Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 30,1980
Pa. exhibitors bring home champs from Montgomery Fair
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -
Three Pennsylvania
exhibitors brought home
championship trophies from
the Montgomery County
Fair held here last week.
In the Open Class Milking
Shorthorn competition,
Three Springs Farm,
Newville showed the Grand
Champion Female, Three
Spring’s TFP Paula.
The Open Swine Show
found Pennsylvania entries
tying up the championships
in the Yorkshire, Hamp
shire, and Spotted Poland
China contests.
Mrs. J.C. Strawbridge,
Stewartstown, exhibited
both the Grand Champion
Boar and the Grand
Champion Sow in both the
Yorkshire and Hampshire
shows. And Hobart Muller,
New Oxford, exhibited the
Grand Champion Spotted
Poland China boar.
A complete listing of the
Montgomery County Fair
champions follows:
OPEN DAIRY
AYRSHIRE
Grand Champion Bull -
Maryland’s Senator
Mathias introduces
ag preservation bill
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -
Senator Charles McC.
Mathias Jr., of Maryland,
last week introduced
legislation encouraging
farmers to resist the
pressure to sell their land to
developers and to keep their
land in agricultural
production.
The Farmland Develop
ment Rights Act would offer
tax advantages to farmers
similar to those now offered
to homeowners so they will
participate in state
programs designed to
preserve farming land.
Mathias said his bill tracks
programs in New York, New
Jersey and Maryland where
farmers can sell the
development rights of their
property to the state. The
state purchases an easement
on the property which
prevents the owner from
David and Jim Patrick,
Maple Dell Farm, Woodbine,
Md.
Grand Champion Female -
Karen L. Clark, Woodbine,
Md.
BROWN SWISS
Grand Champion Bull -
Lawrence Bassler, Sand
Rock Farm, Rocky Ridge,
Md.
Grand Champion Female -
Allen Bassler, Rocky Ridge,
Md.
GUERNSEY
Grand Champion Bull -
Wayne Spurrier, Union
Bridge, Md.
Grand Champion Female -
Melvin A. Wessel,
Chestertown, Md.
HOLSTEIN
Grand Champion Bull -
Robert Raver, Braver
Hoisteins, Dickerson, Md.
Grand Champion Female -
Leslie C. King, Kinstead
Farm, Demascus, Md.
JERSEY
Grand Champion Bull -
Marilee Hershberger,
Marivale Jersey Farm,
Boyds, Md.
Grand Champion Female -
using the land for any other
than agricultural purposes.
“The sale is theoretically
in perpetuity but the farmers
may buy back the rights
after 25 years if it can be
shown that profitable far
ming is no longer feasible,”
Mathias said.
The Mathias bill will allow
a farmer to use the proceeds
of these sales to buy more
farmland without having to
pay a capital gams tax. It
will also allow a one-time
only tax exemption of
$lOO,OOO if the farmer is over
55.
Mathias observed that
since the states have limited
funds available for these
programs, the development
rights are often sold for less
than market value.
“My bill will narrow the
financial gap by allowing the
farmers to treat the dif-
Robert Stiles & Sons,
Waverly Farm, Clear brook,
Va.
BULKING SHORTHORN
Grand Champion Bull •
James Nicholson, Trickle
Brook Farm, Detour, Md.
Grand Champion Female -
Three Springs Farm,
Newville.
OPEN BEEF
ANGUS
Grand Champion Bull -
Lee Miller, Woodsboro, Md.
Grand Champion Female -
William D. Canby, Brook
ville, Md.
CHAROLAB
Grand Champion Bull -
James Heppner, Cameo
Farm, Silver Springs, Md.
Grand Qiampion Female -
James Heppner.
POLLED HEREFORD
Grand Champion Bull -
Huckleberry Hall Farm,
Smithsburg, Md.
Grand Champion Female -
Huckleberry Hall Farm.
SHORTHORN
Grand Champion Bull -
‘Bud’ Eyler, Leneva Acres,
Myersville, Md.
Grand Champion Female -
ference as a gift for tax
purposes,” he said.
Mathias said discussions
with Senator Jim Clark,
President of the Maryland
Senate, convinced him that
action at the federal level
was needed to keep far
mland m production.
