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FARM TRENDS
A summary of market
and commodity news ,
for the past week D]f QICK mUM
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Visit Ag Progress Days
For the newest of the new, you’ll want to see Ag Progress
Days being held next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Over 100 exhibitors have signed up for this year’s event and
the Ag Progress committee says it's expecting some 30,000
visitors A special Ag Progress Days guide starts on page 41
Holloway Family Foils
Rustlers
It was like a latter day Western movie at the Clifford
Holloway farm in Wakefield early Friday morning when a pair
of would-be rustlers made off with eleven Holloway calves
The two thieves drove straight through an electric fence and
backed their pickup up to a small yard not more than 100
feet away from Holloway’s bedroom window
“About one thirty in the morning, I heard some commotion
, out there, like something was bothering the calves,”
Holloway said “I went to the window, and I saw them just as
they were leaving I called the State Police, and meanwhile
my son, Cliff, got into his car and chased them down the
road.”
Young Holloway eventually caught up with the thieves, but
he didn’t try any Roy Rogers heroics The pickup was parked
alongside the road, and the rustlers were scrambling to fix a
tire that had gone flat Probably, Holloway conjectures, they
poked a nail through the tire when they ran over the electric
fence
Continuing on down the road, young Holloway contacted
the Maryland State Police and the thieves were ap
prehended without much trouble They were young, 17 and
18, and didn’t tell anybody what they planned to do with the
calves.
The animals, eight heifers and three bulls, had been
jammed into the pickup and covered with a canvas tarpulm.
The oldest calf was six weeks old and the youngest was two
weeks old Holloway said he told the police the animals were
worth at least $125 to $l5O apiece
On Friday morning, the Holloway family was working to
keep the calves healthy, trying to get them to eat and giving
Successful contenders in the Lebanon
County plowing contest held last Wed
nesday were Sven Bomberger, seated,
Marßomga ~J
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 25, 1973
Witmer Receives U.S.
Guernsey Youth Award
When the American Guernsey
Cattle Club held their annual
meeting recently in Orlando,
Florida, they named Lancaster
County’s own Peter Witmer as
their 1973 Outstanding Guernsey
Youth Award winner. The Penn
State senior and son of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Witmer, Willow
Street RDI, had previously been
named Outstanding Guernsey
Youth for Pennsylvania.
Peter’s national recognition
caps a ten-year record of steady
achievement in farm youth ac
tivities. In 1963, the year he got
his first Guernsey heifer, Peter
took a first prize in his first
Lancaster County Guernsey
Roundup. That blue ribbon was
the first of many he was to collect
over the years. A trophy case in
the Witmer basement rec room
today is crammed full of ribbons,
plaques, citations and trophies.
Hard work and a firm com
mitment to dairying have been
the twin keys to young Witmer’s
success. “I can’t work too much
at home, now, because I’m going
to Penn State,” he says. “But
summers and daring school
vacations I do help out with the
milking and all the other farm
chores.” As a seasoned
showman, one of Witmer’s extra
duties is the preparation of all
animals that are entered in dairy
shows.
Another special duty is taking
over the farm whenever his
parents are away. Peter’s father,
Raymond, is serving'ms second
five-year term on the board of
directors of the American
Guernsey Cattle Club, and he’s
active in other farm groups as
well.
Peter has had plenty of op-
Bomgardner. Ail three men will compete in
the State Plowing Contest to be held
during Ag Progress Days.
portunities for soloing as a farm
operator. The first time he took,
over was for a ten-day period
while his parents were in Seattle
fortiie annual national Guernsey
meeting. “I was only 15 years old
at the time,” Peter recalled,
“and I thought I could hardly
Form Catomior
Monday, August 27
8 p.m. - DHIA Quarterly
Directors meeting, Farm and
Home Center.
Fulton Grange “Old Timers
Night”, Oakryn.
Tuesday, August 28
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Agricultural
Progress Days, Hershey,
August 28-30.
10 a.m. - State Plowing Contest,
Contour and Small Plow
Divisions, Hershey.
4-H District Dairy Show, Farm
Show Building, Harrisburg.
Wednesday, August 29
10 a.m. - State Plowing Contest,
Large Plow Division, Her
shey.
Southeastern FFA Regional
Dairy Show, Farm Show
Building, Harrisburg.
Reading Fair, August 29 - Sep
tember 3.
Plowmen Compete
In Lebanon Co.
Ten plowmen turned out for the
Lebanon County Plowing Contest
on Wednesday, and three men
were chosen to participate in the
State Plowing Contest to be held
next week during Ag Progress
Days at Hershey. A soil and land
judging contest was also held at
the same time. Both events were
joint efforts of the Lebanon
County Agricultural Extension
office and Soil Conservation
Service. Prize monies and other
assistance were provided by
„ area equipment ■ dealers. The
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carry the responsibility. Now, it’s
still a great responsibility, but I
don’t feel nearly as unsure. I’m
more confident of my ability to
make rational farming
decisions.”
With his practical farming
experience, and his dairy science
degree from Penn State, Peter
appears headed toward a suc
cessful career as a dairy farmer.
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In This Issue ...
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 32
Fanners Almanac 6
Classified Ads 36-39
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 54
4-H Calendar 23
DHIA Report 62
Ag Progress Days 41
Andy Augsburger
Award (Photo) 30
Heifer Project (Photo) 11
Lebanon Fair Results 40
Lebanon Co. 4-H
Hog Show 25
Lebanon County
Poultry Queen 22
Kutztown Fair Results 40
Chester County 4-H
Dairy Roundup 18
contest was held on the Harry
Bomgardner farm, north of
Annville.
Carl Bomberger captured first
prize in soil and land judging
competition senior division. John
Bomgardner was second, while
John Moyer was third.
Dean Hoover came in first in
the junior soil judging contest,
Tim Krall was second and Tim
Dundore finished third. Judges
for the contest were Karl
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