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Lancaster’s Dairy Princess Donna
Akers (left) is shown with winners
from the Open Holstein Show held
Thursday at the Guernsey Barn.
Winners in the 4-H Guernsey
competition included, left to right,
Rick Pfautz (right) a 20-year-old
youth from Ephrata exhibited the
grand champion hog at the FFA show
hlld Tuesday at the Lancaster .
Russel Kline (center) exhibited the
reserve grand champion with Linda
Kauffman exhibiting the grand
champion cow of the show.
Tom Kirk, Diane Crider, Carol Balmer,
and Rick Crider.
Stockyards. Tony Folker, secretary of
the Lancaster Swine Producers
presented the FFA’er with a trophy
sponsored by that association.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 2,1975
Open B&W show held
LANCASTER Following
two days of 4-H dairy shows
at the Guernsey Barn
Pavilion, the parents and
older brothers and sisters
joined with the already
seasoned 4-Hers for the
annual Lancaster County
Holstein Open Show, held
Thursday, July 31.
The premier breeder
award for the show went to
4-H winners listed
LANCASTER “Yeah, I
like showing cattle; it’s a lot
of work, but in the end it’s
very rewarding and wor
thwhile.” With those words,
a young 4-H’er from Peach
Bottom, Thomas Kirk, ex
pressed his interest and
enthusiasm for the show
circuit. He was one of scores
of 4-H’ers who gathered at
the Guernsey Sales Pavilion
Pfautz shows top hog
By: JVlellssa Piper
LANCASTER Rick
Pfautz, an Ephrata area
youth, exhibited the grand
champion market hog during
the annual Lancaster County
FFA Hog Show held
Tuesday, July 29, at the
Lancaster Stockyards.
The honor was a par
ticularly rewarding one for
the youth as this was the last
year Pfautz was eligible to
compete. A 1972 graduate of
Ephrata High School, this
was the second and last year
Harvest concluded
By Dieter Krieg
LANCASTER The
wheat harvest is over, but
some of the problems con
nected with this year’s crop
are not. When we asked Tom
Flory of Flory’s Mill to
describe the market, he
began with a chuckle,
saying; “You can buy steers
or buy wheat, or play the
Earl Geib
FFA president
By; Melissa Piper
MANHEIM - WhUe Earl
Geib, an FFA’er from
Manheim, has spent most of
his summer working as an
assistant at the Penn State
Research Farm near Lan
disville, the youth has also
been busy corodinating plans
for the coming year as
president of the Manheim
FFA.
Earl was elected to the
post before the end of last
year’s school term and since
that time has been working
Blossomelle Holsteins owned
by Herbert and Rhelda
Royer, Lancaster. J.
Mowrey Frey, Jr., Lan
caster, was selected to
receive the premier
exhibitor award.
Andfar Astronaut Cin
derella, owned by Penn
Springs Farm (Robert H.
Kaufmman) Elizabethtown,
was named as grand
on Tuesday and Wednesday
to participate in the Lan
caster County 4-H Dairy
Show.
Colored breeds were
shown Tuesday, while
Holstein enthusiasts showed
their animals on Wednesday.
Judges for Tuesday’s ring
activities were: Type
John P. Harris, associate
county agent. Dauphin Co.;
that the youth would be
considered an FFA’er.
Pfautz’s Duroc hog placed
first in the 205 pound weight
class earlier in the day and
followed that victory with
being named the grand
champion lightweight and
finally the grand champion
of the show. The hog took its
championship over 150 hogs
entered in the show.
During the annual sale
which took place in the af
ternoon, Pfautz’s champion
hog sold for $1.73 a pound to
horses of the Pennsylvania
lottery it’s all the same!”
“About all you can do is
toss your hat into the ring
and hope for the best,” he
added.
According to telephone
interviews with several
millers in Lancaster County,
the amount of damage and
sprouting varied con-
on new projects and ac
tivities to increase the
membership for this year.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Geib, Manheim R 4,
Earl is well known to many
area residents for his work in
showing baby beef steers at
the Manheim Farm Show.
Representing Manheim
Central High School’s FFA
and Lancaster County, Earl
recently attended the
National FFA Leadership
Conference held in
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$3.00 Per Year
champion at the show with
reserve honors going to
Fought Land Eagle Ingra,
owned by Russel L. Kline.
Kline’s cow had previously
won reserve senior cham
pion and was the first place
aged cow with the best ud
der.
Donna Akers, Quarryville,
exhibited the junior
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• Showmanship Carol
Shurman, Chambersburg,
PA; Fitting Eugene
Schurman, Franklin County
assistant county agent.
John Harris of Harrisburg
was the type judge for the
Holstein 4-H round-up on
Wednesday, while the
Shurmans repeated as
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the Penn Packing Co.,
Philadelphia.
Both Pfautz and T. Ken
neth Emery, representing
Penn Packing, were
presented with a trophy from
the Lancaster County Swine
Breeders Association.
Penn Manor Youth
Shows Reserve
A youth from the Penn
Manor area exhibited the
reserve grand champion hog
during Tuesday’s show. Cliff
Charles, Lancaster R 2,
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siderably from area to area
and between different
varieties. Southern and
central Lancaster County
reportedly were hit the worst
in the rainy weather which
crossed this area last month.
By comparison, northern
segments were described as
“not bad.”
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FARM CALENDAR 10
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Sale Register 69
Farmers Almanac 8
Classified Ads 26
Editorials 10
Homestead Notes 42
Home on the Range 46
Junior Cooking Edition 55
Country Corner 42
Thoughts in Passing 62
Women’s Calendar 49
Sale Reports 74
Dress Revue 48
Lebanon DHIA 56
Ag Features 12