“Unfortunately, our
country’s farmlands are
being converted to non
agncultural uses at a rate of
over three million per year,”
Mathias said. “In the last
decade alone, this ur
banization process has
swalloped up land the size of
West Virginia.”
“If the United States is to
remain the world’s leading
exporter of agricultural
products, we must act now to
encourage American far
mers to continue farming
their land,” the Maryland
Senator said.
George Bowman, West
Friendship, Md.
OPEN SWINE
CHESTER WHITE
Grand Champion Boar -
Keith Martin, Hampstead.
Grand Champion Sow -
Kelly Martin, Hampstead.
SPOTTED
POLAND CHINA
Grand Champion Boar -
Hobart Muller, New Oxford.
Grand Champion Sow -
Dorcus Sheckles, Ger
mantown, Md.
HAMPSHIRE
Grand Champion Boar -
Mrs. J.C. Strawbridge,
Stewartstown.
Grand Champion Sow -
Mrs. J.C. Strawbridge.
YORKSHIRE
Grand Champion Boar -
Mrs. J.C. Strawbridge.
Grand Champion Sow -
Mrs. J.C. Strawbridge.
POLAND CHINA
Grand Champion Boar -
James Martin, Hampstead,
Md.
Grand Champion Sow -
James Martin.
DUROC
Grand Champion Boar -
Keith Martin.
Grand Champion Sow -
David Holloway, New
Freedom, Md.
BERKSHIRE
Grand Champion Boar -
Garland Gantt & Family,
Gambrills, Md.
Grand Champion Sow -
James Martin.
OPEN
DAIRY GOATS
NUBIANS
Grand Champion - Sharon
Maloid, Lovetts ville, Md.
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ALPINES
Grand Champion - Brad &
Teresa Wigle, Keymar, Md.
TOGGENSBURGS
Grand Champion - Jane &
Walter Burkle, Cumberland,
Md.
4-H
DAIRY GOATS
OTHER VARIETIES
Grand Champion -
Michelle Randolph, Olney,
Md.
NUBIANS
Grand Champion - Jim
Randolph, Olney, Md.
4-H BEEF
ANGUS
breed Champion - William
Canby, Brookville, Md.
HEREFORD
Breed Champion - Laura
Tessier, Laytonsville, Md.
SHORTHORN
Breed Champion - Knstina
Harper, Gaithersburg, Md.
4H DAIRY
Grand Champion Fitting
and Showmanship - Roger
Wright, Mount Auy, Md.
Supreme Junior Champion
Female - Duean Stiles,
Damascus, Md.
Supreme Senior Champion
Female - Peggy Burdette,
Gaithersburg, Md.
AYRSHIRE
Grand Champion Female -
Deb Cavell, Boyds, Md.
BROWN SWISS
Grand Champion Female -
Cherylann Catron,
Dickerson, Md.
HOLSTEIN
Grand Champion Female -
Peggy Burdette.
JERSEY
Grand Champion Female -
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RABBITS
DUTCH
Best of Breed - Eric
Meleney, Bethesda, Md.
Best Opposite Sex - Eric
Meleney.
FRENCH LOP
Best of Breed - Paul
Brady, Laytonsville, Md.
Best Opposite Sex - Paul
Brady.
NETHERLAND DWARF
Best of Breed - David
Mesko, Rockville, Md.
Best Opposite Sex - M.
Ritchey, Rockville, Md.
NEW ZEALAND
Nest of Breed • Melanie
Bogushefsky, Gaithersburg,
Md.
Best Opposite Sex - David
Graham, Gaithersburg, Md.
4-H SWINE
Grand Champion Market
Hog - Billy Gregg,
Gaithersburg.
Grand Champion Fitting
and Showmanship - Roy
Gregory, Laytonsville, Md.
DUROC
Grand Champion Female -
Ronald Magaha, Jr.,
Beallsville, Md.
HAMPSHIRE
Grand Champion Female -
Roy Gregory, Laytonsvile,
Md.
SPOTTED
POLAND CHINA
Sherry Sheckels, Silver
Springs, Md.
YORKSHIRE
Grand Champion Female -
Criquette Mills, Gaither
sburg, Md.