VOL 25 Wo.
FARM MACHINERY EZPO
Tractors join
four-legged horse power
at Machinery show
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG This coming Thursday will be the
opening day of the second annual Farm Machinery Ex
position.
6 The show .will continue through Saturday, with a
, schedule of events that will include pulling contests with
two types of horse power.
Even though the doors to the Expo officially open only
on Thursday morning at 9:30, the show will actually get
started Wednesday evening, according to Hugh Coffman,
Farm Show Director.
He explained that a public kick-off banquet is planned to
be held that evening at the PDA building, across from the
Farm Show complex. The cost of the meal will be $6.50 per
person. I
Thursday morning there will be a draft horse and mule
show m the large arena. There are twenty entries for the
show and sixty-three entries for the sale. The work horse
sale will also take place on Thursday, starting atl p.m. in
the small arena.
After the flesh-an S-blood horse power exits the large
arena, the mechanical “hp” is going to roar in. Tractors
m two weight classes will be pulling against each other in
the first tractor pulling contests held during the Expo.
“What makes these tractor pulling contests unique,”
stated Coffman, “is that the farmers will be driving their
stock tractors. There won’t be those modified jobs that
don’t even look like tractors-anymore—they’ll be tractors
that are used on the farm.”
Friday will roll around for the first Keystone Classic
swine show. It will get started at 9 a.m. The swine show
will climax with a sale on Saturday, scheduled to begin at
11 a.m. in the small arena. See related story on page D-24.
Although not a listing on the schedule of events, there
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fate Holstein sale sets record
BY JOYCE BUPP
MONROEVILLE -
Registered Holstein
Breeders from across
Pennsylvania jammed the
A 1 Monvo Howard Johnsons
Motor Lodge Thursday
evening for the kick-off
event of the 1980 Penn
sylvania Holstein Con
vention.
The annual Holstein sale’s
40 entries broke previous
records with an average of
over $5OOO per head.
First into the sale ring of
the red-carpeted ballroom
Two new writers join Lancaster Farming staff
Pat Kauffman
was Kingstead ROEAE
Fond Bess, a Very Good 88
daughter of Round Oak Rag
Apple Elevation.
New York State buyer
Randy Benson bid the final
$lO,OOO figure that took her
' home. The five year old was
consigned by Jake Emig,
Shippensburg, and
Kingstead Farms,
Damascus, Md.
Donald Hostetter, Maple
Bound Farms, Chester
County, claimed the second
high seller, Wible Farm
Glendell Mini with a bid of
LTTITZ The people here
at Lancaster Fanning have
been busy planting the seeds
of a stronger, livelier paper.
The spring crop has
blossomed forth with two
new faces. They are Patricia
M. Kauffman, R 1 Pequea
and Richard W. Anglestein,
404 Owl Hill Road, Lititz.
Many of you have met Pat.
As president of the Dutch
Country Dairy Goat
Association, her name and
face have appeared in many
local publications including
this one. She’s also a
member of the Pennsylvania
Lancaster Famine, Saturday, February 23,1980
The second annual Farm Machinery Exposition
will open on Thursday with a full schedule of
New ag district bill
moving in state senate
BY CURT HAULER
HARRISBURG - When
the state senate reconvenes
on Monday Senate Bill 1264
will be one piece of
legislation on the top of the
agricultural docket.
$9750. A daughter of Glendell
Arlinda Chief, the bred
heifer was consigned by Ron
Ligo, New Wilmington.
Pennsylvania Holstein
Board members met
Thursday afternoon and
elected John Cope, Williams
Grove, Cumberland County,
as their new president. Cope
manages Ashecpmbe’s
Dairy.
“We’re going to put more
emphasis on member ser
vices,” stressed Cope
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and American Dairy Goat
Associations.
Pat’s newduties covering
the 4-H, youth and women’s
activities won’t take her far
from her already familiar
activities as leader of the 4-H
goat club, member of the 4-H
Leader’s Advisory Council,
and interested parent in the
Rough Riders 4-H Horse and
Pony Club.
Husband, Lloyd, and sons,.
Jason and Tim, have caught
Pat’s long-time love of
horses. At their small farm
in Marticville, they stable
two ponies for the boys’ 4-H
projects and one grey Arab
The bill, reported to
Senator Patrick Stapleton’s
agriculture committee, and
supported by Stapldton along
with others of both parties,
would provide legal
mechanism for voluntary
agricultural districts.
The bill, if it becomes law,
will allow local
municipalities to establish
agricultural districts of at
least 500 acres. It would
require 60 percent of the land
in the district to be con
tiguous.
The bill, printers number
1569, also provides protec
tion for farmers against such
problems as nuisance or
dinances, most eminent
domain problems, and in
terference from Com
monwealth agencies.
Basically, it is a rerun of
the legislation which passed
both the state house and
mare. At present, one of the
foursome must walk. The
Kauffmans hope to correct
that situation soon.
Pat grew up on a dairy and
beef farm in Lancaster
County and studied English
at Millersville State College.
She operates her own small
goat dairy, Dma-A-Ling
Acres.
Because of her familiarity
with many of the difficulties
and regulations m dairying,
she’s looking forward to
meeting many of the dairy
folks out there, those with
mooers pumping 100 pounds
events, including tractor pulls, horse pulls, and
much more.
senate two years ago. That
program was vetoed by
Governor Milton Shapp. His
veto came too late in the
year for the congress to
attempt an override.
The ideas embodied in SB
1264 originally were
presented in SB 277.
Hearings on 277 were held in
August.
The Senate Ag Committee,
In this issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Hysterical fowl, 15;
Independent sees hard poultry times, 20; Dairy
pipeline, 24; Lancaster FFA winners, 27.
SECTION C: National Pork Queen, 2; Home on the
Range, 8; Joyce Bupp, 11; Expo tractor puller, 15;
Cumberland Holsteins, 25; Lancaster DHIA, 38.
SECTION D: Mastitis treatment, 8; Farm Credit
hearings, 13; Expo exhibitors, 17; Expo floor map, 18;
Sheila’s Shorts, 25.
SECTION E: Garden Spot Young Farmers, 2; Ask
VMD, 8; Lancaster Crops Day, 14; Del farm
preservation, 17; The Milk Check, 22.
a day and those with baaers
producing 10 pounds per day.
Painting, crafts,
needlework, organic gar
dening, home-remodeling
and poetry. You name it, and
Pat’s probably done it, doing
it, or planning it This
summer even found her
polishing off her flute to play
in the Lancaster Summer
Arts Festival.
In short, if it’s new, neat,
nifty or newsworthy she’s
interested, so call her soon.
Dick comes to us with
writing experience spanning
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$7.00 Per Yeat
seeing the need for several
changes in 277, decided it
would be easier to introduce
the legislation as a new
measure rather than present
a host of ammendments to
the old measure.
Among the new provisions
is a change which makes the
ag district a part of the
Township Code.
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Dick Anglestein