VOL. 13 NO. 40
Frank Yost
Tops State
Hay Show
Hershey - Frank Yost, a grass
land farmer from Narvon R 2,
Lancaster County, walked off
with grand championship honors
in the Statewide Hay Show here
Tuesday.
Yost, who exhibited a later
cutting of field cured alfalfa,
topped 210 entries in gaining the
honor. The Hay Show is part of
the National Plowing Contest
Conservation Exhibition, and
Forage Progress Days which at
tracted thousands to the Milton
Hershey Farms this week
Reserve champion laurels
went to Rolling Rock Farms, ot
Ligonier, who exhibited a heat
cured sample of later cutting al
falfa Rolling Rock has been a
consistent winner in previous
district shows and several state
hay shows.
"This year’s show is the larg
est hay exhibition ever held in
Pennsylvania,” reports Dr John
E Baylor, Penn State extension
agronomist
Considering the rather poor
growing and curing weather we
had earlier this summer, the hay
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Holstein Championships
Elude County Breeders
Lancaster County Holstein
Bleeders had seven first place
wins in the cow classes, Thurs
day, at the 1968 Southeastern
Pennsylvania Black and White
Show in Hamsburg. But the
championships eluded them.
Robert Kauffman, Elizabeth
town, had the best udder in the
show on his second place three
year-old, Penn Springs Pioneer
Peggy He also had the first place
pioduce out of Penn Springs
Sovereign Penny and the best
three females
J. Mowery Frey Jr. 401 Bea
ver Valley Pike, showed the first
place aged cow, Fultonway Ivan
hoe Lolita Lolita also had the
best udder in class Frey round
ed out his wins with the first
place dry thiee and four-yeai
old (Sunny Glo Star Osborndale
Ann), first place two-year-old
Farm Calendar
Monday, September 2
8 00 p m —Lancaster Co Soil &
Water Distuct Directors meat
with contractors, Farm and
Home Center.
Thursday, September 5
2 00 pm—Southeast Pa. Nurs
ery Field Day, Hanson Bios
Nuisary, King of Prussia
8 00 p.m —Lancaster Co. Poultry
Directors meet. Farm & Home
Center.
Lancaster Co. Youth
First in Hay Judging
Hershey - Lancaster County
youths won first and third place
in the hay judging contest held
in conjunction with the National
Plowing Contest, Conservation
Exposition, and Forage Progress
Days.
Ron Zimmerman, Narvon Rl,
won first place. Second place
honors went to Ronald Martin,
Chambersburg R 7, Franklin Co.,
while Lloyd Welk, Quanyville
R 3, placed third. Robert Acker
man, Mt. Bethel R 4, Noithamp
ton Co, placed fourth
Visual points considered in the
judging were maturity, 150;
leafiness, 100, color, 100; foreign
matter, 50; odor and condition,
100
Chemical factors considered
were total digestive nutiients,
400, ciude protein, 100
Balmer & Aaron
Show FFA Grand
Champions
A pair of Lancaster County
FFA youths "showed grand cham-'
pion animals at the annual
Southeastern Region Dairy Show
held Wednesday at the Farm
Show Building at Harrisburg
Jesse Balmer, Lititz R 4, had
the grand champion Guernsey
with his Gordlme’s S H Holly,
a two-year-old and William Aa
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(Fultonway Johanna’s Jom) and
the fast place dam-daughter
(Freebare Fultonway Johanna
and Jom).
Grand champion of the 180
head show was Woodbine Ivan
hoe Mollie the first place dry
aged cow for George Knight,
York County, and reserve grand
champion was shown by Earl
Noll, also York County She was
the first place three-year-old,
Sussex General Ivanhoe Wayne
The junior champion was the
senior yearling WA-Ke Ivanhoe
Vic, shown by Alan Groff and re
serve junior champion was the
intermediate heifer calf shown
by Earl Noll
Paul Clark
Wins in Weed
Identification
Hershey - Two youths, one an
FFA member, and the other a
4-H member, won championships
in the Weed Identification and
Control Contest held here Wed ,
as part of the National Plowing
Contest, Conservation Exposi
tion, and Forage Progress Days.
Paul Clark, of Kinzers Rl, was
winner of the FFA division, and
Samuel Hess, of Hellertown Rl,
Northampton Co, placed first in
the 4-H section.
Participants were scored on 1
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 31, 1968
Ohioans Make Clean Sweep
Of National Plowing
HERSHEY - Ohio plowmen
completed a clean sweep of na
tional plowing championships
here Thursday but Penna.’s en
try in the small plow class miss
ed taking that title by a whisker
John Gneser, of Springfield,
and David Kiuckeberg, of Green
ville R 5, Thursday caotured both
level land titles in large plow
and small plow classes
The first of Ohio’s three cham
IVAN YOST, Christiana Rl, (left) receives his 3rd
place award in the State Plowing Contest held Tuesday at
Hershey. Making the presentation is Mel Davis, Pennsyl
vania Conservation Service. L.F. Photo.
MISS DEBORAH SMITH, 17, of Perry County, a senior
at West Perry High School, is crowned National Queen of
the Furrow by Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Ice
land Bull. L.F. Photo.
pionships was won by another
Gieenville sodbuster, Ned
Rhoads, who won the contour
plowing championship Wednes
day.
Awards were presented to
Thursday’s winners by Governor
Raymond P. Shafer at a cere
mony in the Hershey Stadium,
Thursday afternoon
The presentation ceremony,
followed by the State Police Ro-
$2.00 Per Year
Tides
deo brought to a close the 1966
National Plowing Contest, Con
servation Exposition and Forage
Progress Days.
In presenting the awards, Got.
Shafer reminded an audience of
about 5,000 that Pennsylvania is
a leading agricultural state and
that agribusiness is its second
largest business.
He expressed Pennsylvania’s
pride in holding the National
Plowing Contest here and; point
edly, suggested that they “con
trast it with some other events
going on in other sections of the
country ”
Earlier, he toured the exhibi
tion area where he told a Future
Farmers of Ameuca group that
their accomplishments “are very
important to Pennsylvania.”
In Thursday’s competition,
Gneser won the large plow
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York Go. Wins
State Contest
Hershey - Three York counti
ans scored a clean sweep of state
plowing championships Tuesday
in the 1968 State Plowing Con
test.
Selection of state champions
and crowning of the Queen of
the Furrow featured Tuesday’s
opening day program which at
ti acted a ciowd estimated at 20,-
000
Ivan R Yost, Christiana, Lan
caster’s entry in the Contour
Plowing Division, was third
Jack R Giey, Pennsylvania
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
and general chaiiman of the
Plowing Contest said Tuesday’s
turnout indicated “tremendous
interest m this event. We expect
another huge crowd for the start
of national competition.”
A 17-year-old Perry County
girl, Deborah Smith, of Ickes
burg, was named Queen of the
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Glenn Esbenshade Has
The Reserve Champion
Corn Silage Sample
The reserve champion corn
si l aga sample was shown by H.
Glenn Esbenshade, Manheim R 2,
at the Statewide Corn Silage
Show, held as oait of the Na
tional Plowing Contest at Her
shev this week The samole was
a whole coin plant exhibit with
no addit.ves
Geoige Maurer, of Somerset
R 3, had the champion sample in
the coin silage division
In the Hay Silage division
Wauen Buchei, of Myerstown
R 2, won with a low moisture
sample of less than 40 percent
legumes and the leserve cham
pion hay crop silage sample was
shown by Victor Ziegler also of
Myerstown R 2.
Esbenshade’s sample had 67
percent moisture, 10.1 percent
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