Awards presented to Etown Young Farmers
ByKENDACEBORRY Rl, spoke to the Lancaster with his yield of 151.3 bushels
County group. per acre.
ELIZABETHTOWN - Th® ear com contest was
Over 200 farmers and guests Advisor Larry . Garber won by Glenn Hershey,
attended the Elizabethtown presented the awards for the Elizabethtown R 3, with 200.3
Young Farmers third annual several contests held bushels per acre. With 185.6
banquet held February 24 at throughout the past year. bushels per acre, Clair
the Elizabethtown Fire Hall. In the shelled corn contest, Oberholtzer, also of
After a dinner of stuffed top placing went to Clair L. Elizabethtown R 3, placed
chicken breasts, awards Hoover, Bainbndge Rl, with second,
were presented -to out- a yield of 153 bushels per Irwin W. Engle,
standing farmers and Pa. acre. Second place went to Elizabethtown R 3, won the
Rep. Noah Wenger, Stevens Joseph Wivell, Columbia Rl, corn silage yield contest with
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his 24.8 tons per acre. Clair
L. Hoover placed second r
with 16.5 tons per acre.
In the corn silage TDN
contest, it was a repeat
performance with Irwin
Engle again placing first and
Clair Hoover second. Engle
had 75 per cent TDN while
Hoover had 73 per cent.
Donald Mowrer, Marietta
Rl, was named outstanding
young farmer of the group.
The farmer, who is vice
president of the
organization, won the award
by being chosen by his fellow
members as the one who
most deserved the title.
Others nominated for the
award included Irwin Engle,
Donald Risser, Bambridge
Rl; and Joseph Wivell.
Rep. Noah Wenger told the
farmers not to un
derestimate their part in the
U.S. government. One
fanner, he related, feeds 50 Winning the outstanding young farmer award is
agricultural products’make Donald Mowrer, seen on the left. Presenting the
25 per cent of the U.S. ex- award is Larry Garber, advisor to the group,
ports. Farmers have a
stabilizing effect on the
Taking awards at the Elizabethtown Young Farmers third annual banquet
were: from left to right, in back: Glenn Hershey, Clair Oberholtzer, and Joseph
Wivell. In front are Clair Hoover and Irwin Engle.
In the past, Wenger
stated, the farmer has been
taken for granted, both by
consumers and politicians.
But today there is a subtle
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