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than 21,000 |bs/of milk in 305 days of her first
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The final results are in from the All-American Dairy Show. Get
the complete story beginning on page... 62.
For one of the most unique farming operations in Penn
sylvania featuring the breeding of pet ferrets, turn t0...822.
New Holland celebrated its 50th anniversary by naming a
novice shower the Grand Champion winner of the Beef
5h0w...A24.
Freak storm topples
tobacco bam
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
MARIETTA Donald Mowrer
observed firsthand the destructive
power of wind on Sunday evening
when a strong, but shortlived, wind
and rainstorm swept across his R 1
Marietta farm destroying a
tobacco bam.
Mowrer said, “The storm just
had wind, that’s all. It only lasted
about three or four minutes. We
didn’t see it go over. It just started
and quit.”
Those few minutes, however.
pionship of the E-Town Fair to Steve Kauff
man.
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cost Mowrer not only many lost
hours, but also much lost income.
The bam, which measured 132 feet
by 40 feet, held nine acres of
tobacco, representing about half
Mowrer’s total tobacco crop. In the
salvage operation, he estimates he
lost at leajt half of-what was stored
through and other -
damage.
Three tractors were in the bam,
along with other equipment and
Mowrer said damage to that was
“moderate.”
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 3,1981
BY SUSAN KAUFFMAN
Staff Correspondent
KENNETT SQUARE - Two
hundred mushroom growers and
others vitally linked to the
economically pinched mushroom
industry answered an invitation by
the American Mushroom Institute
to attend an information meeting
held at the Italian American Club
here last week.
Executive Director for AMI,
Jack Kooker stated the meeting
was being held in cooperation with
the Extension Service of Penn
State. Speaker for the instructional
part of the program was Paul
This tobacco barn was blown over by heavy
winds which swept through an area north of
Marietta Sunday night. It is on the farm of
Kauffman Vet 9 heifer
wins in E-Town storm
BY DICK ANGLESTEiN
ELIZABETHTOWN - In a
drenching rainstorm Thursday
night, Steve Kauffman, R 1
Elizabethtown, showed one of the
area’s “wettest” two-year-old
HoJstems to the grand cham
pionship of the Elizabethtown Fair
Dairy Show.
The fourth generation of one of
two purchased foundation calves
that Steve, 19, is building his herd
on, Penn Springs Milestone Ada is
projected at more than 21,000 lbs.
of milk in 305 days of her first
lactation.
“She’s the wettest two-year-old
that we have in the whole herd
(Penn Springs Farm),” Steve
explained.
Partially accountable for her
free flowing nulkability is the
Kauffman three-time milking
schedule.
“You probably see the most
AMI mushroom talk
gets mixed reaction
Wuest of Penn State. Also taking
part in the multi-purpose meeting
were Extension agent for Chester
County mushroom growers, Keith
Zanzinger, AMI executive
director, Kooker and promotion
chairman for AMI, Joe DiNorsda.
In addition to offering the
growers the opportunity to hear
Wuest’s presentation on wet and
dry bubble, forms of fungi which
can reduce or even destroy crop
production, the meeting provided
an opportunity to “get a pulse of
the growers," as Kooker stated. A
similar meeting was held the
previous evening at Temple to
difference in production in the two
year-olds,” according to Steve.
“Their udders are smaller and
usually are filled long before
milking on a two-lime basis.
You’re emptying them more
closely to the time they fill on the
. three-time schedule.”
reach the growers iii that area.
During the evening’s scheduled
talks, it was pointed out by many
growers and industry related
spokesmen that due to imports the
domestic growers and earners are
in a financial pinch which could
shortly lead to the industry’s
collapse.
Presently, processed
mushrooms are coming into this
country and being sold for prices
cheaper than it costs to produce
them domestically. One canner,
Tom DiCecco, told the group his
costs would not allow him to pay
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Donald Mowrer and was the only major
damage sustained except for some large tree
limbs which were broken.
$7.50 Per Year
The two-year-old is sure to top
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