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Vol. 20 No. 5
Kenneth Mowry, Roaring Spring,
Pa., is the proud owner of the cow
that produced over 50,000 pounds of
milk - and a world record - when she
finished here>36sth day of, lactation
Chester Co. Steer
Tops District Show
Although Tuesday’s
weather, that sported icy
winds and 30 degree tem
perature, kept many people
inside, a number of 4-Hers
braved the conditions to
show their steers at the
annual Southeast District 4-
H Baby Beef Show" held'at"
the Lancaster Stockyards.
Bill Wylie, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Wylie, RD2,
Nottingham, Chester
County, showed the Grand
Champion steer.
The Reserve Champion
steer was shown by David
Anderson, also of Chester
County.
Wylie’s steer, which has
also placed first in the
Heavyweight Angus Class '
along with being chosen as
Red Rose DHIA
Holds Annual Meet
Lancaster County’s Red
Rose Dairy Herd Im
provement Association
members held their annual
meeting Thursday afternoon
at the Farm and Home
Center.
The near-capacity crowd
listened while their
president, Robert Kauffman,
QuarryviUe, told them that
this was the best of times to
be on DHIA test, and the
worst possible time to drop
testing.
“Right, now is when you
need to keep a close watch on
liitncaster Panning Photo
on Wednesday. Close to 2000 invited
guests showed up at the Mowry farm
to help Corinne celebrate her signal
achievement.
the Champion Angus, sold to
James R. Mummau, owner
of the Lancaster County
Farm Restaurant,
Elizabethtown, for $1.84 per
pound.
Although the top bid was
less than the $3.16 offered
last year.-it-was-stiß-one of
the highest prices ever paid
for the 4-H animals and
made young Wylie $2,143
richer.
The average price paid for
this year’s offering of steers
was 51 cents a pound, with
the total received being
$56,983.83.
In the showmanship
constests Tim Good, RD2,
Lititz was named champion
Angus showman and later
captured the overall
production and expenses,
Kauffman said. “Testing is a
management tool. It helps
you determine your grain
feeding levels. It can help
you with bull selection and
calving intervals. And
without testing, we’d never
be able to select the superior
bulls we need to improve out
dairy herds.”
Kauffman pointed out that
DHIA and DHIR cows
nationally produced 3984
pounds of milk more than
non-DHIA animals, and 165
more pounds of fat. He said,
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 14, 19/4
showmanship event. Bemie
Gish, RDI, Elizabethtown
was named champion
Hereford Showman with
Gary Eberly, RD2, Denver
taking first place in the
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Karen Raubenstine, RDI, Hanover, was recently
named the Outstanding 4-H Girl in York County for
1974.
New World Champ from Pa, .. .
“Super Cow” Feted
At 50,000-lb. Party
In spite of the fact that
nearly 200 people had come
to stare at her, Mowry
Prince Corinne was probably
the calmest creature in the
circus tent which had been
erected just outside the
Bedford County bam she
usually inhabits.
Farmers, agribusiness
men, politicians, TV
cameramen, and journalists
caused what will probably be
the only traffic jam in
history to occur at Mowry
Farms, near Roaring
Spring. They had come to see
the‘cow that was the new
world champion milk
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 50
Fanners Almanac 6
Classified Ads 23
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 34
Home on the Range 38
Organic Living 18
Junior Cooking Edition 36
Thoughts in Passing 46
Horse Club Awards 20
Lancaster Baby Beef 22
House Honors Boyd 14
Ii alien* ter Farming 1 Fboto
producer. “Super Cow”, as
Corinne has been
nicknamed, ended her 365th
day of lactation on Wed
nesday with an astounding
record of 50,759 pounds of
milk and 1,548 pounds of
butterfat.
Corinne’s production
peaked at 182-pounds per
day. During her current
record-breaking lactation,
she consumed 50 pounds of
grain per day of an 18 per
cent balanced dairy ration.
She also downed two bales of
top quality alfalfa hay every
day, and was milked
promptly at 5:15 a.m. and
5:15 p.m. Her milking time
averaged somewhat under
seven minutes.
Corinne is a registered
Holstein, classified ex
cellent, and the daughter of
Mowry Ivanhoe Prince, an
ABS sire also reared at the
Mowry farm. She has four
New additions to our
market report section
this week include the
Philadelphia produce
market and the
Chambersburg live
stock auction. See
Lancaster Farming for
all your market news.
Outstanding
York 4-H Member
by: Melissa Piper
During York County’s
recent 4-H Achievement
Program, Karen Rauben
stine won the outstanding
girl 4-Her award. And while
the award signified the work
and attention that she had
given her 4-H projects
throughout the year, Karen
has been active in project
work and 4-H activities for
the past eight years.
As a member of the
Hanover Community 4-H
Club, Karen has taken a
myriad of projects that have
included clothing con
struction, baking,
photography, rifle, baby
sitting and home fur
nishings.
Karen feels that one im
portant aspect of 4-H is that
it teaches responsibility. As
a teen leader for the past few
years, she has had to take on
much responsibility by
helping younger members as
well as by teaching baking
classes. Karen has also had
other duties that included
being treasurer and
$2.00 Per Year
sons presently in AI, and is
under a special mating
contract to Paclamar
Bootmaker.
There were five com
merical sponsors of the
party for the new world
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PMMB Set
To Reopen
Milk Hearings
The Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board says it will
reopen milk price hearings
in Philadelphia on Jan. 23
after a delay of more than
two years.
The board, which sets
minimum prices paid by
consumers and minimum
wholesale prices paid to
dairy farmers, stopped
holding hearings Oct. 28,
1972, when it became bogged
down in paperwork from
previous hearings.
Last October, however,
Commonwealth Court, ac
ting on a petition by the
Interstate Milk Producers
Cooperative, ordered the
board to set new prices for
many areas of the state and
to hold new hearings.
president of her club as well
as secretary of the York
County 4-H Council.
When asked what had been
the most interesting phase of
4-H for her, Karen explained
that she had enjoyed
traveling and meeting
people.
“I have met many in
teresting people and have
enjoyed traveling to 4-H
functions," she explained.
As an outstanding 4-Her,
Karen has traveled to
numerous activities that
have included various teen
leader conferences, 4-H Club
Congress, Citizen Short
course held in Washington,
D.C., the Farm Show as well
as visiting Michigan on an
exchange trip two years ago.
Over the years, Karen has
been quite involved in 4-H
activities. She has competed
in many dress revue com
petitions and has given
award winning demon
strations. Representing
York County 4-H, Karen has
appeared' on television
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