VOL. 13 NO. 39
SHOW CHAMPIONS. Both the cham
pion and the reserve champion of the 4-H
Swine Show held Tuesday morning, at the
Lancaster Stockyards was shown by Rich
ard Buckwalter. Lititz R 3. The champions
were crossbred barrows and moved to the
Richard Buckwalter~Has Top
Wins At Annual Swine Show
A pair of crossbred borrows
paved the way for Richard K
Buckwalter, Lititz R 3, to capture
both the championship and re
serve championship ribbons and
trophies at the Annual 4-H
Swine Show held Tuesday at the
Lancaster Stockyards
The champion was the top
heavyweight crossbred in the
breed show and the reserve was
the best mediumweight. Both
hogs came from Dutch Valley
Farm, Manheim R 3
In the afternoon sale, the
champion sold for 71 cents a
pound and the reserve champi
on went for 40 cents a pound
Both were bought by Penn Pack
ing, Philadelphia. The 140 head
aieiaged 2138 cents a pound in-’’
eluding the champions and 20 85
cents a pound without them To
tal dollars from the sale was 56,-
654 67 from a total weight of
22 315 lbs
Beside the show and crossbred
wins, Richard had the champion
Yoikshire and was the best
showman and fittei He is tne
son of Mr and Mis Richard E
Buckwalter
In the Berkshue show. Mai
1m Bollinger had the champion
and Eugene Bollinger had the
reserve champion Both are from
Denver R 2.
John Roop, Christiana R 1 had
the champion Chester White and
Farm Calendar
Saturday, August 24 (today)
3 00 p.m.-Crowmng of State
Poultry Queen, Hershey Park
Bandshell.
Monday, August 26
8 00 p m.-DHIA Directors meet,
Farm and Home Center.
Tuesday, August 27
27‘29-State and National Plow
mg Contest, Hershey. (See
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top ot the show from their champion and
reserve champion breed wins. Buckwalter
also had the champion Yorkshire and w'on
the best showman and fitter contest.
L. F. Photo
Dennis Shoemaker, Bambndge
R 1 had the reserve champion
In the Duroc-Jerseys division,
Franklin Ruoss, Ephrata R 2 had
the champion and Scott Heisey,
Elizabethtown R 1 had the re
serve champion
Kerry Boyd, Ephrata R 1 had,
the champion Hampshire and
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DHIA High
Herds And
Cows Reported
The highest monthly DHIA
herd average for June was
completed by the Red Rose Re
search Faim 226 Pitnev Rd
Lancaster, according to Wilbm
Houser, Head Tester Their 26 2
cows with 89 3% cow days i?
milk averaged 53 1 lbs of milk,
3 7 percent and 1 96 lbs of but
terfat per day
Second high herd for the
third consecutive month wa'
Stanlej G Gremei, Manheim
R 4 His 23 cows with 82 6% cow
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Earl Stauffer
Is Selected FFA
Co. Star Farmer
An Ephrata High School FFA
Youth entering the 12th grade
next month, was selected Lan
castei County Star Farmer of
1968 at an interview session held
Tuesday afternoon at the Farm
and Home Center
Earl Stauffer, 16-year-old son
of Mr and Mrs. Claience Stauf
fer, Ephrata Rl, won the honor
and a trip to the National FFA
Convention, Kansas City, Mo,
in October over three othei rep
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 24,1968
Loco! Holstein Assn.
To Sponsor Boy And
Gir! In State Contest
The Lancaster County Holstein
Association is sponsoring a local
contest for 4-H and FPA Youths
as a prelimmaiy feature to the
Annual State Holstein Boy and
Girl contest held bv the Penn
sylvania Holstein Assn to give
special recognition to junior
members who have done out
standing woik with Registeied
Holstems and displayed leader
ship ability
According to Donald Eby,
Gordonville Rl, chairman of the
local youth committee, the boy
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HUGE WESTERN-TYPE TRACTOR.
James Esbenshade, the American Farmer
Degree'Nominee from Quarryville R 2. pre
pares to start one of his 6 ton, 110 horse
power tractors he trucked to his farm
This American Farmer
Likes To Be Versatile
This 21-year-old farm youth
likes versatility “My goal,” he
says, “is to be able to do what
ever my hand turns to ” And his
laige diversified farm enterprise
should give him plenty of ex
penence to reach his goal
The big problem facing Jim
Esbenshade and his family on
then Quanyville R2farmThuis
day morning, was where to go
with the produce from then 22
acres of tomatoes They have
their own tractoi trailer tiucks
so they have been “ peddling
tomatoes fiom canneiy to can
neiy in Virginia Mai viand Del
awaie. Noithein Pennsylvania,
etc
But sometimes they have to
call then pickeis out of the
field Normally, they wouldn’t be
going half that fai. but tne
Campbell Soup Co strike has
them in a bind, along with all
other tomato faimeis
Jim, nominated for the Amer
ican Farmei Degree estimates
one-third of the crop is going to
waste and some farmers aie
plowing them down “If the
strike would end in 10 days we
could save half the crop,” he
said “But when tomatoes aie
left in the field to lot they start
all the good ones rotting, too ”
The Esbenshades cover their
fields three times every two
weeks
Jim doesn’t think the Camp
bell Company is really trying to
settle their laboi dispute be
cause they can import tomatoes
from other sections of the coun
try at a lower cost And his fa
ther, Milton, summed up the sit
uation for them by saying, “We
have had tomatoes for many
workshop from Western Texas. Esben
shade over-hauled the two big tractors
and now has like-new power to farm his
750 acre farm operation. L. F. Phot-o
$2.00 Per Year
years, but we raised them an®
year too many ”
The 1965 graduate of Solanco
High School has made his fav
orite hobby of fixing old or
wiecked farm machinery into a
piofitable faiming asset One of
his bigger oveihaul jobs is on
tne two 98 diesel Massey Fergu
son tractors he bought on trips
tv Texas and Oklahoma and
tiucked back to his faim work
shoo
He completeh i eroded the
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Farm And Home
Debt Reduced
The debt on the Farm and
Home Centei piopern valued at
more than half a mil Lon dollais
was lepoited reduced to $190,-
000 Tuesday night ar the Foun
dation’s board of directors meet
mg in the Farm and Home Cen
ter The reduction was due large
ly to the application of the mon
e> recently obtained from the
Esbenshade Estate fund toward
payment of the bank note.
Also reported was the final
$6,000 payment to the contractor
Buckwalter Construction Co. and
boaid action called foi another
$l,OOO to be paid to the archi
tect, Haak and Kauffman, leav
mg a $2,000 balance
Other discussion centered
around the attoinej’s fee for
collecting the Estate fund and
the air-conditioning system at
the Center which needs adjust
ing before the hot weather
ceases
Snavely Garber presided at
the meeting.