VOL. 16 NO. 49
Top Local Beef Fans
Use ‘Performance Tests’
Lester Burdette, Penn State
University livestock specialist,
was in Lancaster County
Thursday doing “performance
two of the area’s best
known cattle farms.
The testing was at the Twin
Oaks Farm, Quarryville RD2,
managed by Fred Frey, and at
the Carl Herr farm, 840 Penn
Grant Road, Lancaster. Burdette
recently ran similar tests at the
Stauffer Homestead Farm, East
Farm Calendar
Sunday, October 31
Berks County Poultry
Association Farm-City
program, Berkshire Mall,
October 31 - November 7
Monday, November 1
6:30 p.m New Holland Farm
Show banquet, Liberty Fire
Hall, New Holland.
Tuesday, November 2
Election Day ,
p.m. - Dairy* Herd
management educational
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
8 p.m. Lancaster County
Farmers Association monthly
board meetftig, Farm and
Home Center.
Wednesday, November 3
4:30 p.m. Lancaster County
Vocational Agriculture
Teachers Association meeting,
Penn Manor High School.
7:30 p.m. Red Rose 4-H Baby
Beef and Lamb Club meeting,
Black and White Farm, Lan
caster.
7:30 p.m. Lancaster County
Soil and Water Conservation
District meeting, Farm and
Home Center.
Penn State Geranium School,
Holiday Inn, Warrensdale.
Thursday, November 4
8 a.m. -4pm. Lancaster
County Cattle Feeders tour,
leave Farm and Home Center
12 noon Federal Land Bank
Association of Lancaster and
the Lancaster Production
Credit Association annual
meeting, Plain and Fancy
Restaurant, Bird-in-Hand.
6:30 p.m. 4-H Honey Roundup
7:30 p.m Lancaster County
Beekeepers fall meeting, Ralph
Camber’s. Lancaster
Berks County Poultry
Association annual banquet.
Friday, November 5
6:30 p.m Lancaster County £-
H Dairy Banquet, Farm and
Home Center.
Northeast Egg Marketing
Association (NEMA) annual
meeting, Marriott Motor Hotel,
Newton, Mass.
Saturday, November 6
Keystone International Livestock
Exposition, Farm Show
Building, Harrisburg,
November 6-13.
Vote
Nov 2
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Earl RDI, managed by Earl
Fisher.
Burdette explained that per
formance testing is designed to
“measure the desirability of the
calf produced by individual cows
and bulls so that a better job can
be done of selecting breeding
stock to improve the type of beef
cattle produced ”
He said that only about three or
four per cent of the beef cattle in
the US. are on performance
testing and the program is
primarily being used by the top
breeders.
At the Twin Oaks Farm,
Burdette explained how the
program works.
The calves were weighed in
dividually. For each calf, the
weight was recorded along with
data on the dam and sire.
In addition, Burdette made a
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4 .Legislators to Give
Report on Harrisburg
A panel discussion by state
representatives on “What’s
Happemng at Harrisburg?” will
be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
November 10 at the Farm and
Home Center.
The meeting is the first of three
educational panel discussions to
be sponsored by the Farm and
Home Foundation.
The November 10 panel will be
moderated by Senator Richard
Snyder. With him will be Senator
Clarence Manbeck, Represen
tative Sherman Hill and
Representative Harry Gring.
The December 9 panel will be
titled “Pollution Prevention
and Control.”
The February 8 panel will be on
“No-Fault Insurance.”
Humorist to Speak at Holstein Banquet
The 21st annual meeting and
banquet of the Lancaster County
Holstem-Fnesian Association
will be held at 6-45 pm Tuesday,
November 9 at the Farm and
Home Center
Jay Landis, association
president, reminded members of
the ticket deadline of Friday,
November 5. Cost is $4 per ticket.
Tickets can be purchased from
any of the farmers listed m the
letter forwarded to members
recently, Landis reminded
Speaker will be Merritt U.
Freeman, Collegeville, Pa , well
known speaker who will talk on
“Laugh or Go Crazy ”
Born in Robesonia in 1926,
Freeman speaks and un
derstands the Pennsylvania
German dialect He owns and
operates a funeral home
An after dinner humorist, he
specializes in funny stories, wit
and humor, anecdotes and yarns
Banquet (
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 30,1971
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Performance \testing ''at Twin Oaks
Farms, Quarryville RD2, Thursday involved
these three men: left to right, Fred Frey,
getting ready to administer worm medicine
by the latest technique, a pressurized
container which allows Frey to squirt the
medicine down the throat of the animal;
Cattle Feeders Tour Set Thursday
The Lancaster County cattle
feeders tour will be held from 8
a.m. till 4 p.m. Thursday,
November 4
Interested persons have been
urged to make reservations by
Monday. Cost is $2 per person for
bus transportation and $3 for
lunch.
Leaving the Farm and Home
Center at 8 a m., the group will
Meritt K. Freeman
Holstein Banquet Speaker
are Clyde Martin, East Earl
RDI, Richard H Hess, Strasburg
RDI, and John Kreider, Lan
t caster
tour the Armstrong Carpet Plant
at Marietta at 8:30 a.m.
At 10 a.m., the group will see
the 400-head feed lot on the farm
of Harold and Herbert Frey,
Marietta RDI. The feedlot is
under roof and includes upright
silos
At 10.45 a.m , the group will go
to the farm of Mrs. Kathryn Hess
and John Hess, Marietta RDI, to
see the new automatic feeding
operation and upright silos
At 11 30 a m , the stop will be at
Thome Farms, Inc , Mount Joy
RD2, a new fully automated feed
lot operation using both corn
silage and high moisture corn
Following lunch at 12 30 p m
at Hostetter Banquet Hall, Mount
Joy, which will include a market
report, the group will go to the
Kenneth Musser, Columbia RD2,
farm at 2 p m Here, 200 head of
cattle are kept in total con
finement on slats over an eight
foot manure pit
At 2 45 p m , the stop will be at
Poultry Waste Meeting
Planned Here Nov. 10
A Poultry Waste Conversion
Symposium will be held from 9.30
a.m. till 4 30 p m Wednesday,
November 10 at the Farm and
Home Center, Lancaster
Registration will begin at 9 30
a m Morning program chairman
is Herbert Jordan, Penn State
University assistant poultry
professor
Glenn Herr, manager of the
Sam Wylie, shown checking the,weight of
the animal, and Les Burdette' Penn State
University, who recorded the weight and
some other information on the animal,
including a judgment on the quality of the
animal.
the Paul H Rohrer, Lancaster
RD2, farm, a new 500 head
capacity feed lot with sealed
storage
Last stop of the day at 3 30 p m
will be at the John W. Sangrey,
Conestoga RD2, farm, an ex
panded operation with self
feeding bunker for silage and
automatic feeder for gram
The bus will return to the Farm
and Home Certter at 4 p m
large Cloisterdale Farms at
Ephrata, will speak on
“Twenty-four Million Pounds of
Opportunity” at 10 a m
Dr. Glenn Bressler, Penn State
University poultry science
professor, will follow at 10-40
a m with “Manure Reduction
and Conversion Methods of the
Future ”
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