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Vol. 20 No. 1
Keystone Livestock
Expo Winners Listed
The 18th Annual Keystone
Livestock Exposition opened
its doors this week to
thousands of visitors and
some 3700 livestock entries.
Over 30 states were
represented in the judging
ring during the four-and-a
half days of activity which
began on Sunday with horse
and swine competition and
ended Thursday afternoon
with the Junior and in
tercollegiate judging con
test.
Pennsylvania’s 4-H
judging team finished 7th in
a field of 15 in the junior
Parke Named
PLAIA Head
After he was elected
president of the Penn
sylvania Livestock and
Allied Industries Association
on Wednesday night in
Donald W. Parke
Connie Horst
Foods and Nutrition
4-H Award Winner
by: Melissa Piper
Connie Horst is a young
lady who has been an active
4-H member for a number of
years doing much of her
project work in the Foods
and Nutrition areas.
Connie has taken almost
evey food and nutrition
project available in 4-H
including Pack A Meal, All
American Food, Tasty
Snacks, It’s Fun To Bake and
Meals for Today.
This past summer she
gave a demonstration en
titled “Say Cheese” that
dealt with dairy foods and
their uses. The demon
stration was so well done
that Connie won first place
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
competition. The winning
team was Kentucky.
Area winners in the
various competitions are
listed below.
Jr. Barrow Show
Steve Trestle, Red Lion,
York County showed the
Grand champion barrow on
foot during the Junior
Barrow show. Reserve
champion barrow was shown
by James R. Yeazel, of
Taton, Ohio.
In the light-weight class it
was Donna H. Lazarus that
took first place with Mike
Harrisburg, PLAIA mem
bers attending their annual
banquet heard Donald Parke
say, “I have never owned a
farm, lived on a farm or had
any formal agricultural
training. I also have never
managed a business • either
intentionally or otherwise -
for a profit. But, I am
nevertheless honored to be
your president.”
In that post, Parke will be
responsible for overseeing
the operations of the
association which is in
strumental in patting on the
annual Keystone In
ternational Livestock Ex
position.
Parke’s self-effacing
inaugural speech was
greeted by warm and
friendly applause. Not a
single voice was raised to
decry the fact that the new
president had never filled a
silo, drenched a steer,
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honors at the local, state and
regional levels.
Dairy foods was a natural
field for Connie since she
lives on a dairy farm with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Irvin Horst, RDI,
Newmanstown in Lebanon
County. And along with her
work in home-economics
projects, Connie also took
Dairy projects in the Cedar
Crest Dairy Club. She has
had a calf for the past four
years.
This summer, Connie
exhibited her calf at the
Lebanon Fair placing sth in
her class and was also
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 16, 1974
Grube, Elm, placing second.
John Mummert, Seven
Valleys placed third with
Tim Grube also of Elm
taking fourth place.
In the medium weight
class it was James Yeazel,
Taton, Ohio who placed first
with Peggy Rodibaugh,
Rensselaer, Indiana; taking
second place honors. Harold
Mummert 11, Seven
Valleys; took third place
with Keith Martin, Hamp
stead, MD., placing fourth.
Four Youngsters exhibited
animals in the heavy weight
class with Steve Trestle, Red
Lion, placing first followed
by Darlene McConaguhey,
Smicksburg; Wayne E.
Bankert, Red Lion, and
Michael Bankert, Red Lion.
Breeding Swine
Strawbridge and Mc-
Cleary farms in Stewart
stown, York County
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In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 53
Farmers Almanac 6
Classified Ads 27
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 55
Home on the Range 43
Organic Living 45
Farm Women Calendar 42
Thoughts in Passing 47
Junior Cooking Edition 41
Chester Co. DHIA 12
Lane. Co. 4-H
Dairy Awards 16
Kiwanis Capons 5
S.E. Grape Growers 5
Ag-Industry Banquet 14
Holiday Homemakers 24
Donald Hershey, Manheim RD6, was awarded the
Pennsylvania Young Farmer Outstanding Community
Service Award last week at the annual PYFA meeting
in Roaring Springs.
A Last Acre ceremony was held
Thursday afternoon at the Mb Zion
Fire Haft to celebrate the completion
of Lebanon County's Soil Survey.
Donald Hoizer, center, examines a
soil sample while George Wolff, left,
Lebanon Soil Survey
Last Acre Ceremony
Lebanon County was of
ficially completely soil
surveyed at a Last Acre
Ceremoney Thursday af
ternoon. Donald Holzer, soil
survey party chief, US Soil
Conservation Service,
George Wolff, Chairman of
the Lebanon County Con
and Phil Feather look on. Wolff is
chairman of the Lebanon {County Soil
Conservation District boa rtf Of
directors, while Feather is a Lebanon
County Commissioner and a member
of the conservation board.
servation District and Philip
Feather, County Com
missioner member of the
Lebanon Conservation
District, combined to mark
the last line on the soil
survey map.
These soil survey maps
showthe soil mapped and the
slope range. In addition to
the soil maps, the soil survey
work includes drainage, soil
depth, depth to bed rock,
flooding hazard, depth to
seasoned high water table,
perculation rates, crop
production, woodland, site
index, and ratings for soil
PFA Honors
Don Hershey
when the Pennsylvania
Young Farmers Association
held their annual meeting at
Seven Springs last week,
they awarded their annual
Community Service Award
to Donald Hershey,
Manheim RB. On his 350
acres, Hershey keeps 45
Registered Holsteins, 125
beef cattle and 11,000 laying
hens. He grows 225 acres of
corn, 50 acres of small grains
and another 50 acres of
alfalfa.
In an age of specialization,
we discovered that Don
Hershey has two specialities,
$2.00 Per Year
use for highway-road
location, pond-reservoirs
area, pond embankments,
drainage, sprinkler
irrigation, terrace, diver
sions, grassed waterway,
winter grading, pipeline
construction and main
tenance, septic tank field
system, sewage lagoons, low
building with basements,
land and landscaping,
parking lots and streets in
subdivisions, sanitary land
fills, source of sand and
gravel, source of road fill,
camp site-tents, camp site
both of which undoubtedly
helped him win the Young
Farmer award. One
speciality is hard work. Hie
other is telling the fanner’s
side of the food story to
everyone who’ll listen.
On Tuesday night he told
his story to an audience of
350 attending the annual
Lancaster Chamber of
Commerce Ag-Industry
Banquet at the Lancaster
Farm and Home ICenter.
Thursday morning he told
his story to a bank teller who
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