Progress Days Is “Biggest Ever”
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David Kocevar, right, from Dauphin County, was the second
place winner in the large plow plowing contest held Wed
nesday in Hershey during Ag Progress Days. He is shown
accepting his award from the 1972 Pennsylvania En
vironmental Queen, and the awards chairman of the plowing
contest.
A side-by-side Ag progress Days demonstration of
soybeans with herbicides and soybeans without
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A perennial favorite at Ag Progress Days through the years has been the
demonstration of field equipment. Studious farmers watched machines like
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Gearhart, of Ringtown; high
energy corn silage, Lynn Bowers,
of RDI, Jersey Shore; and
Ammon E. Reiff, of RD4, Lititz;
and high moisture, high energy
silage, Lewis W. Shore, of RDI,
Washington Boro; and Gilbert N.
Adams, of RDI, New Bloomfield.
In the large plow level land
plowing championships held
Wednesday, the winner was
James F. Mowry, of 775 Deal
Street, Berlin. Second place went
to Frank N. Kocevar, of RDI,
Harrisburg; and third, David D.
Becker, of RDI, Mount Joy.
Contest officials reported that
scoring was extremely close with
only 8 points separating the
second and fifth place winners.
Thomas L. Zartman, of RDI,
Ephrata, exhibited the grand
champion sample in the State
Hay Show. The exhibit was a heat
dried later cutting of alfalfa.
Reserve champion was Milton
Hershey School Farms who
exhibited a heat dried first
cutting of alfalfa.
First place winners in the field
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demonstrated how weeds can take over an uncontrolled
field.
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Early this spring, plots were carefully marked off at the Ag
Progress Days site and planted to a huge variety of crops.
Plant scientists from Penn State even planted a weed plot to
give visitors a first hand look at crop menaces. The weed
garden, in fact, was a much-discussed feature of the three
day show, not for its flourishing crop of weeds, but for its
barrenness.
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this forage harvester perform all three days of the yearly show held this
week in Hershey.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 1,1973
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cured classes are- Joe C Koontz,
of RD2, Wysox, later cutting of
alfalfa ; Robert Knepper, of Star
Route, Three Springs, early
cutting of alfalfa and grass; J E.
Lanius and Son, RD3, York, later
cutting of alfalfa and grass,
Stump Acres, of RD6, York,
clover; Wilkie Mellott, of
Harrisonville, clover and
timothy; J. E Lanius and Son,
first cutting of grass; Daniel
Schlegel, of RDI, Oley, second
cutting of grass, Robert Gabel, of
RD, Newport, mostly legume
hay, and Floyd and Barry Ott, of
RD2, Bangor, mostly grass hay.
In the heat dried division first
place winners were- Jay Mc-
Carrell, of RD2, Eighty Four,
later cutting of alfalfa and grass,
clover, first cutting of grass and
mixed hay. Snyder Brothers, of
Pitman, placed first in the second
cutting of grass class.
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