Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
VOL. 23 Wo. (^?
Representatives of PennAg Industries Association looked on recently as
Governor Milton Shapp proclaimed Wednesday, Sept. 20, Pennsylvania
Agribusiness Day. Also at the signing with Shapp, center, was Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture, Kent W. Shelhamer, left. To Shapp’s right is PennAg
president William Ryan, Pittsburgh, representing the Association’s 400
agribusiness member firms from across the state. Standing, left to right, are:
Robert L. Weindel, Harrisburg; D. Jay Wolgemuth, Mt. Joy: Kenneth G.
Beachley, Camp Hill; George W. Robinson, Kreamer; John J. Hess, 11, Paradise,
and PennAg executive vice-president Donald W. Parke, Ephrata.
Kim Weaver
Solanco
beef show
ByKENDACEBORRY
QUARRYVILLE - Kim
Weaver, Quarryvilie R 2,
took her 4-H steer Ace to the
top to be named grand
champion of the Solanco
Fair’s beef show Thursday
night, after placing first in
the heavyweight division of
the 4-H classes.
The daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jason Weaver, Kim
showed a Limousme-Angus
crossbred steer weighing
1225 pounds that she had
purchased from Sam Wylie,
Chester County. She is a
member of the Lancaster
County Beef and Sheep Club
and a senior at Solanco High
School.
The reserve champion of
the show was shown by Troy
g (Turn to Page 47)
In this issue
The new support price for
manufacturing milk will he
at 80 per cent parity. See
page 63.
An agronomist with DeKalb
Hybrids has called for the
resurrection of the
cultivator. See page 100 for
details.
A horse plowing contest was
held in Lancaster County.
Please see page 118.
Southeast 4-H dairy show 22
Homestead Notes 50
Kendy’sKollumn 50
Joyce hupp 50
Ida’s Notebook 53
Farm Women Calendar 55
Jr. Cooking Edition 56
Home on the Range 56
Classifieds 64
Dauphin DHIA 98
Leipnon DHIA 101
Leader dogs 106
Cumberland DHIA 108
Swedish IF YE HI
Keith Eckel, a Lackawanna dairyman and tomato grower told members of the
Pennsylvania news media this week that his migrant workers are being
pressured into unwanted services by Susquehanna Human Services, an arm of
the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. With Eckel were Pennsylvania Farmers
Association president Eugene Thompson and information director Richard
Prether, right.
Rutter’s
Guernseys win
at York Fair
YORK The Rutters of
York added considerably to
their show circuit trophies
and ribbons when the York
Fair’s Open Guernsey Show
ended here on Wednesday
night. They captured every
championship title from
reserve junior on up to
grand. One of the few honors
which eluded them was the
Best Female Bred and
Owned by Exhibitor class,
which was won by 11-year
old Brian Lehman, also of
York.
Other top contenders in the
show included Honeycrest
Farm of York, Rohrbaugh’s
Guernseys of New Freedom,
and Hobaugh’s Guernseys of
York.
The Rutter family, which
has shown its Guernseys
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday,. September 16,1978
The Rutters of York made a clean sweep of the
championship ribbons at the York Fair on Wed
nesday night. Shown left to right areleo Rutter,
Cindy with the grand champion, Tina with the
Agribusiness Day proclaimed
HARRISBURG - A day to
honor Pennsylvania
agribusiness has been set
aside by Governor Milton
Shapp. A proclamation
which he signed here
recently named Wednesday,
September 20, 1978, as
Confrontation shaping up between
PFA and social services agency
By DIETER KRIEG
CAMP HILL - The
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association on Monday
came out in complete sup
port of one of its members
and directors, a
Lackawanna County
dairyman and vegetable
grower who claims he is
PennAg convention
Pennsylvania Agribusiness
Day.
In signing the
proclamation. Gov. Shapp
noted that the Com
monwealth’s agricultural
sales last year totalled some
$2.4 billion. The farmers who
being harrassed by a social
services agency.
At a morning press con
ference held here at the
Penn Harris Motor Inn, with
a dozen news media
representatives on hand,
PFA president Eugene
Thompson informed
listeners that the largest of
Pennsylvania’s farm
Reading Fair honors
Elwood Ohlinger family
By DIETER KRIEG
READING A Berks
County farm family which
prides itself on working,
worshipping, playing, and
participating in community
events together was in
troduced this week as the
Outstanding Farm Family
for the 1978 Reading Fair.
The selection had been made
Sept. 5 during a recognition
banquet sponsored by the
Agricultural and Hor
ticultural Association of
Berks County. The dinner
was held in the Fleetwood
Grange Hall with Penn
sylvania Agriculture
Secretary Kent Shelhamer
as guest speaker.
The selection of the
reserve grand champion, Timy with the junior
champion, and Todd with the reserve junior
champion.
$6.00 Per Year
produce Pennsylvania’s food
depend on a very complex
network of suppliers and
marketers. Without that
agribusiness network,
farmers simply would not be
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organizations is requesting a
congressional investigation
into “questionable activities
of the Farmworkers Cor
poration and its sub
contractors. Thompson also
said that PFA has filed
complaints with Penn
sylvania Governor Shapp
and the Commonwealth’s
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Elwood Ohlinger family,
Mohrsville Rl, as the Out
standing Farm Family for
1978 might best be desribed
in the words of his spon
soring Grange, the On
telaunee Grange 1617.
Master Ray Davis and
lecturer Carol Etchberger
wrote the following in an
introductory letter:
“We feel the Ohlinger
family is the best
representative our Grange
could wish for because they
are what the Grange is all
about - a farm family in
terested and involved in all
phases of community af
fairs.”
Aside from their 454-acre
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