& VOL«No.^_^P Park Myers exhibited Melvin Kolb’s Dykhill Citation Arden, the grand champion and best fresh udder of the New Holland Dairy Show. Kolb Holstein* sweep New Hoftctud Show by sheila miller Melvin Kolb’s Holsteins walked away with nineteen ribbons at this years New Holland Dairy show. The show was held at the New Holland Sales Stables on Wednesday, October 31st. The grand champion of the We wdonme^. Lancaster Farming welcomes two new faces. Each week vou can look forward to Tom Jurchak’s The Milk Check. Tom is one of the foremost experts on milk marketing, especially Class II sales. Jerry Webb, extension ag editor at the University of Delaware, will bring his wide-ranging Farm Talk column to readers each week. He’ll touch on a diversity of farm-related topics., We expect to broaden our coverage of local DHIA reports, starting soon in Adams and Franklin counties. USDA BY CURT HAULER . HARRISBURG - Ten locations, widely scattered across the country, are to be toe sites of USDA’s Dialogue °n American Agriculture meetings. The meetings are sup posed to be attended by formers. Officials of farm iroups or organizations are king screened out of the •matings. Hut the locations of the meetings, while featuring town names, certainly show was Dykhill Citation Arden, a Kolb cow who placed first in the three year old fresh division and was also the best udder in the fresh cow classes. Cow #3O, shown by Kolb, was second place in the three year old dry division, and was best dry udder of the show. Cow #2 and Cow #l2 were tops in the two year old fresh and dry classes, respec tively. Kolb also placed first and second in the mixed breed division with #4O and #4B. Complete class results are as follows: Mature fresh 1. Glenn Fite (reserve); 2,3,and 4. Melvin Kolb, Inc.; 5. HD.Matz. Mature dry 1. Mel Lehman and Ken Lambert; 2. Melvin Kolb, Inc.; 3. Paul Homing; 4,and 5. Melvin Kolb, INc. 3 year old fresh l,and 2. Melvin Kolb, Inc.; 3. H.D.Matz; 4. Richard Kolb; 5. Melvin Kolb, Inc. invites farmers to Vermont winter wonderland were not chosen with the convenience of the traveller in mind. Pennsylvania farmers, for instance, are- invited to travel to Montpelier, Ver mont on November 27 to offer five minutes of ideas to Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland and several other USDA officials. Why the Tavern Motor Inn in Montpelier was chosen remains something of a mystery. The Pennsylvania Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3,1979 3 year old dry - 1, and 2. Melvin Kolb, Inc.; (Turn to Page 36) Produces fuel, improve* feed State dints down Lebanon Comity still BY DICK WANNER KLEINFELTERSVILLE - The flame that ignited be Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has been put out for the moment, but the fire that is Floyd Horst is burning brighter than ever. Stopped is the pale blue flame that had been burning at the base of a still Horst was using to convert corn to alcohol. He was using the alcohol and diesel fuel to run a Ford 7000 diesel tractor. He was using the alcohol alone to run a garden tractor, a truck and a car. Although Horst had the permission of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, he did not Department of Agriculture offered to host the meetings when the announcement was made on March 5,1979 that the Structure hearings were to be held. Tentative location was to be suburban Philadelphia— near an international air port, rail and bus lines, easy of access by automobile, and close to some of the finest agricultural land in the country. Pennsylvania’s offer was rejected. FFA’ers “prepare for progress" at convention BY DEBRA STRICKLER Billed as the largest youth convention in the United States, the S2nd National FFA Convention gets un derway on Tuesday, November 6, at Kansas City, - Missouri, as it has since 1928. This year’s convention will have some new features. There will be a National FFA extemporaneous public speaking contest for the first time. The contest marks the end of the public speaking year which starts on the local level and progresses to the regional and eventuall natlonaUevel. Another feature is the expanded National Agricultural Career Show, to be held in the H. Roe Bartle Exhibition Hall. The Convention will also serve as an introduction for the 1980 FFA theme Preparing for Progress. Dr. Robert Schuller, famous