Zimmerman Is County
Star Farmer for 1970
Jay C 7. i nineiman of Ephrat.i
RDI, who hopes lo become a
daily faimer, is Lancaster Coun
ty’s FFA Stai Farmci for 1970
A member and officer of Clois
ter FFA Chaptei, he is the son
of Mr. and Mrs James N. Zim
merman and a senioi at Ephiata
High School.
Zimmerman’s farming pro
gram this year consists of six
Holstein cows, 22 veal calves,
thiee market lambs, six market
hogs and several acies of field
coin
Zimmerman will receive $175
to cover expenses for a trip to
tne national FFA convention at
Kansas City
Runnerup in the contest was
Clair Witwer of Garden Spot
'FFA Chapter, Lampeter-Stras
hurg High School Witwer is
county FFA president.
Zimmerman has been very ac
tive in FFA events and recently
won a gold medal in the dairy
judging contest at Penn State.
Jay Zimmerman (right), chosen this week as Lancas
ter County Star Farmer for 1970, poses with Clair Witwer,
runner-up.
Lancaster County 4-H Queens Named
The Lancaster County 4-H
queens were chosen at the an
nual Lancaster County 4-H
Achievement Day last week
They are:
Kim Hess, 12-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs J. Robert
Hess, Bunker Hill Road, Stras
burg RDI, junior queen
Carol Huss, 17-year-old daugh
ter of Mr and Mrs Warren
Huss, 379 E Main St, New Hol
land, senior queen
The two were selected from
among 10 finalists Moie than
40 girls originally entered the
competition
The Hess family faims 100
acres and milks 40 head of cows
with 25 head of replacement
stock.
Kim began her 4-H expen-
SECOND SECTION
lie is also active in 4-H woik and
the Ephiata Mennonile Chinch
FFA advisois at Ephiata ate
Lew Ayeis, Charles Ackley and
Carl Graybill.
The Star Faimer awaid is
based on a combination of faim
ing piogram and leadeiship.
Judges for the contest Monday
at the Brownstown Vo-Tech
School were- Earl Groff, per
sonnel and public relations, Vic
tor F Weaver, Inc, New Hol
land, Miss Mary Alice Huntei,
cooidinatoi foi speech and heal
ing seivices, Lancaster County
Schools, and Stanley Musselman,
farm lepresentative, Lancaster
County Fanners National Bank
Other contenders for the coun
ty awaid and their FFA Chaptei
were- Kenneth Giube, Warwick;
Jake Musser, Grassland. Scott
Ki eider, Solanco, James Ki eider,
Elizabethtown, William Landis,
Penn Manor, and Wilmer Gioff,
Manheim Cential
ences at the age of nine and has
just completed her fourth year.
Her projects include cooking
and sewing in the Lampetei-
Strasburg Mernmaids Club and
a heifer project with the Lan
caster County Holstein Club
She plans to continue with the
heifer project, expanding it to
four or five animals by the end
of her 4-H yeais
Looking ahead, she plans to
save her money fiom her heif
er projects foi college She also
wants to go further in the sew
ing club and anticipates future
competition in dress reviews
Also active in school, Kim
was attending band camp this
week following her crowning as
Junior Queen She plays the
bells in the Lampeter-Strasburg
High School Band and also
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A Registeied Holstein cow owned by J Eby Heishey, Goi
donville RDI, has completed the highest 305 day lactation in July
Rach An produced 18,540 pounds of milk and 915 pounds of
butteifat for a 4 9 per cent test
Second high lactation was completed by a Registeied Hol
stein cow owned by Ernest J Sander, Lancaster RDI Bobbie pi o
duced 20,153 pounds of milk and 880 pounds of butterfat with a
4 4 per cent test in 305 days.
The herd of Paul B Zimmerman, Ephrata RDI, had the
highest daily butterfat average The herd of 32 3 Registeied Hol
stein cows averaged 52 3 pounds of milk and 2 11 pounds of but
terlat with a 4 0 per cent test.
The herd of V Ferry Rohrer, Columbia RDI, placed second
The herd of 340 Registered and Grade Holstein cows averaged
58 8 pounds of milk and 1.97 pounds of butterfat with a 3 4 pei
cent test
FIRST 305 DAYS OF LACTATION WITH 630 LBS.
