Ayrshire banners go out of state
HARRISBURG - The first
Eastern National Ayrshire
Show ever held in con
junction with the Penn
sylvania All-American
Dairy Show saw entries from
several states walking away
with banners.
Entries from Maryland
captured the awards for
premier breeder and
exhibitor, the banners going
to Palmyra Farm, of
Hagerstown, Maryland.
Palmyra Farm had
exhibited the senior
champion and grand
champion female, a five
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year-old cow named
“Palmyra Dolmen
Tammy.”
The senior and grand
champion bull was “Cove
Creek Flashy Boy,” a 3-
year-old exhibited by the
Cove Creek Farm in Bed
ford, Cove Creek Farm also
showed the reserve junior
champion female, a junior
yearling heifer named
“Cove Creek Star’s Cathy.”
Premier sire for the show,
for a second consecutive
year was “Oak Ridge Flashy
Klondike,” owned by Sire
Power of Tunkhannock.
for J^ree
.estimate
The reserve senior and
reserve grand champion bull
was the 4-year old “Oak
Ridge C H Peer,” exhibited
by John and Penny Bell of
Bell’s Farm, Elmer, New
Jersey. Bell’s Farm also
showed the reserve junior
champion bull, a bull calf
named “Mernland
Gorgeous Vic.”
Junior champion bull
honors went to “Crooked
Brook Honey,” a bull calf
exhibited by the Crooked
Brook Farm of Voiuntown,
Connecticut.
A New Hampshire entry,
“Chestnut Ridge Klondy’s
Paula,” was named reserve
senior champion and reserve
grand champion female
Ayrshire. “Paula,” a five-
Carter drops one
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Net according to economic in
income per farm in the dicators, a CEA report. The
United States is running at a lowest during the Nixon
lower rate in “real” dollars Administration was $4,093 in
(actual purchasing power) 1976. The average reached
than at any time during the $3317 in the peak year of
Nixon Administration, the 1973 . more than double the
President’s Council of present level. Farm prices
Economic Advisers reported have plunged nine per cent
to Congress recently. Net and farm income has gone
income per farm averaged down further since the
only $4,060 (at an annual second quarter ending June
rate) in 1967 dollars for the 39
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year-old cow, was shown by
the Chestnut Ridge Farm of
Amherst, New Hampshire.
The judge for the Eastern
National Ayrshire Show was
C. Fred Foreman, from
Ames, lowa.
Other Pennsylvania
Ayrshire breeders who
placed in the top five of
various classes were:
Towerview Farm,
Cochranville; William and
Wilda Kline, Mars; Baytree
Ayrshires, Evans City;
Ardrossan Farms,
Villanova; Roger Brant,
Mount Union; Betty Diehl,
Bedford; Rolling Hill Farm,
Mount Union and George
Knight and Doug Seidel,
Airville.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 1,1977
Inspection terminated
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In
response to a request by
Maryland gram mspection
officials, the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture is taking
formal action to cancel the
Maryland state agriculture
department’s designation as
one of approximately 90
official grain inspection
agencies in the United
States.
According to a spokesman
for USDA’s Federal Grain
Inspection Service (FGIS),
the cancellation took effect
Sept. 19. Before the
suspension, the state had
been providing official grain
mspection service at only
one site, Salisbury For the
Sale and auction set
SKIPPACK - The tenth
annual Country Sale and
Auction sponsored by the
volunteers of Norristown
State Hospital for f he benefit
of the Patient R/dhaulitation
Fund will be hehd October 11
at the Skippack Fire House,
Route 113, Skipp ack.
The sale will begir at 10
a.m. and continue until
auction tune at 7 p.m.
Among the choice items for
sale will be handmade quilts,
turn-of-the-century fur
niture, appliances, tools and
gardening equipment,
plants, books, handcrafted
articles, jewelry, toys, and
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Light Medium Weight Beavertown; 2. Mike Fetzer,
1. Kyle Brown, Klinger- Lewisburg Rl; 4. Todd
stown; 3. Kim Smith, Milton. Masteller, Danville R 3; 5.
Heavy Medium Weight Danny Jones, Danville R 6; 6.
1. James Maneval, £iane Schreffler,
Beavertown; 2. Matt Martz, Khngerstown.
Dalmatia; 4. John Hartman, JumorShowmanshq)
Turbotville. Kun Smitti, Milton; 4.
Heavyweight £iane Schreffler,
1. Glenn Maneval, Khngerstown.
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most part, the inspections
involved truck shipments of
com.
Since the voluntary
suspension a year ago, state
officials have been per
forming unofficial inspection
at Salisbury, and will ap
parently continue to do so.
Unofficial inspections are
not conducted under the U.S.
Gram Standards Act and are
neither authorized nor
supervised by FGIS.
Farmers or grain mer
chants desiring official in
spection of domestically
marketed grain in Maryland
should contact the FGIS in
Baltimore.
home accessories. Except
for the quilts, all of which
are new, some of these are
collector’s items, some are
new, most are used.
A popular feature of the
sale is a table of delectable
homemade foods - cakes,
pies, breads, canned fruits
and vegetables, and
preserves. For those who
want to eat while shopping, a
snack bar will be available
selling homemade soup, a
special barbecue sandwich,
and homemade cakes and
pies, as well as hamburgers,
hot dogs, and hot and cold
beverages.
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