Library Scr cl of Agriculture
Vol. 20 No. 9
Robert Hess, center, got *
congratulatory kiss from Mom on
Thursday after winning the 1975
reserve grand championship at the
' Lancaster Co. Youth
Wins Steer Reserve
The reserve grand
champion baby beef award
at the Farm Show went this
year to 15-year-old Bob Hess,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Hess, Lancaster RD2. The
Penn Manor sophomore, in
his sixth year of showing,
lost the grand champion
honor to Tom Templeton,
from Ebensburg, Cambria
County.
Bob’s steer was a cham
pion light-heavyweight that
tipped the scales at 1195
pounds. It is the son of a
The FFA Star Farmer for 1975 is
Jeffrey Miller, shown here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Miller.
junior steer show in the Farm Show
Arena. Bob Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Hess, Lancaster RD2.
Maine-Anjou sire and a
Charolais-Angus dam, and
was bom on the farm of Carl
Herr, a well-known Lan
caster County cattle
breeder.
Boh reported that he’s
been walking his steer for at
least a mile every day to get
'it ready for the Farm Show.
The animal was named
grand champion at the 1974
Lampeter - Strasburg
Community Fair. Another
Hess steer, shown by Bob’s
11-year-old brother, Tim,
Jeff is a senior at Kutztown Area High
Schbol.
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 11.1975
took a first place ribbon in
the 1126-1135 pound category
of light heavyweight com
peition at the Farm Show.
Competition this year was
strictly by weight class
rather than by breeds as it
had been in previous years.
The winning animal was a
coal black Chianina-Angus
crossbred.
James Wylie, from West
Chester in Chester County,
showed the champion
lightweight, while his
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Huge Crowds Attend
59th Pa. Farm Show
Farm families from all
over Pennsylvania’s
southeastern comer fared
very well at the 59th edition
of the Pennsylvania Farm
Show, coming back home
laden with ribbons, plaques
and prize checks. Although
the dons didn’t officially
open until Monday morning,
' there was already a huge
crowd walking through the
exhibit hall on Sunday af
ternoon.
When the Farm Show did
open on Monday, sunny skies
brought a near-record
number of visitors to the 80-
acre complex in the Com
monwealth capital. At
tendance for the first day
was estimated at 150,000, the
best first day turnout since
1967 when the current week
long record of 710,000 was
established. The sun gave
way toclouds and light snow
by late afternooriVhut it bad
no affect on the crowd. -
Even the spirit of detente
contributed to the size of the
free gate. Dr. Ivan A. Gawa,
agricultural counselor at the
Soviet Embassy in
Washington, D.C. and his
assistant, Dr. Vladimir G.
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-4
Sale Register 56
Fanners Almanac 6
Classified Ads 24
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 34
Home on the Range 37
Organic Living 43
Home-Ec Awards 44
Food Show 3
Jr. Cooking Edition 36
FFA Honors Go to Area Youths
Lancaster and Berks
County youths shared top
honors at the 46th Annual
Pennsylvania FFA Con
vention held in Harrisburg
on Wednesday of Farm Show
Week.
Jeffrey G. Miller, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Miller,
Kutztown RD3, was named
State Star Farmer for 1975.
The State Star Agri
businessman for 1975 is
James Felpel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin B. Felpel,
Ephrata RD2.
Jeffrey, 17, is a senior at
Kutztown Area Senior High
School. In addition, to
helping with the family
operation of2Bo head of dairy
animals and 1000 acres,
Sheremetev, wound up a
two-day visit to Harrisburg
with a check of the latest in
agricultural technology on
display at the Farm Show.
The queens of the Farm
Show dairy cows were
the first livestock into the
ring on Monday morning and
in a twist of reverse English
with respect to the equal
rights movement, bulls were
stricken from the com
petition in the dairy
department at the 1975 Show.
The sun’s reappearance at
, the second day came too late
to boost the attendance.
Officials estimated the
crowd at 125,000, off 25,000
from opening day. Most of
Monday’s four-inch snowfall
had melted away by mid
aftemoon, as the outside
temperature climbed into
the mid-40’s.
The •'traditional “big
Dairymen Honor
Smith and Scott
A pair of York Countains
shared the spotlight on
Tuesday night during the
105th annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania Dairymen’s
Association at Harrisburg
during the Farm Show.
The 1974 Pennsylvania
Dairymen’s Award of $lOO
and an inscribed plaque “for
valueable and noteworthy
contributions to the state’s
dairy industry” went to York
County Agent John Smith,
At the same meeting,
Robert M. Scott, Delta R 2,
received the 1974 Superior
Supervisor Award from the
Pennsylvania Dairy Herd
Improvement Association,
Smith has been York
County agent since 1952, and
the award recognized his
Jeffrey has developed his
own farming program to
include 26 head of dairy, 66
acres of field com, 21 acres
of silage com, 33.5 acres of
alfalfa, 25 acres of barley, 13
acres of oats, 6 acres of
sorghum, 70 acres of pasture
and 9 head of dairy beef
animals.
While accomplishing this,
Jeffrey manages to keep up
his school work, he is a
member of the National
Honor Society. He is also
active in Grange and 4-H.
Jeffrey’s leadership ac
tivities in FFA were serving
as Chaplin, Reporter and
President of his local
Chapter, and he is currently
serving as President of the
$2.00 Per Year
Wednesday” crowd outdid
itself as more people than
ever before poured into the
huge complex at Cameron
and Maday Streets. Officials
estimated the attendance at
210,000, surpassing the
previous record by 5,000
established in 1972 and
equalled the following year.
Every bit of available open
space within miles of the
Farm Show was pressed into
duty as a parking area.
Many of the emergency
parking lots were muddy,
causing one state police
officer to joke, “As long as
the hood ornament wasn’t
covered over, we felt it was
okay to keep parking the
cars.”
One of the sidelights at the
Wednesday show was a
milking contest challenge
from Bette Altemus, ac
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program to promote ef
fective dairy production and
marketing practices in his
county.
The results of the Dairy
Herd Improvement
Association testing reports
attest to his promotion of
sound production inl
provement practices in York
County, hi 1952, there were
92 herds with 2,488 cows on
test with an average
production of 8,134 pounds of
milk and 345 pounds of
butterfat.
In 1974, 78 DHIA herds
with 4,417 cows produced
13,031 pounds of milk and 508
pounds of butterfat.
York County’s 4-H dairy
judging team placed second
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Berks County FFA. He also
attended the National FFA
Leadership Training Con-
ference in Washington, D.C.
Some of Jeffrey’s other
awards of recognition were:
State Production Credit
Farming Award, for out
standing record keeping: a
gold medal in the State
Project Book Evaluation
Contest; a member of the
first place FFA Dairy
Judging Team and
represented Pennsylvania at
the* National FFA Dairy
Judging Contest, as a team
they won a gold medal and as
an individual Jeffrey won a
silver medal.
The Star Farmer Award
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