ft—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 14,1971
Calf Award, Judging Contest Featured at Guernsey Reid Day
Awarding a calf to a youngster/
dairy cattle judging, good food
and talk about the dairy industry
were highlights of the annual
Lancaster County Guernsey
Breeders Association Field Day
Friday at the Raymond Witmer
Farm, Beaver Valley Pike, south
of Lancaster
Ricky Lee Crider was picked
to receive the calf this year. The
Association awards a calf each
year to one of the youths attend
ing the field day.
Crider, 11, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs Fred Crider, Notting
ham RD2. Has father is pre
sident of the Guernsey Associ
ation.
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The calf was bom March 19
in the Witmer herd from the
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In the judging competition,
young Clark Coates of the youth
division had the highest score of
the day, 128.5. Melvin Breneman
was first in the men’s division
with 128.3 and Mrs. Jesse Bal
mer topped the women’s division
with 99.3.
Other youth winners were:
Margaret Shope, 127, second;
Robert C. Witmer, 121.5, third;
Curtis Rodgers, 121.3, fourth; K.
R. Linde, 115.8, fifth; Andy Wit
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Jesse Balmer, Guernsey Field Day pro
gram chairman, speaks during the afternoon
program. Looking on is Ricky Lee Kreider,
winner of the annual calf award, Fred Kreid-
bold, 112, seventh, and Debbie
Crider, 110, eighth.
Other men division winners
were: Ken Garber, 115.8, second;
Ken Grube, 112.8, third; Mervin
Myers, 109.5, fourth; D. Harnish,
109.4. fifth; Clair Mull, 109, six
th, and Elmer Mast, 106.3, sev
enth.
Other women’s division win
ners were: Cindy Balmer, 97.3,
second; Thelma Graver, 87.4,
third; Mrs. Arthur Breneman,
84.9, fourth; Sally Breneman,
84.7, fifth; Barbara Garber, 84.4,
sixth, and Mrs. Mervin Myers,
84, seventh.
A pork barbecue lunch was
served to more than 200 persons
on the well-kept Witmer lawn
during beautiful, sunny weather.
The awards and speaking pro
gram was held later in the barn.
Max Dawdy, secretary of the
American Guernsey Cattle Club,
was speaker. He said it’s “time
for the whole industry to look
where we’ve been, where we
are, and where we’re headed.”
er, Guernsey Association president, and Mel
vin Breneman, club secretary, seated. The
program was held in the Witmer barn.
He particularly noted the “diet Guernsey breed will do well in
fiasco” and said the dairy indus- the future—.but only if the in
try is as much to blame as any- dustry as a whole is healthy,
one else for the problems en- Stating that “those who talk
countered in this issue. (Continued on Page 9)
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