—Lancaster Firming. Saturday. August 31. 1974
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Jay Calvin Zimmerman, left, shows during the annual Southeastern
his reserved champion cow, while Regional FFA District Dairy Show in
Russel L Kline holds onto his grand Harrisburg,
champion animal on Wednesday
4-H, FFA, Holstein
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champion - Bruce Wrigley,
Octorara; reserve junior -
Tom McMililon, Solanco.
County group; 1 - Chester.
SOUTHCENTRAL
SIDTRICT HOLSTEIN
Grand and 2-yr.-old
champion - Robert Kauff
man, Elizabethtown Rl;
reserve grand and 3-Yr.-old
champion - Robert E. Gett,
Littlestown; 4-yr.-old,
Russell L. Kline, Reinholds;
aged - Lynn Royer, Lan
caster; dry 3-to-4-yr.-old -
Lynn Royer; dry 5-yrs. and
over - Cindy Knight, Air
ville; 100,000-lb. class -
George Knight, Airville.
Grand champion and
Grapes
costs anywhere from $2OOO to
$2500 an acre to start, but it
doesn’t take too long to
recoup the investment.”
Booming wine sales in the
U.S. have lent strength to the
grape market, and have
lured land owners and in
vestors into vineyard
operations. Wood expects the
growth in wine sales to
continue, although possibly
at a slower rate than is the
past few years. He sees a
rosy •future ahead for good
growers, especially in
Pennsylvania where the
limited Wineries Act of 1969
has created a favorable
environment for the state’s
win industry and vintners.
There are three basic
kinds of grapes grown in the
state. Most of the acreage in
Erie County, and therefore
the state, is planted to so
called native American
grapes such as the
Delaware, Niagara and
Concorde. These are the
sweet grapes used for eating,
jams, jellies and juice.
Native grapes are very
hardy. Vinifera, of which
there are very few acres in
the state, are the European
grapes used in the produc
tion of fine French and
California vines. Vinifera
are ordinarily not thought to
be very well suited to Penn
sylvania’s climate, but some
are grown. In Erie County,
farmers with Vinifera
grapes are looking forward
to receiving $7OO to $BOO a ton
for their grapes.
Wood has so far planted 30
acres of French hybrids,
which are hardier than
Vinifera, and which also
senior champion bull - Meryl
Shaeffer, Carlisle; junior
champion bull • Russell L.
Kline.
Junior champion and
champion senior yearling -
Meryl Shaeffer; reserve
junior champion - Ira L.
Boyer, york; junior calf -
Paul E. Miller, Linglestown;
intermediate calf, Kevin
Laughman, York; senior
calf - Darvin Rogers, Jr.,
Marietta; junior yearling -
James Knight, Airville.
Junior get-of-sire - Meryl
Shaeffer; best three females
- Blossomelle Holsteins,
Lancaster; senior get-of-sire
- Wayne Betshore, New
Cumberland; produce of
dam - Paul King, Delta.
makes good wine. They are
not ordinarily used for
eating. And most of the new
acreage being planted is
going into French hybrid
production.
One of the first to grow the
French hybrids was Tom
Hampton, Holtwood Rl. He
planted his four-and-a-half
acres some seven years ago,
and he said this year’s crop
is the very best he’s seen yet.
He expects to start picking
shortly, and said this year he
hopes to try a pick-your-own
scheme for amateur
winemakers.
Hampton sells about half
his output to the amateur
winemakers, and the other
half to commerical wineries.
He’s also very optimistic
about the future of local
vineyards, and noted that the
price for grapes this year
was up about a third over
last year.
Mrs. John Housekeeper,
Christiana Rl, said she
expects a bumper crop from
her five-and-a half acres,
too. In York County, John
Germick, Red Lion, said he’s
looking for a good crop, too.
Germick grows the native
varieties, rather than the
French hybrids, and has one
of the oldest commercial
vineyards in the country.
Arnold Lueck, Lancaster
County Associate Agent, said
he’s very impressed with
this year’s grape crop and
with the industry in general
in this area. “The growth
here has been phenomenal,”
he said Thursday morning.
“We discovered that we had
the soil and the climate to
grow wine grapes in this
county and the industry has
really taken off.”
Dam and daughter -
Russell Kline; dairy herd -
Meryl Shaeffer; county herd
- Lancaster.
Premiere exhibitor: - 1 -
Meryl Shaeffer, Carlisle; 2 -
George Knight, Airville; 3 -
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The top two Holsteins in Tuesday’s Royer, left, who showed the grand
Southcentral District 4-H Dairy Show champion, and Linda Kauffman, who
in Harrisburg belonged to Lynn had the reserve animal.
Robert H. Kauffman,
Elizabethtown.
Premiere breeder: 1 -
Meryl Shaeffer; 2
Blossomelle Holsteins,
Lancaster; 3 - George
Knight.