A3B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 12,1980
HARRISBURG -
Members of the Kennard
Henley family are ac
customed to winning the
grand champion trophy in
Ayrshire competition, and
this year’s event at the Farm
Show was no exception. It
was a Henley cow that won
both the open and junior
competitions.
At one point, it seemed the
Henleys might have to buy a
warehouse just to store their
Ayrshire awards. They
began showing in the early
1960’5, and soon were
hauling champion cows to
shows all over the East coast
and into the Midwest. In
1976, an especially busy
year, they competed in 29
shows and came home with
25 grand champion breed
awards.
Here’s who won apiary awards
HARRISBURG - Winners
in the apiary products
competition were scattered
throughout Eastern Penn
sylvania.
Prize for the top county
exhibit went to Montgomery
County followed by York and
Lancaster County
Associations.
Several individuals placed
samples m the winnings in a
number of classes. Among
them are:
COMMERCIAL CLASSES
Light Comb Honey
1 °aul E Crow Wormleysburg 2 John
E Berger RI Middletown 3 Harold B
Green Palmerton 4 Wayne Livingston
Rl Carlisle 5 Fred Rich Royersford
Dark Comb Honey
1 Wayne Livingston 2 Harold B
Green 3 Paul Krepicz R 2 Slatington 4
Fred Rich 5 John E Berger
Light Cobana
1 Milt Murrary Enola 2 Wayne
Livingston 3 Fred Rich 4 John E
Berger 3 David Buffington R 2 Halifax
Dark Cobana
1 Fred Rich 2 David Buffington 3
JohnE Berger
Light Cut
1 JohnE Berger 2 PaulE Crow
light Chunk 3 pounds
1 Earl V Miller R 3 Dover 2 John E
Berger 3 PaulE Crow
Extra White
I John E Berger 2 Wayne Livingston
3 Warren Motter Marysville
White
1 Earl V Miller 2 Milt Murray 3
Harold B Greene 4 Francis Motichka
Honesdale 5 John E Berger
Extra Light Amber
1 Quay Mmmch Red Lion 2 Earl V
Miller 3 John E Berger 4 John
Creighton R 2 Honesdale 5 Francis
Twin Valley student
shows the top
junior Holstein
HARRISBURG - Seldom
do you find an eight-year-old
cow in the show ring, and
even less do you find such an
oldster going home with the
top prize in a competition.
But Donald Stoltzfus
showed his easy-going eight
year-old “Penwood Stroke
Honey” to the junior
championship in a crowded
field of Holstems Tuesday
afternoon at the Farm Show.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey W. Stoltzfus,
Morgantown, in Chester
County, Donald competed as
a 4-H member. He is a junior
m the Twin Valley High
School ag program.
Donald said he’s been
showing since he first got
into 4-H a few years ago.
Although he and Honey have
earned a number of blue
ribbons before - she has been
Chester County’s 4-H
champion - this was the first
Farm Show championship
for both of them
Ayrshire awards go to He rile ys
Kennard Henley doesn’t
know if that’s a world record
or not, but he does know it
was a lot of work. And he
doesn’t ever expect to be
that busy on the show circuit
again. “My kids are getting
out of school, it’s getting
more expensive to haul cows
to shows, and I’ve been in the
trucking business for the
past three years,” Henley
said.
“But we’ll probably keep
on showing five or six timi-s
a year.”
As they’ve cut the number
of shows, the Henleys have
also cut the number of cows
in their herd, and they’ve
moved onto a smaller, 20-
acre farm. But the 28 cows
they still have are top
quality animals, Henley
pointed out.
