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Vol. 19 No. 47
Michael Martin, New Holland RD2,
and Linda High, 2490 Creek Hill Rd.,
Lancaster.Jtook grand and reserve'
granct cha|np|onships, respectively,
"bn Thursday afternoon at the New
'Winners Named
At New Holland
Mike Martin won his first
grand championship in ten
years of showing at the New
Holland 4-H Baby Beef Club
show on Thursday afternoon
at the New Holland Com
munity Fair. In hog com
petition, young Tom Ruoss
copped his second grand
championship in as many
years in the contest which
followed the beef contest.
Mike is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Martin, New
Holland R 2. His 1500-lb.
steer went to the New
Holland Sales Stable after
the show, where it.was sold
Mike Grube - A
Winning 4-Her
Mike Grube has won a
number of prestigious
awards for a young man his
age. For the past few years
he has been interested in
livestock judging and his
knowledge has paid off
several times both in win
ning awards for livestock
judging classes and in
selecting animals.
Mike was a member of 4-H
for 10 years beginning when
he was nine years old. He
carried a number of projects
including market hogs,
steers, field and sweet com
and teen leadership.
He was a member of the
Elm-Penryn Community
Club and also belonged to the
Red Rose Baby Beef Club.
.While.in 4tH„ Mike.com*
Holland Fair baby beef show. It was
Mike’s very last year of competition,
and his very first grand cham
pionship.
to restauranteur Paul
Smucker, owner of the Birdr
in-Hand Motor Inn. Smucker
paid $1.14 a pound for the
meaty crossbred. For Ins
efforts in the showring, Mike
received $1197 from
Smucker, and a $5 bill from.
Abe Diffenbach, the sales'
stable manager who gave $5
to every one of the 26 par
ticipants in the baby beef
show.
The 26 steers, all exhibited
and sold by members of the
New Holland 4-H Baby Beef
Club, was the largest such
event in several years, ac
peted .on the County
Livestock judging teams in
both the junior and senior
divisions. While on the
Junior Team, Mike judged at
the 4-H State Days placing
third on the team. That year,
the team also placed first in
state competition.
This summer, Mike
competed on the senior
livestock judging team. At
the York county contest the
team placed second and
Mike was high individual
judge in hogs.
During the 4-H
Achievement Festival this
summer the team placed sth
and Mike was 20th in in
dividual competition out of
120 4-Hers.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 5, 1974
cording to Mike’s father,
who is the club leader.
The reserve champion
baby beef, a Hereford, was
shown by Linda High,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey High, 2490 Creek Hill
Road.
Linda’s steer sold for 75
cents a pound to Frank
Fillippo, a cattle dealer from
Norristown.
Linda also showed the
grand champion baby beef of
the Ephrata Fair last
Thursday, a crossbred.
The remaining 24 steers
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Market hogs has been one of Mike’s projects for the
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Hearing Set for Oct. 15 ...
Inter-State Sues
PMMB for Action
Inter-State Producers
Cooperative has been
granted a day in court to
present charges against the
Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board for the
Board’s failure, as Inter-
State put it because the
board, in Inter-State’s
opinion, has completely
failed to carry out the state’s
milk marketing law.
In a statement' on the
hearing, which is set for
October 15 in Com
monwealth Court,
Harrisburg, the coop said,
“The PMMB has totally
failed in its duty to set proper
farm prices for milk. Inter-
State has asked the courts to
direct the PMMB to im
mediately, issue current
price orders on hearings' held
by the PMMB more than one
year ago.”
Dr. Paul Hand, economist
for the producers group
which represents 2,400
Pennsylvania dairy farmers,
In This Issue
Farm Calendar 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 56
Fanners Almanac 6
Classified Ads 27
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 44
Organic Living 45
Farm Women Calendar 40
4-H Calendar 49
4-HWeek 48
ASCS Elections 46
Berks Co. DHLA 12
Manheim Fair 24
said that a hearing was held
by the marketing board last
November on a dairyman’s
request for price increase
ranging from $1 to $1.30 per
hundredweight.
This increase, Dr. Hand
said, would represent an
increase of from two to three
cents per quart.
With the current cost
situation, Dr. Hand said, the
increase should be written in
an order from the marketing
board.
Because the board failed to
write an order, a complaint
(calling for a court mandate
for action) was filed Sept. 24.
Since that suit was filed,
Dr. Hand said, the
marketing board has an
nounced it will hold a pre-
Dairymen Urged
To Watch Costs
“Dairymen have always
tried to please the cows in
their feeding programs. But
now, it’s time for the
dairyman to please himself
rather than his cows.
Because if he doesn’t, he’s
going to be losing a lot of
money,” Dr. Richard
Adams, Penn State’s ex
tension dairy specialist told
a crowd of milk producers on
Monday night at the Lan
caster Farm and Home
Center.
“Even if support prices
are ipcreased,” Adams said,
“we still won’t be able to
feed cows the same way we
fed them two years ago. The
most important thing you
can do in a bad feed price
situation is to use only that
amount of feed that can be
economically justified.
We’ve known for a long while
that there are times when it
pays to feed a cow less than
she needs to have for ab
solutely top production. This
is one of those times.”
Among the steps Adams
recommended were to
reduce grain feeding and,
especially, to watch the price
of grain, and to shop around
for the best price. He
reported that he’d been in a
small northeastern Penn
sylvania town recently, and
found a $3 difference in the
price of soybean oil meal
from dealers on opposite
ends of town.
Reducing the cost of
raising recplacements was
another area where Adams
thought farmers could save
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$2.00 Per Year
order conference in
Harrisburg on Nov. 8.
Presumably, Dr. Hand
said the purpose of the Nov. 8
conference is for the board to
announce what they intend to
do as the result of hearings
held almost a year ago.
Inter-State filed the
complaint for three in
dividual dairy farmers and
on behalf of all its members.
The three farmers are
Daniel Martin, Manheim, an
Inter-State director; Samuel
Black, Tyrone; and Willis
Greaser, Williamsburg.
The Coop said it has the
support of other farm
organizations, such as the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, in its action
against the milk board.
Dr. Richard Adams
Lampeter
Sale Sets
Records
Lampeter-Strasburg’s
Garden Spot FFA Chapter
held their annual market hog
and steer sale last Friday at
the close of the West Lam
peter Fair. The grand
champion FFA steer, a
Charolais-Angus cross
brought $1.60 a pound, which
was paid by Willow Valley
Farms, of Willow Street.
The 1125-pound animal
was raised by John Hamish,