Winners Named
'(ContfmMd From Paul)
sold for between SO and 70
cents a pound, quite a con
trast to the cattle auction
which preceded the 4-H sale
where the top price was 46.50
cents a pound.
Mike Martin also
placed first in the
showmanship contest,
finishing ahead of Cindy
Yoder, Morgantown, who
came in second. And in
fitting, Mike took second
prize, coming in second
behind his sister Kathy.
Placings in the three
breeds were:
Hereford
Linda High, 2490 Creek Hill
Road, first; Kathy Martin,
New Holland Rl, second;
Tim Groff, New Holland Rl,
third; Gerald Eberly, East
Earl R 2, fourth; Dale
Hershey, Ronks Rl, fifth.
Crossbred
Mike Martin, New Holland
Rl, first; Jeff Martin, New
Holland Rl, second; Cindy
Yoder, Morgantown, third;
Donna Eberly, East Earl R 2,
fourth; Gordon Hoover, Gap
Rl, fifth.
Tami Groff, New Holland
Rl, first; Tony Weaver, Gap
Rl, second; Audrey Hoover,
Gap Rl, third; Glenn Yoder,
Morgantown, fourth; Donald
Bowman, Ronks Rl, fifth.
Judge for the baby beef
From the Beginning
show was Donald Nichols,
beef cattle herdsman at
Penn State. Nichols also
judged the hog show which
followed.
Hog Winners
Tom Ruoss, the 12-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Frank Ruoss, is following in
the footsteps of his older
brother, now in the Air
Force, who took the grand
champion ribbon in the New
Holland hog show for three
years in a row. Tom has a
good seven years of com
petition left, and is hoping to
equal or improve on his
brother’s record.
Tom’s grand champion of
the show was a Duroc. His
father is a Duroc breeder.
The seventh-grader at
Conestoga Valley Junior
High School also won the
showmanship award.
The reserve champion
market hog a crossbred, was
shown by Susie Martin, New
Holland R 2. She also placed
first in the fitting contest.
Third place in the show
went to her sister, Jeanie
Martin, who also exhibited a
crossbred. Esta Lapp,
Kinzer Rl, showed the fourth
place hog while Mike Mc-
Cauley, Kinzer Rl, showed
the fifth plSce hog.
The hogs were scheduled
to be auctioned off at 2:00
pm. on Friday.
Hoover Wins
Tractor Driving
Two Lancaster County
teenagers took the top two
placings in the area Future
Fanners of America tractor
driving competition between
Lancaster and Chester
counties yesterday.
Gordon Hoover, 17, son of
Mr, and Mrs. Raymond M.
Hoover, Gap Rl, took the
grand champion trophy
while David Martin, 15-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Martin, Ephrata
R 2, took the reserve grand
champion honors.
The event was scheduled
to be held last Saturday at
the Ephrata Fair but after
rain soaked the course, the
event was moved to New
Holland yesterday af
ternoon.
Each participating
chapter in both counties
entered one member in the
contest which included both
a written examination on
tractor driving and safety
and the actual driving
competition held yesterday.
In the driving competition,
Paul Smucker, left, owner of the
Bird-in-Hand Motor Inn, paid $1.14
per pound for this grand champion
the FFA members drove a larger stall,
tractor towing a manure They also had to pull a
spreader through a course wagon out of one stall and
and then had to back the into a just-slightly-larger
vehicle into a just slightly stall.
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Lancaster,Farming, Saturday. Oct. 5.1974—19
crossbred steer shown Thursday at
the New Holland Fair by Mike Mai tin.
New Holland RD2.
Harvest
Frosted
Beans
Quickly
Lancaster County
agricultural agent Max
Smith Friday urged farmers
with double-cropped
soybeans out in the field to
get them into the silo as soon
as possible. “Beans that
were planted in May should
have been mature enough
before the frost hit to dry
down enough for normal
harvest. Those farmers who
double-cropped beans after
barley, though, may find
themselves with a immature
beans that will never dry
down to the proper 12 to 15
percent moisture stage.
These can be made into
silage, but they should be
gotten out of the field just as
soon as possible.”
Smith said there might be
several hundred acres of
soybeans in Lancaster
County that were double
cropped after barley, going
in sometime after June 1.
These are the beans most
likely to be frost damaged,
and they should be put into
the silo this week.
American Viewpoints
We cross the prairie as of
old the Pilgrims crossed the
sea, to make the West, as they
the East, the homestead of
the free!
—John Greenlief Whittier