Pa. Shorthorn Breeders
elect new officers
BUTLER Officers
elected at the 1980” Annual
Dinner Meeting of the
Pennsylvania Shorthorn &
Polled Shorthorn Breeders’
Association on Feb. 16 were
president, Richard C.
McElhaney, McElhaney
Stock Farm, R.D. 1
Hookstown; vice-presidet,
Gregg Kerr, Duncancroft,
R.D. 1 Saxonburg; and
secretary-treasurer, Mr. &
Mrs. Richard C. Peoples,
Mapleview Ranch, R.D. 2
Volant.
Directors elected to 3-year
terms were: Jim Fogal,
Tuscarora Shorthorns,
Neelyton; George Six, 6’S
Polled Shorthorns, R.D. 1
New Freeport; Denise'
Whiting, D.L. & D.R. En
terprises, R.D. 1, Box 258 A,
Eidenburg, Pa. 16116 and
George Fairchild, Breezy
Acres Ranch, R.D. 1,
Monroeton.
Eric Peoples was ap-
serve as the junior
representative on the Board
of Directors.
Plans were made for
several 1980 events. The
Annual Spring Sale will be
held at the Mercer 4-H Park
on Saturday, May 3,
BIG FARM POWER AND EQUIPMENT
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COULD
YOU
USE
THIS
SECURITY?
Every Hoober Steiger owner
knows that if their tractor breaks
down during the spring rush,
there is a spare tractor which will
keep them in business.
beginning with a show at 3
p.m., followed by the sale at
7:30 p.m.
The Pennsylvania State
Shorthorn Show will be held
in conjunction with the
Greene County Fair, Aug. 3-9
at Waynesburg. The date has
been set for the Annual Fall
Sale to be held at
Waynesburg on Saturday,
Oct. 18.
The Pennsylvania Junior
Association announced it
will be holding a raffle again
this year to help defray the
expenses of the juniors at
tending the 1980 National
Junior Shorthorn Youth
Conference in Rochester,
Mn., June 13-15. First prize
will be a Frey Brothers
Blocking Chute, 2nd prize a
Goose Down Vest and 3rd
prize a Leather Show Halter.
The drawing will be held
the 1981 Penn
sylvania Farm Show in
Harrisburg. The Penn
sylvania delegates to the
1980 Youth Conference will
be Nadine Butler of Clinton
and Sheila Peoples, with
Jeanne Peoples serving as
alternate.
HOOBER'S STAND-BY STEIGER TRACTOR
SECURITY- YOU BET!
Top dollar paid for Belgian mare
HARRISBURG - The
first draft horse and mule
sale was held at this year’s
Farm Machinery Ex
position. The sale was held
after the Thursday morning
show, also a first at the
Expo.
The high selling animal
consigned at the sale was a
Belgian filly, Julie Du
Marais. The young draft
horse was sold by Jacon L.
Kanagy, Belleville.
Julie, who is not quite a
year old will be travelling to
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture added two en
zyme-treated milk products
to the list of binders and
extenders approved for use
in meat and poultry
products, effective February
15.
< Under revised meat and
poultry inspection
regulations, enzyme-treated
calcium-reduced dried skim
milk will be permitted in
sausage, mutation sausage,
nonspecific loaves (luncheon
loaf, honey loaf, etc.), soups,
Fisher, West Virginia today.
She was purchased by
Emory Cntes, a farmer and
machinery businessman, for >
the top dollar of $2750.
Cntes said he has been in
the horse-raising business
all of his life, recalling his
father always loved horses
and working with them.
Presently, Cntes said he has
around 20 grade Belgians,
along with twenty-five to
'thirty saddlebred light
horses.
The West Virginia farmer
USDA approves
stews and various poultry
products. Enzyme-treated
sodium caseinate will be
permitted in all those
products except sausage.
Rennet, the enzyme used
in treating calcium-reduced
dried skim milk and sodium
caseinate, has been used for
many years in making
cheese. Rennet is generally
recognized as safe by the
Food and Drug Ad
ministration and does not
alter the nutritional
character of the binder
extenders.
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The best security is a Steiger
tractor - Because in five years,
with over 100 Steigers in the
field, we've only had to use our
stand-by tractor twice.
raises roughly 500 head of m Pennsylvania, he had
beef cattle, too, on his two travelled to a sale in
farms of 620 acres total/ Columbus, Ohio, but didn’t
Besides the ybung stock, find anything that matched
Crites runs a herd of about what he was looking for and
200 commercial cows, his pocketbook too. Crites
primarily Charolais, said he came to the Expo
Hereford, and Angus, and sale to buy a couple of the
rents close to 500 acres in better draft horses.
addition to the land he owns.
In his spare time, Crites
takes his big heavy horses in
parades. He said they are
somewhat of a hobby for
him.
Before coming to the sale average price of $1162. SM
meat extenders
Quality Service administers
the Federal Meat Inspection
Act and the Poultry
Products Inspection Act.
These laws require that all
meat and poultry products
prepared and sold in in
terstate commerce be
wholesome, unadulterated
TTSDA’s Food Safpfv and and properly labeled.
The revised regulations
were published in the
February 13 Federal
Register. For a copy of the
final impact statement,
write to: Robert G. Hibbert,
Meat and Poultry Standards
and Labeling Division,
FSQS, USDA, Washington,
D.C, 20250.
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THAT’S SECURITY.
Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, March 1,19t0—A15
The grand champion
stallion was pulled from the
sale when the bidding closed
at $2750.
There were twenty-two
animals consigned for an
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