n SRI S lnlsH^Es^^^Bl^E^^BVtKL *i^"nt^^iMiTj j/ 1 ■■■jmi i^L^Ul V0L.24H0.W- /f/ Consideration given to ethanol production HARRISBURG - Penn- “These Departments will sylvania Secretary of provide assistance toward Agriculture Penrose helping new energy related Hallowell today announced businesses begin production that the Departments of in Pennsylvania,” said Agriculture, Commerce and Hallowell. “The production Revenue have agreed to of ethanol will go a long way meet with investor groups towards stimulating the who are willing to begin economy in Pennsylvania by ethanol production in the providing new jobs for our Commonwealth. rural areas, more markets Lancaster County 4-H’ers bring honors home By DIETER KRDEG LANCASTER A vic torious group of Lancaster County 4-H’ers returned home from Penn State Wednesday, having earned some of the top placings m state-wide contests. The most celebrated of the victories was that of the Senior Livestock Judging Team, which captured first place in the popular state 4-H contest. Team members were Barbara Herr of Narvon, Mary Longenecker of Lititz, Wayne Hess of Lancaster, and Deb Greider of Columbia. Miss Herr and Miss Longenecker tied for third place in the individual Arnold Acres shows grand champion at Lebanon DIETER KRIEG LEBANON Arnold Acres and Gem Rock Farm were the big winners at the Lebanon Fair’s Open Holstein Show, held Thursday at the Fairgrounds, near here. Judge Genie Francisco of Andover, N.J. judged the highly competitive contest. More than 160 cows and heifers were entered. One of the cattle barns was enlarged earlier this year to accomodate the growing show. Mrs. Francisco, a well-known judge and breeder of Holstein dairy cattle, chose a powerful Harrisburg Gay Ideal daughter as the grand champion. She was exhibited by Ed and Mike Arnold of Lebanon. The Arnold Brothers operate a 325 acre family farm m partnership with their mother, Mary, and maintain a herd of 75 milking cows. Their 1978 DHIA average stands at 18,700 pounds of imik and 713 pounds of butterfat. The herd is classified, scoring 102.7 B.A.A. Owners of Arnold Acres Holstems, the Arnold Brothers have been top contenders for high honors at the Lebanon Fair for numerous years. They were Premiere Breeder at the 1978 Lebanon Fair, although that wasn’t known until after a mistake had been found in the original scoring. This year, the Premier Exhibitor Award eluded them by just one point. Named Premiere Breeder and Premiere £Vv ~ • * » ' ‘ . ' ’ . • I In this issue h- ' • ‘ • ‘v • * Life on the Farm 10 Farm Calendar 15 Rural Route 15 Hay Creek Festival 16 Ag Progress exhibitors 46 rankings. Hess placed seventh. Lancaster County’s 4-H Barbara Herr Exhibitor of the 1979 Lebanon County Holstein Show was tbe Ken Sellers family of Lebanon. They own Gem-Hock Holsteins and are consistently owners of some of the best quality black-and-whites exhibited at this show. Daryl Balmer is herd manager for Sellers. Chosen as reserve senior and reserve grand champion at this year’s contest was a lean Bootmaker daughter owned and exhibited by Dale Hostetter of Annville. She stood at the top of the 2-year ojd class. Junior champion honors went to an up standing senior yearling belonging to the Hubert Miller Estate of Myerstown. She is sired by Elevation. David Bomgarner of Annville, in the show ring with a home-bred junior yearling, captured the reserve junior champion honor. The placmgs follow; Bulls Champion, Mil-Harv Valiant Matt, sired by C Roybrook Valiant out of Mil-Harv Freda Chief Fern. Bred, owned and exhibited by Harvey Bomgardner of Ann ville. The reserve champion, a son of Hanover Hill tnpple Threat-Red, owned by Ken Sellers. Doris Thomas 46 Homestead Notes 82 Kendy’sKollumn 86 Dauphin dairy round-up 98 Chester Holstein show 104 Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 11,1979 for our farmers and by decreasing our energy imports.” Hallowell said that economics and other im plications of ethanol production were discussed in a July 31 meeting attended by representatives of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, General Ser entbmology team also came home with the highest honors. Team members Deb Greider (Turn to Page 27) York Holstein show 116 York dairy round-up 114 FFA challenge 124 1960 wheat program 134 Poultry queen 135 vices, Revenue and Tran sportation, and the Governor’s Energy Council and the Public Utility Commission. ' At-that meeting, Hallowell assured those that Penn sylvania’s agriculture could support ethanol production, through the use of various agricultural commodities Virginia Smith, Becky Rohrabaugh, ami 7 Jay Stauffer combined 7 for the .Mary Longenecker Ed and Mike Arnold are owners of the grand champion Holstein shown at the Lebanon Area Fair this year. including forest products and possibly sugar beets. Hallowell recommended that the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture and the Governor’s Energy Council investigate the possibility of, funding a research project that would study the economics of ethanol production. The effort. Miss Smith and Miss Rohrabaugh placed first and second, respectively, on the Wayne Hess L $7.00 Per Year research would include investigations into new tecbiques of ethanol production and marketing studies, along with a study of projects already in existence with a tabulation of results.. The task force will meet at the end of the month to discuss -their findings and report on advances made. individual scoring list. The 4-H poultgry judges from the Garden Spot - managed a third place. Leading in the scoring was Glenn Sauder of Mount Joy, who was the third high in dividual. Jim Kreider of Manheim was sixth, Marcy Gehman of Stevens was 10th, and Dwight Graybill of Stevens was 15th. Arlen Keener of Elizabethtown, Leonard Stoltzfus of Gap, Stephen Kauffman of Elizabethtown, and Neal Crouse of Stevens, combined their dairy judging skills to lead their team to a third place finish (Turn to Page 27)
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