Vol. 18 No. 46
Ruby Cinder, left, Sharon Henley and
Dennis Hostetter were the three FFA calf
winners announced Thursday during the
Lancaster County FFA Judging Contest
FFA Girls Get 2 of 3 Calves
It was ladies’ day at the FFA
Judging Contest held Thursday
during the Manheim Community
Farm Show. Dairy breed
associations presented three
calves to FFA students at the
event, and girls walked away
with two of them.
Ruby Ginder, Elizabethtown
RD3, received the Holstein, and
Sharon Henley, Cochranville
RDI, got the Ayrshire. Saving
face for the stronger sex was
Dennis Hostetter, Bowmansville
RDI, who received the Guernsey
calf.
Ruby, a sophomore at
Manheim Central High School, is
the daughter of Mr and Mrs.
Robert Ginder. Her Holstein calf
was bred by Donald Hershey,
Manheim RD2, and donated by
the Lancaster County Holstein
Association,
Sharon Henley is a sophomore
at Octorara Area High School in
Chester County. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
nard Henley, Jr. Milton
Brubaker, president of the
Southeastern Ayrshire Breeders
Club presented the calf, bred by
Mrs. Edgar Scott, Villanova, to
Sharon.
The Guernsey calf winner is a
sophomore at Garden Spot High
School and is the son of Mr. and
Farm Calendar
Saturday, October b
8 p.m. - Fulton Hay
Ride; meet, Clifford Holloway
Jr. Farm near Wakefield.
Sunday, October 7
National 4-H Week October 7 -13.
Monday, October 8
8 p.m. - Joint meeting, DHIA
Directors and Supervisors,
Farm and Home Center.
Fulton Grange meeting, In
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Mrs. Robert Hostetter, Denver
RDI. His calf was bred by K. D.
Linde, Kirkwood, and presented
by Arthur Brenneman, Willow
Street RDI.
The calf presentations came at
the close of the annual Lancaster
County FFA Judging Contest.
Close to 700 students from the
nine county vo-ag departments
participated in the contest.
Because of the number of con
testants, results will not be
tabulated for several weeks.
Super Judge Henry Gruber did it all on Wednesday at
the Manheim Community Farm Show. Gcuber, hands on
hips, is a buyer for A&B Packing Co., and a recognized
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. October 6, 1973
r.a.nca»ter Farming- Photo
held at the Manheim Community Farm
Show. The calves were donated by local
Holstein, Ayrshire and Guernsey breed
associations.
In all, there were eight classes
of livestock to be judged with
each student spending 15 minutes
on each class. There were three
dairy classes, two classes of
steers and one each of market
hogs, market lambs and laying
hens.
A spirited tug-’o-war contest
capped the morning’s activities.
It was won by the Manheim
Central team, who outpulled the
fighting Mountaineers of
Ephrata
At Manheim , New Holland . . .
County Fair
Season Ends
Lancaster County’s 1974 fair
season ended this week about the
way it began three weeks ago,
with warm temperatures and
sunny skies. The Manheim and
New Holland fairs capped a busy
few weeks, which saw some of the
youthful contestants turning up in
winners circles from one end of
the county to the other.
Lancaster Co.
Farm. Assoc.
Slates Meeting
Troy Barton, field coordinator
for the American Agricultural
Marketing Association, will be
the guest speaker at the Lan
caster County Farmers’
Association annual meeting. The
meeting will be held at the
Harvest Drive Restaurant on
Route 340 just east of Intercourse
at 7:00 on October 15.
Barton works with all the
AAMA marketing activities,
concentrating his time on the
broiler program. He is also
responsible for a newly
developed fowl sales program.
Born and reared on a farm in
Gordon County, Georgia, Barton
is a University of Georgia
graduate, where he earned a BS
in the College of Agriculture in
1949.
Tickets for the annual meeting
are $4 a person. Reservations
must be in by October 10, and can
be made by contacting any board
member or Nathan Stoltzfus at
442-4291.
authority on meat animals. Starting early in the af
ternoon, he judged the sheep, hog and beef shows,
finishing up in the late evening.
$2.00 Per Year
Russel Kline and his super
Holstein dominated the dairy
show at Manheim, taking grand
champion honors and the grand
champion showmanship ribbon
' as well. Kline had earlier won at
the Ephrata Fair and was the
county’s big gun at the Penn
sylvania Junior Dairy Show in
Harrisburg. Kline also had the
champion junior Holstein title
and won the best udder com
petition at Manheim.
The reserve champion of the
show was Linda Kauffman,
Elizabethtown, who had the
second place three-year-old along
with the champion senior
Holstein calf.
Linda’s entry was also the
reserve champion junior
Holstein. Her three-year-old also
placed second in the best udder
competition, behind Kline’s cow
She placed third m
showmanship, behind Kline and
Paul Bollinger, Manheim RDI,
who finished second.
The best three females of the
show were shown by Ronald
Gruber, Elizabethtown RD3;
with the entries of Clarence and
Earl Stauffer, Ephrata RDI,
placing second and Darryl
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In This Issue
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 47
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 29
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 34
DHIA 20
Lancaster Panning Photo