Carl Brown Slated to
M.C. Dairy Conference
The planning committee of the
Bth Annual Southeastern Dairy
Conference announced that the
master of ceremonies for this
year’s event will be Carl A.
Brown, manager of Farm Credit
Services for the Production
Credit Administration in Lan
caster for eight years. Well
known to area farmers, the
Luzerne County native has
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This year’s event will be staged
at the Sales Bam on Route 30 east
of Lancaster, beginning at 9:30
A.M. on Tuesday, February 6.
Coffee and donuts will be
available from 8:30 until 9:15 for
early arrivals, and lunch will be
served to all at noon. All
dairymen and their families and
interested parties are invited for
an interesting and entertaining
day. The program will conclude
at 3:15.
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In this era of folk, rock and
other varieties of music, a “mail
order band” stole the musical
show this week during the 57th
Pennsylvania Farm Show.
This year marked the 35th
consecutive appearance of the
FFA Band at the Tuesday
evening show in the large arena.
The FFA Band was formed in
1938 by Dr. Henry S. Brunner, a
teacher of vocational agriculture
at Oley High School. Dr. Brunner
continued to direct the band for
the next ten years. With an in
creased work load as Head of the
Department of Agriculture
Education at the Pennsylvania
State University and Director of
the National FFA Band he turned
his duties as director of the State
FFA Band over to Dr. James W.
Dunlop, who is also director of
the famous Penn State Blue
Band. This year was Dr. Dunlop’s
25th year as director—a quarter
of a century of dedicated service
to helping farm youth develop
and present the two concerts on
Tuesday evening in the large
arena and Wednesday afternoon
in the Forum at the State FFA
Convention.
FFA Mail Order Band Presents Concerts
Lancaster harming, Saturday, January 13,1973
Some of the heart warming
moments come in the opening
sessions of rehearsals, when
fathers, who played in the State
FFA band in years past, make
themselves known to Dr. Dunlop.
This year’s band was composed
of 55 boys and 12 girls
representing 26 counties and 39
school districts of our Com
monwealth. Harvey A. Smith,
Pennsylvania Department of
Education is the Chairman and
describes the band as mail order
from the manner in which it is
organized each year. Each ap
plicant lists t typical selections
which he or she has played in his
respective high school band.
Some of the selections are
“Festival Overture,”
“Shastrakovich”, “Russian
Christmas Music,” “Reid and
Troika from Lieutenant Kije
Suite.”
Three members from this band
were nominated to represent
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At Beechdale Farms
A purebred Simmental heifer
calf was born on December 27,
1972, at Beechdale Farms, Bird-
In-Hand. Believed to be the first
such purebred born in Eastern
United States of this exotic breed
of Swiss dual-purpose cattle, the
calf thus joins a herd of cross
blood Simmentals owned by Dr
Thomas D. Conrad.
Simmental cattle are one of the
oldest and most widely
distributed of all breeds of cattle,
numbering some 35 million
throughout Europe. Noted for
their size, disposition, fertility,
conformation, milk performance,
weaning weights, and carcass
quality, the Simmental breed has
attracted and excited
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Pennsylvania at the National
FFA Convention in Kansas City,
Missouri in October.
Once the members of the FFA
Band arrived in Harrisburg they
followed a tight schedule of
practice and discipline before a
concert is ready to be performed.
Between noon Sunday and noon
Wednesday they participated in
12 rehersals at the Camp Curtin
Methodist Church. Their day
began at 8:00 a.m., with break
fast and ended at 9:00 p.m. with
bed check.
Area members of the band are
Berks County - Larry Stoltzfus,
Beth McDonnell, Thomas Car
skadon, Alfred B. Adam, Charles
A. Goss and Libby Miller;
Chester County - Jeffrey Austin.
Lancaster County - Greg
Landis and Joseph Metzler;
Lebanon County - Craig M. Butt,
Fred Baal and Douglas Martin.
York County - Doug Kelgore.
purebred Simmental is out of a
21-month old heifer with three
quarter Simmental blood and
one-fourth Hereford. Beechdale’s
herd is exclusively Simmental
blood ranging from one-half to
three-quarters with original
foundation dams being, in ad
dition to Hereford, Hereford-
Shorthorn crosses, Hereford-
Angus crosses, Hereford-Red
Angus crosses, Angus-Charolais
crosses, Guernsey and Holstein.
Conrad expects the Sim
mentals to sweep the nation in a
few years and replace the
traditional English breeds
(Hereford, Shorthorn and Angus)
m the market place.
Conrad, a professional con
sultant, claims “the economics of
this new breed, if studied by
open-minded cattlemen, are most
convincing and encouraging.”
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