V£C 13 NO. 43
CHAMPION FAT HOGS at the Solanco Fair are shown
by J»nn (Jack) Hastings Jr., Valley View Farm, Kirkwood
RI Tne Chester White Gilts weighed a total of 480 pounds
Herr Wins
Tractor Drive
At Solanco
Jsv Merlin Herr, 19-vear-old
son Mr. and Mrs Paul Herr,
Holt wood Rl, topped all other
contestants in the annual coun
b-wde tractor driving coirtest
held Thursday at the Solanco
Pah Herr working in his third
contest scored'4s points to win
the open class and the $l5 to'p
prize money for the best over-
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Farm Calendar
Monday, Sept. 23
2-3l’7_ Pa All-American Dairy
Shew, Harrisburg (See sched
ule starting Page 17)
~30 p m Manheim Young
Farmers meet, School Vo-Ag
Dept.
SOO p.m —Red Rose FFA Chap
ter meets, Penn Manor High
St bool.
Tuesday, Sept. 24
2 30 p.m. Garden Spot Young
Farmers, meet, School yo-Ag
n Dept, Newr Holland. -' -
0 06 p,m.—Lancaster County Ag
w tdtural and Home Econom
ics Extension Assn, meets,
Farm & Home Center.
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L. F. Photo
Chester White Gilts
Win Fat Hog Show
A pair of Chester White gilts
weighing a total of 480 pounds
won the Fat Hog Show, Thurs
day afternoon for Valley-View
Farm, Kirkwood Rl, at the So
lanco Fair The hogs were first
,in the Heavyweight Class.
. Reserve champion pen went
.to Clyde Dearolf with his first
place-pen in the Mediumweight
Class First place in the light
weight division went to Dale
Bollinger
In the fitting and showing
contest, Charles Smith, 17-year
old son of Mr and Mrs Harry
B Smith, ? T “w Povidence Rl,
was fust Sm th is a Junior at
Solanco High School
The list of placings are as
follows Lightweight 1. Dale
Bollinger. 2 r Ronald Ranck; 3,
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Busy Week Coming Up
Next week it’s the Pennsyl
vania All - American Dairy
Show, Monday thru Friday, in
Harrisburg; the West Lampe
ter Community "Fair, Wednes
day thru Friday/and the Eph
rata, Fair, Wednesday thru -
Saturday.
A busy week in' local, state
and national farm activities.
The day-hy-day schedule of ac
tivities appears on Tage 17..
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 21.1968
4-H Enrollment
Time Is Here
Boys and girls 9 to 19 years
of age are reminded that the
time is here to enroll in the
1969 Red Rose 4-H Baby Beef
Club; this is a county-wide
club and the steers are on feed
for the State Farm Show each
January. M. M. Smith, County
Agricultural Agent, says the
project requires that each club
member feed a steer calf, and
there is a choice of breeds.
Due to a recent change in
the rules in this club, mem
bers have the choice of buying
their own steer calf, or mav
'receive help from the Club
Leaders Committee. However,
it is requested that club mem
bers enroll in- the club BY
OCTOBER 1. They may enroll
by contacting one of the pres
ent 4-H Baby Beef Club Lead
ers, or by calling the Exten
sion Office, Lancaster (394-
6851).
Dairy Show Gets 1968
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oolanco rair Underway
A pair of full-sister Guernsey
animals took home top honors
in their division foi then young
owners Wednesday afternoon as
the 1968 Solanco Fair Dairy
Show got undeiwav in fiont of
the dairy tents in 'he Commun
ity Park at Quarry ville
Browndale De Dee, the first
place junior yearling was the
grand champion for 11-y ear-old
Diane Crider Browndale Rae,
first two-year-old, was the re
serve champion for Allen Cri
der Diane and Allen are the
children of Mi and Mrs Fred
W Crider, Nottingham R 2
DONALD SWINEHART AND “HI
CHARLEY”, the grand champion steer at
the Solanco Fair Steer Show held Thurs-
day afternoon. It was the second year in a
New ASC Community
Committees Elected
Results of the election of ASC
commumty committeemen lor
the communities of 1 through 16
were announced Thursday by
Fred Seldomndge. chairman,
Lancaster County Agricultural
Stabilization and" Conservation
Committee The elections were
held by mail ballot, and ballots
were tabulated publicly by the
incumbent ASC committee on
Sentember 19 1968
Farmers elated to the com
mittees include
C«mmunit> Xo. 1 Conoy,
West Donegal & Mt. Jo> Twp.
Chairman, Victor F. Dohner
Elizabethtown Rl, Vice Chair
man Robert G. Brubaker, Eliza
bethtown R 3 Regular Member
W Roger Thome Elizabethtown
In the Holstein show Sharon
Groff, had the grand chamraon
with Groffdale Geneial Sunlight,
a just fresh thiee-year old Re
serve champion was shown by
Nancy DeLong with DeLong
Leader Elsie, the fiist place two
year old Sharon is the 14-year
old daughter of Mr and Mrs
Robert Groff, Quarry ville R 3
and Nancy is the 14-year-old
daughter of Mr and Mrs Eivm
DeLong, Quarry ville R 1
Only four Jerseys were en
tered, one each in four classes
Tom Aaron, Quarryville Rl, won
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row that Swinehart had the championship
with an FFA Angus at the Quarryviile af
fair. L. F. Photo
$2.00 Per Year
R 3; Ist Alternate, James W. Gic
der, Mt Joy R 2. 2nd Alternate,
James A Longenecker, Ehza
bethtosvn Rl.
„ „
Community Ne. —East Done
gal* West Hempfield
Chairman, Lewis E. Bixler,
Marietta Rl: Vice Chairman,
Dona } d B Drager, Marietta Rl,
egular Member, Harold W.
Ney, Marietta Rl; Ist Alternate,
Damel S Forr >’> Columbia R 2.
2nd Alternate, J Mark Bushong,
Columbia R 2
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Charley’
‘Hi
Wins For
Swinehart
QuarryyiUe .For th'e r second.
year m a row, Donald Swinehart
lead a black Angus FFA baby
beef to the grand championship
here Thursday afternoon, at the
Solanco Fair Steer Show held
in the community park Swine
hart, is the 18-year old son of
Mr and Mrs M J Swinehart,
Quarryville R 1
The champion steer named
“Hi Charley”, went all the way,
topping the FFA Division and
then receiving the traditional
slap on the rump from Judge
Lee Wagner, Herdsman at Dela
ware Valley College Wagner
called the champion, “modern,
for today’s market” Last year
the tall, lanky Solanco High
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