Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7,1980
BY VIVIAN PAUL during a
Staff Correspondent derstorm.
EASTON The Reserve
Grand Champion female of
the 1980 Pennsylvania State
Holstein Show was among
eight cows killed Saturday
night when they were ap
parently struck by lightning
Assistant agent named
LANCASTER - Michelle
Ann Skiles, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Skiles, of
Narvon, began an assign
ment this week as an
assistant Extension agent
for home economics on the
Michelle Ann Skiles is the new assistant Extension
agent for home economics in Lancaster County.
The U.S. dairy industry totaled approximately 123.6
produced more milk last billion pounds, up 1.7 percent
year than in any year since or 2.0 billion pounds from
1965. Milk production in 1979 1978.
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8 champion cows
killed
The animals were owned
by Donald Seipt and family
of Keystone Farm, the top
herd in Northampton
County.
“We heard several close
cracks, but never gave it a
Lancaster County Extension
Service staff.
In her new position, she
will be responsible for an
informal educational
program for adults and
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in storm
second thought,” said
Geraldine Seipt.
Mrs. Seipt discovered the
cows the next morning. She
went into the pasture when
she noticed several animals
had not come into the barn.
thun-
severe
“I saw them lying under a
tree. When I realized they
weren’t moving, I ran back
youth in all areas of family
living.
She has served as a
summer assistant in the
county extension office for
three summers while a
student at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.
She holds a bachelor of
science degree in home
economics education from
Indiana, where she was on
the Dean’s List four years.
At Indiana University,
Miss Skiles was a member of
Campus 4-H, the Home
Economics Association,
Kappa Omicron Phi, the
Inside-Out singing group and
the Coalition for Christian
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Eight cows in the top Northampton County dairy herd were killed Saturday by
lightning. Included was reserve grand champion at Pennsylvania Holstein Show
in April. She’s Keystone Tippy Joni, who took first place in three-year-old cow
category and then was named reserve grand champion of show. She’s shown
with owner, Donald V. Seipt, of Keystone Farm, R 4 Easton.
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Keystone Tippy Jom, a
Fond Matt granddaughter,
had won her title April 10 in
Harrisburg over a field of 38
three year olds.
She had scored 88 as a two
year old.
“We probably feel the
worst about Jom,” Mrs.
Seipt said. “She was the type
of individual you don’t often
find...a real show cow.”
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had promising futures, Mrs
Seipt said. They yvere all
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year-olds, umblemished,
and all bred, several to top
hulls
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and one of those was a
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Six thy milking cows were
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Mrs. Seipt said
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cows you want to cull,” she
said, “but not that way.”
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