VOL. 26 No. 49
Pa. livestock take high honors at KILE
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
HARRISBURG Termed “one
of the top livestock shows on the
East Coast” by Agriculture
Secretary Penrose Hallowell,
Pennsylvania’s 25th Keystone
International Livestock Exposition
got underway last Friday with
over 3,400; top beef cattle, sheep,
swine, and horses competing for
$75,000 in premiums.
For stories and results of the
cattle, sheep and horse com
petitions, look thoughtout this issue
of Lancaster Farming.
Over •4|p‘£Btj£eding swine and
barrows wore entered in com
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Pam Yeaeley’s iamb tops Manheim
BY, DICK ANGLESTEIN
MANHEIM - What 4-H is all
about was graphically illustrated
Thursday- night in the Manheim
Fair’s sheep competition.
When 13-year-old Pam Yeagley
accepted' the grand champion 1
market lamb trophy with tears of (
joy trickling down across her
Pam Yeagley and her grand champion* lamb of Manheim
Fair.
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Editorials, AID; Now is the tune,
A 10; Ladies, have you heard? B 4;
Ida s Notebook, fid; Joyce Bupp’s
column, Bll; That’s a good
question, 819.
My
Dairyman travels with Carter,
833; Chester DHIA, Dl3; York
DHIA, Dl5; Dauphin OtllA, D 18;
Bradford DHIA, D 23.
petition this year a suprising
number considering the more
stringent health regulations im
posed on breeding swine since the
pseudorabies outbreak in Penn
sylvania and current hog industry
economics.
Dennis Grumbine, president of
the PA Swine Breeders
Cooperative and KILE exhibitor
termed the show “decent, con
sidering health regulations could
have stagnated the numbers. ”
He pointed out there were more
hogs entered in the carcass class
this year than ever before, with 242
hogs being slaughtered. This was
broad smile, it was a reincarnated
scene of her father, Elvm, some
three decades ago.
In just her first year of 4-H, Pam,
of HI Elizabethtown, brought her
115-pound ' Suffolk-Uampshire
cross, "Jumbo,” into the winners
circle. _ -
Back in 1947, her father, Elvuk
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Homestead Notes, B 2; Home on
the Range B 6; FWS /lews, B»;
Kid’s Korner, B 12; 4-H news, 815,
16; FFA, BI3;‘ Local mare at
KILE, 826; Berks ground
breaking, 838. '
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 10,1981
up from last year’s 200 head.
There were no breeding stock
shown last year due to
pseudorabies precautions. This
year’s entries were down slightly
from previous years not coming
close to the numbers shown during
the hog hay-day of six years ago,
however.
“This follows through with
what’s been happening at most
fairs in the state and follows the
economic trends of fewer numbers
in the hog industry,” Grumbine
explained.
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had a grand champion lamb at the
Farm Show when he was m 4-H. He
also had a couple ot reserve
champion steers.
And Thursday mght it was dif
ficult to determine who relished
Pam’s win more - the daughter or
lather. For one,, it was the sweet
- taste of a first victory. For the
other,- it was a victory relived.
Since the father’s 4-H victories
as a youth, the family has moved
off the farm and now live "in the
country” next to the farm of major
league pitcher Gene Garber.
The winning lamb was pur
chased in July out of the flock of
Lancaster breeder,' Clyde
Brubaker.
"1 namedJmii Jumbo because of
his size,” Pam explains.
"He was always bigger than the
rest.”
Pam cared for the iamb, plus a
couple of others along with her
younger brother, Phillip, on the
acre of land at the family home.
"I’d walk and run him a mile to a
mile and a halt each day,” she
said.
Also, we had this little jump
made out of part of a swing and
used it.”
Actually, Jumbo was a joint
animal of Pam and Phillip, who
also had separate animals. This
was Pam’s second show. She was
at Elizabethtown last week and
had two class firsts and a second.
In capturing her first big 4-H
win, Pam bested the Suffolk entry
of a more veteran showman, Barry
Martin, of R 1 East Earl.
In Pam’s immediate future now
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Inside
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A new national apple.queen has been crowned - Sandra
Williams of Arkansas. First runner-up was a local girlfrom York -
Heather Staubach. Find details on page... A2O.
He has a talented, creative mind and voice, but did you know
that Wendell Woodbury of WGAL-TV also has talented milking
fingers, turn to 818.
More than five million 4-H’ers in every state plus the District
of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam ob
served National 4-H Week this past week. For state winners,
see...D2.
- This Yorkshire, shown by John Strawbridgeof Strawbridge
■ & McClearly, was awarded grand champion honors-at the
Open Barrows On-Foot Show at KJLE, Monday. Find more
winners’oh page A 22. 3
Baffle Committee blocks
4Hoek Voting MB
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG - During their
meeting of the House Ag Com
mittee here on. Tuesday, a full
member session blocked the Block
Voting bill by a vote of 18-5.
All 23 members of the House
Committee on Agriculture and
Rural Affairs were present for the
vote on controversial HB 767. The
motion to report the bill from
committee was soundly defeated.
Prior to the official record call,
Representative ! D. R. Wright
amended the bill and removed all
the sections except those that
addressed the block voting issue,
such as the reduction of time from
five to three years for the
Secretary of Agriculture to call a
referendum, and the two-thirds
vote.
The 18-5 vote directly reflected
the central issue block voting
versus non block voting by farm
cooperatives. The proposed
elimination of the modified block
voting system presently used in
Pennsylvania was killed, and co
ops will be able to continue to cast
votes for their non-voting mem
bership in marketing feferen
dums.
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, the State Grange,
several major dairy cooperatives,
and the Department of Agriculture
had gone on record at previous
hearings testifying against HB 767.
Favoring the bill was the. Penn
sylvania Farmers Union and
former Secretary of Agriculture
KentShelhamer.
The issue of block voting and the
other sections of HB 767 are now
“dead” unless reintroduced by the
legislature.
Tuesday’s committee meeting
also considered the newly in
troduced Right to Farm bill, HB
1823, sponsored by Lancaster’s
Noah Wenger.
The bill, which is only three
pages long, attempts to: protect
farms that follow normal
management practices from local
ordinances that would interfere
with.these normal practices; and
protect those normal fanners from
public nuisance suits brought
against them by non-farm, citizens
complaining about noise, dust,
odor, or .the hours of operation.
According to Wenger, this bill
would ;not protect fanners who do
not comply with existing state
laws, such, as the Clean Streams
law. “This bill gives fanners
protection without protecting the
sloppy fanners,” he explained.
HB 1823 remains in committee,
held over for further action.
However Wenger expressed op
timism that the bill would be
favorably reported out of com
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