Mel Hertzler, familiar to area farmers from his
work at Alien Dairy in Mechanicsburg and six years
with the Holstein Association’s international ac
tivities, will manage the Harrisburg Holstein
Association office.
Meet the new
Area manager
HARRISBURG - Mel
Hertzler, the Holstein
Association’s Area I
manager, is no stranger to
many Pennsylvania
dairymen
They know him not only
from Ins past work with the
Holstein Association but also
from the time he spent
working at Allen Dairy near
Mechanicsburg
Mel was born and reared
et R 2 Elizabethtown, and
spent 20 years growing ud
around cows
When tic set out on his own
he moved go the famous
Green Meaaow Farm., in
Elsie Michigan
Green Meaaow is the
largest registered Holstein
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herd in the world Reworked
there as herdsman for two
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home state.
He came back to Penn
sylavania to spend 11 years
at Allen Dairy in
Mechanicsburg Then came
an offer to go to Florida
‘Southern Florida seemed
like a really great place to go
with all tne sunshine and
nice weather,” Mel smiles
So he packed his bags for
Macarthur’s Dairy in
Okeechobee
At the time Macarthur s
was tne largest commercial
dam in the world It boasted
four units of 2200 cows each
Hertzler was in charge of
one of the milking units But
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The Holstein Association Area office in
Harrisburg is a bright, spacious office which will be
the nerve center of Association activities in the 14
shortly after his arrival the
owner of the dairy was shot
and the dairy fell upon hard
times
So, in 1974 Hertzler moved
again, this time to the
Holstein Association. He
worked with the in
ternational division,
Holstem-Fnesian Services,
handling livestock exports,
mainly with Japan
His current position means
a change from the in
ternational division to the
field division
For him it also will mean
much less travel and more
time at home
For Holstein breeders it
means an old friend will be
back in Pennsylvania to run
Association business
Hertzler and his wife Suzi
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knowlege of cows and the
system with her to work.
A second secretary be
added when the compute
terminal from Vermont is
Receives merit award
C. Rodman Myers, left, of Thurmont, Md., receives scroll and a handshake as
he was honored with the Certificate of Merit Award in Agriculture during the
15th annual Maryland Agricultural Leaders Forum at the University of Maryland.
Making the presentation is Robert L. Gluckstern, chancellor of the College Park
campus Myers is master of the Maryland State Grange and editor of the
organization’s monthly newsletter. An active dairy farmer, he was named by the
Maryland Jaycees in 1968 as the state’s Outstanding Young Farmer.
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Eastern States. A computer terminal will be in
stalled which will give local members access to
information stored at present in Vermont.
installed in the Area office
This will allow local people
access to cow histones and
other data without having to
send a farmer to Vermont
for the mformation
For dairymen, contact
with the Area office will be
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as close as the telephone.
The Harrisburg office can be
reached at 717/657-8800.
Visitors are welcome at
any tune, Hertzler says, but
the Association plans to
welcome all farmers to an
open house sometime shortly
after the new office officially
starts operations January 1
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