A34—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 12,1981 The three Myer heifers are surrounded by the three Myer cousins who share in the ex citement over the rare birth. Cuddling the Myer triplets (Continued from Page Al) achieve 100 percent registered status. But for now the 60 percent registered herd produces a respectable RHA of 15,000. John joined the partnership about 12 years ago and since then the brothers have expanded the operation. The free-stall bam and parlor were added in 73 and more recently the brothers installed a slurry manure storage which they empty about three or four times a year. The 500 acres includes about 300 acres in corn and 100 in alfalfa. Sheep show (Continued from Page A 32) SPRING RAM LAMB I Robert Leib 2 Greg Rausch Carlisle 3 Preston Bankert CHAMPION RAM Robert Leib RESERVE CHAMPION RAM Greg Bixler Carlisle TWO RAMS 1 Preston Bankert YEARLING EWE 1 3 Robert Leib, 2 .4 Preston Bankert PAIR OF YEARLING EWES 1 Preston Bankert, 2 Robert Leib JR. EWE LAMB I Greg Rausch 2.3 Robert Leib 4 Preston Bankert SR. EWE LAMB I Greg Rausch 2 Preston Bankert CHAMPION EWE Greg Rausch RESERVE CHAMPION EWE Greg Rausch TWO EWE LAMBS 1 Greg Rausch 2 Robert Leib 3 Preston Bankert PEN OF LAMBS Preston Bankert BREEDER’S YOUNG FLOCK 1 Greg Rausch 2 Robert Leib 3 Preston Bankert FLOCK 1 Robert Leib 2 Prestonßankert GET OF SIRE 1 Prestonßankert MARKET LAMB LIGHTWEIGHT 1 Robert leib 2 Greg Rausch MARKET LAMB. HEAVYWEIGHT Preston Bankert. OXFORD YEARLING RAM 1 Dave Bixler, Carlisle, 2 David Shultz Mechanicsburg SPRING RAM LAMB 1 .2 Dave Bixler. 2 David Shultz CHAMPION RAM Dave Bixler RESERVE CHAMPION RAM Dave Bixler TWO RAM LAMBS 1 Dave Bixler YEARLING EWES 1 .3 Dave Bixler, 2 .4 David Shultz TWO YEARLING EWES 1 Dave Bixler, 2 David Shultz SPRING EWE LAMB 1 .2 Dave Bixler, 3 .4 David Shultz CHAMPION EWE Dave Bixler M/EN/T COMES 70. most of which is ensiled. What little hay they bale, Carl explained, feeds the dry cows and young stock. The remaining acreage is planted with various crops; potatos, wheat and soybeans. Life has returned to normal at Walnut Run, but for a short while the Carl Myers Carl, Dot and Gwen and the John Myers John, Judy, Jill and Jenny were among the fortunate dairy families that got to experience the triplet phenomena. And for Star-Rock Sunshine Betty it was all in a day’s work. RESERVE CHAMPION EWE Oaveßixler PAIR OF EWE LAMBS 1 Oaveßixler, 2 Dave Shultz PEN OF LAMBS 1 Oaveßixler BREEDER S YOUNG FLOCK 1 Oaveßixler 2 Dave Shultz FLOCK 1 Oaveßixler, 2 Dave Shultz GET OF SIRE 1 Oaveßixler 2 Dave Shultz MARKET LAMBS HEAVYWEIGHT 1 Billy George Leib. Mechamcsburg 2 Oave Bixler I Dave Bixler RAMBOUILLET YEARLING RAM 1 Dwayne Haus. Carlisle FALL RAM LAMB 1 Dwayne Haus SPRING RAM LAMB 1,2 E Richard Eberts. Newvilie CHAMPION RAM 1 E Richard Eberts RESERVE CHAMPION RAM 1 E Richard Eberts PAIR OF RAM LAMBS 1 E Richard Eberts YEARLING EWE X E Richard Eberts, 2 Billy George Leib PAIR OF YEARLING EWES 1 E Richard Eberts SPRING EWE LAMB 1 2 E Richard Eberts FALL EWE LAMB 1 E Richard Eberts CHAMPION EWE 1 E Richard Eberts RESERVE CHAMPION EWE \ 1 Billy George Leib PAIR OF EWE LAMBS 1 E Richard Eberts PEN OF LAMBS 1 E Richard Eberts BREEDER’S YOUNG FLOCK 1 E Richard Eberts FLOCK I E Richard Eberts GET OF SIRE 1 E Richard Ebe'ts Sole competitor and winner of all classes was Charles and Barbara Platt, Gettysburg 50UTHD0WNS Sole competitor and winner of all classes was Michele Bankert Red lion SUFFOLKS Sole competitor and winner of all classes was E Richard Eberts. Newville DO/VTPLAY AROUND/ calves from left to right are: Jenny 12; Gwen, 11; Jill 9. MARKETLAMBS LIGHTWEIGHT MERINO So. Mountain beef champs (Continued from Page A 32) Deborah Hoffman. This brother and sister team from Dover brought five animals to the fair. Deborah, 15, had the grand champion heifer, “Summitcrest Elba M 044”, while Tim, 20, had the reserve champion heifer, “Summitcrest Blackcap M 139” and the grand champion bull, “TJH Power Play”. In the Chianina breed Karen Brothers of East Berlin had the sole entry and captured grand champion heifer honors with “Pirmola”. Show results are: ANGUS Jr Bull Calves 1 Tim Hoffman Dover, grand champion Sr Heifer Calves I Deborah Hoffman Dover Summer Yearling Heifer 1 Julie A Myers Weilsville Jr Yearling Heifer 1 Deborah Hoffman grand champion, 2. 