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GREENMOUNT - At a
special meeting sponsored
by the Maryland and Penn
sylvania Polled Hereford
Associations, Frank Darcey,
president of the Pa.
association introduced the
new officers of the Junior
association.
Randall Becker, Dover,
will serve as the 1980
president. And, as vice
president, the association
selected Paul Hartman,
Gettysburg.
Jane Sikorski, Emmaus,
and Blake McCleary,
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Junior Polled Hereford Assoc, elects officers
Biglerville, will serve as
secretary and treasurer
respectively.
Also introduced were the
new year’s directors, Jerry
McCannon, Schellsburg, and
David Shultz, Mechan
icsburg, serving a one year
term, and Nancy Carson and
Aaron Weilerstein, both of
Philadelphia, serving two
•year terms.
On the Junior’s future
agenda is a beef field day,
scheduled for June 14 at
Douglassville. Alan Ott,
director of youth activities
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Hereford Association, and
Erskme Cash, coordinator of
purebred beef cattle at Penn
State will be the guest
speakers.
The new officers, along
with 114 members of the Pa
and Md. associations, heard
' from Robert Scarth, vice
president of education and
research for APHA, con
cerning a management tool
called ‘ ‘Guidelines’ ’.
Scarth noted the problem
for most breeders is to find
bulls that will sire progeny
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crops.
He noted that the genetic
heritabihty, or the chances
that a certain trait is passed
from parent to offspring, for
weaning weight is 30 per-
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The 1980 Junior Polled Hereford Association officers are, from left, Randall
Becker, president; Jane Sikorski, secretary; and Blake McCleary, treasurer. Not
pictured is Paul Hartman, vice-president.
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weight of its parents is 40
percent inherited, along with
its yearling weight.
The Guidelines program
helps breeders to test the
performance of their bulls
and cows, and aids them in
selecting for specific traits,
Scarth added.
Ge emphasized the fact
that ease of calving can be
linked to the birth weight,
however he pointed out sire
selection should be most
influenced by the weaning
weight records.
The workshop was held
last Saturday, at the
Greenmount Fire Hall, west
of Gettysburg.