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Red Rose 4-H presents awards
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
LANCASTER - The Red
Rose Baby Beef and Sheep
Club Banquet was held
Thursday, February 7 at the
Farm and Home Center.
Celebrity guests' from
“The Gong Show,” bearing a
remarkable resemblance to
club members, followed
steaming plates of beef in
the evening’s agenda.
The beef, donated for the
occasion by Hamilton Bank,
was processed by
Stonebridge- Butcher Shop
and savored by just about
everyone.
The one possible exception
was Mary K. Longenecker,
Pa, Young Farmers hold
20th convention
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
GETTYSBURG - Earl C.
Stauffer, Ephrata Sri, was
chosen as president-elect by
the Pennsylvania Young
Fanners at their twentieth
annual convention held this
week at the Sheraton Inn,
Gettysburg.
Stauffer is a member of
the Ephrata Young Farmer
Chapter which also was
named the Outstanding
Young Farmer Chapter in
the state. The award was
presented to president
Richard Pfautz for the
chapter’s activities
throughout the year.
Stauffer and his wife
Barbara received the out
standing community service
award for Region_H, and
Ephrata Chapter member
Vernon Leininger was
named Region II Out
standing Young Farmer
over 30.
Nearly 450 young farmers
and their wives participated
m the two-day event, which
began Wednesday afternoon
with tours to the Mason-
Dixon Dairy and the Bat
tlefield at Gettysburg.
Region’s farm leaders testify
against CNI milk proposal
BYJANEBRESEE
Staff Correspondent
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -
One of the four hearings in
the nation of the Dairy and
Poultry subcommittee of the
House Agriculture Com
mittee was held Monday in
the Federal Building in
Binghamton, N.Y.
Statements made at the
meeting ran heavily against
the Community Nutrition
Institute’s proposal to
Beef and Sheep Club banquet
Lititz, who raised the steer.
Her facial expression during
dinner confirmed that.
Those receiving awards
included:
Ernie Frey, R 2
Quarryville, was presented a
colored - photo of “Road
Runner” his Graiid
Champion Steer, by J.C.
Snavely and Sons. Also, a
wnstwatch donated by
Sperry New Holland for his
County Championship.
Jeff Hess, R 1 Strasburg,
showman of the County
Reserve Champion Steer, an
electric dock donated by
Farm Credit Assoc.
Wayne Hess, R 1
Donald E. Sanders,
Millmont Rl, was named the
Outstanding Young Farmer
under 30. Sanders
represented Region 111 from
the Mifflinburg Young
Farmer Chapter.
Sanders and his wife Carol
farm in partnership with his
father Henry and his brother
James, at San-be Farms.
Their registered Holstein
herd averages 16,762 milk
and 621 fat with 67 animals
on test. All bull calves are
raised in a beef fattening
facility.
The state winner in the
Outstanding Young Farmer,
over 30 category was Mark
L. Stehr, Beavertown R 1,
representing the West
Snyder High School in
Region 111.
Stehr and his wife Gayle
are partners in the Brooks
End and Par Kay Farms,
with swine and beef
operations. The farm holds
four purebred sales each
year, selling over 2,000 head
of breeding stock. In the beef
breeding operation there are
over 100 head of brood cows,
with the offspring sold as
feeder calves each spring.
At Ag Committee hearing
deregulate reconstituted
milk from Order pricing.
Hearing was held m the
middle of one of the East
Coast’s better dairy-oriented
farming area.
Congressman Matthew
McHugh of the 27th district
in New York state, also a
member of the House
Agriculture Committee, was
instrumental in having the
hearing held in his district.
Congressman A 1 Baldus, a
Lancaster Farminc, Saturday, February 9,1980
Conestoga, Champion
County Showman, an
electric clock award donated
by Grubb Supply Co.
Richard Hollinger, R 3
Elizabethtown, Highest
Daily Gam, 3.44 lbs, trophy
donated by Young’s
Minerals, Inc.
Andrew Graybill, R 1
Stevens, Second Highest
Daily Gam, 2.96 lbs, trophy
donated by Cope and Weaver
Machinery.
A big black rangy trio of
steers took Grand Champion
Tno at the State Farm Show
and earned trophies for then
owners: Ernie Frey; Bill
Coyne, R 2 Quarryville and
Purebred bulls are used for
natural breeding of the cows.
Statewide winners m the
community service award
project were Mr. and Mrs.
