—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April I. 1972
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Champion Show Steer “Donated” Twice
The 4-H Baby Beef and Lamb
Sale is the traditional wind-up of
the annual Pennsylvania State
Farm Show with tens of
thousands of dollars finding its
way into college education funds
of young farmers around the
state
One of the prize steers that
went under the auctioneer’s
hammer this year eventually did
double duty in raising money for
worthwhile projects.
It was a 1,205-pound Shorthorn
steer, exhibited by Robert Hess,
Mountville, and judged champion
of its breed in the 4-H Baby Beef
Show. A fellow Lancaster
Countian, Charles Myers,
although a dairy breeder, was
justifiably proud of the
achievement of the youthful
livestock feeder and paid a good
price for the market-ready
animal
Myers, an outstanding Holstein
breeder, had in mind honoring a
former Holstein breeder and
close friend, Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture Jim
McHale, by presenting him with
the champion steer. Secretary
McHale was indeed honored but
advised Myers that such gifts to
state officials are prohibited.
As an alternative, the Lan-
Moses Garmon
Meyerslown, Pa.
"Double
cropping
and the
Harvestore
System
has boosted
our
production
to 1,000 lbs.
of beef
per acre...
We can produce very eco
nomical gains with a high for
age ration but we still get a
good rate of gain . . . better
than two pounds a day on
forage and just a little grain.
The Harvestore System has
doubled our cattle capacity.
Haylage and high moisture
corn gives us a very competi
tive cost of gain. I sure
wouldn't want to go back to a
trench silo or baled hay."
PENN-JERSEY
HARVESTORE
SYSTEMS, INC.
New Holland, Pa.
Phone: (717)354-5171
1971 HARVESTORE
DEALER OF THE YEAR
caster County dairyman
proposed that Secretary McHale
donate the champion Shorthorn
or its value to his favorite
charity. The Secretary agreed
and arrangments were made to
present a check to Mrs. Milton J.
Shapp for the Hamilton Area
Late Start Project, a recreational
and health project for the neigh
borhood elderly headquartered in
the Governor’s Mansion.
The champion Shorthorn steer
not only generated considerable
money for Robert Hess’ futrue
plans, but also resulted in a
generous contribution to the
elderly, through Mrs. Shapp’s
Late Start Project.
Four Attend
Dairy Seminar
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Shore,
Washington Boro, and Mr. and
Mrs. Lester M. Hawthorne,
Elizabethtown, recently returned
from a three-day visit to Disney
World, Lake Buena Vista,
Florida.
Purpose of their visit was to
attend a “Profitable Growth for
Dairyman” seminar em
phasizing dairy farm
management.
A partial list of speakers in
cluded William Van Dusen,
president, Management Center
for Agri-business; Dr. Robert
Walton, president, American
Breeders Service, and Hi Brown,
Michigan State University
economist.
Dr. Walton spoke on “Selecting
Dairy Sites”. Cole Townley,
Texas rancher and authority on
plant nutrition, addressed the
group on the value of harvesting
crops with more feeding power.
Hie seminar was sponsored by
Penn-Jersey Harvesters
Systems, Inc., New Holland.
Migrators
The best known migrators
besides birds are probably
the lemmings of Scandinav
ia, which, at intervals, travel
toward the Atlantic Ocean,
sometimes even plunging
into the sea. Several of the
common bats, also, under
take a true migration in the
autumn.
NOW IS THE TIME . . .
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Robert Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald in Harrisburg. The animal was purchased
Hess, Mountville, was photographed with by Charles Myers, Lancaster, and later
his Champion Shorthorn following the 4-H donated to Secretary McHale.
Baby Beef Show at the annual Farm Show
Mrs. Milton J. Shapp, center, accepts a
check from Mrs. James McHale, right, wife
of Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Agriculture,
on behalf of the Hamilton Area Late Start
Project. Secretary McHale made the
contribution after being presented with
the prize-winning Shorthorn from the 1972
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Baby Beef Show. On the left is Mrs.
Katherine D. McClintock, executive
director, Hamilton Area Late Start Project,
a health and recreation program for the
elderly which meets in the south wing of
the Governor’s executive mansion.
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