VOL 27 No. 1
Kolb sweeps New Holland Holstein Show
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
NEW HOLLAND -.Melvin Kolb,
Lancaster, swept top honors
during Wednesday’s New Holland .
Holstein Show and Sale, which
averaged $2,340 for the top 100 .
animals sold.
Show judge Ed Fry, Chester
town, Md. looked at more than 250
Black and Whites before .tagging
Kolb’s 5-year-old Gaydale-Nelson
Matt Vicky as grand champion. ,
Sired by a Fond Matt son,
grand champ carries a 4E 92 sgsggr
on her pedigree and boasts a top
recordof 19,388 lbs. of milk and 698
lbs. of fat.
In the following sale, the grand
champ sold for $B,OOO to M.
Thomas Sheaffer, Carlisle.
However, Kolb’s reserve grand
champion was the sale-topper. The
big black Holstein, Rodney Cindy,
brought $9,000 before she stepped •
off the sale block. Canadian
breeder Glenn Snyder purchased
the 5-year-old Nelacres Johanna
Senator daughter.
Kolb’s animals -collected four -
more blue ribbons before the sifPPw
ended. His 3-year-old Elevatfon
daughter topped the dry com- .
Grangers Oppose water mgt. program
BY PATTY GROSS „
Stalf Correspondent ;
ALTOONA Delegates.
representing 44,000 Grangers
converged on Altoona this
the 109th annual Pennsylvaßpi
State Grange session. fEKe
members of the 565 local granges
met to establish their legislative
platform for the upcoming year.
State Grange Master Charles
Wismer from Trappe, Mon
tgomery County, at the close of the
four day session said, “only some
minor revolutions were voted down
by the more than 800 voting
delegates. Committee recom
mendations on major issues were
usually accepted.” Two-hundred
resolutions were introduced during
the active state session.
During the final days of the
policy making session the State
Grange voted to, oppose House Bill
1483, a controversial state water
management plan. Instead the
Inside
This
Week’s...
A total of 427 producers and members of allied industries
attend Lancaster County Poultry Association's annual banquet
0n...A28.
Nearly 1000 Lancaster County homemakers are gearing up for
Christmas. For details on their recent meeting, see page... 820.
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The Robert Ramsburg family becomes the first Maryland
farmer tenants to purchase their-landlord's farm. Read their
petition. The young cow scored
with an Excellent mammary this
year and is currently bred to SWD
■ Valiant.
In the 2-year-old springer class,
- Kolb placed first with his
Milestone daughter out of an
Elevation.
Kolb took another blue in the 2-
yearold fresh division with Susie Q
Royality of Dun-Did. The first-calf
. heifer is sired by Birch-Hollow
and out ef C Rose Manor
Susan.,
Kolb collected his final blue with
a grade springer.
Lapdisburg dairyman Alfred
Albright was another big winner of
the day. His entries placed first in
the mature dry .and mixed fresh
classes.
Kelly Bowser, Worthington also
toolfc jjome a blue in the 3-year-old
fresh class.
Additional results from New
Holland Dairy Show follow:
MathrePresh "
1. Melvin Kolb Grand Cham- ;
pion; *
*CHB®||on; 3. Alfred Albright; 4.
and 5. M. Kolb'
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delegates decided to form a
committee to negotiate water
. policy with the state legislature.
“It is our feeling that water
management is such a complex
that a water committee
appointed by the State Grange
could best negotiate policy to look
out for the interest of the state’s
rural population,” Wismer stated.
