Vol. 17 No. 38
Ten-Year-old Robin Gicker was the
winner of the calf given away at Thursday's
Good Turn-Out for
Guernsey Field Day
Sunny skies and an excellent
pork barbecue helped the Lan
caster County Guernsey
Association have one of its most
successful field days in years.
Close to a hundred dairymen and
guests gathered on Thursday at
the Jesse Balmer farm, Lititz, for
a day of socializing, contests and
speeches.
The judging contests were split
into men’s, ladies’ and children’s
divisions. Art Brenneman,
Willow Street, was tops in the
men’s division, and Vaughn
Moore was second.
Honors in the ladies’ divison
Spring Glen Builds
Business on Quality
Thirty-five years ago, Edna
Sensenig and her husband, Titus,
began making potato salad and
cup cheese in the kitchen of their
farm home. From that small
beginning, the Sensenigs have
built a food business selling over
120 different items in stores all
the way from New Jersey to
Indiana.
They call their business Spring
Glen Farm Kitchen, inc.
Paul Metzler, Spring Glen’s
sales manager, says that the
company now employs about 125
people. Metzler calls on accounts
from Atlantic City to South Bend,
Indiana, selling everything from
2-ounce jars of Pennsylvania
Dutch seasoning to bulk quan
tities of chow-chow and potato
salad.
But it all started in the Sen
senig’s kitchen. From there it
went to Mrs. Robert Brenneman,
Hessdale, who took first place,
and Dorothy Brenneman, second.
Dale Conrad, Bird-in-Hand,
took first place in the children’s
divison, and Sue Witmer placed
second.
A drawing was held during the
field day for a Guernsey calf. To
be eligible for the calf, the winner
had to be between the ages of 9
and 18, and an FFA or 4-H
member who planned to show the
calf.
Ten-year-old Robin Gicker,
daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Jack
Gicker, Drumore, won the calf.
spread to the dining room and
even into the upstairs hall, which
was turned into an aging room for
cheese. The smell of aging cheese
takes a bit of getting used to, and
Mrs. Sensenig recalls that in
those days she’d often get un
comfortable looks from visitors
to her home.
They began by taking orders
from neighbors, friends and
relatives. Their business started
to spurt when they opened their
first market stand.
Mrs. Sensenig attributes
Spring Glen’s success to the
recipes for the products. She, in
fact, developed all the recipes,
except for mincemeat, now sold
under the Spring Glen label.
Explaining her philosphy, Mrs.
Sensenig says, “We would never
let a product go out if it didn’t tast
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 12, 1972
Gurensey Field Day. Robin will be showing
the calf next year in 4-H dairy contests.
Speaker for the day was Boyd
Gartley, representing Inter-State
Milk Producers Coop. Gartley’s
theme was that the dairy in
dustry was composed of people
who were better at production
than they were at merchandising.
Life-styles are changing,
Gartley maintained, and with
them eating habits and the way
people buy food. He said that
people in the dairy industry must
learn a lot more about con
sumers, packaging and
marketing if they want to keep
their share of the American food
dollar.
Market stands have figured importantly
in the growth of Spring Glen. The one
Mike Martin -
Star Farmer
Lancaster County’s Star
Farmer for this year is Mike
Martin, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert E Martin, New Holland
Rl. Mike is a member of Garden
Spot Chapter FPA, and a senior
at Garden Spot High School.
Mike’s FFA projects include
beef finishing, veal, poultry,
com, alfalfa and wheat. He owns
1320 laying hens
A long list of activities keeps
Mike busy when he’s not working
on his projects. A partial list
would include: president of his 4-
H club last year, second vice
president of his FFA chapter,
chorus member, high school
newspaper cartoonist, house
painter, auctioneer.
After graduating from high
school, Mike plans to go into
partnership with his father, both
on the farm and m the auc
tioneering business.
The Star Farmer award was
presented to Mike this past
Wednesday at the Brownstown
Vo-Tech school. He and five other
FFA members competed for the *
award, which includes a trophy
and a trip to the national FFA
convention to be held during
October in Kansas City.
Wayne Kreider, Quarryville
Rl, was the first runner-up in the
balloting. Wayne is the son of
Ellis D. Kreider and is president
of the Solanco FFA chapter. He is
also president of the Solanco
chapter of the National Honor
This year's Star Farmer is
Mike Martin, Garden Spot
FFA.
Society, and a member of hii
school’s wrestling team.
Second runner-up was Gregory
Landis, a Penn Manor senior.
Greg is the son of Jay E. Landis.
He is president of his FFA
chapter, and president of the
Lancaster County FFA for 1972.
The Star Farmer awards were
determined by a panel of three
judges: Jay Irwin, associate
county agent; Earl Groff, of
Victor Weaver, Inc., New
Holland, and Dr. Edgar Lawton,
assistant superintendent of In
termediate Unit 13
pictured is in the Lancaster’s Central
Market.
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