David A. Dietrich, Mif
flinburg R 2, from Mif
flinburg High School, also in
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Farmers win French Creek concessions
BY DICK WANNER
PHOENIX VILLE
Detente may be dead m
some parts of the world, but
it was in the best of rosy
cheeked health on Thursday
night at the East Vincent
Township Building near
here.
Some 40 Chester County
Grangers met there with
George Fogg and Roger
Fickes, both of Penn
sylvania’s Department of
Environmental Resources,
to talk about the impact of a
proposal which would bring
a 60-mile stretch of French
Creek and its tributaries into
the state’s scenic rivers
program.
DER had made similar
proposals for the Pine Creek '
farmer from Wisconsin,
chaired the meeting which
began promptly at 10 a.m.
He was assisted by
chairman,
Congressman Jeffords of
Vermont, and Roger Albee,
a member of the Minority
staff. The room held nearly
100 people, some* observers,
and others; farmers,
agriculture educators, and
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Christ Herr, R 2 Narvon.
Herr’s animal was raised
through the FFA program.
Trophies were donated by
, PeimfieldCoTp.
Reserve Champion Beef
Trio at the State Farm Show
included: Tim Hess, R 2
Lancaster; Kent Henry, ri
Strasburg; George Metzler,
East Petersburg. All
received trophies donated by
Creutzburg, Inc.
Three county shepherds
were honored. They are:
Sarah Brubaker, Lan
caster, County Champion
Market Lamb and Junior
Champion Hampshire Ewe,
an electric clock donated by
Wenger’s Mill.
James Stauffer, Lan
caster, Reserve County
Champion Market Lamb, a
pen set donated by West
Willow Farmers Assoc.
Barbara Herr, Rl
Quarryville, Champion
Junior Sheep Showman and
, Junior Champion Southdown
Ewe, a silver dish •award
donated by Vigortone Co.
The Livestock Judging
Team consisting of Deb
Greider, R 2 “Columbia;
Wayne Hess; Barbara Herr;
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in Tioga County, and for
Slippery Rock Creek north of
Pittsburgh. Opponents in
both areas, though, led in
large measure by the
Grange, hammered both to
dust.
Grange opposition has
centered around the use of
eminent domain to acquire
lands along officially
Farmers question rents
on utility right-of-way
BYCURTHARLER
PHILADELPHIA - After
remaining dormant for five
years, the question of rental
rates for utility right-of
ways again is in dispute.
Philadelphia Electric
Company has informed
farmers along its right-of
way that it intends to charge
rent according to soil class.
Utility representatives have
asked farmers to sign 30 day
leases for the land under the
lines.
But fanners, especially in
the City area of
Chester County, say they
feel the utility is unfair in
many of its requirements.
Philadelphia Electric, in
its statements to the public,
has been conciliatory on
many points but remains
firm on others.
In addition to farm land in
Chester County, the PE
G inny Thornburgh proudly displays the new PDA
logo, “Pennsylvania Agriculture - We're Growing
Better”. She enthusiastically tells everyone that
Pa. products, like the apples, lettuce, and
mushrooms pictured here, are the best
designated- scenic rivers.
They also have vigorously
opposed any notions that
would limit a farmers’ use of
his land for agriculture, and
any prohibitions against
livestock in streams flowing
past a farm.
George Fogg, who heads
up the scemc rivers program
for DER, told Thursday
right-of-way crosses farms
in York, Lancaster,
Delaware, Montgomery and
Bucks Counties in Penn
sylvania and Cecil County,
Maryland.
PE informed farmers in a
letter that it wants to charge
$45 per acre for Class I and n
land, $35 for Class HI and IV,
$25 for grazing land, and $lO
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Letters to editor, 16•
CNI hearing, 20 and 21; Ask the VMD, 30; Three-sided
milking, 32.
SECTION B: Farm Credit changes, 2; Mixing
herbicides, 3; Fire wrecks barn, 6; Blitecast cuts costs
8.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Ida’s notebook, 6;
Home on the range, 10; Joyce Bupp, 12; Ephrata
Young Farmers, 14; Egg boom, 35.
SECTION D: Berks County DHIA, 2; Lebanon County
DHIA, 5; Dairy Business, 8; Farm talk, 10; Pesticide
license update, 20.
night’s group exactly what
DER had done to meet
Grange objections.
“There will be no use of
eminent domain in French
Creek,” he said. “We could
not require you to open your
land along the creek for
recreation.
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for the worst land under its
transmission lines.
Harold Kulp, Pottstown,
outlined some of the
questions farmers have
raised about the letter sent
out by PE. Kulp is President
of the Chester County
Farmers’ Association.
First, many farmers do
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