Mrs. Mark Nestleroth
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event of rain it will be postponed
until 6 p.m. Friday. This always
creates much interest among
participants, grandparents and
spectators.
Friday, the FFA tractor
driving contest will be held at 10
a.m. at Memorial Field and the
adult tractor driving contest at 2
p.m.
At 8 p.m. Friday the swine sale
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County produces and markets
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200,000 hogs a year and is among
the top 70 counties in the United
States in hog production.
Nestleroths play no small part
in thig production of pork. They
market 1100 to 1200 pigs a year.
They had 75 sows last year and
had 150 litters for the whole year.
Twenty-six of those litters were
purebred Durocs and the rest
were crossbred litters. They will
have one purebred Yorkshire
litter in October which they will
use for breeding stock.
They intend to expand next
year to 95 sows. Of that amount 20
to 25 will be purebred Duroc
instead of 13 they have now. They
are just starting to sell for
breeding. Last year they sold 200
commercial gilts for breeding.
This year they will probably have
40 purebreds, gilts and boars to
sell. They have 25 Duroc boars to
sell now. They sell Duroc
purebred bred gilts, open gilts
and boars, also crossbred open
gilts.
They also sell market hogs to
Hatfield Packing Company in
Lansdale and to Pennsylvania
Agricultural Commodity
Marketing Association through
PaulZ. Martin, near Intercourse.
They will employ a swine herd
sman in October to take care of
their herd expansion.
Mark also exhibits purebred
Durocs, market stock and
crossbred market barrows. He
had the grand champion Duroc
carcass at the Keystone In
ternational Livestock Exposition
last November.
Three weeks ago Mark showed
at the Pennsylvania Duroc Fall
Show and Sale at Paul Z. Martin’s
near Intercourse. He had the
grand champion bred gilt which
sold for $4lO and the reserve
champion boar which sold for
$460. They were top selling in
their classes. He also had an open
gilt that placed third in her class.
The show was at 4:30 and the sale
at 7:30 p.m. They have a spring
and a fall show and sale. He also
shows at the Keystone In
ternational Live Stock Exposition
at Harrisburg.
Mark is president of the
Pennsylvania Pork Producers
Council, on the board of directors
of the Lancaster County Pork
Producers Council, having also
served as their president two
years, and attends the National
Pork Producers Council,
congresses and a couple other
meetings. They meet about six
times a year. He is on the swine
committee of Keystone In
ternational Livestock Exposition
which meets at the Farm Show
Building, Harrisburg November
8-13. He is also a member of the
National Duroc Association and
the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association. His father also
belongs to the swine
organizations and the P.F.A.
Hazel and Mrs. Carl Nestleroth
are members of the National and
State Pork Producer Porkettes.
Hazel is secretary of the state
council which just organized last
year. They have 58 members.
There are 2000 Porkettes in the
nation. Their purpose is to sup
plement the work of the Pork
Producers Council. Their main
goal is to promote pork. Ann
Norman, who is in the national
office in Des Moines, lowa, sets
up guidelines for the Porkettes.
They are sending brochures to
each general practitioner in
(agway)
Pennsylvania. They will send
four letters to them which will be
hand addressed every three
months. The brochures are put
out by the National Pork
Producers, each one on a golf
theme. The first one is “Tee Off
For Pork.” Their big October
promotion is called “October
Pork Fest.” Each Porkette will
give recipes and brochures about
pork to a couple stores. Last year
they sent a thousand or more
brochures to all the restaurants
that were members of the
Restaurant Association in
Pennsylvania. They are selling
“Jaspers” (plastic pigs) at $4
apiece to make money. Every
good pork producer should have a
Jasper.
Another way Mrs. Nestleroth is
helping pork promotion will be
her preparation of pork loin
Lahaina for a luau which the
Women’s Club of Lititz is having
for its members September 17,
6:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church social hall in Lititz. They
expect about 120 women. The
purpose is to introduce them to
facts and ways to prepare pork.
After the meal she will talk to
them and show the film “Pork an
Exciting Taste Treat.” She will
give each one a recipe booklet
and will give away a loin roast as
a door prize.
Besides clerking at the
Manheim Farm Show hog sale
Mrs. Nestleroth helps her
husband by helping to show his
swine at the Keystone In
ternational Livestock Exposition.
She also keeps most of the farm
financial records and does the
banking. Mark keeps strict
records on his livestock which
she helps with.
Mr. and Mrs Mark Nestleroth
live in the farm house of his
parents’ 147 acre farm on Airy
Hill Road, near Penryn, in Penn
Township. They named their
farm “Dutch Valley Farm”.
Mark and his father, Carl,
operate this farm and 46 acres of
two small neighboring farms on a
partnership bases. They till 98
acres of the home farm and use
some as pasture and rent some of
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the pasture. They grow 113 acres
of corn, 17 acres of barley, six
acres of grain sorghum and no
till soybeans after the barley, five
acres of soybeans and two acres
of hay which they sell to neigh
bors. They keep 10,000 layers a
year on contract but after
November will have their own
chickens and sell their eggs to
Producers Pride at Coatesville.
Mark was born and raised on
this farm and is at least the
fourth generation to live there.
He took a college prep course and
graduated from Manheim
Central High School. He took
Animal Science and graduated
from Penn State University in
1966 and has been farming ever
since. He was in the 4-H Swine
Club seven or eight years. He was
also in tobacco, corn,
strawberries and sweet corn 4-H
clubs.
Hazel, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Balmer, Lititz RD2,
grew up on their farm. They have
24,000 chickens in a cage
operation. They are putting in a
beef operation now. They did
have a Holstein dairy and usually
raised eight acres of tobacco. One
year they had 16 acres of tobacco.
Hazel helped with the tobacco but
usually did the house work while
her mother worked outside.
Hazel took a college prep course
and graduated from Manheim
Central High School and from Mi
llersville State College in 1965.
She taught second grade at
East Petersburg Elementary
School one year before marriage
and for three and a half years
afterward. This is her third year
to teach nursery school at Penryn
Lutheran Church. Her school will
start September 24 and she will
teach two mornings a week.
Mark and Hazel have two
daughters. Stacy is three and
one-half years and Beth Ann is
eight weeks old.
Nestleroths are members of St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church, Lititz.
Hazel has taught third and fourth
grade children in the Sunday
School for six years.
Hazel was in 4-H sewing four
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