A3o—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 9,1980
Contestants in the Cumberland County Plowing Contest included from left:
Henry Wenger, Mechanicsburg; John Holtry, R 2 Mechanicsburg; Gary Crain, R 6
Carlisle; Bill Crain, R 6 Carlisle; Jay Stoner, Mechanicsburg.
Cumberland Plowing
Contest winners named
WILLIAMS GROVE - Bill
Crain, R 6 Carlisle, and bis
son Gary won two divisions
of the Cumberland County
Plowing Contest, Thursday.
Bill won the contour plowing
contest, while Gary won the
large plow level land con
test. The contest was held on
a farm operated by Robert
Berkheimer, located near
Williams Grove.
Jay Stoner of 124 East
Locust Street, Mechanic
sburg, placed second in the
State
set
HERSHEY The Penn
sylvania State Plowing
Contest will be held on
August 16 at Hershey
Farms, Hershey, Penn
sylvania, at 10 a.m.
Frank Burkhart, State
Plowing Contest President,
said; “We expect a sizeable
number of expert plowmen
who have won contests m
their home county.”
Plowmen will compete m
three divisions: Large
plows, level land - four or
more furrows; Small plows,
level land - up to three
furrows; and Contour
(conservation) plowing with
any size plow chosen by the
contestant.
The plow is a primary
tillage tool used to prepare
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division.
Gary and Bill will compete
at the state level next
Saturday. The Pennsylvania
State Plowing Contest will be
held Saturday, August 16, at
the Milton Hersbey School
Farm between the Swatara
Creek and the State Police
Academy at Hersbey. The
Milton Hershey Farm #6B is
Henry Wenger, 926 located 2% miles northeast
Williams Grove Road, of Hershey. The event will be
Mecbamcsburg, placed third held in conjunction with an
in the Large Plow level land Energy Conservation Fair.
contour division, using an
Oliver set of plows and a
model W-D Allis Chalmers
tractor.
John Holtry, R 2
Mechanics burg, placed
second in the large plow
level land division, an
Allis Chalmers tractor and a
set of White plows.
plowing contests
for August 16
soil for planting of a
multitude of agricultural
crops. The plow dates back
to the days of Thomas Jef
ferson and has experienced
many changes over the past
150 years to accommodate
the needs and desires of
farmers.
Plow design and con
struction has been changed
for adaptation to sources of
farm power ranging from
oxen, mules, horses and a
multitude of tractor designs
and sizes. Plows are
marketed ranging m width
per plow bottom from 10
Inches to 20 inches. The
number of plow bottoms per
'machine ranges from one to
thirty or more.
In general, Pennsylvania
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fanners use from three to
six bottoms per plow with
each bottom plowing a 14-
mch to 18-inch furrow.
Plowing champions
named in the Pennsylvania
plowing contest will be
eligible to plow in the 1981
U.S. PlowiAg Match.
In July 1980, the U.S.
Plowing Match was held at
Swanville, Minnesota,
Robert N. Miller of
Millersburg, Pennsylvania,
and Bradley C. Hess of
Dallastown, Pennsylvania,
represented Pennsylvania in
the Large and Small plow
classes. Both contestants
placed sixth. Large plow
winner was Monroe Miller of
lowa. Small plow winner
was Werner Gruber of
Minnesota.
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