’town High
School in 1966), Miss Hiestand
has had considerable success
with various art forms—ranging
from Pa. Dutch painting to weld
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767 Co. Pork Producers Asked
By Letter For Program Support
In a Mter to 767 swine pro
ducers this week, the Lancaster
County Swne Association ask
,ed for “serious consideration”
i for the support of the “Nickels
for Profit” program established
I January 1, 1968 by the National
Pork Producers Council. They
also asked for support by be
coming a member of the local
organization for the annual fee
of $2 00
The letter said in part
“ Swine industry leaders start
ed the checkoff program be
cause of the awareness that
then-product has been decreas
ing in per-capita consumption
for sometime. This decreas’e is
due to “prejudices” from sever
al segments of our society plus,
yes, lack of concern of many
poik producers in developing a
meatier animal that yields the
type of product the housewife
desires.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 3,1968
Guernsey Field
Day Is Aug. 13
The Lancaster County Guern
sey Association will hold then
annual Field Da' 7 Tuesday, Aug
ust 13, at the K D Linde Farm,
nine miles south of Quarryville
on Route 472
The morning judging contest
will begin at 10 00 am with
Donald Brown, owner of Apple
brook Guernseys as judge
Secretary Elmer Lapp re
poits that slides will be shown
in the afternoon program and
lunch will be available for $l5O
All interested persons are
asked to make lunch reserva
tions with Lapp, Linde or Ar
thur Breneman by August 10
The phone numbers to call are
768-8177. 464-3950 or 529 2513
“This program, free of gov
ernment control, is designed to
be a self-help program where
the individual pork producers
systematically contribute 5c per
market hog through a voluntary
checkoff at market time On a
$50.00 hog, the voluntary check
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Crossbred Gilts
Win At FFA
Swine Show
A pair of crossbred gilts went
on to the grand and reserve
grand championship Tuesday
morning, at the FFA Swine Show
held at the Lancaster Union
Stock Yards.
Moving up from the champion
ship in the crossbred class was
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Merle Groff Has Best
Score In County Plowing
Ivan Yost Wins Again
And John C. Campbell
Is Top Big Plowman
In the battle of mole boards
and furrows, Monday, at the Lan
caster County Plowing Contest
held this year at the farm of
Tony Grumelli, near Nine Points,
Merle Groff, Lancaster R 4, won
the Level Land Division with the
top score of the day—s3l points
It was Groff’s fourth attempt at
the annual contest and his first
win plowing with three 16”
bottoms
Winning the Contour Division
was last year’s plowing champ,
Ivan Yost, Christiana R 1 Yost
had 487 points and also plowed
with three 16” bottoms He is a
member of the Garden Spot
Young Farmers Association
These (wo plowmen along
with John C. Campbell, Box 56,
New Holland, (highest scoring
big plow in the contest) will rep
resent Lancaster County at the
state plowing contest to be held
in Hershey, Aug. 27. The state
winners will then compete the
next two days for the national
championship at the same place.
L. F. Photo
Richard Groff, Lititz R 3, was
second in level land with 468
Lolita Cow Tops First
County Holstein Show
An upstanding, well-uddered
aged cow took the grand cham
pion honors Thursday, at the
first Lancaster County Holstein
Show held at the Guernsey Sales
Pavilion.
Fultonway Ivanhoe Lolita, an
Ivanhoe daughter shown by J.
Mowery Frey Jr., 401 Beaver
Valley Pike, was also senior
champion and best udder of the
show.
BLACK AND WHITE SHOW WINNERS. Grand cham
pion of the first County Black and White Show held this
week was Fultonway Ivanhoe Lolita (left) for J. Mowery
Frey Jr. Junior champion was Sunny Craft Peg Captain,
for Clarence Stauffer. _ L. E. Photo
$2.00 Per Year
points and Willis Kiantz, Qua'
ryville R 1 was fourth with 457
points Richard was the cham
pion in 1963 and 1964
Following Yost in the contour
contest was Marvin Zimmerman,
East Earl R 2, and John E. Camp
bell. New Holland Zimmerman
was the County champion in 1965
and 1966
Trophies for the plowing
champions were presented by
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Risser & Houser
Elected Tester
Assn. Officers
Two of the Lancaster Coun
ty Red Rose DHIA milk testers
have been elected to offices in
the Pennsylvania State Associ
ation of milk testers recently
according to an announcement
this week by Victor Plastow,
Associate County Agent.
Jay M. Risser, 564 Lampeter
Road, Lancaster, was elected
president and Wilbur Houser
was elected secretary.
The election took place at a
meeting at Penn State last
month.
Reserve grand champion was
shown 'by Robert Kauffman,
Elizabethtown Rl, with his firsi
place three - year - old, Penn
Springs Pioneer Peggy Peggy is
a Mooseheart Pioneer daughter
and was also best udder in her
class.
The junior champion title went
to the first place senior yearling
shown by Sunny Craft Farm,
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