Motichka Honesdale
Light Amber
1 Ron Colwell Rl Spring Mills 2 Earl
V Miller 3 Nathaniel Miller R 3 Dover 4
John Shank R 2 Co'umbia 5 John E
Berger
Amber
1 Francis Motichka 2 Paul Cummins
Conshohocken 3 EarJ V Mi'ler 4 Milt
Murray 5 John Shank
Dark Amber
I Milt Murray 2 Earl J Miller 3
Harold Reddmger Hummelstown 4
John E Berger 5 Glen R Handwork
Somerset
Light five pounds
1 Earl V Miller 2 John £ Berger 3
Milt Murray 4 John Shank 5 John
Creighton
Dark five pounds
1 Earl V Miller 2 Chester Murrary
Lancaster 3 John E Berger 4 John
Shank 5 Herr t Zimmerman Lancaster
Crystal or Creamed
1 Paul G Cummins Conshohocken 2
Francis Motichka Honesdale 3 Daniel
Brubaker RlEphrata
Beeswax Commercial
I Harold Greene 2 Stewart Mathias
R 2 Hummelstown 3 Earl V Miller 4
Paul Krepicz R 2 Slatington 5 Chester
Murray Lancaster
Beeswax Modeled or Designed
X Paul Krepica 2 Harold Green 3
Carl Becker Northampton 4 Triangle
Apiary Liverpool 5 Wayne Livingston
Speciality Pack
1 Joan Schmidt R 2 Landenberg 2
Earl V Miller 3 Triangle Apiary
Liverpool 4 Daniel Brubaker 5 Jeffrey
D Mathias R 2 Hummelstown
individual Exhibit
1 Wayne Livingston 2 Ron Colwell 3
Joan Schmidt 4 EarlV Miller 5 MarkS
Hill R 1 Granville
County or Association
1 Montgomery Co Beekeepers
Association 2 York Co Beekeepers 3
Lancaster Co Honey Producers Assoc 4
Dauphin Co Beekeepers 5 Berks Co
Beekeepers Assoc
4-HCLUB
HONEY
When he graduates from
high school in 1981, Donald
hopes to embark on a career
in dairying. He already owns
four cows in the 60-cow
Stoltzfus herd. His brother
Glenn, 13, also helps with the
dairying chores, and the
nine-year-old twins, Dwight
and Duane pitch in oc
casionally, too.
“Eight really is kind of old
for a show cow,” Doanld
said. “Most cows are gone
by the time they’re this old.
She milks out around 18,000
pounds a year, but she never
peaked really high. Maybe
the fact that she hasn’t
overworked herself has
helped her to stay around
longer.
“And she’s strung together
a lot of respectable lac
tations. That’s helped too.”
Wholesale prices of iron
and steel used in farm
machinery are up 10 percent
from a year ago
Not just good, but con
sistent. This year’s grand
champion was the junior
champion in last year’s
Farm Show.
Because they needed a
truck to haul their Ayr
shires, it was just a short
haul for Henley when he
went from being primarily
an Ayrshire breeder and
exhibitor to being primarily
a trucker.
Now Henley’s sons,
Kennard, HI, and William,
take care of the farm chores.
Most of the work these days
revolves around the cows,
since the Henley’s buy all
their feed.
While his family is at home
milking, Henley is on the
road, delivering mushrooms
to places like Abilene,
Texas, New Orleans, and St.
Light Amber
1 Nathaniel Miller R 3 Dover 2 Hans
Spahr Dover
Amber
1 Nathaniel Miller
VOCATIONAL
I Patrick Kalgren Rl Falls Creek 2
Dwayne Frey York Springs
Dark Comb Honey
1 Nathaniel Miller R 3 Dover
Extracted Honey-Extra Light Amber
1 Dwayne Frey York Springs 2 Jim
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Louis. It’s a job which, he
says, keeps him out
sometimes 28 days a month,
and which requires even
more hours, if that’s
possible, than dairying.
But while he’s not showing
as much as he used to,
Henley doesn’t miss many
shows. He sometimes plans
trips so he can catch a good
Ayrshire competition on his
way home, meet many of the
countless friends he’s made
on the show circuit, and
catch up on gossip.
The only difference bet
ween the way things are now
and the way they used to be,
Henley said, is that the truck
is loaded with mushrooms
instead of Ayrshires. And
he’s finding the mushrooms
more profitable than the
show circuit.
Alecxih R 2 Lancaster
Extracted Honey Light Amber
I Nathaniel Miller 2 Dwayne Prey
Extracted Honey Amber
I Nathaniel Miller
Extracted Honey Dark Amber
1 Dwayne Frey York Springs
Best Exhibit, Comb Honey
1 Milt Murray
Best Exhibit Extracted Honey
1 EarlV Miller
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Reserve grand champion honors in Ayrshire
competition went to this two-year-old entry by Don
Shetterly shown with the cow, and E.E. Keefer,
Millersburg.
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