VOL. 25 No. Ht
Ag restrictions eased
in Pequea zoning plan
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
WILLOW STREET -
Pequea Township super
visors adopted a revised
zoning ordinance Wed
nesday night which deleted
some of the proposed
restrictions which had met
with heavy opposition at a
zoning hearing meeting on
September 4.
The supervisors in this
Lancaster County township
announced there will be a
survey conducted to
determine the interest in
establishing an exclusive
agricultural district.
The new ordinance, which
will go into effect Monday,
Hess brothers top
Lampeter swine show
L BY SUSAN KAUFFMAN
* Staff Correspondent
LAMPETER - Wayne
Hess, Conestoga, showed the
champion individual market
hog at the West Lampeter
Fair this week and his
younger brother, Brian,
showed the reserve cham
pion
These Penn Manor FFA
members are the sons of Abe
and Jane Hess.
Wayne’s champion
heavyweight weight in at 245
pounds. Brian’s champion
middleweight tipped the
scale at 215 pounds. A total of
Nameless steer"
tops Ephrata show
BYCURTHARLER
EPHRATA - The
Ephrata 4-H and FFA steer
show held Thursday night
turned out like the story of
The Ugly Duckling which,
when it grew up, turned out
to be a beautiful swan.
When Linda Martin, R 1
Narvon, first saw her 4-H
steer she thought he looked
so lousy she didn’t even
bother to give him a name.
Her opinion changed
greatly when show judge
Henry Gruber, New Tripoli,
slapped the Angus x
In this Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Guernsey, Ayrshire show,
16; Ephrata Fair, 20; Lampeter Fair, 30; Chester-Del.
Old Tuners, 34 ; Md.&Va. Milk Producers, 36
SECTION B: Combat shattercane, 2; Fruit, veg
harvest, 4; Farm Talk, 5; 4-H team competition, 7.
SECTION C: Homestead notes, 2; Home on range, 6;
Joyce Bupp, 8; State Jersey sale, 14; Farm women fight
dump, 15; OleyFair, 18; Bradford 4-H sale, 34.
SECTION D: Montgomery DHIA, 2; Schuylkill DHIA,
4, Cecil DHIA, 5; Juniata DHIA, 6; Pa. Junior Dairy
Show, 14; FFA swineherd, 21
was adopted with few
questions from the small
group of 18 persons who
attended the meeting. This
was a great reduction from
the crowd which met to voice
its objections to the original
revised ordinance.
Farmers in the group were
in general agreement that
the new zoning proposal is
something they can live
with, and they commended
the Supervisors for the
‘’evenhandedness” with
which they met some of the
farmers’ requests.
Perhaps the most con
troversial part of the
original ordinance was a
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fifty individual hogs com
peted.
The champion pair of
market hogs wereshown by
Kevin Landis. His pigs each
weighed 200 pounds and
were the lightweight
champion pair.
Gerald Hess’s 245 and 250
pound champion
heavyweights were named
reserve champion pair by
judge Keith Bard,
Lewistown.
Bard selected Jeff
Gerlach, Washington Boro,
as and Jim
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Chianina’s rump to declare
it Grand Champion of the
1980 show.
Lindahad shown hvestock
for 10 years as a member of
the Red Rose 4-H Club and
thought her Nameless steer
gave her one of the poorest
chances Of winning she ever
had. But today she is looking
forward to'competition in the
CountyHoundup.
Her pound steer
earlier topped the
Heavyweight competition, a
division of active"' steers
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 27,19»0
The Pennsylvania dairy industry’s new first lady
and her court: from left are Yvonne King, first
Chief son tops sale at $51,000
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
HARRISBURG - A bull
calf, a son of Chief out of a
high indexing Elevation dam
with a long ( cow iamily of
20,000-lb. producers, topped
the - 1980 All-American
Holstein Sale Thursday night
at $51,000.
The significant sire in
vestment in the future was
made by Curtiss Breeding
Industries, of Elbum, 11.
The calf, Mr Mun-Cre
Mistyman, was consigned by
Lester M. Poust, Mun-Cre
Farms, of Muncy, Pa.
Born on January 8,
Mistyman, was sired by the
legendary Pawnee Farm
Arlmda Chief out of Mun-Cre\
Elevation Misty.
