VOL 22 No. 37
Holstein show held
By DIETER KRIEG
QUARRYVILLE - Top
honors at this year’s Lan
caster District Holstein
Show were shared by two
well-known families who are
experienced and dedicated
veterans of the show circuit.
Winning both grand and
reserve grand championship
at the show, which had more
than 120 Holsteins entered,
was the Robert Kauffman
family of Elizabethtown.
Yield grades explained
By KEND ACE BORRY
LANCASTER, Pa. - Close
to 200 people came to learn
about “yield grades” at the.
auction bam of the Lan
caster Stockyards during the '
morning hourS jdf July 28;
They Louis'
Moore,
agriculture economist from
Penn State, Lester Burdette,
livestock extension
specialist from Penn State,
Milton Marshall, cattle
Strauss tops hog show
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. - They
thought he was crazy when
he purchased the “but
terball” for $lO7 back in
April at the Lancaster
County Swine Producers
Association’s feeder pig sale,
but 21-year-old Robert
Strauss, Jr., Durlach Road,
Ephrata, went on to take his
“folly” to grand champion
status at the 15th annual
Lancaster County FFA
Market Hog Show and Sale
held last Tuesday at the
Lancaster Stockyards. The
215 pound Duroc-
Tobacco cutting begins
By JOANNE SPAHR
LTTITZ, Pa. - Although
varying weather conditions
around Lancaster County
have put its tobacco crop in
different stages of
production, the overall crop
is about one week early,
according to John Yofcum, of
the Penn State southeast
research laboratory at
Landisville. Aphids are a
problem this year, although
A special series on con-
servation logins this week
FanTcSendar 10
Editorial comments 10
Letters 10
Price proposal ( 19
Berks Jr. Holstein show 23
Conservation feature 28
Chester AH beef show 33
Homestead Notes 42
- Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
“Andfar Astronaut Cin
derella,” a 5-year daughter
of Pactajmar Astronaut, was
chosen .'as grand champion
by judge Paul King, York
County Holstein breeder.
King picked her over another
Kauffman entry, “Sunapee
Astronaut Ruth,” owned, by
Linda Kauffman. Miss
Kauffman had the grand
champion at last year’s show
as welL
J. Mowery Frey and.
buyer for Cross Brothers,
Phi]a., and James Anderson,
the JUSDA livestock
marketing agent located in
Lancaster, and see a
.demonstration of
being graded in the different
yieldgrac^B.
Mr. Max Smith, Lancaster
Agent, and
W|fta||3Mw>y, president of
fnfiVlNHßer Livestock 1
Exchange, hosted the
meeting. "
Chesterwhite barrow was
first named 1 champion
middleweight tjefore edging
out the champion lightweight
for the grand ctuunpion title.
The animal was later sold for
$2.37 per pound to Hatfield
Packing Company, Hatfield,
Pa. *
Reserve grand champion
belonged to Christian Herr,
the son of Dr. and Mrs.
Robert Herr, Narvon R 2, a
second year FFA member
from Garden Spot High
School who culminated his
first swine project by
commanding $1.30% per
not a severe one,- and
growers of the new variety,
Permian, report it is doing as
well, if not better, then
Pennbel at this stage.
As of Friday morning,
there were three reports that
cutting bad begun in the
county. Paul Groff,
Manheim R 3, an area
grower for 29 years, said that
he had put away two double
loads on Thursday because
■ln this issue
Ida’s Notebook 45
Home on the Range 46
Recipe Swap 48
Dairy princesses 49
Jr. Cooking Edition 52
Classifieds 54
Chester DHIA 82
Lebanon DHLA 84
.Riders 86
Fair schedule 91
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 30,1977
' family were named premier
exhibitor and premier
breeder of the show. The
Freys operate a Holstein
dairy farm-.near Willow
Street and won a number of
blue ribbons with their en
tries.
Lasting for more than five
hours, the Open Black and
White contest was held
Thursday at the Quarryville
[Continued on Page 251
H. Louis Moore was first to
speak. He gave a short
history of the yield-grading
system, stating that it
became mandatory about 18
months ago on February 23,
1976. The grading system has
been controversial with the
big question being “Are the
lower graded cattle really
worth less?’’ The highest
grade cattle are graded yield
(Continued on Page 311
pound for his 205 pound
Yorkshire-Hampshire gilt,
Like Strauss, Herr also
purchased his animal at the
Lancaster County Swine
Producers Association’s
feeder pig sale held at the
.New Holland Sales Stables
on April 5. Purchasing
Herr’s reserve grand champ
at the afternoon sale was
Lancaster County Farm
Restaurant, Elizabethtown
Rl.
Strauss’ grand champion
was bred by Dutch Valley
(Continued on Page IS]
the weather looked bad for
Saturday - his originally
scheduled day to cut.
Groff, who farms seven
acres of Pennbel, planted the
cut tobacco on May 20. He
estimates that it weighed 60
pounds per lath, and that at
this point, it is the best he’s
had in four years.
Other growers around the
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Southeast dress revue 92
Joyccßupp 93
Plant lovers’ corner 94
My Thoughts 97
Organic Fanning 100
Farm safety 102
FPA’ers honored 106
Life on the farm 107
Sale Reports 113
Public Sale Register 117
Premier breeder and premier exhibitor at this years Lancaster District
Holstein Show is the J. Mowery Frey family of Willow Street. Left to right are:
Susan, withf the first-place 3-year old and grand champion of the 4-H Show,
owned by Jimmy wifi the best uddered 2-year old, and John with a
second-place 3-year old.
Lancaster County’s dairy princess, Twila Brubaker, congratulates Linda
Kauffman for showing this Astronaut daughter to reserve grand champion
Robert Strauss, Jr., Ephrata Rl,
(left) who showed the grand
champion market hog at the Lan
caster County FFA Market Hog show
and sale last Tuesday, shakes hands
with Jerry Clemens, hog buyer from
Hatfield Packing Company Hatfield.
Pa. Clemens purchased Strauss’
grand champion for $2.37 per pound
on Tuesday.
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