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Vol. 17 No. 41
FFA, 4-H Dairy Show Results
Jesse Balmer, Lititz R 4, was a big winner
in the Guernsey competition at Wed
nesday’s Southeastern Region FFA Dairy
Show in Harrisburg. The cow shown here
Lebanon Co. Plowing Winners
The Second Eastern Penn
sylvania Horse Plowing Contest
was held last Saturday at
Schaefferstown, and one con
testant came all the way from
Delaware to enter.
Bill Collison, from Harrington,
Delaware, took first place in the
sulky plow as well as the one
horse walking plow competitions,
and a third in the walking plow
contest. \
Edgar Messerschmidt,
Myerstown R 2, captured second
prizes in both the sulky and
walking plow battles.
A horse plowing contest was one of the
features of last Saturday’s activities at the
old Schaeffer Farm in Schaefferstown. The
Jacob Mays, Lebanon R 2,
came in first in the two-way
riding plow competition, third in
sulky plowing and fourth in the
walking plow.
Paul Waltenmeyer, Jamestown
Rl, was first in the walking plow
and fourth in the sulky plow.
Farm Calendar
Tuesday, September 5
7:30 p.m. Penn Manor Young
Farmers monthly meeting,
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 2, 1972
won both senior champion and grand
champion honors. Balmer also showed the
reserve junior champion and the reserve
senior champion.
A crowd of somewhere near a
hundred people were on hand to
watch the horse and tractor
plowing contests on the old
Schaeffer Farm. The winners of
the tractor contests went to
Somerset County this week to
enter the state plowing contest
held during Agricultural
Progress Days.
Joseph Schott, Lebanon R 5,
won the large plow contest, while
Paul Flinchbaugh, Jr ,
Thomasson Ave., Lebanon, took
top prize in the small plow
competition.
Lebanon County Plowing Contest was held
at the same time.
Area FFA members captured a
number of top placmgs at the 17th
annual Pennsylvania
Southeastern Region FFA Dairy
Show at Harrisburg this week
Two grand champion honors
and two reserve champions were
named in the Brown Swiss and
Guernsey breeds Donald
Wenger, Manheim RD2, son of
Mr and Mrs Richard Wenger,
was named grand champion with
Barbara Aaron, Quarryville Rl, won both junior champion
and grand champion honors for Jerseys at the District 4-H
Dairy Show in Harrisburg on Tuesday.
Hiestand Retires ,
Veteran Feedman
Ray W D Hiestand, Mt
Gretna, retired on August 31 after
40 years of service as a district
salesman for Allied Mills, Inc ,
manufacturers of Wayne Feeds
and distributors of Wayne
Animal Health aids
During this time, he has
worked m all of northeastern and
south central Pennsylvania,
spending most of his time
working with feed dealers and
feeders in Lancaster County.
Commenting on his years in the
feed business, Hiestand said that
he has seen many changes. He
recalled the days when feed was
mixed on the barn floor with a
feed shovel, and contrasted that
method with the precise micro
mixing used in the manufacture
of today’s feeds.
He said it’s not uncommon
today to finish an animal ready to
market with about half the feed
and in almost half the time it took
to do the same job 40-sears ago.
Hiestand said he has no im
mediate plans for the future, but
he will be watching with keen
interest the progress of the
livestock and poultry industry in
Lancaster County.
Jack Hanley, of Lancaster, will
$2.00 Per Year
his five-years-and-over Brown
Swiss, and also captured the
reserve championship with his
junior yearling Brown Swiss
Wenger is a Manheim FFA
Chapter member
Jess Balmer, Lititz RD4, son of
Mr and Mrs Jesse G Balmer,
returned to the County with three
champion Guernseys, including
the grand champion animal His
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Ray W. D. Hiestand
replace Hiestand in the Lan
caster County district. Hanley
has been with Wayne for 19 years,
and recently moved into the area
from Clearfield, Pa.
John Foelker of Lebanon Rl is
another new salesman for
Wayne, having just joined the
company. He was formerly with
Purina and West Chemical Co.