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Vol. 17 No. 40
Horton Wins 4-H Hog Show Grand Prize
Audrey and Andy Augsburger proved
that winners run in the family at Tuesday’s
4-H Lancaster County Pig Roundup and
Oxford Lass Is IFF Queen
Pennsylvania last week hosted
the annual convention of the
International Flying Farmers
Association, and a Pennsylvania
lass was named the IFF Teen
Farmerette. She is 17-year-old
Joy Ann Rothenberger, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley K.
Rothenberger of Oxford, El.
Joy was crowned at the con
vention in Philadelphia while
nearly 1000 flying farmers looked
on. Joy was picked by the judges
from a field of 44 contestants
Joy Ann Rothenberger is the new International Flying
Farmer Teen Farmerette. Joy lives on a 168-acre dairy farm
in Oxford Rl. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley K.
Rothenberger.. ~
representing 40 states and four
Canadian provinces.
A 1972 graduate of Oxford Area
High School, Joy will enter
Bridgewater College,
Bridgewater, Va., next month,
where she plans to study home
economics.
As the Iff Teen Farmerette for
the coming year, Joy will be
responsible for writing a monthly
column to appear in the IFF
magazine. She also plans to at
tend as many of the flying farmer
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 26, 1972
Sale. Audrey snowed tne champion
Hampshire, while Andy walked away with a
blue ribbon for the champion Duroc.
state conventions she can get to.
Joy doesn’t have her pilot’s
license yet, but she is taking
flying lessons. During last week’s
convention, in fact, she made her
first solo landing.
Joy does some work on the
family farm, but concedes that
her 16-year-old brother, Jeff, is
probably the better farm hand.
The Rothenbergers operate a
162-acre dairy farm outside
Russellville. They bought the
farm just last year after their
farm in Montgomery County was
taken over for a dam project.
Farm Calendar
11 a.m. Octarara Young
Farmer Picnic, Nickel Mines
Swimming Pool
1-5 p.m. Second Annual
Plowing Contest, Shaef
ferstown.
Homemaker’s Camp, Camp
Swatara, Bethel, through the
29th.
DHIA Quarterly Directors
Meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Fulton Grange Meeting, Election
of Officers.
South Central 4-H District Dairy
Show, Farm Show Building,
Harrisburg, through the 29th.
Wednesday, August 30
1972 FFA District Dairy Show,
Farm Show Building,
Harrisburg.
1972 Agricultural Progress Field
Days, Calvin Will and Richard
Croner farms near Berlin,
~ Somerset County. , < ~.
Saturday, August 26
Sunday, August 27
Monday, August 28
Stephen “Steff” Horton in his
second year of competition
walked off with the top prize at
Tuesday’s Lancaster County 4-H
Pig Roundup and Sale.
Steff is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Horton, and lives on the
Masonic Homes farm in
Elizabethtown. Mr. Horton is the
farm manager.
The grand champion was a
crossbred middleweight. Penn
Packing bought the hog after the
show, and paid $1.15 for every one
of the porker’s 210 pounds
Steff belongs to the
Elizabethtown 4-H pig and rabbit
club, and raised four hogs this
year. He is eleven years old, and
will be going into the sixth grade
next month.
Mike Grube’s 225-pound duroc
took reserve champion honors,
and was sold for 50 cents a pound.
Mike has been competing in 4-H
hog shows for six years, and has
won many prizes before this. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Harold Grube, Elm.
Andy and Audrey Augsburger
both showed champion breed
hogs at the show. Andy won with
his 220 duroc, while his sister
Audrey showed a 240 pound
hampshire.
Andy is 14, Audrey is 12, and
they’re both members of the
Lincoln Community 4-H Club.
Their father is Walter
Augsburger, Heinholds Rl.
Hogs are the main enterprise at
the Augsburger farm, which
currently boasts an 800-head herd
of mostly Yorkshires, Durocs and
Hamps. There are also about
“Landscape for Living” Is
USDA Yearbook for 1972
“Landscape for Living” is a
book that won’t show up on the
New York Times best seller list,
even though its first printing ran
to over a quarter of a million
copies. The volume is the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s 1972
Yearbook, just off the presses.
One reason the Yearbook won’t
show up on best seller lists is that
most of the copies are given
away. A total of 232,650 copies are
provided for Congressional
distribution. Each senator gets
550 copies, and each represen
tative gets 400.
Another 12,000 or so copies
were printed for USDA use, and
the Superintendent of Documents
in Washington, D.C., ordered
45,000 copies for sale. In a letter
to LANCASTER FARMING,
Yearbook editor Jack Hayes
said, “Sup Docs (Superintendent
In This Issue
Markets 2,3,4
Classified 34,35
Editorial 10
4-H News 26
Recipe Exchange 20
Sale Register 29,30
Womens 21,22
,4-HDayCamp, - 8
$2.00 Per Year
21,000 layers on the farm, and 350
rabbits.
The rabbits are grown for a
nearby laboratory, and their care
is mostly Audrey’s responsibility.
Andy spends a few hours every
day collecting eggs And they
share the chore of rearing their
show hogs. Both, incidentally, got
33 cents a pound for their
animals.
Scott Heisey, of Elizabethtown
was a double winner, taking both
the Champion Pen of Ten and
Poland China Champion awards.
Dan Baum, of Elizabethtown
also had double honors. He owned
the Landrace and Yorkshire
Champions.
Other winners were Joel
Gerber Berkshire Champion
and Stuart Heisey Chester
White Champion.
Bill McCoy, head of the
Stockyard Exchange and Allan
Bare, assistant county agent
were in charge of the program.
Auctioneer was Clyde
Wolgemuth.
Penn Packing dominated the
bidding and purchasing of the
champion hogs, buying the
grand, reserve, Berkshire,
Hampshire and Poland China
champions.
Kunzler Meats bought the
champion pen of ten and the
Chester White champion while
McCoy Cattle purchased the
Landrace and Yorkshire
champions, and Hershey, Inc.
paid for the Ouroc champ.
E. W. Martin, Dunlap, R.
Emory, Berwager and Lancaster
Stockyards completed the list of
companies purchasing the 112
hogs at the sale.
ot Documents) anticipates uic
1972 Yearbook will be very
popular. 45,000 is a high figure for
Sup Docs, which usually is pretty
cautious.”
Printing costs for the 1972
Yearbook were $272,892, which
includes the copies for
Congressional free distribution
and the books for internal use by
USDA. For those who can’t get a
copy of the Yearbook from their
representative or senator, the
Superintendent of Documents
will be selling copies at $3.50
each.
“Landscape for Living” is a
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