A Registered Holstein cow owned by John M. Harnish, 103 b
Beai er Valley Pike, Lancastei, completed the highest 305 day
lactation Topsy produced 24,502 pounds of milk, 935 pounds of
butterfat with a 3 8 per cent test Second high lactation was
completed by a Registered Holstein cow owned by Lloyd Wolf,
RD2, Quairyville. Honey produced 19 690 pounds of milk, 873
pounds of butteifat with a 44 per cent test in 305 days
The herd of John P Lapp, RDI, Leola, had the highest daily
butterfat average This herd of 29 9 Registered and Grade Hoi
stein cows averaged 52 8 pounds of milk, 1 97 pounds of butter
fat with a 37 per cent test. The herd of Curtis E Akers, RDI,
Quarryville, placed second This herd of 37.1 Registered and
Grade Holstein cows averaged 50 9 pounds of milk, 1 87 pounds
of butterfat with a 3.7 per cent test
FIRST 305 DAYS OF LACTATION WITH 660 OR MORE
POUNDS OF BUTTERFAT
Owner - Name Breed Age Days Milk Test
John M Haimsh
Topsy
Pearl
Melody
Lloyd Wolf
Honey
James D. Shertzer
Alma
Amos H Rutt
Coale RH
Robert F. & Joan B Book
Arlene RH
Marjorie RH
Jill RH
Cassie RH
Benuel S Beiler
Ann
Starlin
Robert M Rohrer
Susie
Calvin D. Beiler
Jan
Rufus G. Martin
’3l
Daniel- L. Martin
'Tvyjnkle
. -Becky. .■
.Cindy
WilmcrrG rrKr aybill v ■
~ Benn. ~ RH’
Foy RH
Robert H. Kauffman
Betsy * RH
Clarence M. Murry
Alda ' RH
J. Harold Musser & Son
36 GrH
Paul B Zimmerman
Jane RH
Mahlon M. Fry
Betty RH
Ivory RH
Amos S Stoltzfus Jr
Rosie
RH
: RH
RH
Mrs. Brackblll Makes Christmas Cookies by the 100 Dozen
By Mrs. Charles McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
Chustmas means many things
to many people and many aie
the customs that have been
handed down to us from various
sources
One tradition that delights
young and old alike is the bak
ing of the Christmas cookie Yes,
the preparation for Christmas is
a real pleasuie for practically
everyone
But some ladies who work
away from home, yet endeavor to
provide a happy, well organized
home, find little time to make
the tedious cookies that are so
necessary for their families
Commercially made cookies will
do any other time of the year,
but not for Christmas, when
the fancier and piettier the
better
Theie’s a very busy lady in
Lancaster County filling the
need for those tasty little
morsels for a number of fam
ilies She is none other than
Mrs. Maui ice (Rhoda) Brack
bill of 116 Manoi Ave, Millers
ville.
She is busy laying in large
quantities of flour, sugar, eggs,
butter and other shortening,
dried fruits and all kinds of '
nuts and fancy decorettes to
start the huge task of making
hundreds pf cookies- ; With in? ,
iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmi
305
299
259
RH 6-5
RH 5-1
RH 5-5
305
RH 4-9
305
RH 5-0
305
305
305
305
305
7-1
9-1
7-3
3-4
305
305
7-11
6-2
RH
RH
305
RH
305
3-4
RH
-305
305-
303
305 ‘
7-0
4-3
7-1
305
305
7-1
5-11
- 305
305
-8-3
305 ' 18,782
302 21,608
305 17,102
305 17,758
4-
5-
GrH 6-2 305 22,188
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, Mrs, Maurice Brackbill is-making Love Nut cookies
LANCASTER
COUNTY
DHIA
MONTHLY I
REPORT
24,502
18,984
16,456
19,690
16,720
16,582
39
38
37
36
20,948
19,829
18,532
18,900
44
35
18,726
21,355
19,668
19,881
19,795
4.3
3j6
,3.5'
18,563
21,293
19,051
16,442
18,702
18,637
22,931
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
FDA To Publish
Nutrition Guidelines
Minimum nutritional quality
guidelines will be published by
the Food and Drug Administra
tion for manufactured food Diy
cereals will piobably be first
because of the recent contro
versy over the nutritional value
of these breakfast foods
It is expected that the Nation
al Research Council and the Na
tional Academy of Sciences Will
recommend which foods need
guidelines and at what nutn
tional level These guidelines
are FDA’s first step beyond
their concern for safety.
The guidelines for nutrition
will be voluntary and have no
force of law However, it is ex
pected that all processors and
manufacturers will wish to fol
low the guidelines for competi
tive reasons Standards for main
dishes chill, pizza hash and
others will follow
The reason for nutiition
standards is to satisfy an in
creased demand for prepared
foods and assure the consumer
of nutritional quality This may
be the first step toward product
standardization
Mold Problems In
Cattle Feeding
Fat
935
767
687
873
837
834
823
757
678
677
823
757
820
813
Generally speaking, mature
cattle are quite resistant to the
toxic effects of moldy cprn
It is safer to feed moldy corn
to. cattle than any other type of
livestock.
812
806
759
664
806
711
Corn which is badly molded
may be quite unpalatable to cat
tle, but the University of Illi
nois recommends mixing 50 to
100 pounds of liquid molasses
•to it-to mask odor and taste.
