VOL 26 No. 46
Upper Conestoga cleanup meetings to begin
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER A series of
meetings to inform officials and
fanners in northeastern Lancaster
County of the federal funds
available to-clean-up the head
waters of the Conestoga will be
held beginning next week by the
Lancaster Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service.
A little tender loving care from mom'helps
triplets get off to a good start at Carl and John
Indiana County Fair
features dairy show
INDIANA Dairy cattle
breeders and 4-H’ers gathered last
week at the Indiana County Fair to
exhibit their animals while show
judge Patty McMurray,
Washington, eyed class after class
ot Guernseys, Brown Swiss,
Jerseys, Ayrslures, Holsteins and
Milking Shorthorns.
The top Holstein of the day was
an aged cow exhibited by Jody
Nesbit, Marchand. The Grand
Champion, Bra-Mar-ABC is sired
Inside
This
Week’s...
The Maryland State Fair wound up its activities on Labor
Day with the Maryland State Holstein Show. Find it and more
on pages..-CIS and D 6.
Bob Weaver has an inventory of equipment that would turn
any dealer green but with a small twist...o2.
A victory once is great, but a victory twice is twice as nice
for the Holstein at the Southeast 4-H District Dairy
Show...DlO. ,
The first meeting, according to
Ray Brubaker, of the ASCS Office,
will be held Thursday evening for
officials of the townships included
in the cleanup area. _ ''
. Supervisors and planning
commission" members from the
affected townships will be invited
to the session -in the library
meeting room of the Ephrata
Junior High School at 7:30 p.r*- on
Myer’s Walnut Run Farm in Lititz.
by King, of the .ABC and out of ~a
PenstatelnvanhoeStar. - ■
Gregory Edwards, Indiana,
exhibited the Reserve Grand
Champion Black and White, Ray-
Anthony Apollo Annie. The in
termediate calf is sired by Ray-
Anthony Apollo Flash and out of
Case-Ridge Joe Ann. ,
Clarksburg Guernsey breeder
Ethel Coleman captured the Grand
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday , September 12,1981
Thursday, Sept. 17. .
Townships involved include
Brecknock, Caernarvon, Clay,
Earl, East Cocalico. East Earl,
Ephrata and West Cocalico. Part
of Salisbury TownjUip is in the
area, but no farmland is included. _
, in addition to an explanation of
the federally funded proyect, plans
also will be made'' for a series of
public ’ to be beld in Oc
Jody Nesbit, 16, at the halter of Bra-Mar-
ABC Lori, the Grand Champion Holstein of the
' Indiana County Fair Open Dairy Show is
COLUMNS
Editorials, A 10; Now is the time,
A 10; Joyce Bupp’s column, C 7;
Ida’s Notebook, C 8; Ladies, have
you beard?, CIO; Farm Talk, DO.
tober and November throughout
the project area.
“The public meetings will be
held to inform farmers of the goals
of the project and the benefits of
participation,” Brubaker said.
A film and slide program are
planned to be Shown.
The public meetings tentatively
slatpdfor October and November
will be scattered throughout the
Trio triumphs over
tremendous odds
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
LITITZ “Congratulations, it’s
a Jieifer...and a heifer....and
another heifer?!’*
Although they weren’t passing
out cigars, Lititz brothers Carl and
John Myer were two surprised but
happy dairymen on Tuesday.
Their 4-year-old Holstein, Star-
Rock Sunshine Betty presented
them with triplets, a' rare oc
curence axnongdairy cattte.Bven
rareris the-fhctthe progeny, were,
all female.
And the three new additions,
sired by JQak 'HiU/Ranch
Kingsman, beht the-odds a third
time by surviving the nine month
ordeal in the uterus.
According to Penn State dairy
science professor George
Hargrove, the rate of abortions
and still births with multiple off
spring are much higher than with
single births.
; Hargrove also pointed out that
multiple births tend to appear in
cycles. The Myers probablv won’t
flanked by show judge Patty McMurray, left,
and Indiana County Dairy Princess Lori
Kirkland.
HOME AND YOUTH
Homestead notes, C 2; Home on
the Range, C 6; Kid’s Komer, Cl 4;
4-H news, Cl 3; FFA, Cl 7; Solanco
Fair previews, C 29; Farm Women
news, CSS.
$7.50 Per YeaT
project area to minimi» tran
sportation problems for burners
desiring to attend.
TO.date, only five fanners have'
signed up at the ASCS Office and
filed requestsfor assistance
the program officially ban
died two months ago. None of the
five requests have been reviewed
for approval yet
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disagree since twins woe bom bat
month at their-Walnut Run Farm.
However, cows that freshen with
twins or triplets run a higher risk
of post-partum problems such as
retained placentas, silent heats or
longer interval antU first heat
Will the Betty cow repeat her
performance? Nobody knows, for
sure, but Hargrove explained that
certain individuals have a higher
for thettait
" £!arly Tuesday afternoon the lag
black Holstein had the first calf
and within two hours all three
-heifers jamyed.
Myer? were oh hand since the third
calf needed some assistance to
start breathing. By the evening
.milking, mother and babies were
doing fine. And then it was bade to
the business of dairying.
Carl and John are the second
generation Myer to operate the
500-acre dairy which includes a
milking herd of about 130 Holsteins.
. Their goal, explained Carl, is to
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OAKY
' Milk Market Hews,- All;
Allentown Dairy, B 6; Cows are
what they eat, B 3; Allentown Goat
Show, C2B; Mifflin Dairy Princess,
C 9; Juniata DHIA, Dl5; Hun
tingdon DHIA, Dl5; Mifflin DHIA,
Dl9; Perry DHIA, D 22.