VOL 18 No. 19
Erroneous Ballots
Sent to Dairymen
A printer’s error on milk
referendum ballots has a lot of
dairymen confused, but so far,
none of the misprinted forms
have been reported in the
LANCASTER FARMING
readership area.
According to Don Kunyon,
chief of marketing services for
the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, only about 200 of the
erroneous ballots have been sent
out, and they seem to have been
sent mainly to dairy farmers in
the western part of the state. All
the other ballots which were
mailed out or January 16 are
apparently all right
Secretary of Agriculture Jim
McHale took to the airwaves on
Thursday to alert dairymen
across the state that they may be
getting a ballot with instructions
printed on both sides and no place
to vote. The correct ballots have
Cattle Market Higher
Cattle prices at Thursday’s
New Holland auction continued
the strengthened price trend
which has been bringing more
dollars to for the
past several 'w«ks: Slaughter
steers were $l-1.50 higher than
the week before, up about $4-5
from a month ago, and a good $6-7
higher than cattle prices at this
time last year.
Veteran observers of the cattle
markets who a few months ago
would have scoffed at the
possibility of steers bringing 45
cents a pound, now say it could
happen any day.
One load of 27 choice Angus
steers sold for the average price
of $43.05 per hundred pounds,
Wednesday at the Lancaster
Stock Yards, thought to be the all
time high price paid for a live
beef animal in this area. The
animals were sold by J. M.
Hoober Inc., for the New Holland
Division of Sperry Rand Corp.
Most farmers feel they are now
getting a price for their cattle
A barn fire on the farm of J. R. Forman, Lititz Rl, caused
damages in excess of $50,000 iate Thursday afternoon. An
estimated 125 firemen from three fire companies battled the
blaze, but the barn was a total loss.
instructions on one side and a
place to vote on the other.
McHale said anyone who
receives one of the misprints can
get a new ballot by contacting the
marketing services division of
the department of agriculture in
Harrisburg. The phone number
there is 717-787-4210.
Don Kunyon pointed out that a
very few dairy farmers may not
have gotten any ball UlO at all.
“We mailed ballots to all the
names on the official ring test
list,” he said. “This was the most
complete list we had, but if
someone has started dairying in
the last few months, and his herd
hasn’t been tested yet for
brucellosis, then he might not
have gotten a ballot.”
Kunyon said anyone who hasn’t
gotten a ballot at all can get one
by calling the phone number
above.
that is commensurate with the
investment they must make to
buy and feed these animals.
While some fanners at Lan
caster Stock Yards Wednesday
were selling 1,300 pound steers at
$4O-43 per hundred pounds, others
were buying steers weighing 950-
1,100 pounds which they will feed
for a few weeks before selling on
the market again.
If the cattle market holds or
goes higher, they stand to make a
profit on these shortterm cattle.
But like most farm products,
the cost of a pound of beef on-the
hoof is constantly changing and
next week could see the cattle
market tumble for some
unknown reason.
Hog prices too, have been
setting their own records, going
as high as $35 per hundred pounds
at the Lancaster yards, Wed
nesday.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 20, 1973
Red Rose DHIA members were honored
for their high 1972 milk production records
Tuesday at the annual DHIA banquet.
Among those receiving awards were, left to
right, front row: Aaron Beiler, Paradise
Rl; John Lapp, Leola Rl; John Yost,
Kinzers Rl; Henry Kettering, Lititz R 3,
Red Rose DHIA Awards
Go to County Producers
John Yost, Kinzers Rl, was
honored Tuesday afternoon by
the Red Rose DHIA for achieving
the highest butterfat production
of any Lancaster County DHIA
member in 1972. Yost’s 35-cow
herd of registed Holsteins
produced an average 16,087
pounds of milk last year and. 673
pounds of butterfat.
He received a plaque at the
association’s annual banquet at
the Farm and Home Center.
Yost also was recognized as the
highest producer in the Holstein
breed category. Other breed
champions were; Ayrshire,
Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown;
Brown Swiss, J. Rohrer Witmer,
Willow Street; Guernsey,
Raymond Witmer, Willow Street;
Jersey, Robert W. Ulrich & Son,
Quarryville; mixed herd, Harold
and Donald Risser, Bainbridge.
There were 16 dairymen
honored for producing an
average of 600 or more pounds of
butterfat during the year. All
herds in this category were
composed of Holsteins. The
fanners, in addition to Yost, are:
J.Z. Nolt, Leola Rl, 654 pounds of
butterfat, 17,358 milk; Rufus G.
Martin, Ephrata R 3, 646 fat,
17,576 milk; Paul B. Zim
Farm Calendar
Saturday, January 20
7 pjn. - Pomona Grange 71 dinner
meeting, Rhoads Spanish
Restaurant, Quarryville.
Monday, January 22
Fulton Grange meeting, Oakryn.
Tuesday, January 23
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Agway Dairy,
Livestock, Crops, Production
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merman, Ephrata Rl, 643 fat,
16,187 milk.
Lloyd Wolf, Quarryville R 2, 639
fat, 15,761 milk; John P. Lapp
Leola Rl, 628 fat, 16,599 milk;
Dale Hiestand, 627 fat, 16,414
milk; Samuel I. Esh, Gordonville
Rl, 621 fat, 17,275 milk; Harry G.
Kreider, Quarryville Rl, 619 fat,
15,280 milk; Ben S. Stoltzfus,
Honey Brook R 2, 615 fat, 15,853
milk.
Burkhart Receives
Conservation Prize
Donald U. Burkhart,
Strasburg, has been named
Pennsylvania’s top conservation
contractor by the Pennsylvania
Land Improvement Contractors
Association and the Penn
sylvania Association of Con
servation District Directors.
Burkhart received the award at
the annual state contractors
meeting held recently at New
Cumberland. Robert M. Ross,
association president, presented
the award.
Burkhart had been recom
mended for the award by the
board of directors of the Lan
caster County Conservation
District. He was competing in the
contest against contractors from
all over the state. His name will
now be entered in national
competition.
Aaron Stauffer, Ephrata,
president of the Pennsylvania
Association of Conservation
Districts, presented the second
place award to Kitmer Brothers
from Somerset County.
In 1972, Burkhart completed 25
percent of the cropland terraces
built in Lancaster County, 40
Lancaster Farming- Photo
Back row. Dale Heistand, Bainbridge Rl;
Harry Kreider, Quarryville Rl; Harold
Risser, Bainbridge Rl. Yost received the
award for having a higher butterfat
production than any other DHIA member
in the county.
David L. Landis, Colebrook
Rd., Lancaster, 611 fat, 16,736
milk; Aaron E. Beiler, Paradise
Rl, 606 fat, 15,227mi1k; Henry E.
Kettering, Lititz R 3, 605 fat,
15,534 milk; Ben K. Stoltzfus,
Gordonville Rl, 604 fat, 16,841
milk; John Farrington, Lititz R 2,
603 fat, 15,818 milk; J. Mowery
Frey Jr., Beaver Valley Pike.
Lancaster, 601 fat, 15,063 milk;
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percent of the sod waterways, 30
percent of the diversion terraces
and 50 percent of the farm ponds.
Judges for the contractor
award base their selection on
both quantity and quality of land
improvement work.
Donald U. Burkhart,
Strasburg, is shown here with
the plaqueT naming him
Pennsylvania’s outstanding
land improvement contractor
for 1972.
•Vrday, f January 2Dj 1973—3'
$2.00 Per Year