Pa. FFA judging teams
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Funds provided by Mid-
American Dairymen, Inc.
through the National FFA
Foundation, Inc. help offset
administrative expenses of
the contest and provide
awards and travel money for
contestants.
Horticulture
Contest
In the horticulture contest,
Pennsylvania’s team was
made up of two Lancaster
Countians. Cindy Shreiner
and Brenda Albright were
both from Lititz, as was the
Patz 988 silo unloader
150 cattle feeder
400 cattle feeder
162 A circular feeder
101 Taper-Pan Feeder
Silo unloading - Feed handling - Manure handling
Patz has the Equipment
Patz has the Personnel
Patz means confidence - depend on It
ALEXANDRIA
MAXISENBERG
669-4027
BALLY
HONEY BROOK
LONGACRE ELECTRIC
845-2261
CAMP HILL
LLOYD SULTZBAUGH
737-4554
EAST EARL
ZIMMERMAN EQUIPMENT
ELUOTTSBtiRG
coach, Jennifer Brown,
Brownstown, Pa. Other
members of the team were
Brian Oise and Kathy
DiFaua.
The National FFA Hor
ticulture Contest is a special
project of the National FFA
Foundation, Inc. sponsored
by the American Association
of Nurserymen, Inc.,
Washington, D.C., Wholesale
Nursery Growers of
America, Inc., Washington,
D.C., Gulf Crop Protection
Products, Gulf Oil
Chemicals Co., Merriam
Kansas, and Trans-Sphere
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162 A conveyor
155 A conveyor
166 overheed feeder
101 conveyor
445-6409
CARL BAER
582-2648
Corporation, Mobile,
Alabama.
Three Montgomery
Countians, Greg German,
Pottstown, Edwin Mast,
Pottstown, and David Nolan,
also of Pottstown were part
of the force that helped
Pennsylvania move to the
17th ranking in dairy cattle
judging.
Nolan, a top ranking
Brown Swiss breeder and
Chester County 4-H member
is well known in the showing
circles. For his ability,
Nolan received a gold medal
HAMBURG
H DANIEL WENGER
488-6574
ZOOK’S FARM STORE
273-9730
KIRKWOOD
PIPERSVILiE
EBANON
MARVIN HORST
272-0871
IcALLISTERVILLE
CLAIR SANER & SON
463-2234
DAIRY CATTLE
166 conveyor
400 gutter cleaner /T"!l ur ® p , ump 11J
400 manure stacker SwlnfllnQ slide
Model 100 mechanical ??? manure stack*
manure pump 260 llquldvator
181 manure spreader
MILLERSBURG
MILTON
NEWVILLE
STREET MD
THOMASVILLE
in the dairy contest, for
placing 16th. German placed
75th for a silver and Mast
placed 81 for a bronze. Nolan
was also third in the reasons
class.
LIVESTOCK JUDGING
Ralston Purina Company
of St. I/juis, Mo., was the
sponsor for 'this particular
contest in which Rick
Strauss, Ephrata, and
Dennis Little, Marion
Center, received bronze
emblem awards. Overall,
the team took 37th place.
Strauss is one of a trio of
brothers known in their
home area of Lancaster
County for raising top
quality swine. The brothers
had the top placing animals
Model 200
LANDIS LABOR SAVERS
692-4647
LANDIS FARMSTEAD AUTOMATION
437-2375
FRED B McGILLYRAY
776-7312
MOYER FARM SERVICE
766-8675
WALTER WEBSTER
452-8521
KENNETH L.SPAHR
225 1064
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 20,1976
At the November meeting
of the Virginville Grange,
the following were balloted
for: Harold Schaeffer, David
Dietrich, and David and
James Stutzman.
State winners from
Virginville were Doris Hill
second in historical sampler
and first for state banner.
The subordinate scrapbook
from Virginville was second.
Virginville placed first with
the youth achievement
in two home-town fairs this
season.
In livestock showmanship,
John Mylin, Millersville,
took a bronze medal.
What's new
TWO NEW BEEF BULL
BOOKSOFFERED
FREE BY
CURTISS IN 1976
Curtiss Breeding Service,
one of the nation’s largest
beef and dairy bull studs,
offers to the public, for the
first time, two different beef
bull boohs for 1976.
Called “1978 Planning
Guides,” these books
suggest that “a Curtiss bull’s
real value is reflected not in
Land
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concerning the preservation
of ag land.
'
This reporter contacted
Treichler by phone regar
ding his testimony, and he
indicated that he was happy
with the audience reaction,
which he described as “very
attentive,” to the Grange
proposal. He also stated that
the discussion which
followed as well as com
ments addressed to him
personally later in the
evening indicated con
siderable interest in the
Grange proposal which
hinges on the development
rights concept and which
also incorporates tax relief
measures for the farmer as
well as prohibiting
restrictive ordinances
regarding the spreading of
lime, manure or other ac
cepted practices of
husbandry in areas zoned for
agricultural use.
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Virginville Grange
award and fourth with youth
night.
On Thanksgiving day at 10
a.m. the Clarence Schlegel
sale will be held. Help and
baked goods are needed.
Two peddlers were stand
ing in the street talking
They had plenty of time to
talk because of the slow
business “You know, if I
had Rockefeller’s money.
I’d be even richer than
Rockefeller,” one peddler
predicted “How could that
be €> ” asked his friend
“Because I’d have all of
Rockefeller’s money plus
what I make with my push
cart ”
present conditions, but when
his progeny reach their final
destiny ... the marketplace
or the breeding herd,” ac
cording to Dr. Bernard M.
Jones, vice president,
marketing at Curtiss.
Dr. Ron Long, director of
beef programs at Curtiss,
reports 90 bulls of 33 beef
breeds are included in
Curtiss’ primary bull book.
Presented in full color, along
with individual performance
records, progeny data
prepared by the respective
breed associations, and
pedigrees, the bulls have
also been individually
classified for type and
structural soundness by
qualified experts in beef
cattle selection, including
Dr. Gary Minish, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, and
Dr. Harlan Ritchie,
Michigan State University.
Curtiss also offers the
nation’s first all-Angus bull
books produced by an A. I.
stud. Twenty-three Angus
sires are presented in full
color, scored by an official
classifier of the American
Angus Association. Included
are the top three Angus bulls
in the nation for yearling
growth and carcass
cutability, as ranked by the
American Angus Association
in their Angus sire
evaluation program.
Cattle breeders may
request, free of charge, the
Curtiss 1976 Beef Bull Book
or the 1976 Angus Bull Book,
or both, by writing to:
Curtiss Breeding Service,
Division of Searle
Agriculture Inc., Cary,
Illinois 60013, Or by phoning
(312) 639-2141.
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•9 inch firebrick lining
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