OR MORE OF BUTTERFAT
Breed Age Days Milk Test
Owner - Name
J Eby Hershey
Rach An
Ernest J Sander
Bobbie
Loina
Spot
Wanda
Carl L Mai tin
Doiis
Annabel
Marlene
Bonita
Martha
J Mowery Fiey Jr
Lolita
Lester M Hawthorne
Sue RH
Mystic RH
Robeit C Gioff
Lill
J Z Nolt
Sandy
Vicky
Ciutis E Akeis
Linda
3
Violet
Jacob S Dienner
Pine
John B Gioff
Debby
Con me
Rosy
John L Landis
Elsie 25
Peail 30
15
plays in the Bth Grade bell
nngers group She is a Junior
High Basketball Cheeileadei at
Lampeter-Sti asbur g
Carol will be a Senior at Gar
den Spot High School wheie
she is taking the Academic
couise puor to becoming either
a dental technician or an art
major She is cheerleader cap
tain for soccei, as well as a
cheerleader foi other spoits
Active in 4-H foi the past
seven years, starting at the age
of 10, she is a member of the
Garden Spot 4-H Club, which is
a sewing club This year Caiol
was in the top 10 in the county
diess review, modeling her
pantsuit of white bellbottoms,
with navy blue knit tunic top
She had charge of then local
fashion show and was in chai ge
of decoiations for that show
Veiy active in the Gaiden
Spot Club, she is a junioi lead
er She is presently a county
council repiesentative, went to
Penn State as a delegate in
1969, and to camp near Penn
State Carol plans to remain in
the 4-H Sewing Club until age
makes her ineligible for mem
bership
Contest judges were Robeit
Malick, WGAL-TV farm editor,
Lancaster, and Miss Betty
RH
305
RH
RH
RH
RH
305
288
305
291
4-1
4-2
2-2
7-3
RH
RH
RH
RH
RH
8-1
69
7-9
92
4-9
305
305
305
305
305
RH
305
7-11
26
305
305
RH
305
RH
RH
10-5
25
305
305
RH
RH
RH
RH
5-11
8-10
4-10
9-10
305
305
296
305
RH
304
RH
RH
RH
305
305
291
6-8
58
3 11
RH 7-5 305 20,687
RH 5-9 305 16,856
GrH 3-10 305 15,288
(Continued on Page 14)
Other finalists in the junior
division were Karen Stoltzfus,
Diane Kreider, Lois Wanner
and Pamela Martin
Other finalists in the senior
SsV
T %
Kim Hess (left) and Carol Huss, shortly after being
crowned junior and senior 4-H queens at the Lancaster
County 4-H Achievement Day at the Farm and Home Cen-
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 29.1970
LANCASTER
COUNTY
DHIA
MONTHLY |
REPORT
18,540
44
37
40
4 1
20,153
18 465
16 241
15,824
41
42
44
40
43
20,648
19,003
16,245
16,437
14,714
21,954
19,436
18,114
20,300
20,763
17,776
21,734
20,142
18,830
20,197
36
38
39
36
18,806
16,869
15 452
17 878
46
43
37
37
42
43
Focts
Dairymen
Should
Know
By Mjv Smith
Lancaster County Agent
What’s Your Goal?
Every danjman should estab
lish a pioduction goal A gooo
goal is to ship 50 pounds of milk,
pei cow per day under today's
aveiage milk price in Pennsyl
vama ($6 08 pei cwt) This will
icsult in a $lOOO gioss income
pei cow per year Records indi
cate that expenses will “eai-up”
about $B5O of this gross, so labot
income will be $l5O per cow.
Therefore, if youi goal is to
make a $lO,OOO labor income it
will take about 65 cows at this
level of production to achieve
the goal, if all of youi income is
liom milk sales
Fat
Ketosis Prevention
Additional icseaich, as re
ported in the May Issue of Agri
cultural Research, indicates two
impoitant steps that should be
taken to prevent ketosis in the
fiesh cow (1) Don’t have the
cow too fat when she freshens
(2) Feed the fresh cow an ade
quate diet high in giain and low
in roughages
915
880
687
653
643
854
806
722
658
639
Ihe diet of the fiesh cow caa
either inciease oi ieduce the
chances of ketosis If the diet
consists entuely of roughage,
fermentation in the rumen favors
production of acetic acid, which
cannot be converted to glucose
but can form ketones But if the
diet contains a high ratio of
gi am, i umen fermentation favors
pioduction of propionic acid,
which can be conveited to glu
cose Glucose pioduction in the
cow is the kej to pieventing
ketosis
852
810
683
799
792
677
787
761
743
735
Fast Milkers
785
Cows with wide teat canals are
784 easy milkers and can be milked
663 ou t nioie quickly The width of
® s ‘ the teat canal mci eases with each
<773 lactation Easy milkeis that milk
706 out quickly give economic ad
-665 vantages to the danyman, if he
(Continued on Page 21)
division weie Beveily Martin,
Ann Roth, Ellyce Jean Engle
and Ida Reiff
Master of ceremonies for the
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