Vol, 17 No. 4
Mark Nestleroth Wins Pa
Mark Nestleroth, Manheim
RD3, has been named Penn
sylvania Pork All-American.
56th Farm Show
Slated Jan. 10-14
“Farmers and Consumers
Partners m Progress” will be the
In This Issue
Classified Ads 26,27
Editor’s Desk 11
Editorial Page 10
4-H News 14,15
Lancaster Co. ASC Election 1,12
Market Reports 2,3,4
McSparran Feature 18
Washington Report 13
Women’s News 17
Catfish, as fisherman know,
are caught for sport from local
streams. But they’re also a major
cash crop in the South. Do they
have commercial potential in this
part of the country? See page 6.
With the governor’s hearing in
Harrisburg this week on possible
ouster of J. Liir Huber from the
Pennsylvania Milk Marketing
Board (PMMB), dairy is front
and center in local farm news.
The Pennsylvania dairy industry
needs profits, warns an Eastern
Milk Producers Cooperative
official on page 8, and Inter-State
Milk Producers Cooperative
delegates unanimously support
the PMMB, page 23.
Seldomridge Reelected ASC Chairman
Fred G. Seldomridge, Gap
RDI, was elected Thursday to
another three year term on the
three-member Lancaster County
ACS board.
He was also re-elected board
chairman.
The other two members ser
ving with Seldomridge are: John
J Hess, Mount Joy RDI, elected
vice chairman, and Frank W.
Aument, Holtwood RDI
Also chosen by the 48 member
county ASC committee (for
Elly Sypher, coordinator of
Wayne’s dairy meeting
Wednesday, emphasizes a
point.
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The annual award is the
highest honor of the state pork
industry. The award recognizes
theme for the 56th annual Penn
sylvania Farm Show opening for
a week in Harrisburg on Monday,
January 10.
State Secretary of Agriculture
Jim McHale also reported that a
record $74,658 in premiums will
be offered in 25 departments
ranging from horses to school
exhibits
By competitive categories, the
premiums offered include:
Horses, $4,225, sheep, $5,728;
swine, $3,633; beef cattle, $14,468;
dairy cattle, $20,850; poultry,
$8,147; dressed turkeys, $180;
eggs, $629; corn, $565; small
grains, $282; potatoes, $219; hay,
$658; tobacco, $312; fruit, $2,840;
edible nuts, $462; vegetables,
$1,477; maple products, $781;
apiary products, $1,323; en
tomology, $6B; Christmas trees,
$389; and wool, $296.
Also - home economics, $3,083,
tractor driving, $l6O, folk dance,
$750; school demonstration
contest, $1,040; school exhibits,
$910; potato grading, $108; horse
pulling, $950; sheep blocking and
grooming, $25; and good
housekeeping, $lOO.
(Continued on Page 25)
names see page 12) were: B.
Snavely Garber, Willow Street
RDI, first alternate member, and
Robert E. Martin, New Holland
RDI, second alternate. The
alternates were elected for one
year terms and would replace
any of the three members who
could not attend a meeting or who
resigned their positions.
A farmer accepts a bag of Wayne milk replacer as a
door prize at the company’s dairy production conference
Wednesday at the Guernsey Sales Pavilion. Some of the
nearly 300 farmers who attended are also shown. The
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 18,1971
Pork Title
young producers who have shown
outstanding leadership in the
industry, while maintaing a good
hog operation
The award is limited to those
under 40 years old. At 27,
Nestleroth is one of the youngest
producers to receive it
He was selected by the Lan
caster County Swine Breeders
Association as the county entry
and he beat several other county
representatives for the state title.
Nestleroth will join about 20
other state winners to be honored
at the annual American
Pork Congress at Kansas City,
Mo., March 21, 22 and 23
He will also be recognized
during the Farm Show at
Harrisburg He will receive a
plaque and a $3OO award from
Shell Oil Co to pay his expenses
to Kansas City.
An entire evening program will
be devoted at Kansas City to
honoring the state winners No
overall national winner is chosen
The program will include slides
of the winners’ swine operations.
Conservation District
Entertains Legislators
Twenty-one Legislators,
directors and guests attended the
Legislative Dinner December 9
at the Brownstown Restaurant,
sponsored by the Lancaster
County Soil and Water Con
servation District.
Amos Funk talked on the
history of the district, while
Orval Bass explained the number
of farms and acres cooperating
with the District
Aaron Stauffer, Chairman of
the District, presented the
districts goals for 1972
Henry Hackman gave an
illustrated slide presentation
showing the services of the
district
Mark Nestleroth, the new
Pennsylvania Pork All-
American, does one of the
things he likes to do best,
cook pork.
Friday Publication
Publication of Lancaster
Farming will be moved up one
day for the next two weeks
because of the Christmas and
New Year’s holidays Post office
officials said delivery will be
made on these two Fridays.
Please get news and ads to us
early
Merry Christmas
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all-day meeting featured talks on the latest industry
know-how by top company nutritionists and research
personnel.
$2.00 Per Year
Fulton Grange
Honors 25
Year Members
Fulton Grange, meeting
December 13 with an attendance
of approximately 100, nonored
thirteen 25-year members
Thomas Galbreath, Deputy
State Master, presented the
following with Silver Star pins
and 25 year membership cer
tificates Charles Ambler,
William Ambler, Mr and Mrs
Owen H Groff, Mrs Richard
Hanks, Miss Jean Moss, Mrs
Joseph Sinclair and Mrs Mary
Sinclair
Each m turn responded by
telling who asked them to join the
•Grange, the most inspirational
person in the Grange and the
most interesting program they
have attended
Also honored in absentia were
W Harold Graybeal, Mr and
Mrs Russel Hartsoe, Joseph
Sinclair and Mrs Miriam
Walton
The Master, Richard Holloway,
assisted by the Lecturer, Mrs J
Stanley Stauffer, Jr, presented
each a red rose bud.
Jesse Cutler, who was Master
25 years ago when 40 members
were taken into Fulton Grange,
talked about the conditions af
fecting farmers during World
War II He spoke of the friendship
in the Grange and of the won
derful community service the
Grange performs He also cited
services the Grange is rendering
and others it could and should be
rendering
Miss Pamela Groff, ac
companied by Mrs Mary Ellen
Hornberger, did her patriotic
medley routine she did m the
Miss Solanco contest November
27
The Grange Hall was
beautifully decorated for the
Christmas party Santa made his
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