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,
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