3 Tim Hoffman reserve grand champion Jr Get of Sire I Tim Hoffman Pair of Calves 1 Tim Hoffman CHIANINA Summer Yearling Herfer 1 Karen Brothers East Berlin, grand champion POLLED HEREFOROS Jr Bull Calves 1 Blake McCteary. Biglerville. 2 Craig and Faith Peterson, Abbotstown. 3 David Shultz, Mechamcsburg, 4 Ray and Ruby Glessner Waynesboro Senior Bull Calves 1 Craig and Faith Peterson. 2 Ray and Ruby Glessner Summer Yearling Bulls I Ouaine Glessner. Waynesboro, grand champion. 2 Matt Young. Gettysburg Senior Yearling Bull 1 Craig and Faith Peterosn. reserve grand champion Two Bulls 1 Craig and Faith Peterson and David Shultz, 2 Ray and Ruby Glessner Capturing Reserve Champion ram, left, and Fair were Robert and Susie Leib, Mechanic- - Grand Champion ram of the Dorset breed at sburg. the Open Sheep Show at the South Mountain The five farms cover about 4UO acres. The total project area in cludes some 110,000 acres and about 1250 farms. Critical areas of the project, which will be par ticularly earmarked for the federal funds, include about 400 farms. Brubaker said that final ap proval has been received to spend $1.4 million directly on the various measures to install -improved management practices to reduce agricultural pollution.. Another half million dollars, according to Brubaker, is ear marked for information and education, technical assistance, monitoring and verification. The project funds, totaling $1.4 million, will be used to cover 50 to 75 percent of the cost of installing the improved management practices, such as waste storage structures, terraces or waterways. There is a $50,000 per farm limit over the 10-year life span of the project. -" In conjunction with the project’s monitoring officials of the Lancaster County Con ;ed the Grand Champion 4-H steer at the South Mountain Fair. He also won the Cham pion Fitter and Reserve Champion Showman awards. 1 3 David Shultz. 2 Blake McCleary 4, 5 Matt Young, Gettysburg 1 Craig and Faith Peterson, 2 Rodney Monn, Shippensburg, 3 Ray and Ruby Glessner Summer Yearling Heller I Frank Darcey 111. Fairlield, 2 Duaine Glessner, 3 Lynn Stoner, Waynesboro, 4 Cathy Wildeson. Waynesboro, 5 Ray and Ruby Glessner Early Junior Yearling Heifer 1 Jetlrey Golden, Gardners, 2 David Shultz. 3 Blake McCleary; 4 Matt Young Junior Yearling Heifer 1 Frank Darcey 111, reserve grand champion. 2 Craig and Faith Peterson, 3 Ray and Ruby Glessner Conestoga (Continued from Page Al) Jr, Heifer Calves Sr. Heifer Calves f; servation District; Arthur C. Miller' of the Penn State engineering staff and monitoring coordinator; and Kenneth Okom, Chief of the Compliance Monitoring Section, Bureau of Water Quality Management, Pa. Dept, of Environmental Resour ces; toured the Upper Conestoga project area on Thursday. An extensive on-going monitoring system will be established to determine not only the quality of underground water sources as they presently exist, but how improved management practices may help to better the water quality. Part of the monitoring procedure will be the drilling of test wells to gam samples of underground water quality. Possible sites for the test wells were surveyed during Thursday’s tour.' Another area to be monitored closely, according to Tom John ston, of the Conservation District office, will be earthen bank waste storage systems. ‘ "We just don't have any in formation on how well these systems work,” he explained. 2 Year Old Heifers 1 David Shultz, grand champion. 2 Duame Glessner. 3 Matt Young. 4 Ray and Rub y Glessner. 5 Craig and Faith Peterson Cow/CaNPair 1 Craig and Faith Peterosn. 2. 4 David Shultz. 3 Ray and Ruby Glessner. 5 Duame Glessner Get erf Sire 1 Ray and Ruby Glessner Jr. Get of Sire 1 Craig and Faith Peterson, 2 David Shultz. 3 Duame Glessner, 4 Ray and Ruby Glessner. 5 Matt Young Pair of Calves 1 Ray and Ruby Glessner, 2 Craig and Faith Peterson. 3 David Shultz, 4 Blake McCleary, 5 Matt Young
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