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LANCASTER - Garden
Spot High School won a gold
medal in the Lancaster
County’s project record book
contest.
Brian Martin, New
Holland R 1 and Larry
Martin, Denver Rl, who are
reporters for their
production agriculture club,
compiled the winning book.
Tjie school’s en
vironmental FFA chapter
had the bronze-winning
scrapbook, done by
sophomores Darlene Hor
ning, Denver Rl and Lori
Engle, New Holland.
The silver award for a
scrapbook went to Penn
Manor FFA.
Cattle Feeders meeting Feb. 21
HINKLETOWN - A cattle
feeders meeting has been
scheduled for February 21 at
the Hinkletown Alternative
School, by the Hinkletown
Adult Farmer Program.
Jerry Hess, nutritionistfor
Young’s Minerals, will be
the speaker for the evening.
He will be discussing the use
of high silage rations in
slaughter steers
grade 3 to 4, weighing 1075 to
1400 pounds brought 68.50 to
70.00, with a few in the early
part of the week 67.60-68.50.
Choice, mainly yield grade 2,
1050 to 1375 pounds, brought
68.25 to 70,00, with 25 head
going for 70.00 to 71.00.
Choice, yield grade 2 to 4,
weighing 1000 to 1400
pounds, brought 66.00 to
68.50; and high Good and low
Choice, yield grade 2 to 3
brought 64.00 to 66.75. Good,
yield grade 2 to 3 sold for
62.75 to 65.50, and a few
standard, yield grade 1 to 2
sold for 59.50 to 63.00.
The markets in Lancaster
County found slaughter
heifers about $1.50 higer;
cows 50 cents to $1 higher;
and bullocks and bulls
mostly steady. The supply
included 45 per cent
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Lancaster Co, FFA ’eirs win awards *
Several other project book
awards went to county club
members. Winners and then
high schools include:
One enterprise: John
Zimmerman, Ephrata, gold;
Dan Witwer, Garden Spot,
gold; Dwight Herr, Solanco,
silver; Kevin Zimmerman,
Garden Spot, silver.
Two enterprises: Tom
Kirk and Doug Hershberger,
both of Solanco, gold; Ray
Good, Ephrata, gold; Jeff
DeLong and Mike Rhoads,
both of Solanco, silver; Jim
Hess, Manheim-Central,
silver; Christina Bucher,
Solanco, bronze; Ron Good,
Ephrata, bronze; Doug
Snavely, Warwick, bronze.
cattle feeding, its _ ad
vantages and disad
vantages, what is needed to
balance a ration of silage,
andhow best to feed silage.
Bill Brubaker from
Organic Plant,Food Com
pany will' also be on the
program to discuss the use of
cold flow amonia as an
inexpensive protein source
with silage rations.
(Continued from Page 1)
slaughter steers, 24 per cent
cows, six per cent slaughter
heifers, and five per cent
bulls, with the balance being
feeder steers held mainly for
the Friday afternoon auc
tion.
According toa report from
the USDA, cattle members
this year will be down one or
two per Cent from last year,
with production down four
per cent as the cattlemen
begin to rebuild their herds.
•Cattlemen stress that the
high prices now are just part
of the cattle cycle that peaks
about every six to ten years.
The current good markets
will encourage the ranchers
to build up their herds, and
industry spokesmen say that
this supply expansion -will
bring the prices and supplies
in balance naturally.
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Three enterprises: Kevin
Smoker, Ephrata, gold;
Gary Eberly, Solanco,
silver; Mark Weiler,
Ephrata, bronze.
Four enterprises: Tom
Wentzel, Garden Spot, gold;
Steve Hershey, Manheim-
Central, silver; Barry Geib,
Manheim-Central, bronze.
Five enterprises: Marvin
Fox, Ephrata, gold; Tony
Eberly, Ephrata, silver.
Six enterprises: Barbara
Herr, Garden Spot, gold;
Robert Fox, Ephrata, gold.
Conservation: Tammy
Horning, Garden Spot, gold.
On-farm work experience:
Farm Calendar
(Contmued from Page 10)
Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative membership
meeting, 7 p.m. at
Quarryville United
Methodist Church.
Blue Mt. FFA annual
banquet, Blue Mt. High
School, Schuylkill Haven,
6:45 p.m.
Maryland Cattlemen’s
Association winter
seminar annual meeting,
New Windsor, Md.
Cecil Co. Md. Agronomy
Day, starts- 9:30 1 a.m.,
Calvert Grange Hall,
near Calvert, Md.
Friday, Feb. 28
Adams County Dairy Day,
St. John’s United Church,
New Chester, 10 a.m.
' Forage Workshop, Lan-
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lirian Hess, Odi den-Spot,
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Off-farm work ex
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Messner and Kenneth
Wanner, all of Garden Spot,
gold; J. Martin Hoover and
Steve Strauss, both of
Ephrata, silver; Cliff
Reifsnyder, Garden Spot,
silver; Chuck Zimmerman
and Mike Martin, both of
Garden Spot, bronze; David
Stehman, Manheim-Central,
bronze; Tim Brower,
Ephrata, bronze.
Miscellaneous: Dana
caster County Farm and
Home Center, all day.
Elizabethtown Young
Farmers annual meeting
and banquet, 6:45 p.m. at
Hostetter’s Dining Hall,
Mount Joy.
Second session of 2-day
estate - planning short
course, York County 4-H
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Md. Pork Producers annual
meeting, Westminster,
Md., Frock’s Sunnybrook
Farm Restaurant.
Saturday, Feb. 24
Garden Spot Young Farmers
' annual banquet, 6:45 p.m.
at Blue Ball Fire Hall.
Ham and chickfen dinner,
sponsored by the Mon
tgomery Co. 4-H Equine
Council, Skippack Fire
Hall.
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