Serying The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
VOL. 23 No. 46 d'l
Ag leaders tell of future challenges
Dr. James Beattie
IMP CO, MCMP look forward to Holly opening
BALTIMORE, Md. -
Inter-State Milk Producers
Cooperative and Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers, The venture, which cost
Inc., joint owners of a milk ' the two cooperatives some
processing plant near $lO million, will be suo
Carlisle, Pa., are looking cessful and profitable, say
The tractors roared at the Penn Fall Nationals
ByKENDACEBORRY
THE BUCK Those who
travelled down to the Buck
last Friday and Saturday
night to see the tractor pulls,
got a special treat, for those
were the nights of the Penn
Fall National. For two days,
nationally known tractor
Barbara Herr excells
at the Big i E’
WEST SPRINGFIELD,
Mass. - Barbara Herr, 15,
dominated what appears to
be the largest Dorset sheep
show in the country and the
largest sheep show in the
East with 1100 entries
coming from as far as
Illinois and Virginia.
The scene was m West
Springfield Mass, at the
Eastern States Exposition
where Barbara won
Champion Dorset Ram and
Champion Dorset Ewe m the
National Junior Dorset
Sheep show. She also won
Champion Dorset Ram and
Reserve Champion Dorset
Ewe m the open competition.
Winning is not new to
Barbara who has been in *he
4-H sheep project for seven
years. “We always had
sheep on the farm and it
ended up a family project
that was passed down” she
said. She has done very well
with her market lambs also,
By DIETER KRIEG
CAMP HILL Two prominent figures in
Pennsylvania Agriculture congratulated
PennAg Industries Association this week on
the occasion of the organization’s 100th an
niversary, and then outlined some of the
challenges which they believe will need to be
faced by the state’s farmers and
agribusinesses in coming years. PennAg
Industries Association is an organization of
more than 400 agribusiness member firms.
The centennial convention, held here this
week at the Penn Harris Motor Inn, was at
tended by over 500 persons and featured
nationally and internationally known guests.
Among them were Pennsylvania Secretary of
forward to the opening of the
facility as early as next
week.
pullers competed for the
right to call their tractor
first in its class.
One of the competitors
that could be found behind
the scenes before the
competition was John Shaul,
from Fultonham, New York.
Shaul is one of those men
winning the champion
carcass lamb at Farm Show
and champion market lamb
and pen of market lambs at
the Keystone International
Livestock Exposition last
November. Barbara said, “I
like to stick with the three
major breeds, Suffolk,
hampshire, and dorset when
selecting my market lambs.
I don’t have any major
preference, it all depends on
the quality of each individual
lamb.”
Barbara, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs Robert Herr, cares
for her own sheep which
include five aged ewes, a
show string of five pure bredi
dorsets and ten market
lambs. She also does custom
sheepherding, and shears
approximately 200 sheep in
the spring.
As a sophomore at Garden
Spot High School, Barbara’s
future plans include further
study in farm or sheep
management.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 23,1978
spokesmen at MCMP
headquarters here and at
IMPCO headquarters m
Southampton, Pa.
' Acknowledging that the
project, which took IV2 years
to complete, and is still
who pulls at national pulls
throughout the country, that
is, he competes at those
events that are sanctioned
by the National Tractor
Pullers Association.
He’s bqen competing for
four years now and he still
loves it. He first became
j
Barbara Herr, Narvon, showed her grand
champion dorset ram at the Eastern States Ex
position, West Springfield, Mass.
In this issue
Editorials 10
Farm Calendar 10
Chickies Creek meeting 23
Reading dairy shows' 24,38
Pork Cook-out King 35
Horse Show 36
Homestead Notes 46
Joyce Bupp 49
Kendy’s Kollumn 50
Home on the Range 52
Jr. Cooking Edition 52
Agriculture Kent Shelhamer and Dr. James
Beattie, dean of the College of Agriculture at
Penn State University. Both men cited ac
complishments and advances of Pennsylvania
agriculture and then went on to cite the
challenges which lie ahead. Among them are
the proper use of medications, government
regulations, land use, sufficient food
production for a growing world population,
energy supplies, credit availability, and k
research.
Please turn to page 19 for Dean Beattie’s
remarks.
Secretary Shelhamer’s comments are
detailed on page. 30-
undergoing testing, has had
problems connected with it,
MCMP gdieral manager
Ralph Stock commented that
“It is unrealistic to expect it
to open one day and have 2
million pounds of milk going
involved when he watched
someone else compete at a
tractor pulling contest and,
liking it, he decided to try it.
Today he has two.tractors
which travel around the
country with hkn; an Allison
aircraft powered tractor
called the Eastern Flier and
Ida’s Notebook
Lumberjacks
Classifieds
York Fair dairy shows 55,109
Lancaster DHIA 94
Facts for dairymen 100
Berks DHIA 106
York Fair swine show 112
Lampeter Fair schedule 114
Ephrata Fair schedule 119
Dairy agreement 122
through it. It is a very highly
automated plant; there are a
lot of technicalities involved,
including computerized
controls. It takes time. Once
it’s all checked out and okay,
we’ll be in clover.”
a twin turbo charged 454
Chevy powered tractor
called the Longhorn.
Shaul estimates that he
travels about 20,000 miles a
year following the tractor
pulls across the nation. And
when he isn’t pulling, he tells
that he is a farmer, a crop
Joan Liesau joins
Lancaster Farming staff
LITITZ - Joan L. Liesau, a
native of Chester County,
has been named as associate
editor to the staff at Lan
caster Farming.
As a recent graduate from
the Pennsylvania State
University, Joan, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F.
Liesau, Spring City, RD 1,
received her degree in
animal production. During
her senior year, she served
as editor of the Ag Hill Ac
tion, an agricultural
newsletter for students. She
was very active in the Penn
State Block and Bridle Club
serving on many committees
and showing in their Little
International Livestock
Exposition. She also par
ticipated on Penn States
Livestock Judging Team.
She became involved with
livestock at the age of nine
through the Chester County
4-H program. While in 4-H
she took many projects. Her
geology project turned into a
lapidary and jewelry
business for four years. Joan
said though, that her sheep
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56
60
$6.00 Per Year
Secretary Shelhamer
Assistant , director of
member and public relations
at Inter-State, Jim Sumner,
agrees with Strock’s
assessment and says that the
management of both
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farmer with com being the
main cropto be exact.
Claiming home is a 2000
acre farm in New York,
which is farmed by him, his
brothers, and his fattier,
Shaul warms up when he
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projects and agriculture
training throughout her 4-H
career is what made her
decide to study agriculture
in college. She participated
on the 4-H livestock judging
team and the 4-H meats
judging team. She won the
state 4-H sheep award in 1974
and was a runner up for the
national 4-H sheep award at
the National 4-H Club
Congress, Chicago, 111.
After graduation from
high school, Joan spent three
weeks in Husum, Germany,
as a participant of the
Rotary Exchange program.
In 1974, Joan was the
Pennsylvania Lamb and
Wool Queen. She went on the
following year to be named
National Hampshire Sheep
Queen. Since then she has
judged both of these events
along with other various
contests.
Last summer Joan worked
as head pedigree checker for
the American Hampshire
Sheep Association in
Columbia, Mo. “