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Red Rose
I Continued from Pago I|
too, that testing It an in
creasingly popular tool.
"Here in Lancaster County,
we’ve signed up 44 new herds
in the past 11 months. And
every one of the new
members I’ve talked to said
he started testing because he
wanted to get more money
from his herd.’’
During the program,
production awards were
presented to members whose
herd averages topped 500
pounds of fat for the year,
and other awards went to
those whose herd averages
went over 600 pounds of fat.
The top high fat award
went to Rufus G. Martin,
Ephrata. whose herd
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average showed 17,021
pounds of milk, 652 of fat.
Jacob Dienner, Gordonville,
was the high milk producer,
with 18,034 pounds of milk,
630 of fat. Dienner’s was also
the high Holstein herd in the
county.
The top five milk
producers in the county
were: Dienner; Elmer E.
Kauffman, 17.560 M,
Christiana; John N. Shirk,
Leola, 17.368 M; Leroy M.
Oberholtzer, Manheim,
17.235 M; Elam Bollinger,
Manheim, 17,074 M.
Plaques also went to the
high producing herd in each
breed. Horace Mann,
amanger of the Masonic
Homes Farm herd, accepted
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production. His cows
produced an average of
12,232 milk and 538 fat. Other
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Linde, 12.455 M, 581 F; Jersey
- George 8c Doris Hough,
10.580 M, SMF; Mixed Breed -
Ivan S. Stoltzfus, 14.966 M,
577 F.
New directors introduced
at the meeting were: Earl
Smoker, Stevens Rl, Paul
Krelder, Palmyra R 2;
Kenneth Hershey, Kinzer
Rl; Noah Kreider, Jr.,
Manheim R 5; and Ellis R.
DenUnger, Gordonvllle Rl.
Earl Baum, fieldman for
the Pennsylvania DHIA,
spoke to the group and added
emphasis to president
Kauffman’s comments about
the importance of testing. He
said Pennsylvania has 700
more cows on test this year
than last, and that statewide
the herd average is hovering
just below 500 pounds of fat.
He also pointed out that cows
with records generally sell
for from $2OO to $3OO higher
than cows without test
results.
Associate county agent N.
Alan Bair spoke to the group,
too, and told them that
Lancaster County this year
had exceeded the magic 500-
pound mark that the rest of
State
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Three of Lancaster County’s
leading DHIA milk producers were
photographed after the annual Red
Rose DHIA banquet at the Farm and
Home Center on Thursday afternoon.
the state was shooting for.
The county butterfat
average last year was 492
pounds. This year, Bair said,
that figure stood at 502
pounds.
The featured speaker for
the program was Raymond
Charles, President of the
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The dairymen are, left to right,
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