Vol. 17 No. 48
Hungary
Buys Pa.
Holsteins
A contingent of five Hungarian
dairy specialists visited Charles
Myers’ Black and White Holstein
Farm last Friday on the first leg
of a U.S. buying trip.
The Hungarian expect to buy
320 registered Holstein heifers for
air shipment to state farms in
their country. About 120 of the
heifers are coming from Penn
sylvania, with some 40 of those
coming from local farms.
Because the animals are being
shipped by air, the Hungarians
are buying open heifers, 6 to 14
months old, to save on tran
sportation costs.
Oscar Kennedy, representing
the National Holstein-Friesian
Association, attended the Lan
caster sale, where all 120 Penn
sylvania cows were examined by
the buyers. Kennedy said this is
the first shipment of U.S.
Holsteins to be sent to Hungary.
“About three years ago, this
group bought some Holstein
heifers from Canadian farms, as
an experiment. The experiment
was a success, so v now they’re
back for more.”
Kennedy said Simenthal is the
most-used dairy breed today in
Hungary. Simenthals are good
dual-producing animals, Ken
nedy pointed out, but the best
cows now are producing only
about 8000 pounds of milk.
“We except that these heifers
to produce about 15,000 pounds a
year in Hungary,” Kennedy
, noted. ‘ “That’s almost double
what their Simenthals are doing
now. We don’t expect the
Hungarians will be giving up
much in beef production either,
another reason they decided on
Holsteins.”
Kauffman
Cow Sells
For *5,000
Hundreds of spectators and
dozens of buyers attended a
dispersal sale on Friday at the
Robert H. Kauffman Penn
Springs Farm in Elizabethtown.
The sale was a complete
dispersal of one of the area’s
better-known Holstein herds.
Auctioned off were 95 head at an
average of $845 each.
A top price of $5OOO was paid for
a three-year-old cow, Penn
Springs BUI Maid. She was
bought by John F. Fullington and
James E. Howes, and she’ll be
going to a dairy farm in Antwerp,
N.Y.
Some 40 of the Kauffman herd
were sold to out-of-state buyers,
mostly in neighboring states.
Two of the cows, though, will be
shipped to California.,
After the sale, Kauffman told
LANCASTER FARMING that
they had been (planning a
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On their way to the FFA convention in Kansas City last
week, the five members from the Cloister FFA Chapter
dropped in on The North American Dairy Cattle Show in
Columbus, Ohio. All five of the local lads entered an FFA
dairy judging contest, and all five scored well. In fact, the
three man team of Paul Horning, Melvin Weiler and Marlin
Smoker captured the top prize, beating out 81 other teams
to do it. Left to right above are: Melvin Weiler, Daniel
Harting, Marlin Smoker, Richard Bollinger and Paul Horning.
Environmentalists Say
Farmers No Problem
Farmers were told Thursday
night that normal farming
operations would not be affected
by actions of the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental
Resources (DER).
Speaking at a meeting devoted
to managing waste water in
agricultural areas, John Durr, a
DER sanitary engineer, said that
his department was not con
cerned with pollution from farms
as much as it was with the more
serious problems of municipal
and industrial waste disposal.
The meeting was attended
mainly by township supervisors,
borough officials and extension
personnel.
Durr quoted from an amend
ment to article 1 of the Penn
sylvania Constitution which
affirms that all the people have a
right to clean air and pure water.
The amendment states that
Pennsylvania’s natural
resources are the common
property of all the people.
According to Durr, the clean
streams act passed in 1970 now
allows for action to preserve
public waters. Previous laws
allowed action only after
criminal acts of pollution.
According to the 1970 law, the
department can “order
municipalities to provide sewage
treatment facilities”; it can
“order industry to provide waste
water treatment”; and it puts the
responsiblity for clean water with
landowners and land occupiers.
Plowing is covered by the law if
the work follows approved soil
conservation contour farming
practices, Durr stressed.
This was explained to mean
that a farmer could accomplish
the desired results without direct
cooperation with the SCS, but
Durr said proper conservation
tecnhiques should be followed to
comply with the law.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21,1972
Regulations regarding ponds,
Durr said, require that any pond
above 250,000 gallons must have a
permit. This includes any
facilities, lined or unlined, which
handle liquid wastes, such as
liquid manure systems. .
He stressed the importance of
plowing under liquid manure
within 24 hours, saying that while
there is no law at the present
time, there probably will be one
in the future.
William LaCour, a DER
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Firemen from five companies responded
to a blaze at the R.W. Sauder egg
processing plant in Lititz on Wednesday
evening. The fire was confined to the firm’s
main offices and supply storage building,
sparing the processing line from serious
Ephrata FFA
Wins Ohio Meet
Pennsylvania teams competing
at the national FFA convention m
Kansas City last week came
home with lots of good memories,
but very few ribbons or trophier
The Ephrata group fared about
as well as the rest of the state m
Kansas City.
The Ephrata lads, though,
proved their skills at dairy
judging during a side trip to the
convention. Stopping off at
Columbus, Ohio, the five FFA
members entered a judging
contest being held in conjunction
with the North American Dairy
Cattle Show.
Competing in a field of 82 three
man teams, the Ephrata team
came in number one. The win
ning team was composed of Paul
Horning, Melvin Weiler and
Marlin Smoker, all of Stevens Rl.
Also entered in the contest
were Daniel Harting, Denver R 2,
and Richard Bollinger, Lititz R 4.
Horning placed third highest
among all judges and was first in
judging of Holstein cattle Weiler
was eighth overall and Smoker
12th in the final standings. A total
of 272 individuals competed in the
contest.
USDA Declares National
Hog Cholera Emergency
Secretary of Agriculture Earl
L. Butz has declared a national
emergency because of hog
cholera, in order to protect the
consumer’s supply of pork
product^.
Noting that serious outbreaks
of hog cholera in midwestern and
southeastern States threaten the
Also judging, but not on the
actual Lancaster team, were Dan
Harding, Denver R 2, and
Richard Bollinger, Lititz R 4.
Harding placed ninth in the
overall judging
When the Lancaster boys
pulled out of Columbus later that
day, they were toting a 30-inch
high winners’ trophy
The students were ac
companied on the trip by Charles
Ackley, vocational agriculture
teacher at Ephrata High
Another highlight of the
Ephrata group’s trip to Kansas
City was a stopover in
Chillicothe, Ohio. Each of the five
boys stayed overnight with an
FFA member from the
Chillicothe chapter. They also
visited with farm families and
toured farms in the area.
(arm Calendar
8 p.m. - Lancaster County
Pomona Grange meeting,
Oakryn. 59th Horticulture
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Nation’s s4Vfe billion pork in
dustry, Secretary Butz stressed
that emergency action is needed
to eradicate the disease and thus
prevent further losses of hogs,
which might otherwise greatly
decrease the supply of pork
damage. The fire was fed by paper and
corrugated egg crates and cartons stored
in the attic. It roared out of control for more
than two hours before firemen could enter
the building.
$2.00 Per Year
Saturday, October 21
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