A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 7,1981 How Penn Gate Farms breeds top Holsteins BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent LITTLESTOWN - Bob and Jean Gitt have spent several decades breeding, milking and showing a topnotch herd of registered Holstems at their Penn Gate Farms, Littlestown R 2. Merchandising those purebreds has been a major part of the Penn Gate operation, through regular advertising, consignments to sales and numerous showring winnings Tuesday afternoon, the Gitt’s cattle merchandising program meshed with similar goals of the Thornburgh administration in promoting Pennsylvania agriculture products, and the Pennsylvania Holstein Association’s international marketing of purebred black and whites As Governor Dick Thornburgh, Secretary of Agriculture Penrose Hallowell, four Japanese agriculture trade officials, and representatives of the state Holstein Association braved chilling winds whipping around the Penn Gate barns, a farm leadsman brought out one of the objects of all the attention Standing 66 inches at the shoulder, Penn Gate Wallie Skystar is a powerful and im pressive 4-year-old bull, scored EX-93 His good-natured tem perament, for a one-and-a-half-ton mass of muscle, was apparent As Governor Thornburgh ■ ■ HSxEllic Coolers' EFree Hot Water 2. 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He placed second m the 1979 Pennsylvania All-American show as a two-year old and was later Honorable Mention two-year-old bull in the 1981 All American awards His maternal brother at Penn Gate, Beech Hill Elevation Jet Star, was also on the potential purchase list of the Japanese trade delegation Jet Star as a seven-year-old son of the famous Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation and is scored EX -92 The newly-released 1981 Holstein Association Sire Sum mary shows him carrying a plus proof on milk of 784, and a plus on fat of 2b, for a total production index of plus-192 Dam of the pair is Beech-Hill Admiral Twila, a 15-year-old brood cow occupying an exclusive box stall next to her sons in the Penn Gate barn Twila was sired by Irvington Pride Admiral and is scored VG -89 Her long list of high production lactations includes a 7-year record of over 26,000 milk and 1029 fat in 305 days, with lifetime credits to dale of 170,035 milk and 6749 fat Grandam is Beech-Hill Star Man Tess, classified VG-86 At 11 years * >- I/3\l @ I I t - ■> Manheim, PA 17545 Cattle buyers from Japan who visited several Pennsylvania dairy farms this week looked at cattle with a discerning eye At Penn l-'Ss made a 305-day record of 2;.’ 020 mdk and 829 fat, with a 4 0 percent fat test She has lifetime credits of 187,932 milk and 7628 fat The Gitts also milk a sister to the uads, Penn Gate Raven Tulip Tulip is scored Very Good and has a i-year record of over 18,000 milk K Goodyear’s Number One Replacement Rear Tire Traction Torque Z q Zi-i <vgs rcs'Sf Iwij mg jna I(.jr ng Re nlorcefl tirr sn eio io reip pre lect Deao Rygqec Dca, o* lOugl' -O'C FRONT TRACTOR TIRES /f/fc J rrtMDIME ll Wp “ “ m "32.00 ’38.75 s 7Blo]M I TlflfC Pius G9FET Pius 97 FEi Pius 2« fet VHB I MKE9 OnThe-Form-Tire Service .&"? % £ Sl1 '»» Slz ' sue iuxis I■» I For Service In A Hurry, i-aoeaojws < ply < ply 6pir m m A Full Range Of Sizes For ' 0 0 . ....... , , —sslil /■ I tour Combine Needs CA LL YOU R NoTrod*Need*d - « 1 _ 1 _ -r r IMPLEMENT DEALER PRICES SHOWN ARE GOODYEAR SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICES SEE ANY OF THE INDEPENDENT DEALERS LISTED BUCK Wenger Implement Co Ph 284-4141 ELM L H Brubaker, Inc Shotzberger's Farm Machinery Ph 397-5179 Ph 665-2141 Goodyear Tires Distributed by P. 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