—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21,1978
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By DIETER KRIEG
HARRISBURG - The
Guernsey breed of dairy
cattle is considered by some
to be vanishing from the
American agricultural
scene, but fellows like Tweet
Snider will never be con
vinced of that.
Snider has been associated
with top quality Guernseys
for all of his life - having
grown up at Snider
Homestead Farms, one of
the most renowned Guern
sey farms in the state. For
the past four years,
however, he’s been em
ployed as manager of South
Penn Farms, which is
located near his home farm
in Bedford County. Although
South Penn Farms, owned
by Donald P. Moran, was the
home of Angus cattle,
Snider’s love for Guernsey
cows convinced Moran that
the bams and pastures
should be filled with the
yellow dairy breed of cattle.
On October 1 of last year a
brand new Guernsey farm
came onto the Pennsylvania
dairy scene and they’re
making waves which are
being noticed all across the
nation. The recent Penn
sylvania Farm Show is just
one more example in a long
list which establishes South
Penn Farms and manager
Snider as a power to be
reckoned with when top cows
are discussed. The Farm
Show’s Guernsey champion
was - you guessed it -
exhibited by Snider.
Happy Hill AFC Loma, a
5-year old, was the grand
champion. Within the last
few months that Snider and
Moran have had her, she has
stood first at the Penn
sylvania All-American, the
Maryland State Fair, and
now the Farm Show. The
stylish cow is also an All-
American 3-year old for 1977.
Purchased by South Penn
Farms last Fall for a record
$20,000, the champion cow is
a national class leader in
milk production for 3-year
olds Her record stands at
22,200 pounds of milk and
1021 pounds of butterfat,
produced in 305 days She’s
currently milking 118 pounds
of milk per day, says Snider,
after having freshened last
October.
The sire of the winning
cow is Apple Brook Fames
Corporal.
The recently established
Guernsey herd at South
Penn Farms is stabled in a
new barn equipped with 80
Show-Ease stalls, and
pipeline milkers Two
hundred acres of fields
devoted to corn and hay help
supply the nutritional needs
of the cattle Snider makes it
a point to give them the best
of care That’s one of many
reasons the farm came home
from the Farm Show with
the Premier Exhibitor
banner
Snider considered this
year’s Guernsey show at the
Farm Show to have been one
of the best in years He’s
been a regular participant
for the past 20 years Ac
cording to him, this year’s
show was up in both quality
and quantity, which is just
one more sign that the
$20,000 cow wins Guernsey show
The
has
Guernsey cow is here to
stay
Showing the reserve grand
champion at this year’s
Farm Show was Rutter
Brothers of York. Tim
Rutter, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Rutter, was at the halter
of the animal, named
Pineylane Champion Chene,
a 7-year old Young Rutter
also had the junior cham
pion, a senior yearling
named Rutter Bros. Du Kes
Susie The reserve ribbon
was won by Ginger Sechnst
of Fayetteville.
Following are the placmgs
of the open Guernsey show:
1. Kevin Calhhan, Imler;
2. John Marchezak, Ben
tleyville; 3. Jeff Benedict,
Waynesboro; 4. David
Briggs, Burgettstown; 5.
Bernard Snider, New En
terprise.
Junior Yearling
1. Bernard Snider, 2.
Donald Moran, New En
terprise; 3. Ginger Sechrist,
4. Jason Ivcic, Bentleyville;
5. Renee Fava, Scenery Hill.
Senior Yearling
1. Tuny Rutter, 2. Ginger
Sechrist, 3. Ruth Benedict,
Fayetteville; 4 Alisa Mane
Fava, Scenery Hill; 5. John
Marchezak
Junior Get of Sire
1. John Marchezak, 2. Jeff
Benedict.
3 or 4 Year Old
Dry Cow
1. Bernard Snider, 2. John
Marchezak, 3. Bernard
Snider, 4 Rutter Brothers, 5.
Donald Moran.
Aged Dry Cow
1. Donald Moran, 2.
Bernard Smder, 3 Peggy
McDonald, Imler; 4. Marion
Benedict, 5. Michael
Benedict, W ay nesboro^--^
Two Year Olds
1. Marvin Miller,
Strasburg; 2. Donald Moran,
3. Bernard Smder, 4. Darryl
Rohrbaugh, New Freedom;
5. Cindy Rutter, York.
Three Year Olds
1 Tuny Rutter, 2. Donald
Moran, 3 Deborah Lehman,
York; 4. Donald Moran, 5
Bernard Smder.
Four Year Olds
1 Patricia McMurray,
Bentley ville; 2 Brian
Lehman, York; 3 Renee
Fava, 4 Renee Fava, 5.
Donald Moran
1 Donald Moran, 2 Barry
Lehman, York; 3. John
Marchezak; 4 Donald
Moran, 5. Alisa Mane Fava
Open Get of Sire
1 Donald Moran, 2
Ellsworth Lehman, York, 3
Cindy Rutter
Dairy Herd
1 Donald Moran, 2
Deborah Lehman, 3
Patricia McMurray, 4
Michael Benedict, 5 Ber
nard Snider
Best 3 Females
1 Patricia McMurray, 2
Bernard Snider, 3 Brian
Lehman, 4 Marion
Benedict, 5 Timy Rutter
Produce of Dam
1 John Marchezak, 2 Jeff
Benedict, 3 David Briggs
Premier Breeder
1 John Marchezak
yellow breed
• •
a rising star
Heifer Calf
Aged Cows
Tweet Snider, at the halter of a $20,000
champion Guernsey, is serving notice that his
breed of dairy cow is on the way up.
Looking a bit tired after a day of competition,
limy Rutter’s reserve grand champion Guernsey
longs for the comfort of the straw.
Lehigh Co, takes
seven apple awards
HARRISBURG - Lehigh
County rated the highest m
apple displays at the Penn
sylvania Farm Show with
two orchards in the county
taking seven out of 13 of
the best-of-show awards
offered last week Mohr
Orchards, Orefield Rl,
earned the best bags, best
try of 20, best roadside pack
(8-15 pounds), best roadside
pack (16-24 pounds), and
best gift pack
Hausman Fruit Farm,
Coopersburg R 2, took the
State Horticultural
Association Award, and two
best bushel awards
The Franklin County
Horticultural Society
earned both the best county
exhibit and the Gabriel
Heister awards
From Dauphin County,
Stnte’s Orchards, Inc.,
Harrisburg, earned two top
honors - the best overwarp
tray and the best pears.
Friday and Haacher
Farm, from Roaring Spring
Rl, Blair County, was
judged as having the best
plate of five
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