VOL. 16 NO. 8
Lancoster Co. Potato
Team Places Third in IS
The Lancaster County 4-H Po,-
tato Grading and Identification
Team placed third in competi
lion this week at the Farm'
■Show and a Leola RDI youth
tied for high individual score.
Thirteen county 4-H.teams en
tered the contest this year, the
largest number ever to partici
pate.
- Jeff Risser, Leola R.DI, tied
'with a Somerset County youth
for high individual in the con
test with a.score of 441.
Members .-of "the Lancaster
County team were:-Jeff Risser
and Judy "Risser, iepla RDI,
and Michael Peifer, Manheim’’
HDl.' - ' ‘ , ' '' '
' Schuylkill :County’ was:* the*
Erst, place team with a score of
%2S&, r Sbtners’ef' County' Was
second X. 283... Lancaster ,
Goiihty -was- .third. - wltfi ;:X,282-
hnaiiuiernc CotmtyXouriVwßhV
' ‘ArntOii’Lueck,-associate: Lan--
Agricultural::
‘ xjCbuhty’. ' placed;
secohd -and third-In* 1 the 1971
Si#ief>stakes 4-H Beef Show
manship. contest at the" Farm
morning. '
Placing second was Marvin
Nissley, Mount Joy RDI, and
third was Ray Brubaker, Rohi
erstown Road, Lancaster.
In individual breed showman
ship contests Friday, Lancaster
County had some individual
second and thuds, but no firsts.
In arming at the Sweep
stakes contestants, current
breed showmanship winners and
breed winners from previous
lii This Issue
Besides page one articles
which include results on 4-H
sheep and capon competition,
4-H beef showmanship, 4-H po
tato judging and corn growing
at the Farm Show, this issue in
cludes:
'Area Markets 2, 3
Ayrshire Show ' - 9.
Classified. Ads 14, 15 '
Corn Contest ‘ 17
Co. Agents Column 4
Cowan Honored > -5
.Editorial Page '■ ' 4.
.Egg'Exhibits 17
Farm. Show Happenings -12-
.Farm Women Societies , , 25
4-H Beef Results <; ' 7
Hay Winners - .• ’ , , 17
Holstein Results 7
’lda’s Notebook 25
Kreider Honored 17
McSparran Feature 22
Open Class Cattle 8
Pa. FFA Star Farmer 11
Pa. Wheat Acreage 9
Poultry Banquet 10
Poultry Winners 19
Some Area Winners 21
Some Local Winners 6
Thomas Column 23
Tobacco Results 18
And many other farm and
Farm Show items.
rbfcMrTand Mrs.
te£ r -wifh}:h6^^^
>' --■ * .y’S- < v* -.r-
,Farm-Shbfrs’wKb are exhibiting,
this year
'Max ; SmithiL-Laneaster County,
agricultural Sge'ttt. ’ '
Nissley won- in the Angus'
breed at last year’s show ancT
Brubaker in Herefords last
year, Smith noted 1
R & y Brubaker, 206 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster, son
°f Mr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Brubaker, is shown with his
H 5& pound Hereford, the largest of the Lancaster County
4-H entries. On Friday, Brubaker was third in showmanship
competition. - - ■ L. F. Photo
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16,1971
Wen Do Well in Sheep
s
*~lS<tveral Lancaster County 4-H ;
qaembers made a strong show
ing in sheep competition Thurs
day at the Farm Show.'
Lancaster County 4-H mera-
■ was > one of two Lancaster County entries
. 'to win a breed title in 4-H competition.
- (See .story on-Page 7). L. F. Photo
‘ -j -flv 1 t » i
: hers took Reserve Grand Cham
pion pen of three, two Reserve
Grand Champion individuals
and four breed firsts
Kennethßrubaker, son of Mr
and Mrs Clyde Brubaker, 241£
Old Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster,
showed the first place pen oi
Hampslures
Young Brubakei’s three
lambs weie named Reserve
Grand Champion pen of the
show He also had the show’s
Reseive Grand Champion indi
vidual Hampshire lamb
The Reserve Champion of the
maiket lamb division went to
Mr and Mrs Robert Herr, Nar
von RD2, with a Dorset
They then saw their daughter
Elizabeth, exhibit the champion
Cheviot of that show Elizabeth
also had the first place Cheviot
individual and pens in the 4-H
class , ■
Caiol Bushong, Columbia
RD2, had the champion Shrop
shire, followed in second place
by Linda Ober, 532 Petersburg
Road, Lancaster.
Eshelroan ls. Ear,; Corn Champion
Growers from Lehigh, Frank
lin, and Lancaster counties who
Shared • championships in ' the
1970 Pennsylvania ' Five Acre
Corn Club were announced at
the 55th Farm Show corn ban
quet.
Winner in the shelled grain
harvested class was Wiley P
Gehman, Macungie, Lehigh
County, with an average yield
of 211 bushels per acre
Co-champions were named in
the ear coin haivested class.
Winners are George B Wmgert,
Chambersburg RDB, Fianklin
County,' and Clyde K. Eshelman
52.00 Per Year
Peifer Tops 4-H Capons
Michael Peifei, 15, son of Mr.
and Mrs Mervm Peifer, Man
heim RDI, received the first
prize for live and dressed birds
in the 4-H capon class at the
Pennsylvania Farm Show.
Peifer, a member of the Lit
itz-Manheim 4-H Community
Club, had the first place live
bird at the Fai m Show last year,
had champions in the Lancaster
County 4-H Capon Roundup ia
1969 and 1967, and the reserve
champion in 1968
Farm Calendar
Saturday, January IS
7 30 p m Lancaster County
Pomona Grange dinner
meeting Rhoads Spanish
Restaurant, QuarryviUe.
Monday, January 18
7.30 p.m Lancaster County
FFA Executive Committee
meeting. >
7:30 p.m. Manheim Young
Farmers Recreational-™ -
night, Manheim Senior
High School.
Tuesday, January. 1* ’
11:45 a.m. DHIA annual
Luncheon Meeting, Farm
and Home Center. ‘
1 30 p.m. Six-week Extension
Weight Watchers course be*
gins, Farm and Home Cehi*
ter.
730 pm. Ephrata Young
Farmers monthly meeting.
Agriculture Department,
Ephrata High School; topic,
“New Developments in
Farm Taxes ”
7 30 p m Garden Spot Young
Farmers meeting, Agricul
tui e Department, Eastern
Lancaster County High
School topic, “Record Fil
ing System”, wives invited.
7 30 p m Boaid of Directors
meeting of the Lancaster
Farm and Home Founda
tion, Conference Room,
Farm and Home Center.
Wednesday, January 20
800 pm 4-H Club Skating
Party, Rocky Springs Park.
10 am. -3.30 pm Extension
Service Regional Farm In
come Tax meeting, Farm
and Home Center.
Thursday, January 21
10 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Agway
Dairy Day, Holiday Inn.
and Sons, Washington Boro
RDI Wingert produced 196.8
bushels per acre and Eshelman,
196 4 limshels
The 1970 contest was entered
by 256 corn growers, 15 more
than last year, according to Dr,
Joseph McGahen, Penn State
extension agronomist, who pre*
sented awards for the program
co-sponsors, the Cooperative Ex*
tension Service and Pennsyl*
vania Ciop Improvement Asso*
ciation.
Gehman, machine harvest
champion, established a plant
population of 24.060 per <acce
(Continued on Page 11)