for- his' “possibility , thinking” and. “Hour Power”'televised religious have the blessing of the state of Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, a representative from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board came to tell him he was in violation of state law. To be in compliance, he’d have to pay $2500 for a state distillery license. Or stop distilling. Horst shut down the still. Ironically, Tuesday was the very day the Penn sylvania Senate passed Senate Bill 1011, which would create a new class of distillers. This new -class would consist of people like Horst, producing denatured alcohol for use on their farms as fuel. These people would still need state Farmers from nine states were to attend the meeting and a more convenient location was needed. Included in the nor theastern region are Penn sylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Ver mont, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut,, and Maine. Rather than choose a central location in New York state, USDA decided on Montpelier. Vermont can be an ex- program, will kick-off the convention with his address to the more than 20,000 FFA members, advisors, parents and guests on Wednesday morning. Congressman Charles W. Stenholm of Texas will speak to the group' Thursday af ternoon, precedint the conferring of the American Farmer Degree. Stenholm had received the Degree in 1959. This year 22 Pennsylvania FFA’ers will receive the coveted American Farmer Degree, with 11 being located in the immediate four county area. To receive this Degree, candidates must have been out of high school for at least a year and must have In operation an outstanding supervised farming or agribusiness om3«alpro|b^ Kevin Holtanger,. Wind sor, has been chosen - the StarFarmer and” V #nung' the four licenses, but the fee would be $25 instead of the $2500 fee required for the making of beverage alcohol. The federal license which costs nothing also would be required. From the Senate, SB 1011 went immediately to the House Finance committee, where it is being carefully tended by that committee’s vice-chairman, Rep. Nicholas Moehlmann. Moehlmann represents the 102nd legislative district, which includes Horst’s farm. The third-term lawmaker lives in Richland, just a few miles from the still that had been cooking away for about a month. The Senate passed the bill citing trip in late November or December. Ski-ers flock to the snow covered slopes of Mount Mansfield or Killington. The average temperature that time of year in Vermont is 28.9 degrees, according to the National Climatic Center. The Montpelier area can be expected to average 30 inches more of sleet and snow in the winter than Minneapolis, Minnesota. The. state of Vermont, $7.00 Per Year finalists to be named the National Star Fanner. Of special note is the nomination of two American Farmer Degree recipients < from the Manheim Central FPA Chapter. The- 1976 graduates are Ruby Cinder Bollinger and Earl Geib. Manheim Central is also proud of Jay Gainer, a 1978 graduate. Gainer has been named the Eastern Region Agricultural Mechanics Proficiency Award recipient He is competing for the national title to be named Thursday morning. As usual the Pennsylvania FFA Chapters will be well represented in the various judging competitions. Kevin Zimmerman and Mike Pfaotz thelSphrata Chapter are 'on the dairy foods team being coacbed by Clifford Day, Jr. of New Holland. Christine Davis of Ladrelton is also par* ticipating in this contest. .. J(T urn to Pap 14) - ** $ fit, by* vote of 47 to 0. Although Moehlmann feel* there are some technical difficulties with the bill as it now stands, he expects his committee to (Turn to Page 38) In this issue Editorials 10 FFA winners index 14 Bradford Holstein Assn. 16 On being a farm wife 84 Home on the Range 88 York-Adams beef show 94 FFAers get BOAC awards 115 Eastern Region Star Farmer 119 Farm Talk 126 Lancaster DHIA report 130 The Milk Check 143 itself, cm not explain why, Montpelier was chosen. An advance party from USDA went to Vermont and was to meet with Vermont agriculture officials in the afternoon. But before that meeting even began, USDA announced Montpelier had been chosen as the site of the meeting. The Northeast people were not consulted. “Burlington, Vermont, (Turn to Page 39)
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