Periodicals Division
Vol. 19 No. 48
Ron Kreider, right, Manheim RDS
showed his crossbred animal to the
grand championship of the Manheim
Community Fair baby beef show on
County Fair Season
Closes In Manheim
Lancaster County’s fair
season drew to a close this
week with the annual
Manheim Community Fair.
Youngsters competed for
trophies and prize money
with hogs, steers, sheep and
cows, some of them
repeating triumphs scored at
other area furs. An unusual
feature of this year’s show
was the annual Penn
sylvania Pork Producers
Cooking Contest held
Thursday night.
The contest was won by the
Lancaster County Swine
Producers representative,
Jon McClure. McClure is
from Bucks County, is a
consumer education
specialist with Food Fair,
and won the judges’ palates
with a tasty concoction of
fresh sausage, buttermilk
FFA To Honor
Area Teachers
And Students
by Melissa Piper
Two area vocational
agricultural teachers will be
receiving their Honorary
American Fanner Degrees
when the 47th National FFA
convention convenes on Oct.
15th in Kansas City.
Dr. William Fredd, Solano
and Neal Burtner, Owen J.
Roberts High School, Berks
County, will with 72
other teachers from 31 states
will be receiving their
awards during the Thursday
morning session of the
convention.
Dr. William Fredd resides
at 410 W. Chestnut St. in
Wednesday night Tom Good, Lititz
RD2, was the reserve grand cham
pion winner. Both steers were 4-H
entries.
and cheese, done to per
fection on a charcoal grill.
Other Thursday evening
action saw Russel Kline,
Reinholds Rl, add even more
glitter to what must surely
be a bulging trophy case.
The 19-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Kline
showed his four-year-old
Fought-Land Eagle Ingra to
capture top prize in both
Holstein and best 4-H and
FFA dairy competion.
Another big dairy winner
was Linda Kauffman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Kauffman,
Elizabethtown Rl. Linda
walked off with the top fit
ting as well as the top
showmanship award.
Other dairy show winners
were;
Quarryville with his wife
Francis, and has been a
vocational agricultural
instructor for the past
several years at Solanco
High School.
Fredd received his
masters degree from the
University of Delaware in
1965 and recently received
his Ph.D. from Penn State in
agricultural education.
Under his direction,
numerous students have won
their American Farmer
Degrees or have par
ticipated on award winning
judging teams.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 12, 1974
Ayrshire
Junior Calf - Daryl Martin,
Dennis Martin.
Intermediate Calf - Doreen
Martin (junior champion).
Senior Calf - Cherry Kupp.
.Junior Yearling - Teresa
Kupp, Mike Breidenstein.
Senior Yearling - Dennis
Martin, Daryl Martin.
Junior get of Sire - Teresa
Kupp, Cherry Kupp and
Mike Breidenstein. first.
Aged Cow - Daryl Martin
(grand champion), Dennis
Martin.
Daughter-Dam - Dennis
Martin.
Produce of Dam - Dennis
Martin.
Best Udder - Daryl Martin,
Dennis Martin.
Holstein
Junior Bull Calf - Russel
Kline, Daryl Bollinger, Paul
Homing.
Senior Bull Calf - Linda
Kauffman, Ruby Ginder.
Junior Calf - Russel Kline,
Steve Kauffman, Martha
Gregory, Jim Rutt, Marlin
Gruber.
Intermediate Calf - Arlan
Keener, Richard Bollinger,
Paul Homing, Glenn Kline,
Lowell Brubaker.
Senior Calf - Junior
Rodgers, Kerry Boyd,
Martha Gregory, Ruby
Ginder, Daryl Bollinger.
Junior Yearling - Russel
Kline, Richard Bollinger,
Ruby Ginder.
Senior yearling - Linda
Kauffman (junior cham
pion). Arlan Keener, Steve
Kauffman, Paul Horning,
Kerry Boyd.
Junior Get of Sire - Russel
Kline, Paul Homing, first;
Lowell Brubaker, Christine
Brubaker, second.
Two-Year-Old - Jay
Zimmerman.
Three-Year-Old - Robert
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At USDA’s Chicago Hearing . . .
Dairymen Ask
For 81 c Hike
If dairymen from across
the country get their wish,
they could have an 81-cent
per hundredweight boost in
milk prices in all 61 federal
market orders throughout
the U.S. The increase could
be effective as early as
November 1, according to
some observers attending
the nation-wide milk
hearings conducted this
week in Chicago by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
Dairy groups have been
clamoring for a price
hearing for months. The lade
of action by the USDA has
been credited to the
department’s belief that
bumper crops this year
would drive feed costs down
and dairymen’s earnings up.
The summer drought in the
Midwest however/ changed
the picture. And when frost
hit big portions of cornbelt
country in late September,
the hearing was hurriedly
scheduled.
Among the area groups
giving testimony at the
hearing were the Penn
sylvania Farmers
Association and the Inter-
State Milk Producers
Cooperative.
Speaking for PFA was
Charles Dull, commodity
director for the general farm
organization that represents
farmers throughout the
state. “In recent month,”
Dull told the hearing of
ficials, “we have observed a
general deterioration in
prices paid to producers. All
signs at this point indicate
even further deterioration
this fall and winter. Yet
during this period, the prices
of a dairy fanner’s inputs
continue to climb.”
Dull told the hearing that
even if some action were
taken to give price relief to
farmers, the relief would be
only temporary unless some
measures were taken to
include the cost of produc
tion in the price. Whatever
price may come out of the
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 56
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 28
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 41
Organic Living 45
Farm Women Calendar 43
4-HNews 46
Junior Cooking Edition 42
Growing Degree Days 45
ABS Open House 24
Chicago hearing, he pointed
out, would not take into
account the probable in
creases which will come up
in the months ahead.
Discussing the hearing
after he had returned to his
Philadelphia office, Dr. Paul
Hand, Inter-State’s chief
economist, said that an 81-
cent increase would give
producers in Philadelphia's
Federal Order 4 market area
a blend price of $10.28 in
November. “But that’s still
Conservationist
Plants Corn in
Downhill Rows
Aaron Stauffer planted his
com up and down the hills
this year on his Ephrata RDI
farm. It’s the kind of plan
ting that seems to go against
a basic tenet of conservation
fanning. And yet, the man
with the downhill rows is
chairman of the Lancaster
County Conservation
District board of directors.
For two year’s he was
president of the Penn
sylvania Association of
Conservation Districts, and
This group of conservationists was photographed
Thursday morning walking through Aaron Stauffer’s
downhill corn rows. Stauffer, Ephrata RDI is chair
man of the Lancaster County Conservation District,
and planted his corn rows with the slopes this year in
an attempt to conserve crop and fuel.
$2.00 Per Year
65-cents under the price last
spring,” Hand pointed out.
“'Hie situation is getting
critical,” he noted. “If grain
prices go much higher
without some price relief for
dairy farmers, we’re going
to see a lot of herds
slaughtered. Producers are
trying to decide whether or
not they’ll go on in the face of
higher and higher costs.”
Asked about the chances
for a milk price hike, Hand
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he’s currently serving as a
member of the State Rural
Environmental Control
Program advisory board .
Stauffer has been an avid
conservationist for 20 years,
his father before him was a
conservationist and his son
Carl is a believer in con
servation techniques.
Is Aaron Stauffer, then, a
conservation backslider?
Not on your life.
“I’m convinced you can
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