Russel Kline (right) of Reinholds has been named winner of the Eighth Annual Ephrata Jaycees Steer Award. Congratulating Kline recently at his farm is Andy Kuzmiak of the Jaycees. The Jaycees purchased the 420-pound Angus from Bergundy Farms, Orange, Va., at Millers By Mrs. Charles McSparran Farm Feature Writer Many farm people in the countv laise just a few capons foi then own use when they want exceptionally fine tasting fowl And some people aie intio duced to this delicacy when then childien have capons foi a 4-H project No exception to that uile is the Charles N Mil lei family, Lititz RD3 But few can match the 600 raised a year by the Milleis That’s a heap of good eating' Mrs Beinice (Berme) Miller says,” I never thought I’d be in the chicken diessing busi ness ’ It all stalled seven yeais ago v'hen the Milleis’ sons, Robeit and Paul, had capon pioiects ir the Lititz-Manheim 4-H Com munity Club It expanded to 300 capons last yeai and became a family pioject They also d’essed them This yeai they have 600 They 311 st bought a pickei to simplify the di easing piocess They sell them at then faim along the Fiuitville pike ncai Eib's Quany Road and also at Roots Countiy Maiket and Auc tion, Manheim RDI, at the Hovvaid Stauffei’s stand Milleis aie cousins of Stauf feis Stauffeis maiket then home laised celeiy onions and eggs all yeai at the stand and Milleis have capons theie ex cept dunng the summer The market is open eveiy Tuesday the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Kline, the young steer winner is a member of Cloister FFA Chapter of Ephrata. Besides the steer, his farming enterprise includes five Holstein heifers and two sow's. Expand a 4-H Capon Project from 2 to 10 pm Mis Millei goes at 1 pm to help set up the stand and also helps sell when needed Milleis staited diessing this season’s capons the fust pait ol Octobei and have diessed 125 so fai The diessed capons aveiage 8 to 10 pounds when they sell them and aie selling foi 70 cents a pound Capons aie much in demand for the Thanksgiving and Chnstmas maiket The thiee Millei boys got 300 six-week old white capomzed bu ds thi ough the 4 H club this yeai and Milleis bought Hub baid Silvei Cioss sexed male chicks and had Di Wilson Mil lei, a veteiinauan fiom Rohi eistown, capoiuze them They keep the buds until they aie six or seven months old Mis Millei says the Silvei Cioss capons get heaviei quickei and diess easiei They had one that weighed eleven pounds this yeai The Lancastei Kiwams Club sponsois the Lititz-Manheim Capon Club and enteitain them at then legulai luncheon meet ing at the Elks Club in Lancas tei foi then Round-Up They have a speakei f 1 om the chicken industiy Some othei clubs bung then capons to this Round-Up, too, although some clubs in the county have then own Round-Up Club members must take two capons to show at this Round-Up. plus some extia ones to sell Mr and Mrs Miller have £Olll child! en Robeit 19, graduated fiom Manhenn Township High School in the geneial course and woiks foi Hubei s Nurseiy He had capon and swine 4-H pioiects foi seven yeais He is inteiested in fanning Mrs. Charles N. Miller holds a 9Vz pound capon she just dressed. Umcuster Farming. SnUirdny. N<>\ ember 21.1970 - Inter-State Local dairy fanners who arc mombcis of Inlci Stale Milk Producers' Coopci alive, will •■iikl defecates lo lepiesenl them at theli annual meeting at the Mauiott Motoi Motel. City Line Avc. Philadelphia. Tuesday and Wednesday, No vcmbci 24 and 25 The pi oki am is keyed to dauy farmcis and then piob lems, and will fcatuic Chailes B Shuman. Piesident of the Amencan Faun Buieau Fed eiation Shuman has been piesident of the AFBF sinci IHS» no iiat been a conliovcisial figme in Washington as he speaks in be half of fanners thioughout the United Stales and for piomams with “glass loots” beginnings. The Intel-State Milk Pioduc eis’ Coopeiatue. with its home office in Philadelphia, has soma 3.000 dany faimei membeis m 24 distucts in Delawaie M,ny land, New Jeisey and Pcnnsyl vania These distucts. in turn, aie divided into 79 locals whose 117 delegates will vote an icso lotions and new busmo-s at Wednesday’s session The session on Tuesday, No vember 24, will be deuited to reports by Wilbur Seipt, Piesi den, Dr James E Honan, Gen eral Managei. Di Paul E Hand, Secretary & Economist Florence Schultz, Treasmei, Golden W Davis, Management Assistant. Donald Copeland, jaßEaste^pgihinq SECOND SECTION Paul 17, is a senior at Man heim Township High School and is emoiled in the geneial couise He plays the piano foi their family enjoyment and is taking piano lessons He also has been Will Meet Counsel. Watson Burkinan, Diiectot of Transpoitalion. and Boyd C (Jartley. Dbeetor o£ Membei & Public Relations. In addition (o the addicts by Charles .Shuman at the banquet Tuesday evening., before about 700 members and truestof In lei-State, entertainment will be piovided by Ka\c Ilait. a na tional!;. known enleilainei William O Mills. Administra tis c Assistant to Congi essman Rogers C 13 Motion will be toastmastci A special Ladies Meeting on Tuesday morning November 24, will offei the wives t.f at tending delegates a p'Ogaam consisting of a histone tom of Philadelphia Membeis of the Annual Meet ing Committee ate Lester Jones, ice Picsicicnt chair man. and Dnectois Daniel L. Mai tin, William Bunsfieid, and Piesiclent Seipl and General Managei James E Honan serv ing ex o f fic’o The Resolutions Committee ; s composed of Elwood Gruwell, Fenton, Del, J Calvin Baker, Wilhamsbuig, Pa. J Grove Miller. Noith East, MJ ; and Claude W McAllistei. Bridge ton, N J Seiving on the Ladies Com mittee are Mis Omei Dulin, Ji , Queene Anne, Md, Mrs. Call Feucht, Ji , Middletown, Del, Mis Wilmei E Jones, Columbus, N J. and Mrs Cal vin S Kurtz. Elverson, Pa. in 4-H swine and capon clubs seven jeais Stanley, 12 is in seventh giade in Manheim Township Middle School He has been in 4-H two jeais and is completing Ins thud pioiect He plays clannet in the school band All the boj s help their father with, the iaim woik and dressing the capons Faith -\nn, tne only daughter, i. tluee jeais old Milleis’ faim has been in then families manj years Mr. Millei’s giandparents owned it and lived thei e then his parents lived theie 10 jeais, until he was thiee jeais old Then Mrs. Millet’s paients, Mi and Mrs. Eivm Snjdei bought it So Mrs. Millei has lived theie since she was nine jeais old Three veais ago Mi and Mrs Miller bought it fiom hei fathei Mr. Snvdei now lues at the end of then lane The laim has 65 acies in it. Mi Mille' glows 12 acres of tobacco He also glows coin and, barley and feeds most of it He buys 45 to 50 head of beef cattle a jeai to fatten fiom the Lan- Castei Stock Ya>ds They weigh about 700 pounds apiece when he bins them He also keeps 20 Yorkshire- Land’ace uoss sows which he ciosses wiln Beikshne He sells most of the shoals at eight weeks 01 around 40 pounds The bojs fattened some and bought some foi then 4-H projects, (Continued on Page 18) 17
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