Vd. 20 No. 33
Dave Martin, aboard Cracker
Jacks, tries to mark his horse for the
best score of the day during a rodeo
York County Youth Realizes
Dream As Rodeo Promoter
Many young people dream
of the careers they would
like to pursue however,
many often find it difficult to
make their ideals come true.
One young man, however
Area Counties Select Dairy Princesses
Donna Akers, Lan
caster County Dairy
Princess
earlier in the season. The young man
hails from Menges Mills, York County.
has seen his dream come
true but by a lot of hard
work, planning and deter
mination. David Martin, 21,
York County, has become
one of the youngest rodeo
Four brand new princesses
were crowned last weekend
as area dairy princess
committees wrapped up
weeks and months of
preparation and hard work.
On Friday night. Dauphin
County’s new princess was
crowned, and on Saturday
evening, shining crows
rested for the first time on
the heads of young ladies
from Berks, Chester and
Lancaster Counties.
Pictured here are three of
4 the winners, with more
photos inside. Yet to come
are the York County contest,
set for today, June 28, and
the Lebanon County com
petition slated also for this
evening.
Winners from each of the
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 28, 1975
promoters and professional
cowboys here in the eastern
United States, and will see
his work pay off on July 4,5,
6 when the gates will open on
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Cathy Yanos, Berks
County Dairy Princess.
Planning, Hard Work
Bring Dairy Success
A breeding program faith
fully followed for more than
two decades, combined with
a controversial approach to
herd health and a feeding
program they believe in
have made the father-son
partnership of Harold and
Donald Bollinger one of
Lebanon County’s leading
milk producing teams.
The Bollingers’ rolling
herd average in June, with 44
cows, was 19,151 pounds of
milk and 678 of fat. To feed
their herd of Registered
Holsteins, the Bollingers
grow some 80 acres of silage
corn and 2S to 30 acres of
alfalfa on their 165-acre farm
just outside Kieinfeltersville.
“We should have more
land,” Harold, the elder
Bollinger told Lancaster
Farming, “but land is just
too expensive to either buy
or rent around here." The
Bollingers used to grow
some tobacco to flesh out the
milk checks, but gave that
enterprise up when they put
in a 72,000-bird contract
broiler operation. Although
In This Issue
FARM CALENDAR 10
Markets 2-6
Sale Register 64
Farmers Almanac 8
Classified Ads 24
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 38
Home on the Range 44
Junior Cooking Edition 43
Sale Reports 71
Country Comer 38
Organic Living 47
Thoughts in Passing 56
Berks Dairymen 50
Lancaster DHIA 48
Home Canning 40
Facts for Dairymen 49
contests will compete in the
State Dairy Princess Contest
in September.
Lancaster County
For sixteen-year-old
Donna Akers Saturday was
not only the longest day of
the year but surely the most
exciting. Donna was
crowned the 1975 Lancaster
County Dairy Princess at the
Farm and Home Center,
concluding a day of in
terviews and an evening of
festivities.
Donna is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Akers,
Quarryville R 2, and will be a
senior at Solanco High
School. She was crowned by
outgoing Dairy Princess
Diane Crider.
Donald does most of the
work in the chicken house,
both partners share equally
in the farm work.
Harold Bollinger was a
foresighted dairyman back
in 1943 when he signed up for
DHIA, and a year later when
he started his artificial
breeding program.
Type is very important to
the Bollingers. “We look at a
cow’s type and try to breed
her to a bull that will correct
her weaknesses,” Donald
said. “We look for produc
tion, too. We don’t use too
many minus PD (predicted
difference) bulls.”
Two of the favorite
Bollinger studs right now are
Harrisburg Gay Ideal and
Whittier Farms Apollo
Rocket. “Rocket has the
highest PD in the world,”
Berks Farm
Family Chosen
The Feryl Treichler
Family, Kutztown R 3, were
recently named as the Berks
County Farm Family of 1975.
Honored at a banquet in
Bernville and also at the
Reading Fair this past week,
the Treichlers explained that
their secret to success is to
accept losses and to “keep
plugging along.”
The Treichler family,
including sons, Keith and
Rodney share in the farm
and are active members of
the Virginville Grange.
Their farm consists of fifty
owned acres and another 210
which are rented. Hay,
alfalfa and corn are the
Sandy Evans, Chester
County Dairy Princess.
$3.00 Per Year
Harold said. “His daughters
give 2361 pounds of milk
more than their herdmates.
But he has a minus PD in
type because of a weak
rump. If we have a cow
whose rump isn’t all it should
be, we won’t breed her to
Rocket.”
Bollinger pointed out,
though, that no matter how
good the breeding, cows
won’t perform according to
their genetic ability unless
they’re fed right
Com silage and baylage
are the mainstays of the
Bollinger feeding program.
The com silage is kept in a
bottom-unloading sealed
concrete silo, while the
haylage goes into a top
unloading silo. They buy
vitamins and minerals from
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principal crops raised along
with a dairy operation.
Mrs. Treichler is a busy
farm wife who enjoys can
ning and freezing their
produce as well as sewing
and collecting recipes. Pie
baking is also one of her
favorite pastimes and one
she is quite good at, having
won the grand champion
honors in the pie baking
contest at the 1973 Kempton
Fair.
The varied farm related
activities of all the Treichler
family leaves little doubt
that they are indeed Berks
County’s Outstanding Farm
Family.
First Alternate was Lisa
Rae Hoover, 17, daughter of
Mr. and Mis. Raymond M.
Hoover, Gap Rl. lisa will be
a senior at Pequea Valley
High School.
Debra Crider, 16, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W.
Crider, Nottingham R 2, was
selected Miss Congeniality in
balloting by the eight con
testants.
The setting was old
fashioned, with a touch of
red, white and blue to accent
the bicentennial theme, but
the contest was thoroughly
modem. There were flowing
dresses, happy smiles and
quick answers as the girls
competed for the right to
represent Lancaster
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