Guernsey
Plan Full
By Ralph Biller
Secy-treas., Lancaster
County Guernsey
Breeders Association
The Lancaster County Guern
sey Breeders Association is
composed of approximately 48
active members. Officers for the
current year are Robert
Breneman, president, Robert
Wagner, vice president, Ralph
Bitler, secretary-treasurer. One
member of the local association,
Raymond Witmer, Willow Street,
is also a national director for the
American Guernsey Cattle Club.
Yearly activities include an all
day bus tour every Spring to
farms and related business
establishments. This is followed
in the summer months by an
annual field day at a member’s
farm This event includes cattle
judging in the morning, with a
speaker and the awarding of
prizes in the afternoon. In the
fall, the association has a
banquet to recognize the high
herd averages, high lifetime
record, and high individual
records in the various age
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groups. The three high herds this
past year were Raymond Wit
mer’s, Fred Crider’s, and K. D.
Linde’s, in that order. Trophies
were also presented to the
three members of the Guernsey
4-H club for outstanding project
work. They were Debbie Crider,
Ricky Crider, and Marlin
Stoltzfus
Alan Bair, Jesse Balmer,
Raymond Witmer and Fred
Crider are the 4-H leaders They
have thirty-three members
representing seventeen different
families.
The association also awards a
purebred Guernsey calf to an
outstanding FF A boy in the
county This past year the calf
was awarded at the judging field
day held at the Solanco Fair and
* attended by all the county F F.A
boys. The winner was David
Gerhart, a student at Solanco
High School. The calf came from
Romella Farm’s RDI, Strasburg,
Pa.
Future activities include more
of the same, plus close
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It happened only yesterday at the 1904 World’s Fair in
St. Louis midway between the ice cream concession and
the waffle stand. It was love at first sight when ice cream met
a cute cornucopia-shaped waffle... and the ice cream cone
was born. It seems that Mr. Ernest Hamwi was busy mak
ing Zalabia, a sugary wafer-hke waffle when he heard a
disappointed moan from the crowd at the ice cream booth
next door. He looked up to see the Rejected face of the ice
ere ,m vendor who had just run out of bowls for his ice
creim. Quickly, Mr. Hamwi folded a waffle into a cornu
copia and handed it to his neighbor. The ice cream man
promptly plopped a double-dip into the hollow cone. He
offered the treat to the first nickel he saw, then watched
as the customer happily consumed ice cream, cone and all.
Since that day, the whole world has shown its love for ice
cream in the edible container by eating them at the rate of
10,000,000,000 cones per year.
cooperation with the Chester ■ .. T rJ'l
County Guernsey Breeders LOIIOr 10 tUllOr
Sincerely, i
Ralph Bitler
Secretary-Treasurer
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Editor, Lancaster Farming-
In the DHIA monthly report on
page 12, June 2 issue, our cow
Rose is erroneously reported as a
Holstein. Since there are not
many Guernseys reaching 15,533
4.6 722, could you please make a
correction I do not intend to
change our breed because we are
happy with our Guernseys their
efficiencies and their good
temper. They give us all we want
K.D and Else Linde
Wish I’d Said
That
“Today’s downfall comes
trying to keep up with the
upkeep ’’—Mrs. Gary Hiott,
The Pickens (S. C.) Sentinal.
“One’s character can be
measured by the type of
music to which he responds
best.” —Will N. Workman,
The Chatom (Ala.) Call-News
Dispatch.
Lancaster Farmim
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SHENK'S FARM SERVICE
RD4 Lititz, Pa
Saturday, June 9,1973
Loss of Atrazine
1*
Not Found Serious
Proper management should
eliminate potential pollution in
using atrazine to control weeds in
cornfields, according to Dr Jon
K Hall and associates of the
Agricultural Experiment Station
at The Pennsylvania State
University.
The Penn State soil scientists
recently completed six years of
experiments to determine
possible losses of atrazine from a
corn field with an average slope
of 14 per cent. Atrazine was
applied at the recommended rate
of two pounds per acre for sur
face application
In a season when rainfall was
above normal, loss of atrazine
from “washoff” averaged only
five hundredths of a pound per
acre-a negligible figure The
experimental site was planted in
a manner to induce as much
chemical loss as possible The
corn was planted up and down the
slope instead of across the slope
as recommended The slope of 14
per cent was rather steep, giving
a drop of 14 feet for every 100 feet
Even in a year with intense
rainfall early m the season, loss
from “washoff” was only nine
hundredths of a pound per acre
Dr. Hall claimed such losses
would have to be considered
minor due to the nature of the site
and the soil and crop
management practices used It is
obvious, Dr. Hall affirmed, that
various chemical, biological, and
non-biological forces in the soil
and in the corn crop act to
degrade the original herbicide
Soil core studies revealed that
the atrazine was broken down in
the soil at a moderate rate Also,
more than half of the chemical
reacted with the topsoil and was
held there. Measured one month
after application, atrazine had
dissipated to 39 per cent of the
amount applied at the two pounds
per acre rate of surface ap
plication Three months later the
atrazine was down to nine per
cent of its original amount
Herbicide losses in the total
sutdies were not as serious as
losses of water and soil which
were considerable at times. The
results speak strongly for sound
soil and crop management
practices to combat erosional
problems, he affirmed
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