Holstein Open Class Results From '7l State Farm Show
Lebanon and Cumberland
County took most of the top
awards in the Holstein open
class events at the Faim Show
Thomas H Patton, director of .
Pennsylvania agriculture and , Back in the days when every
home economics extension ser- fame r raised potatoes , aU the
vice, has been awarded the New y° un gsters belonged to 4-H po
- Holland Award of Recognition tat ° cbS N ° w that svomng
- . ' for Outstanding service to the Potatoes has become a special
-0 state’s agriculture at the State ty ’ ber are ew potato clubs
f t Farm Show. He said he has also witnessed
fwWnr The award, presented by the a decline in 4-H pig and calf
New Holland Division of Sperry dubs
Donna M Akers, Quarryville and Ronald Gruber, Elizabeth-, burg RDI, fourth; Susan Kauff- Rand Corporation, was presented
ItDl, had "the highest placing town RD3, was seventh. man, Elizabethtown RDI, fifth, to Patton for his efforts on be- When Straw won his first
from '.Lancaster County in the Other-top placings went "as -Cow Three Years and Under half of “barnyaud golf” championship;
Junior Division events v_._ , ’ Four—Donna Jean Hess, Stras- during more ‘than=4o?yenrs m the he traveled by tiam from Coal
'at the Farm' Show' this week/ Junior' Yearling Heifer - One butg, fifth. • extension service Port to Altoona to Harrisburg.
(f She had one of nine class Months-- Co , WFour ; Years and Unde r le^^g r tl£re of PennSl- This year he came m a tluck
firsts, in the Heifer Calf Four, Heifer 18 -Five-'Susan-Kauffman, Eliza- “ £e Ss drlven by his dau S bter - Elva,
b * bto *? Dl - *««*• namedto posiS Wltb whom he makes
Sf '”■ (never freshened) Brenda' County Group of Five Lan- February 1964, succedm® f<vm. “Come to think of it, I’d have
. a - S- v.urus'/users. -t Herr, New Providence, second, caster County-4-H Club, third, er director, Dr. Russell E. Lar- a tough time getting to the
’ln 'the -'same class; Russell Cow Two Years and Under The York County 4-H Club was son; now dean of the College of Farm Show by lail nowadays,”
JCline, Reinholds, was fourth Thiee Richard D. Hess, Stras- first. .. J Agriculture. ; Straw said.
r - -Donna-Akers'shows off her Holstein,
ieifer: ’She-is the daughter, of the Curtis
Akers' of •'Quarr.yville RDI. She-had'the
Donna Akers Tops Junior Hektem Class
2 Lancaster County Steers Top Breeds in 4-H Contests
Two Lancaster County steers Susan, 12, Herr, daughter of Mr
Iron breed championships at the and Mrs. Carl Herr, 840 Penn
4-H 'Baby Beef Show" at the Grant Road, Lancaster.
Farm. Show Thursday
It was the second year' in a year in a row that she has had
row that countians have had the champion Shorthorn. Susan,
two of the four breed cham- in her third year of showing
pious, and the second year that steers, won the champion Cha-'
Ibe top two honors and big sale rolais honors.
Money went elsewhere Large classes required slow,
The two top Lancaster Coum and careful judging from Ran
ly scorers were blonde, blue- dall R Reed, Columbus, Ohio,
eyed sisters Nancy, 14, and But the judge chose a large
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this week, but Lancaster County
entered in some classes
Top plaemgs fiom Lancaster
County weie Yeailmg Bull
highest -placing am ong iocak entries in Hol
stein competition‘at the Farm. Show this
week. - “ j ‘ >L. F. Photo
For Nancy, it was the second
Class—Elam Bollinger, Man heim RDI, second Faim, Elizabethtown RDI,
entues placed high in many of Heifei Calf—Donna M Akeis, seventh
the large classes Quarryvillo RDI, second Rns- „ ,
Moie than 30 animals were sell Kline,. Reinholds, seventh - Pl oduce °f Dam Richaid
Ronald Giubei, Elizabethtown ess > Stiasbuig, fifth
RD3, thirteenth
Jumoi Yeailmg Hsifei—Rus
sell Kline, Reinhoids, tlmtecn h
Semoi Yeailmg I-leifei—Bien
da Heir, New Providence, tenth
Diy Cow Thiee or Four Yeais
Old—Richard H Hess, Stias
hing, eighth
Heifei Two and Undei Thiee
Years Old Linda Kauffman,
Elizabethtown RDI, third, Rich
ard D Hess, Strasburg RDI,
fourteenth
Cow Five and Over—Robert
Kauffman, Elizabethtown RDI,
fourth and fifth, Carl G T,oop, He temained a judge until
Quarryville RD3, ninth; Hess- 1956 ’ the year the contest was
Vale Farm. Strasburg. tenth and abandoned for lack of inteiest.
eleventh, Ira Welk, Quanyville, He remembeis that there were
twelfth. 35 contestants in 1932 when he
Open Get of Sire Penn icpiesented Cleai field County.
Springs Farm, -Elizabethtown ,
KDI, second. Straw, who last year finished
Daiiv Herd Penn Springs a cen tury of 4-H Club woik,
said - there have been many
changes m the club’s work over
the years
n
Hereford steer owned by Evelyn Quarryville RD2, second, Nancy Lancaster, fifth, light heavy-
Miller, 17, daughter of Mr. and Wenger, third, lightweight. weight.
Mrs. James Miller, Halifax RD2, Elaine Herr, 840 Penn Grant Sheryl Weaver, New Holland
Dauphin County, for Grand Road, Lancaster, third, Judy RDI, third, Ann Nissley, Mount
Champion honors. Wenger, 1737 Rockvale Road, Joy RDI, fifth, medium weight.
The Reseive Grand Champion
was a 1060-pound Angus owned
by Karen Fabian, 14, of Nazereth
RDI, Northampton County.
Besides the Herr sisters, Lan
caster Countians, who scored
well jn their classes weie.
Shorthorn Donna Hess,
Strasburg RDI, second in lights
weight, Robert Hess, Mount
ville, fifth in heavyweight.
Hereford Marlin Bollinger,
Denver RD2, first, Marian Reiff,
Lititz RDI, second,; Karen Har-'
nish, Lancaster RD6, third, light
heavyweight. 1 ’’ „
Jeff -Greidei’s Columbia RD2,
second;'■Gary Brubaker, fourth,
lightweight.
» Anne Martin, Narvon RDI,
fourth, heavyweight
Angus Donald Dorwart,
4-H Entomology Club
The 4-H Entomology Club
•competition at the Farm Show
the following placmgs;
" ’ First Year 4-H Club Member
class Rosalie Ann Sadler, ,
Stevens RDI, second, and Alan ;
Mays, 1212 Nissley Road, Lan- ,
caster, fourth. 1
' Fourth. 1 Year. Member class
—Beth -Hutchinson, West Grove
RD2, Chester County, first. Marlin Bollinger, Denver RD2, shows the Hereford
- Second: Year .Member class- whi f ch * as fdged first from among 17 entries from Lan-
Janet, Hutchinson, West, Grove caster bounty in 4-H competition at the Farm Show Thurs-
RD2, third. _ ,day. L. F. Photo
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16, 1971
Patton Recognized
County Hsid—Lancastei Coun
ty, fifth
Hubei t S Miller, Myerstown,
Lebanon County, had both the
champion and icserve champion
bull
St Happened
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