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Named at 1973 Kimberton Fair
Chester County’s Kimberton
Fair, just outside Phoenixville,
was the area’s first farm fair of
the year. Ending July 28 after a
ten-day run, the fair draws
visitors and exhibitors from all
over Chester County and
surrounding areas.
The fair is about 20 years old,
and the agricultural exhibits
have been included for the last 15
years. The agricultural exhibits
received state sanction, and
therefore state funds for prize
money, six years ago. Goats are
an unusual feature of the Kim
berton Fair, with about 150 of the
animals entered in competition.
There was also a sizeable con
tingent of sheep and over 200
dairy cows. Hogs were not
exhibited, and there were only a
few beef animals.
In the Guernsey competition,
the senior and grand champion
was a two-year-old cow owned by
Holly Ann Scheib, Phoenixville
RD2. Ms. Scheib also showed the
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junior champion, a junior calf.
The senior and grand champion
Ayrshire was an aged cow shown
by Kennare E. Henley, 111, of
Cochranville RDI. Another
Henley, Sharon Lynne, showed
the junior yearling which took
junior champion honors.
Mildred Seeds, Downington,
showed the two-year-old cow
which took senior and grand
champion honors ,in Jersey
competition. Junior champion
was a junior yearling owned by
Denise Andrien, West Chester.
In Brown Swiss competition, a
four-year-old took senior and
grand champion honors, while a
senior calf was named junior
champion. Both animals were
from Buttonwood Farm in Bir
chrunville.
Carl Yoder, Elverson, took the
senior and grand champion
ribbons for his aged cow in the
Holstein compeition. Junior
champion honors went to a senior
yearling owned by Ivan W. Hess,
A.B.C. Groff, Inc.
110 S. Railroad Ave.
New Holland
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Royersford.
In sheep compeittion, the
winners, by breed, were:
Dorset; grand champion ewe -
Karen Blumenthol, Chester
Springs.
Shropshire; grand champion
ewe - Warn Menhennett,
Cochranville.
Suffolk: grand champion ram
and ewe - William MacCauley,
Jr., Newton Square.
Hampshire: grand champion
ram - Joan Liesau, Spring City.
Grand champion ewe - Ann
Baroni, Chester Springs.
Only doe were shown in the
goat competition. Grand
champion winners in each breed
were: Alpine - Mrs. Gail C.
Putcher, Milford, RDI, N.J.;
LaMancha, - Dr. and Mrs.
Richard H. Stoneback, Oxford;
Nubian - Richard H. Stoneback,
Jr., Oxford, Saanen - Richard H.
Stoneback, Jr.; Toggenburg -
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 4,1973
State 4-H Days Aug. 6-8
Approximately 1,000 award
winning boys and girls
representing the Com
monwealth’s 100,000 4-H mem
bers will convene on The Penn
sylvania State University
campus August 6-8 for the annual
State 4-H Days.
The event will feature scores of
agricultural and home economics
demonstrations by both teams
and individuals who have
recently won blue ribbons in
county and regional competition.
Champion judging teams in
agriculture also will be selected.
Agricultural contests include
dairy, entomology identification,
flower judging and identification,
riflery, general livestock, horse,
poultry, horticulture, archery,
and meat identification and
judging.
Two other events, an
Automotive Contest and Tractor
Operator’s Contest, will test
participants on their driving
skills and knowledge of vehicle
safety.
Ten teams, selected during
regional eliminations last month,
will compete in a Horse Bowl
Pa. Broiler
Placements
Up 13 pet.
Placements of broiler chicks in
the Commonwealth during the
week ending July 28, 1973 were
1,266,000. The placements were 13
percent above the corresponding
week a year earlier, and 8 per
cent above the previous week.
Average placements during the
past 10 weeks were 10 percent
above a year earlier.
Settings for broiler chicks were
2,078,000 - 4 percent below the
previous week and 9 percent
above the comparable period a
year earlier. The current 3-week
total of eggs set is 13 percent
above the same period a year
ago.
Inshipments of broiler-type
chicks during the past 10 weeks
averaged 1,000 compared with
46,000 a year ago. Outshipments
averaged 293,000 during the past
10 weeks, 8 percent above a year
earlier.
Placements in the 21 States
were 56,400,000 - 2 percent above
the previous week and 6 percent
with the winner eligible to enter
the Northeast Regional 4-H Horse
Bowl at the Keystone In
ternational Livestock Exposition
in Harrisburg.
Initiated four years ago,
“Consumerama” presentations
will be geared to the teenage
consumer. “Consumerama”
consists of a series of three ac
tivities designed to help increase
consumer competency. Activities
include a consumer bowl game,
planathon, and consumer
judging.
Judging contests and
educational demonstrations will
be held throughout August 7 with
awards being presented at an
assembly probram August 8 in
the University’s Schwab
Auditorium.
Edward A Mintmier, assistant
State 4-H leader at Penn State
and State 4-H Days chairman,
explains the purposes of the event
are to develop self-confidence by
participating in judging and
demonstration contests; increase
skills in project work; and gain
valuable experience in making
on-the-spot decisions.
below the same week a year
earlier. Average placements
during the past 10 weeks were 3
percent below a year ago.
Settings were 72,219,000 - 1
percent below the previous week
and 2 percent below a year
earlier. The current 3-week total
of eggs set is 3 percent below the
comparable period a year ago.
New Irrigation Ideas
Are Needed, Expert Says
The greatest challenge fac
ing the irrigation industry
today is the need to develop
new ideas and new concepts
that will help protect the en
vironment, Edwin J. Hunter,
a pioneer in the development
of modern irrigation sys
tems, said in Lake Arrow
head, Ca.
Our concerns, he said,
must be:
... Preservation of our di
minishing water resources.
... Preservation of the
green spaces “that contribute
so much to the air we
breathe.”
Conserving the soil.
... Irrigating the dry areas
to make them green and
growing.
... Preserving • the esthe
tics of our world.
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