Grange delegates went one step
more and adopted a package of
items that should considered m
negotiating a water management
plan:
All surface- and ground water
should be inventoried and the
inventory kept constantly up
dated;
ln a drought emergency,
agriculture should be assured of
essential amounts of water needed
for crops, livestock, poultry and
orchards;
In drougbt emergency, any
farm, industry or municipality
Lancaster Fanning; Saturday, October 31,1981
' Dpnnis Kolb is at the halter of Gajrdale
gr'ahd champioir of the
New Holland Dairy Show. Wednesday. Owned
by Melvin Kolb, Lancaster, the's-year-old 4E
that practices storm water
retention or recycles secondary
, treated sewage effluent should be
given preferential allotments on
withdrawal; -
** That any irrigation system
that uses trickle irrigation be
allotted 50 percent more water
Today marks our 26th year
of bringing the best in farm
news, features, markets, and
sales to your mailbox. We look
forward to the challenges
future years will bring to our
great farming community as
we strive to make the best
better.
Ag Act offers farmers security
BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
LEBANON As part of the on
going, turtle-paced process of
strengthening, and securing
Pennsylvania agriculture, the
Agricultural Area Security Act
(Act 43 of 1981) which took effect on
Augret 29, is slowly moving to the
“consideration’' stage in many
townships and small communities
throughout Pennsylvania.
. One such area which: has now- -
been • introduced -to the.-Act Is
.Lebanon County*. About =4O lan
downers' and. planning com- 1
missiohers turned out for a
briefing Thursday. night at the
Lebanon Courthouse to hear
Stanford- Lembeck, land use
specialist from Penn State,
describe the program.
92 sold ior 58,000 to M. Thomas
iri the following sale. Lhn
caster|Co«nty Dairy Princess Alternate Robin
Balmer displays the champion’s awards.
' than the spray irrigation;
k* In a. drought emergency, if
water is taken from one person to
be given to another user, that
supplier of the water should be
paid 4 times the normal local sale
price for water; < ... ,
In the future, water cannot bb
moved more than a distance p£ (6
miles out of the
basins; '
s That, if a municipal authority is
required to supply to customers
other than those' of the
municipality, then Jt should be
because of the emergency
situation and the municipal
authority should not be required to
come under the P.U.C.
regulations;
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program has been in the planning
stages for 5 or 6 years but has been
a reality for only two short months.
“There is no place that I know of
in Pennsylvania that has already
initiated the program, so there |s
no experience of it yet to speak of,”
he said.
He went on to point out that a
comparable program has been
working in New York state for
I abputlOyears; die only difference
being that the areas- are called
' “districts” and each are reviewed
- after eight years- compared to
Pennsylvania’s seven-year review.
According to- Lembeck, by
participating in an agricultural
area, farmers would work together
to help conserve and improve
agricultural iands for agricultural
production. Participating farmers
$7.50 Per Year
Editorials, A 10; Now is the time,
AIO; Ida’s Notebook, B 4; Joyce
Bupp’s column, B 5; Ladies, have
you heard? B 9; Farm Talk, 823;
Country Outings, 826; Milk Check,
834; Dairy Pipeline, C 9.
My
Krall Dairy Farm; A2O; Terlin
Dairy Farm, 824; Delaware Dairy
Show, B 28; Bedford DHIA, D2l;
Berks DHIA, C 7; Bradford DHIA,
C 5; Cumberland DHIA, Dl2;
Dauphin DHIA, DIO; Lancaster
DHIA, Dl4; Lycoming DHIA, C 8;
Mifflin DHIA, 06; Montgomery
DHIA, DlB.
Him mi Ymtk
Homestead Notes, B 2; Home on
the Range-, B 6; FWS news, B 8;
Kid’s Komer, BIO; 4-H news, Bll;
FEA, B 16; York apple queen, 814.
■are also entitled to special con
sideration from local and state
government.
And as tradition goes, any
program with so many merits as
Lembeck described is going to be
approached with skepticism. Such
was the case Thursday night. Most
questions mi the program ex
pressed the concern landowners
had- about 'obligations 'after
becoming an active member.
According to Lembeck, once you
becomea participant which you ~
can become only after a proposal
has been submitted, the public is
informed, the planning com- •
missipners meet, a hearing is held,
and the program is adopted you
are held to the agreement for only
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