Last year, research and exten
sion workers in Maryland re
ported a case of field tetany in
a herd of dairy cows eating high
moisture ensiled moldy shelled
corn Tetanic convulsions ap
peared when cattle were fed 16
(Continued on Page 27)
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797
795
793
789
662
787
Facts
4-H Team Bth at Chicago
Dairymen
The Pennsylvania 4-H Live
stock Judging team placed
eighth out of 31 teams at the
International Livestock Show at
Chicago last weekend.
Should
Know
All four team members are
from Lancaster County.
The team was second in sheep
judging with 423 points, just
behind Minnesota’s 432 All four
team members had perfect
scores of 50 foi placement un
matched by any team this yeai
Max Smith, county agricul
tural agent, and team coach,
said this is the first time the
county team has had perfect
placmgs in any mdging class
Besides sheep judging, classes
included cattle and hogs
The four local team mem
bers are Gary Dean, Stiasbuig
RDI; Burnell Buchen, Manheim
RD3; Clark Stauffer, Ephrata
RDI, and Ed Donough, Man
heim RDI Only Donough had
worked with sheep before this
year.
The local 4-H’ers won the
right at State 4-H Days last Au-
Dairy Meeting Feb. 9
The Boaid of Directors for
the 6th Annual Southeastern
Pennsylvania Dairy Confer
ence is planning an outstand
ing program for the all-day
meeting February 9, 1971 at
the Guernsey Pavilion, Lan
caster.
Wally Lindskoog from
California will be the key
note speaker. He owns the
highest producing herd in
excess of 100 cows in the,
UnitecLStates. His advice has"
been sought by many dairy
men.
The co-sponsors are. Cur
tiss Breeding Service, Allis-
Chalmers, New Holland Sup
ply Company and John W.
Eshelman & Sons. They in
vite farmers to spend the day
with them.
Starting time for the pro
gram is 9 30 a m Free lunch
will be served
flation hitting the cost of all the
mgiedients, Mrs Brackblll has to
buy them wisely in ordei to
eam a few cents foi hei time
Aheady she has several
hundred ordei s A list ol 15
kinds she makes is beside her
two telephones and an oidei
sheet all ready to take more oi
ders Diopped cookies sell for
50 cents a dozen and rolled ones
for 45 cents a dozen
Last year Rhoda and assistants
baked and sold 1,100 dozen and
the year befoie 1,200 dozen
Wnen she gets leal busy, she
enlists the help of hei whole
household Maurice guilds nuts,
father goes for eggs, daughtei
Janet helps bake, as do two
male students who attend Mil
leisville State College and room
with the Biackbills Yes, even
the neighboi lady comes to lend
a helping hand
Think of the busy refugeratoi
and cold room wheie the un
baked cookies aie stoied Now
the thermostats aie turned back
because those two ovens will
do a fine job of heating the
kitchen Just imagine the aroma
of all those cookies baking Just
imagine, too, the tin cans,
plastic boxes and containeis fill
ed with cookies which aie
stored in a cool room till they’ie
all picked up.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5,1970 —
gust to represent Pennsylvania
in national competition.
The team scored sixth m beef
cattle judging, an expected
strong point The team score
was 683 points out of 750 In hog
competition, the team was 18th
with 531 points out of 600.
Donough led the team in in
dividual scoring with 555 points
out of 600 It eai ned him a four
way tie for 13th place in com
petition with 123 other youths.
This was the third year in a
row that a team from the coun
ty, representing the state, has
placed within the top 10.
Except for Pennsylvania and
a team fiom Virginia (10th), all
the top 10 teams were from
western or mid-western states.
Teams fiom Minnesota and
North Dakota wound up in a tie
for first place with identical 1,-
662 points out of 1,890. Minne<*-
sota won the top spot by having
a higher score on reasons fw
placement of animals.
Maximum Waste Use
Urged by Ag Engineer
Waste management is an ex
pression that implies supervision
and control of surplus non
usable materials with executive
ability, N Henry Wooding, Ex
tension agricultural engineer at
Penn State University, told
dairy industry officials at the
University of Kentucky, Lexing
ton, Wednesday.
The question, “Where can. we
get nd of milk solids, cheese
whey, and spoiled dairy pro
ducts,” should be , restated Jfe
ask, “How can we- use them,**
Wooding emphasized.
“In a very broad sense, waste
management means waste pre
vention, recovery, utilization*
and disposal,” the Penn State
engmeei said
Wooding also told those at
tending the conference that ef
fective waste management re
quires the active interest of
plant managers, supervisors, and
foremen It includes employee
education, participation, and co
opeiation
Mis Brackbill does not limit
her cookie baking to the Christ
mas season In fact, she is
anxious to expand her cookie
baking to a year-iound basis.
Cookies taste just as good any
time, make a nice snack after
school, a go-together for a cof
fee break 01 what could be bet
ter for light tasty refreshments
aftei a women’s meeting or
bridge club Yes, happy the
man who finds a few home
made cookies in his lunch
bucket
Mrs Blackball loves to raise
all kinds of houseplants She
has over 100 African violets
alone But this is a few com
pared to 18 yeais ago when they
left the farm She had 500 then
and 50 different varieties. At
that time she sold them but
now has them lust for her own
pleasuie One loom is devoted
to them entirely and her bed
ioom piobably has the most ol
them in it
Mis Brackbill and Janet keep
the neighbor’s baby while the
mother goes to Millersville
Slate College and the father
teaches school Since 1964, she
has loomed some college stu
dents She has two now and will
have another one also in Jan-
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