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11 Century Farms
presented awards
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
SMOKE TOWN - Nearly
two composite millenimums
of agricultural history and
hei itage were honored at the
Agriculture-Industry Banq
uet of the Lancaster
Association of Commerce
and Industry Thursday
night
Individually, continuous
family ownership of the 11
honored farms ranged from
22,000 attend
FFA convention
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The
OA convention concluded
t Friday after a week of
workshops, contests and
award ceremonies with over
22,000 members and visitors
attending This number
makes the convention the
largest youth gathering in
the U S.
Pennsylvania sported 21
American Farmer Degree
recipients this year. For
pictures of local winners, see
inside pages of tins week’s
Lancaster Fanning.
The Honorary American
Farmer Degree, the highest
degree given to adult sup
porters, was bestowed to
four vo-ag instructors and
one agricultural leader from
Pennsylvania
These five were among 192
other men and women
receiving the degree.
JTuiorary membership is
given to individuals who
have given service to youth,
agriculture, education and
the FFA organization
Marcus Herrold, Mif
flmburg, was among other
business leaders, college
professors, and agricultural
personnel to receive the
award
Herrold is on the State
Staff of the Pennsylvania
Vocational Agricultural
Teachers Association.
The four teachers
In this Issue
SECTION A: Editorials, 10; Grain production down,
19; Farm-City swap, 20; Farm Credit elections, 28;
Cumberland 4-H roundup, 30; Letters to editor, 34
SECTION B: Reading calf sale, 2; Chester baby beef,
7 York Farm Credit, 8; Ix»ganville achievement, 10;
Produce licenses, 12
SECTION C: A strange legacy, 2; Home on range, 6,
Joyce Bupp, 8, Ida’s notebook, 11, Grange farm policy,
13; Franklin Guernsey meeting, 20, Penn-York Co-op.
JO; Wild turkeys, 33
SECTION D: NAILE dairy champs, 5, York DHIA 7,
Lebanon DHIA, 12, Juniata DHIA, 17 PFA to meet, 19
Livestock outlook, 20, Sheep-to-shaw contest, 23 The
Milk Check, 24
slightly more than a century
to better than two and one
third centuries
The honoring of the 11
Century Farms brought the
number of Lancaster County
farms which have been cited
for remaining in continuous
family ownership for at least
100 years to 66 since the
program was launched four
years ago
Separate feature stones
receiving the award were
Donald Remhert, Kutztown;
G. Lowell Morton, Annville;
Charles Ackely, Ephrafe;
and Frederic H. Stillwagen,
Schnecksville.
Stillwagen is the president
ofthePVATA
Speaking to members
during various ceremonies
at the convention were
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland, entertainer Art
Lmkletter, baseball hero
(Turn to Page A 39)
Farn iers Union opposes milk checkoff
BY CURT HAULER
LANCASTER Members
of Farmers Union
voted Thursday night to
oppose the upcoming Penn
sylvania milk promotion
referendum
AfteV vigorous debate they
agreed to support the
voluntary ag preserve
district concept, and
unanimously said they
continue to recommend all
farm products and items be
priced at no less than 100
percent of parity.
Members said they are
against the Pennsylvania
milk promotion referendum
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1980
detailing some of the history
of the Century Farms ap
pear inside Present owners,
length of family ownership
and location of the feature
stories include.
William and Fern
Brossman, Ephrata, 148
years, page AlB
Noah and Marian
Denlinger, R 2 Paradise, 151
years, page C 24.
Irwin and Grace Engle, R 1
Marietta, 178 years, page B 6
Gerald and Judith Ann
Erb, R 3 Mount Joy, 158
years, page A 36.
George Bishop and Harriet
B. Herr, R 1 Strasburg, 102
years, page C 25.
Mrs. Maurice Herr,
Refton, 170 years, page C 26.
Martin and Mildred .
Heisey, R 1 Kmzers, 188
years, page C 22.
Robert and Charlotte
McSparran, R 2 Peach
Bottom, 101 years, page A 32
Robert, John, Charles and
Mary Shellenberger, R 2
Columbia, 230 years, page
85.
