i Lancaster Co. egg producer rates perfect score
HARRISBURG - Lan
caster County egg producers
and dealers won nine out of
12 best-of-show awards of
fered at the 62nd annual Pen
nsylvania Farm Show,
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Wednesday, with R.W.
Sauder, Inc., Lititz, coming
up with a perfect score for
the second year since they
began exhibiting. Lancaster
County also earned the coun
ty plaque for the best display
of eggs.
Nearly rounding out the
best-of-sbow awards was
Berks County who took two
of the top honors.
Citations for exhibits of
superior quality also went to
six Lancaster County and
two Berks County producers.
R.W. Sauder, Inc., Lititz,
'exhibited the best dozen
white eggs, the best dozen
eggs in the carton class and
the best dozen eggs in the
broken-out quality competi
tion.
Dutchland Farms,
Rheems, won best-of-show
awards for-five-dozen brown
eggs, a dozen commercial
eggs and five-dozen com
mercial eggs.
Nelson Breneman of Col
umbia R 3, took top honors
for his best dozen eggs in the
farmer class.
The best entry in the com
mercial'pack class was ex
hibited by Clay Reese Co.,
Inc. of 202 Seymour St.
In the junior class, the best
dozen eggs was submitted by
Gerald Hess of Conestoga
R 2.
Red Wing Farms, Fleet
wood, garnered the best
dozen brown eggs, and the
best five-dozen brown eggs.
Lancaster and Berks
County producers earning
superior quality citations
were Kreider Poultry Farm,
Manheim; Dutchland
Farms; Golden Acre Farm,
Hamburg R 2; R.W. Sauder,
Inc.; Plain and Fancy Egg
Ranch, Elizabethtown; Red
Wing Farms, Fleetwood'
RD; Weaver Quality Eggs,
Lancaster County Extension Agent Jay Irwin, left, examines some of the prize
winning eggs submitted by Plain and Fancy Egg Ranch of Elizabethtown. With
him are James Hess, production manager at Plain and Fancy, and Floyd Hicks,
right, poultry specialist from the Penn State Extension Service.
Lancaster; and Clay Reese
Co., Inc., Lancaster.
Plain and Fancy Egg
Ranch of Elizabethtown cap
tured a total of 29 blue rib
bons. Plain and Fancy
dominated the egg judging
on the opening day, as
evidenced by the fact that
they swept 26 blue ribbons
out of 26 entries in the Pro
ducer Dealer Class alone.
James Hess, production
manager at Plain and Fancy
was on hand for judging as
be remarked that the com-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 14,1978
petition this year was a lot
tougher than it had been in
recent years, but “...we
were still able to win more
firsts than ever before.’’
Placing* from Lancaster
Fanning’s coverage area in
cluded: Farmers Class
(Dozen White) - 1. Nelson
Breneman.
Commercial Class (Dozen
White) 1. Dutchland Farms;
2. R.W. Sauder; 4. Plain and
Fancy Egg Ranch; 5.
Kreider Poultry Farm; 6.
Golden Acre Farm, Ham-
burg; (Brown - one dozen) 1.
R.W. Sander, Inc.; 2. Red
Wing Farms; 3. Plain and
Fancy Egg Ranch,
Elizabethtown R 3; (White -
five dozen) 1. Dutchland
Farm; 2. Plain and Fancy
Egg Ranch; 3. Kreider
Poultry Farms; (Brown -
five dozen) 1. Red Wing
Farms, 2. Plain and Fancy
Egg Ranch.
Producer Carton and Fade
(Dozen White) 2. Plain and
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