—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 18,1978
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Chester County DHIA vice-president Harold
Kulp, and alternate dairy princess Carol Pierce,
present awards to Jefferson Yoder, highest
butterfat producer with 795 pounds; Melvin
Bv LAUREL SCHAEFFER
Staff Correspondent
GUTHRIES VILLE
Chester County dairymen
gathered here on November
9 to honor 18 of their finest
colleagues wno have
averaged over 650 pounds of
butterfat this year Eight
topped 700 pounds Heading
the impressive list was
Jefferson D. Yoder of
Elverson, who has been
leading the pack for the past
several years
Yoder averaged 19,722
pounds of milk and 795
pounds of butterfat
Presently Yoder has a herd
of 50 cows, and farms 1200
acres with the help of his 23-
year old son, Carl, and one
full tune man. The Yoders
also have a herd of 40 Angus
brood cows - the foundation
of a cow-calf operation.
Following Yoder with an
average of 792 pounds of
butterfat was Jacob K.
Stoltzfus, Oxford. His herd
averaged 18,470 pounds of
milk. Melvin S. Stoltzfus,
Cochranville, averaged 780
pounds of fat and 19,041 of
milk. The fourth highest in
butterfat was George P
Lambom of Nottingham
Lambom was also the tops in
milk production with a
record of 20,077 pounds of
milk and 762 of fat.
Others over 700 pounds of
butterfat were John S
Stoltzfus, Atglen with 1C,836
pounds oi mill' and 747
nounds of butterfat, Robert
E Peppk Oxford, with
18.27 Q mill and "28 fat
Ardrossar. farms,
ViJJanova, with 17,075 milk
and 714 tat, and Ber b
Beiler, Cochranville,
averaging 18,675 pounds
milk and 7 11 pounds c tat
Producing between 650
and 700 pounds of butterfat
were Jonn M bmble
Atglen, Newton iwan,, Jr
Chester Springs Donald
Hostetler, Jr, Parkesburg
(with two herds over 650'
David Windle, Atglen,
Harold Umble, Atglen J
Elmer CoatesvilJe,
David E Weaver, Glen
moorc Llovd Mast and
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Yoder has
County herd again
Sons, Elverson; Paul M
Snader, Parkesburg; and J
Harold Bare, Atglen
Rev C Harry Kehm,
pastor of Grace United
Church of Christ, Allentown,
enlivened the annua!
banquet held at the East
Brandywine Township Fire
Hall, Guthriesville, with
humor, jokes and in
spiration Kehm told his
attentive audience that if
they wanted their herd,
family life, and community
to be better next year they
would have to make it better
“It won’t just happen by
itself,” he commented In
order to succeed, the pastor
said, three things are
needed
Fulton Grange holds meeting
Fulton Grange No. 66 held
their meeting, November 13,
at the Grange Hall in
Oakryn, when Com and Pie
Night was observed.
Mrs. Gerald Kreider,
Ceres, and Mrs. William
Taylor, Pomona, prepared
the program. Mrs. Kreider
was m charge of the com
contest and Darnel Tnmble
was the judge. Receiving
awards in the best ten ear
exhibit were; 1. Edward L.
Zug; 2. Clifford Holloway
Jr ; and 3. Mrs Clifford
Holloway Jr Best smgle ear
winners 1 Edward Zug; 2
J Stanley Stauffer Jr ; and
3 Tun Hanks
The Women’s Activities
committee was in charge of
the pie contest and the judge
was Mrs Robert E Rohrei
Winners were Spiced
pumpkin - 1 Mrs Charles
Wallace; 2 Mrs Thomas
Charles Galbreath Plain
pumpkin-1 Mrs CliffordV
Holloway Jr 2 Mrs
Charles McSparran Apple -
1 Mrs Clifford HolJowav
111, 2 Mrs Harry Baker
Mrs Gerald Kreider
presented the speaker, Earl
Mull, Quanyville RD, who
gave account of his ex
periences for three months
the past two summers
Stoltzfus with 780 pounds and George Lamborn
for 762 pounds and having the highest milk
average at 20,077 pounds.
top Chester
The first being a desire, an
inner urge, an anticipation
towards that goal A good
sense of humor is also
needed, he remarked, and
also, you have to be honest
with yourself “It isn’t im
portant how other people see
you, but how you see
yourself,” he explained
Carol Pierce, Chester
County Alternate Dairy
Princess, also addressed the
large gathering of dairymen.
Carol explained the duties of
a dairy princess and their
importance to the industry,
emphasizing the need to
effectively compete in the
promotion of soft drinks
Earl Baum, DHIA
Fieldman, updated the
combining small grams
through the mid-western
states from Texas to North
Dakota and Montana. He
showed pictures of the
equipment they used. He
plans to run a combine again
in 1979 for the same custom
harvester.
Master Harry Baker
conducted the business
meeting. He announced the
following committee ap
pointments for the coming
year; Women’s Activities,
Mrs. Harrv Baker, Mrs.
Richard Edwards, Mrs.
Charles Reath, Mrs Charles
Wallace, Mrs Robert
Hershberger and Mrs
Howard Miller Young
Mameds, Mi ann Mrs
Leroj Welk, Mr and Mrs
Glenn Hougn and Mr. and
Mrs James Huber
Agriculture, Arba Henrj,
Richard Hollowai and
Everett
Kreider
Legislative, Thomas
Galbreath, Dewitt Bacom
and Carlton Quiglev
Resolution, C G Mc-
Sparran, Gerald Kreider and
Earle Gilbert Membership,
Jesse Wood, J.E Kreider
and Edward Zug Youth,
Mrs Clifford Holloway 111,
David Knight, Lloyd Welk
and Edith Ambler Senior
dairymen -on the DHIA
program across the state,
noting there are present!}
50,000 cows on the new'
somatic cell count program
and soon the facilities will be
expanded to handle more
cows Baum also told the
group that this is the first
year the average herd size
decreased in number for
quite sometime “The beef
price must nave done some
good,” he remarked
Three new directors for
the County DHIA Board
were also elected during the
meeting. Elected to serve a
three year term were Elmer
Mast, Parkesburg; Jef
ferson Yoder, and Nick
Tkaczuk, Elverson
Citizens, Mrs. Esther
Graybeal, Mrs. Donald
McCallm and Mrs. Sylvia
May Tours - Charles
McSparran, William
Rhoades and Clifford
Holloway Jr. Solanco
Family Health Center
representative, Mrs
Howard Miller.
Fulton Grange will
manage the attic sale for the
benefit Kraft Days
December 8 and 9 at the
Solanco Community Fair
Building, Quarryville. Mrs.
Charles Wallace will be
chairman for that com
mittee
Lecturer Mrs Thomas
Galbreath, will present a
Thanksgiving program at
the next meeting November
27. and Master Harry Baker
will give his report of the
Pennsylvania State Grange
meeting held in Butler
October 23-2 C
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