Andrew and Virginia
Martin, R 1 Pequea, 235
years, page D 2
Certificates were
resented to the Century
(Turn to Page Al 3)
Backs ag districts at annual meeting
which state dairymen will
vote on in January. If passed
it would become effective
July 1, 1981 The checkoff
would require a three
quarters of one percent
checkoff for milk promotion
and research from all
dairymen There would be
no ask-out provision
Farmers Union, the only
major farmer organization
to oppose the Beef Checkoff
proposal earlier this year, is
hoping to generate
momentum against the
checkoff program Farmers
in Pennsylvania turned
down the beef checkoff with
only 10 percent voting for it
Farmers Union pointed
out the milk referendum will
require only a simple
majority to pass rather than
a two-thirds vote of
producers Unless a farmer *
votes, the co-op or daily
serving the farm will be able
to block vote using all
members’ uncast votes as it
sees fit
Farmers Union said the
state secretary of
agrn ultui e has ultimate
control of me promotion
fund whit!' may amount to
A member of top producing cows and cattle breeders were honored at the
Lancaster County Holstein meeting Tuesday. Winners in the junior milk and fat
contest were, from left, Arlen Keener, Steve Kauffman, and Leonard Stoltzfus.
Lancaster Holstein Club
honors top cows
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
LANDISVILLE - Two
hundred Lancaster County
Holstein breeders met
Tuesday evening at Indian
Springs for their thirtieth
annual meeting. Production
awards for both adults and
juniors highlighted the
meeting.
over $9 million per year,
rather than farmers. There
will be an advisory com
mittee appointed by farm
groups and co-ops
The checkoff will cost
farmers between nine and
ten cents per hundredweight
on $l3 milk at the three
fourths percent rate But the
current proposal allows for
the program to be increased
as high as one percent, or 13
cents- per cwt on the same
Lebanon celebrates
successful Farm City Week
BY SHEILA MILLER
PRESCOTT A crowd of
300 packed the Prescott Fire
Hall on Thursday evening
for the first Lebanon County
Farm City Week banquet,
culminating a week of
successful communications
between the farm and urban
communities
Lebanon County’s
celebialion ot Farm City
Week preceded the National
Farm City Week Noiemoer
Nelson Wenger, Manheim
R 6, was the only breeder to
capture two production
awards based on monthly
dairy herd improvement
reports
A Rocket daughter,
Bumblebee, owned by
Wenger took first place in
the junior two-year-old milk
class with a 24,682 pound
milk So, it will average
farmers $1 a day for
promotion
In other action the group
voted to support the Lan
caster County voluntary ag
preserve district concept,
with the necessary amend
ments to Act 442, as a means
of preserving ag land.
The proposal they sup
ported basically is Amos
Funk’s ag district idea
(Turn to Page A3B)
21-27 This year’s national
theme is Farm and City,
Partners in Economic
Progress Key to the
Future
Lebanon County joins, for
the tirst time, other
organizations throughout the
state who have been ob
serving Farm City Week foi
a quarter of a century
Sponsored by the Lebanon
Valley Chamber ot Com
ireice. Farm City Week in
$7.50 Per Year
record. Wenger’s Faye won
first place in the senior two
year-old fat class with an 835
pound fat record Faye was
sired by Valley Run Silver
Tiger.
The junior two-year-old fat
record was won by John P.
Lapp’s Ruby, with 768
pounds fat.
In the senior two-year-old
class, J Mowery Frey, Jr.,
Beaver Valley Pike, Lan
caster, won the milk
category with Amy Jean,
who had a 24,014 pound
record. Amy Jean was sired
by Gay Ideal
In three-year-olds, Robert
L Kauffman, Jr., Peach
Bottom Rl, took first place
in the milk category with
Terrie, a Royal Design
daughter, with a 26,898
pound record. Ken and
Nelson Stoner, Lititz, were
named first in fat with #Bl
Che who made a 1036 pound
record Che was sired by
Kenny
Robert Gruber, Mount Joy
(Turn to Page A 24)
Licuanon ujuu,, cd a
farm equipment display and
Sheep to Shawl contest last
Friday evening at the
Lebanon Plaza Mall. See
story on page D-23
In a poster contest for 3rd
graders in five county school
districts, more than 300
students created scenes of
farm life A winner was
chosen from each of the
districts during ceremonies
(Turn to Page Al 4)