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I Pa.’s top
Irnsev herd
■[SAN KAUFFMAN
Beature Writer
BiRYVILLE, Pa.—
Side gathered up four
Be eight awards
Bed to tile Lancaster
Bcuemsey Breeders
Btheir annual banquet
Biere last week at
B’s herd tested 13,848
of milk with 646
B of fat. That placed
Vrst in the state for
Bey cows. High in-
Bl animal records also
Hd by Linde were high
Boduction for a three
ffid with 17,280 pounds
Be; high four-year old
H,364 poupds; and high
Bar old with 18,177
■ of milk.
Be attributes his cows’
Biding production to
B of feed and ,good
Bs practices. .
Brman immigrant who
Bo the United States in
B Linde had little
Bdge of farming prior
Bing to this country. He
Been a landscape gar
■s apprentice, then a
B, and eventually a'
■er of war in England.
liewing the past 26
I Linde gives most of
■edit to his success to
r E. Brown, Little
n, where he was em
-1 until buying his own
in 1956.
ie’s production record
16 (13,848 M and 646 F)
ire with 13,463 M and
for the previous year
lie ranked second in the
The southern Lan
‘ County farmer is
y recognized as a
lentious manager of all
sources—in the bam
i the field. Earlier this
he was honored as
the outstanding
irator in the Lancaster
>ty Conservation
ict The Lindes’ 143
farm , “Lindenhof,” is
Hi just south of Union,
ter Lancaster County
nsey breeders who
ved awards were
v m Stoltzfus,
ryvdle, R 3, for high
ear old milk produc-
Raymond Witmer,
w Street, high two year
at production; Romella
is, high three-year old
production and Fred
er > high four-year old fat
action.
e Association presented
'R project book award
®nnie Balmer, daughter
! ' llr and Mrs. Jesse
aer > Lititz.
directors elected at
ba nquet to serve three
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blessings are Melissa and Melinda, identical twin of Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Henderson, Lititz.
“Offer unto God Thanksgiving and
pay thy vows unto the Most High ”
Champions plowed way to fame
By DIETER KRIEG
DAUPHIN, Pa.—“lt’s
quite an honor for any one
state to have two national
plowing champions,” said
Dauphin County Extension
Agent John Harris. “And it’s
Pa, judging team 2nd in nation
BY JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. - Kevin
Rohrer and Kenneth
Brubaker set a precedent for
Lancaster County 4-H
livestock judging when they
placed first and second,
Kevin Rohrer
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 20,1976
even more so to have two
from the same county,” he
added.
Daupin County does indeed
have two national plowing
champions and they were
both honored at the annual
National 4-H livestock judging
respectively, in the national
4-H livestock judging contest
held in Lousiville, Ky., last
Wednesday. They led -the
Pennsylvania team, com
prised of all Lancastrians, to
second place, making it the
Kenneth Brubaker
meeting of the Dauphin
County Cooperative Ex
tension Service held last
week. The two are Frank
Kocevar of Harrisburg R 1
and Robert Miller of
Millersburg. Both competed
first time in the history of the
competition that a Lancaster
team, as a whole has done so
well.
“It's the best we’ve ever
done,” stated coach Max
Smith, county extension
Anthony Eberly
by Dieter Krieg
Psalms 50:14
in the national plowing
contest held at Rock Springs,
Pa. this past Summer and
came out ahead of the rest of
the crowd. Kocevar, who is
| Continued on Page 27)
ageht. “We’ve had several
3rd placings, and we had a
high man in Richard Buck
waiter a few years back, but
this the the first time for high
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Robert Hess
$4.00 Per Year
Paul Knight is
York County’s
Star Farmer
RED LION, Pa.—Paul
Knight, a member of the
Kennard-Dale FFA chapter,
was named the Star White
Rose Farmer here on
Wednesday evening during
an award ceremony held at
the Red Lion High School
auditorium. The son of Mr.
and Mrs. George M. Knight,
Jr., Airville R 2, the award
recipient has excelled each
year with his dairy projects
and is widely known for his
success in the show ring.
Young Knight was given
the highest county FFA
award from among a group
of 42 who were being con
sidered for the prestigiuous
honor. Only one Star Farmer
is selected by each county in
any one year.
The other 41—who
received the White Rose
Farmer Degree—were:
— —DOVER FFA
Mirk Mununert, Darrell
Schrade, Dallas Smith.
EASTERN FFA
Roland Keeney, Jerry
King, Jeff Klahold, Andrew
Knaub, Scott Leland, Clint
Myers, Barry Rexroth, Alex
Siegfried, Robert K. Snyder.
RED LION FFA
Tom Arnold, Tersa Crowd,
Sue Ettinger, Bryan Grove,
Jeff Harrison, Marie Innerst,
Jeff Rexroth, Dolores
Schrum, Tina Taylor, Lori
Wolford, Rich Workinger.
KENNARD-DALE FFA
Carol Blevins, Jeff Grif
fith, Thomas Heaton, Bruce
Hrebik, Richard Hushon,
Paul Knight, Stephen Krick,
Donnie Marsteiler, Dean H.
Miller, Ronald Miller,
Richard Seitz, Bret Smith,
Robert Stewart, Robin
Wales.
WHITE ROSE FFA
Randy Grove, Judy
Scantling.
GIFFORD PINCHOT FFA
Jeff Golden, Randy Grove,
Ray Miller.
(Continued on Page 14)
In this issue
Farm Calendar 10
Life on the Farm 10
Lebanon DHIA 28
Stalin’s wine taster ' 34
Berks land use 3S
Homestead Notes 42,43
Ida’s Notebook 44
Women’s Calendar 44
Home on the Range 45
Jr. Cooking Edition 47
Christmas Recipes 51
Vo-Ag Feature 52
Youth Feature 54,98
IFYE Newsletter 55
Ladies Have You Heard 56
Farm Women 57
Classifieds 65
Mailbox Market 76
Public Sales Register 100
Sales Reports 106