j)on Rohrer wins
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Penn Bell variety wrapper. In the filler
fategory. Je ® Breneman of Millersville
oiaced first with 24 points, followed by Boyd
Ltb 22 points. Breneman placed second to
Boyd in the wrapper class.
g o yd commented he has been around
tobacco for all of his life and he and his
father raised seven acres this past year. He
uianted his crop in mid-June and was pretty
5eH satisfied with the way it produced, “It
was a good year for curing,” he commented,
“but we had a little too much rain which
hurt the weight a little when we stripped it
out.”
} Winning the tobacco show came as a
surprise to Boyd, who - at 18 has won
numerous trophies in a 'wide variety of
contests but not in tobacco. Another show
won by the Ephrata youth here on Thursday
was the 4-H com contest.
John Yocum, who judged the show,
remarked that Boyd’s com was ex
ceptionally well filled to the tip, had uniform
length, was free of disease, and the kernels
were well filled and tight. Boyd said he bad
grown the com in a one-acre plot on his
father’s farm and had not bothered to thin it
for competition. “It was grown under
normal care,” he explained. Planted on the
first of May, the com was actually picked
before it was ripe in order to have it for
contests at both the Ephrata and Manheim
fairs. Boyd mil be taking both his com and
tobacco to the Farm Show this week.
The FFA com contest was won by Brace
Wise of Bowmansville.
There were 154 entries in the tobacco show
this year, up from 111 the year before.
Judges for the tobacco show were Maurice
Hostetter and L.C. Whitmore. They both
described this year’s show as having been
better than last year’s in terms of quality
and number of entries. “The contestants
take pride in what they bring here, and
they’re doing a good job,’’ Whitmore said.>
Both thought the judging was tough, as
they examined more than 150 hands of
tobacco in order to find the most nearly
perfect specimens. Among the qualities they
looked for were chestnut brown color, thin
and clean texture, and good open-bodied
graining.
Both judges, who represent the tobacco
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Don Rohrer, right, won the Lancaster County Tobacco
Show at'the Farm and Home Center on Thursday. Judges
were Maurice Hostetter of the A. K. Mann Co., Lancaster;
and Lester C. Whitmore, center, representing the American
Cigar Co. A better crop spurred interest in the event and
entries were up from 111 a year ago to 154 this year. Rohrer
farms near Strasburg and had never entered the tobacco
show before. Another first for the 42-year old farmer will be
competition at the Farm Show this coming week. Rohrer is
looking forward to it since Lancaster Countians have an
excellent record for winning the state contest. The show in
Harrisburg will be judged by John Yocum, superintendent
and tobacco specialist at Penn State’s research farm near
Landisviile.
industry in Lancaster, said there is a good
demand this year for high quality tobacco.
The going price is 60 cents per pound, with
higher returns possible if the farmer strips
his crop according to the buyers’ wishes.
Rohrer, who farms near Strasburg, will be
entering his tobacco in the Farm Show next
week. It’ll be a first for him, as was this
show here at the Farm and Home Center.
Following are the placings of the tobacco
show.
Open Classes
Wrappers
Champion Wrapper—Donald M. Rohrer,
1428 Lime Valley Road
Long Wrappers—l. Donald M. Rohrer 2.
Raymond S. Brubaker, 206 Rohrerstown
Road 3. Jay Neff, Millersville 4. Raymond
A. Brubaker, _ 206 Rohrerstown Road 5.
Donald E. Shank, Pequea Rl.
Short Wrappers—l. Ray Caldwell,
Millersville Rl 2. Raymond A. Brubaker 3.
Raymond S. Brubaker 4. Jay Neff 5. Jere
Neff, Millersville Rl.
Binders
Champion Binder—Donald M. Rohrer
Long Binders—l. Donald M. Rohrer 2.
Gary R. Neff, Millersville Rl 3. Raymond S.
Brubaker 4. Jere Neff 5. Jay Neff
Short Binders—l. Donald M. Rohrer 2.
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Champion Filler—Gary R.
Millersville R 1
lung Fillers—l. Donald M. Rohrer 2.
Raymond S. Brubaker, 3. Jay Neff 4. Gary
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Spot High School 4. Jere Neff, Millersville
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Ephrata Rl, Ephrata High School 10.
Donald Dohner, Elizabethtown Rl,
Elizabethtown High School
Fillers—l. Jere Neff 2. Ray Caldwell 3.
Jay Neff 4. Marianne Burkholder 5. Kay
Shertzer 6. Dwight Eshleman 7. Mark
Myers, Lancaster R 6, Penn Manor 8. John
Myers, Lancaster R 6, Penn Manor 9. Kerry
Boyd 10. Jeff Risser, Lancaster R 2, Penn
Manor
4-H Classes
Champion—Kerry Boyd
Roundup scores—l. Kerry Boyd 2. Jeff
Breneman, Millersville Rl 3. Tim Swarr,
Manheim R 2 4. Freda Swarr, Manheim R 2
Wrappers—l. Kerry Boyd 2. Jeff
Breneman 3. Tim Swarr 4. Freda Swarr
Fillers—l. Jeff Breneman 2. Kerry Boyd
3. Tim Swarr 4. Freda Swarr
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