—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September I, 1973
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A crowd of some 40,000 people attended the three-day Ag Progress Days in heat to watch field demonstrations, plowing contests and to visit the 120
Hershey this past Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They braved searing commercial exhibits.
Lancaster County's David Becker took third place honors in
the large plow plowitig contest held Wednesday in Hershey
during Ag Progress Days.
Harvey Sauder, New Holland RDI, cap- Plowing Contest held Tuesday in Hershey
tured third place in the State Contour during Ag Progress Days.
Ag Progress
Days
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tons of dry organic wastes
yearly.
Other events at the show in
cluded hay and silage com
petition, and the State Plowing
Contests which attracted
thousands of interested spec
tators.
State plowing champions in two
categories were selected on
Tuesday Robert N. Miller, of
RDI, Millersburg, was judged
small plow division champion;
and Dale Rebert, of Spring
Grove, captured the contour
division.
Other small plow contest
winners were Frank Hauser, of
RDI, Milroy, second; and Carl
Bomgardner, of RD3, Annville,
third.
Second and third place in the
contour division were Russell
Cassel, of RD2, Hummelstown,
second; and Harvey Sauder, of
New Holland, third.
In the statewide Hay Crop
Silage Show, also on Tuesday,
Warren Bucher, of RD2, Myer
stown, exhibited the grand
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In the shadow of Founders Hall, a plowman competes In the
small plow division of the State Plowing Contest last Tuesday
at Hershey.
champion sample, a grass low
moisture sample. The reserve
champion, a wilted legume and
grass mixture, was shown by J.
Fred Rice, of RDI, Cham
bersburg.
First place in the low moisture
legume and grass silage class
was Potter Creek Farm, of New
Enterprise, and second, Milton
Hershey School Farm. Potter
Creek Farm also exhibited the
first place wilted grass silage;
and Clair E. Brown, of RDI,
Lewisburg, was second.
Second place winners in other
classes were: Thomas Dunlap, of
RDI, Jersey Shore, wilted
legume and grass mix; Marvin
R. Sauder, of RD2, Ephrata,
wilted Sudan grass and sorghum;
Michael Miller, of RDS, Cham
bersburg, wilted small grains,
and Camp Espy Farm, of Spruce
Creek, low moisture and small
grains.
Grand champion in the Corn
Silage Show was Weidler
Brothers, of RD2, Palmyra. The
winning sample was a whole corn
plant silage with no additives.
Reserve champion, also in the
same class, was a sample shown
by Ray Claypoole, of RD2,
Worthington.
and second place winners
were: nonprotein nitrogen silage,
Clarence A. Keener, Jr., of RDI,
Manheim; and Kenneth
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