- -Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13, 1973 34 Reists Of 108 entries in the tobacco contest at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, 107 of the samples came from Lancaster County. York was the only other county represented in the show. The grand champion wrapper tobacco belonged to Arthur E. Reist, of 1050 Eden Road. Brother Douglas, had the grand champion filler sample Arthur also took first in 4-H wrapper class, with his twin brother, Alfred, the filler tobacco champion in 4-H competition. The FFA tobacco awards went to Robert Burkholder, of Washington Boro, who was first in the wrapper class. Kevin Rohrer, of Manheim R 2, was first in FFA filler tobacco judging. The Reists made it family day Weaver Names Three To Sales Posts Three changes have been announced in the sales division of Victor F Weaver Inc., New Holland Donald H Welk, 380 Dallas Ave, Strasburg has been named to the newly created position of sales manager of the entire Weaver Prepared Food’s Sales Division Welk joined Weaver in 1967 as a sales representative. William E. Patterson, 303 Rolling Terrace, Leola has been named Retail Sales manager for Prepared Foods and Melvin M. Martin, 1709 Linwood Ave., Lancaster has been appointed Institutional Sales manager for Prepared Foods Department. Patterson joined Weaver in 1969 as Assistant Sales Super visor for institutional sales. Martin, who has been with Weaver since 1970, has represented the company as an institutional product salesman. In addition to supervising their areas of responsibility Patterson and Martin will assist in the development of new programs and marketing concepts. DEPENDABLY YOURS IOBIW GAS We Deliver LP-Gas No matter where you live, you can count on us to service LP-Gas needs fast and Dominate Tobacco Show at the Farm Show, with Linn L. Reist, of 980 Eden Road, winning the long wrapper class. Marian Reist, of 1050 Eden Road was second, with brothers, Doug, Arthur and Aired placing behind her entry in that order. Ray A. Brubaker, of Rohrer stown Road, Lancaster, was first with his short wrapper tobacco and he was followed by four Reists in this order, Art, Doug, Alfred, and Marian. Doug Reist took the long filler tobacco class in the open show, followed in the placings by Art, Marian, and Alfred. In fifth place was Roy Rohrer, of Strasburg Rl. Moving to short fillers, Doug Reist was again first, Marian second, and Walter Dellinger, of Wrightsville, in third. Robert Burkholder placed fourth and Alfred Reist, fifth. Donald Nissley of New Providence Rl, placed first in the long binder class, with his brother, Larry, of Holtwood Rl, in second. Gregory Mann, of Lancaster R 2, was third, Doug Reist fourth and Roy M Rohrer, fifth. However, Rohrer bounced back and captured first place in the short binder class, with Witmer J Rohrer in second. Both are from Strasburg Rl. Third place in the short binder class went to Michael Rohrer, of Strasburg Rl. Richard Burkholder of Washington Boro, was fourth and Lloyd Esben shade, Manheim Rl, fifth. Small Grains Yields Down Substantially The latest segment of the Commonwealth’s agriculture to post a losing record for 1972 is small grains - wheat, oats, barley, rye - according to the Crop Reporting Service. The final harvest was 33,092,000 bushels, down 20 percent from a year earlier As in earlier year end crop and production reports, the sharp drop was blamed on both tropical storm Agnes and season long adverse growing weather before and after the great flood. Losses were compounded on two fronts - substantial acreage MILKING HERD DISPERSAL 55 - Registered and Grade Cattle - 55 TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1973 Located on the farm along Route 897 North of Schaefferstown in Lebanon County. 53 HOLSTEINS AND 2 JERSEYS 18 head of registered cattle and the balance are grades in various stages of production. 12 were fresh in Oct. and Nov, with 18 duo m January and February, and balance throughout year. 1 RED AND WHITE HOLSTEIN 1 Records of some of the cattle to be sold: No. 11 15521 milk 618 fat 4.0 No. 24 13398 milk 575 fat 4.3 No. 38 12334 milk 560 fat 4.4 No. 54 12490 milk 529 fat 4.2 Number of cattle' bred back to Pennstate Ivanhoe star. Health charts available Herd on Area Test Catalogs and DHEA records available on sale day. Harry H. Bachman - Auctioneer Claude Ebersole - Clerk Arthur Kunkle - Pedigrees Lunch by Fredericksburg Church of the Brethren Art Reist took first in 4-H wrappers and Alfred Reist second. They were followed by Jay Bleacher, of Conestoga R 2, in third, Edward Nissley of Manheim R 4, in fourth and Kerry Boyd, of Ephrata Rl, in fifth. The 4-H filler class again saw the Reist twins on top, with Alfred first this time, Art in second. Jay Bleacher was third, Ed Nissley, fourth and Kerry Boyd, fifth. In second place behind Burkholder in the FFA classes was Fred Lefever, of Quarryville Rl Glenn Ruhl, of Manheim R 4 was third and Robert Reifsnyder of Blue Ball, fourth. Kevin Rohrer, of Manheim R 2, was fifth. Kevin then took first in FFA Celery Awards Won by Funk Local grower Amos Funk took five awards Sunday in celery judging at the Farm Show. The Millersville RI grower took first, second and third places in the Fordhook-Houser variety category, and first and second places in the easy bleaching variety. The celery varieties are ones that Funk has been developing locally since the 1940’5. waslost to the flooding and heavy rains and what survived produced a lower yield than in recent years. The harvest, by variety, was: Oats, 16,652,000 bushels, down 2C percent, yield per acre down 26 percent to 46 bushels, Wheat, 8,608,000 bushels, down eight percent, yield down U percent to 32 bushels; Barley, 7,426,000 bushels, down five percent, yield down 13 percent to 47 bushels; Rye, 406,000 bushels, down eight percent, yield down 15 percent to 29 bushels 12:30 P.M. Sale in heated tent Conditions by: Landis and Mary Tic fillers and Lefever captured his second, second spot. Glenn Ruhl again had third and James Gruber, of Blue Ball, was fourth. Fifth place went to Robert Reifsnyder. TRAINOR'S SEMEN SERVICE Honey Brook, Pa. 19344 Phone 717-354-5181 The Artificial Breeding of Dairy Cattle is our business. You may use the Quality Sires we are making available. Joseph P. Trainor, Sr. Joseph P. Trainor, Jr. P. B. GUERNSEY DISPERSAL James R. Spies, owner, Henderson, Md. Thursday, January 18, 1973, 12:30 Noon At the Ass’n. Sales Pavilion, Lancaster, Pa. 84 HEAD - All Cows (30 Two Year Olds) 34 by Lyrene May Rose Prince, 9 by H. H. Treasure, 4 by “Darimost”. This year’s DHIA average 9381 No. M - 478 No. F - 75.9 cows. This herd has been established over 20 years, predominantly Green Meadow breeding. The majority are fall fresheners and bred back. We repeat again, a good, young herd with good udders. SALE MANAGED BY: PENNA. GUERNSEY BREEDERS’ ASS’N. P.0.80X 458 CAMP HILL, PA., 17011 AND THE MERRYMAN CO., SPARKS, MD. 21152 Try A Classified Ad! ABSOLUTE AUCTION C-Merriken Fertilizer, Inc. Manufacturer of Hot Mix Fertilizer Chestertown, Md. SAT. JAN. 20 at 11:00 a.m. Real Estate plus 14 trucks, portable storage tanks, 5 farm tractors, applicators, John Blue equipment, JD 6-row no till planter, storage tanks & mixing tanks, pumps, shop & office equipment. 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