A photo spread m the sale
catalog set the stage for the
spirited bidding - the only
real excitement of the three
hour sale m the Small Arena
of the Farm Show Building.
The spread traced the male
progeny line of Chief, in
cluding Glendell Arlinda
Chief, S-W-D Valiant, Milu
Betty Ivanhoe Chief and
Wapa Arlinda Conductor.
Mistyman’s dam is rated
Excellent-92 and the
granddam Excellent The
third and fourth dams are
Very Good 88 and 87
respectively.
As a four-year-old, the
dam produced 33,521 lbs. of
milk and 1121 fat. It was her
second year over 30,000 lbs.
of milk and 1000 fat. The next
three generations of dams
all topped 20,000 lbs. of milk.
Total proceeds from the
sale amounted to $372,200 for ;
53 head, an average of $7,022.
. While bringing less than a
third of Mistyman’s price,
other tpp animals included:
A heifer calf by Paclamar
Bootmaker out of Tillie
Magpie Kingpin Matt
brought $16,000. Consigned
by the Tillie Syndicate, of
Collegeville, she was bought
by Robertson Dairy, Inc.,
Lamar, Mo.
Another young heifer,
Feleicia May Marquessa-Et,
brought $15,500. Her sire is
Lawcrest Marvex and her
dam, Gene Acres Felicia
May Fury, has a lifetime
production of 216,360 lbs. of
milk and is the Wisconsin fat
champion. The dam was
Cindy Neely named
state dairy princess
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
CAMP HIT.!. Lovely
Cindy Neely of Emlenton
was crowned the 1980-81
Pennsylvania Dairy Prin
cess during a gala pageant
Tuesday evening in the
spacious ballroom of the
Penn Harris Motor Inn.
Tears coursing down her
face, the former Clarion-
Venango winner received
the glittering tiara and
traditional bouquet of red
roses and walked to the end
of the pageant runway to
resounding applause from
the audience of several
hundred dairy farmers and
their guests.
runner-up, Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Cindy
Neely, and second runner-up Lisa McMillen.
twice All-American Aged
Cow and three times
reserve. She is rated at
Excellent-97.
Buyers were Danny
Weaver and. Roy Hetts,
Cary, Q. She was consigned
by Felicia May Associates,
Sheboygan Falls, WI.
Burkett-Falls Elevation
Beth, a 20,000-lb. producer as
a three-year-old, was pur
chased for $15,000 by Dr.
Alan D. McCauley, R 2
Elizabethtown. She was
consigned by David Burket
and Sons, of Burket Falls
Farm, East Freedom, Pa.
A Delta, York County, cow
brought $12,500. Kingstead
First runner-up is Chester
County’s Yvonne King. Lisa
McMillen of Perry County is
the Second runner-up.
Princess Cindy is 18 and
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Neely, Jr., of
Emlenton Rl. She’s a
freshman at the Venango
campus of Clarion State
College, majoring in
business administration. ’ A
June graduate of Keystone
High School, Cindy was a
member of the honor
society, the yearbook staff,
chorus and was listed in
Who’s Who among American
High School students.
An eiithusiastic 4-H dairy
project exhibitor, Cindy had
I Fond Matt Jay was con
i signed by Paul and Kathy
t King, of Delta, and was
purchased byFrank Silva, of
' Hilman, Calif.
Classified as Very Good
i 88, she was a grand cham
, pion at this year’s York Fair.
No large buyers
i dominated the sale, with no
i more than two head pur
■ chased by an individual.
Consignments came fiMta
: eight states and Canada.
Sale managers and au(>
: tioneers were R. Austin
Backus, Inc., of Mexico,
N.Y.
As a sidelight to the
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to choose showing
her heifers at the state show
held Monday at the Farm
Show complex and the
princess competition.
Almost seeming to apologize
for the show they missed,
her prized senior yearling
freshened back home,
Monday evening with a
heifer calf.
Cindy also exhibits a
senior calf as part of her
dairy memebrsfaip with the
Tailswitchers 4-H dairy club
and is a member of the
Pennsylvania Junior
Holstein Association.
The Emlenton family
milks 4& registered Holsteins
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