VOL 25 No. 9
BYPATKAUFFMAN
QUARRYVILLE - Muroc
Gay Ada, a 4 year old owned
by Robert Young and Galen
W. Crouse, Stevens, took
home grand champion
honors for her new owners,
Thursday at' the Lancaster
District Holstein Show held
at the Community
Fairgrounds here. Ada
received the honors after
being named senior
champion.
Ada classified VGS9 and
milked over 22,000 pounds as
a 2 year old. She was pur
chased in April at the New
York State Holstein auction
m Syracuse. Described by
Ray Seidel, Kutztown, the
judge for the day’s events as
“an animal exemplifying
what we’re looking for in the
Holstein breed today. I liked
the higher and wider rear
udder, the blending, the fact
that she was taller than the
reserve cow at the point of
withers.”
'Fultonway cow
wins 4-H show
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
QUARKYVILLE - Steve
Kauffman, the 28 year old
son of Robert Kauffman, R 1
Eliabethtown, won cham
pion senior showmanship
honors Wednesday at the
Lancaster County 4-H dairy
roundup. Lancaster’s
reigning dairy princess,
Connie Balmer, 18, daughter
of Jesse Balmer, Lititz, won
reserve honors.
In the junior division,
gran'd champion
showmanship honors went to
Pam Kindig, Conestoga and
reserve honors went to
Kristian Esbenshade.
Champion ovrall first year
showman was Donald Welk,
Strasburg. Reserve first
year showman was Loren
Esbenshade.
Under overcast skies,
young dairymen from across
State lawmakers travel
pioneer farm energy trail
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
KLEINFELTERSVILLE
It was a pioneer caravan
of sorts.
Like early settlers of a
couple of centimes ago or
more, they traveled some of
the same roads in southern
Lebanon, northern and
eastern Lancaster counties.
But this week’s caravan
was not seeking new homes
or farmlands like their
predecessors. It was com-
Crouse cow tops District Holstein Show
Neal Crouse who showed
the animal described her as
“having a lot of dairy
character. She’s an animal
that blends well.” The cow is
scheduled to be flushed soon
for possible embryo tran
splant. She’s scheduled to be
classified in September, and
he expects her to classify
excellent at that time,
Crouse said.
When asked what other
shows are in store for Ada,
he said probably the
Southcentral, District, State
and Eastern National shows
will be on her schedule this
season.
Seidel termed the show
“real good for a county
show. The largest classes
were not necessarily the
best. For instance the junior
yearling class was a strong
class.”
Reserve grand champion
was' Ashmoor Elevation
Katie, a 4 year old animal
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the county competed at the
community fairgrounds here
for breed and showmanship
honors.
Grand champion Holstein
honors went to Fultonway
Micki Ivanhoe Star, a three
year old shown by Sheila
Frey, 14, daughter of J.
Mowry Frey, Willow Street.
Reserve champion Holstein
was Brownking Lime Valley
Precious, shown by Neil J.
Crouse, Stevens.
Grand champion Guern
sey was Bo Joy W. Babs, a
three year old shown by
Mary Ann Witmer, 14,
daughter of Peter Witmer,
R 1 Wilow Street. Reserve
breed honors went to Gor
dlines Princes Buela shown
by Carol Balmer, Lititz.
Jersey breed grand
champion was Red Hills
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posed primarily of members
of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives agriculture
committee, who were get
ting first-hand knowledge of
pioneering ways to continue
operating those homes and
farms in a rapidly energy
starving environment.
Guided by Rep. Noah
Wenger, of the 99th District,
vice-chairman of the
committee, the tour took the
legislators to the state’s first
Lancaster Firming, Saturday, July 26, 1960
Muroc Gay Ada, a 4 year old cow purchased in
April was shown by Neal Crouse, above, to Grand
Speculation abounds on dairy
support amendment
BY CURT HAULER
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The uncertain future
surrounding the dairy price
support increase due Oc
tober 1, 1980 reflects the
uncertain short term and
long term economic outlook
of the dairy industry.
There is question whether
the U.S. Congress will even
farm alcohol producer, to a
hybrid poplar plantation and
to a manufacturing firm that
burns sawdust to produce
methane.
First stop was the farm of
Floyd Horst, just north of
Kleinfeltersville in Lebanon
County. Horst was the first
farmer in the state to get a
permit to legally produce
alcohol for fuel.
The method of producing
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Will October adjustment be killed?
be asked to consider an
amendment which would
allow the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to eliminate the
upcoming October milk
support price increase.
USDA officials are pon
dering whether it is good
public policy to provide
dairymen with economic
incentives to produce more
milk when the market
already is glutted.
To stop an increase in the
milk support level USDA
would have to obtain a
change in current law from
Congress.
Such an amendment to
existing law most likely
would ask that the Secretary
of Agriculture be given
discretion to forgo the
currently required October
price support increase.
But USDA, the dairy in
dustry, consumer groups
and the general farm lobby
are virtually out of time if
'any or all are to press for
such an ammendment. Only
four weeks remain in the
current legislative calendar,
scant time to pass a revision
champion honors at the Lancaster District Hols
tein Show.
to current law through
Congress.
Becuase of the huge
surplus of milk and slack
demand, dairy industry
leaders had approached
USDA in May asking that
close watch be kept on the
supply-demand situation.
As the dairy price support
law reads today, dairymen
get 80 percent of parity,
adjusted semi-annually to
keep up with inflation.
If no changes are made in
current regulations, an
upward adjustment in dairy
support prices of between 75
cents and $1 per him-
In This Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; York Jr. Holstein show,
18; Haldeman retires, 21; Kent farm tour, 28; Ask
VMD, 34; Lancaster dairy open, 38; Lancaster 4-H
dairy show, 42; Chester dairy show, 46.
SECTION B: Longmead Farm, 2; Silo topples, 5;
Farm talk, 6; Sheila’s shorts, 7; Bucks County storm,
10; Charolais dams recognized, 14.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Home on the
Range, 6; Joyce Bupp, 9; Lancaster DHIA, 15; York
DMA, 21; Dauphin DHIA, 24; Schuylkill DHIA, 26;
.Juniata DHIA, 27; Lebanon horse show, 31; Morning
milking, 36.
s7.s&PerYear
dredweight will be made
October 1.
Justification for
eliminating the payment
boost comes from statistics
showing current support
programs will cost the
government $1.3 billion this
year and the same amount
next year. The government
sees itself purchasing 8.6
billion pounds of milk
products annually.
Economists at USDA point
out that increasing economic
incentives to produce milk
will only add milk to the
surplus.
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