834—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 21,1981 BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent DOVER About 150 farmers and guests turned out last Tuesday, Nov 10 for the 4th annual Dover Young Farmers crop show, held at the Dover High School. Spread across the long tables of the school’s cafeteria were well over a hundred samples of hay, ear com, haylage, silage and grams. County Agent John Smith moved from category to category, judging entries as he went, and explaining his reasons with each grouping. Tom Boyer, Biesecker Road, York, was declared grand ch ampion grand winner of the largest division of entries, baled hay. His fourth cutting sample of Pioneer No. 524 won plaudits for its bright color, and abundance of leaf matter. Boyer’s winning slice of hay was from a third-year field, which gave an estimated six and one-half ton per acre. Emerging from the ear com competition was top winner, Ray Oeardorff, Davidsburg Road, Dover. Deardorff’s long, straight, full ears of Dekalb XL6I beat out Several dozen other entries. It was the first tune for Deardorff to use the new Dekalb variety which **•■> Vt* .» Xi v-, Champions in four categories at the crops winner; Ray Deardorff, ear corn; Tom Boyer, show compare notes on the blue-ribbon slice of dried hay; and Lester Sunday, corn silage. ' hay. From left are Steve Green, haylage M |WIS"O STATE STREET, IliSm CAMP HILL, PA 17011 i W PHONE (717) 761-1863 Boyer wins baled hay yielded approximately 100 bushel per acre. Steve Green entered a sample of first cutting mixed alfalfa haylage from the Mcßal dairy operation, located at R 1 East Berlin, where he’s employed. Smith selected that sample as the best, with enough moisture for preservation and palatability, but not too wet. Lester Sunday, R 1 York, emerged the winner of the com silage category, with silage chopped in early October from an O’a Gold variety. Sunday’s entry won on odor, evenness of cut, and abundance of grains mcluded with the stem matter. Some twenty commercial exhibitors were on hand with displays representing seed, fer tilizer, chemical and equipment firms A list of winners follows: Ear Corn 1 Raymond Oeardorff 2 Lemar G VanHynmg Sr 3 Lemar G VanHynmg Jr I Ear) Livingston 2 Crist Shearer 3 Wayne Myers 2nd Outline I Ray Hoover 2 Tom Boyer 3 Paul Jacobs 3rd Cutting 1 Roy Berkheimer 2 Bob Smyser 3 Eisenhart Bros * iF STAINS •EASILY INSTALLED At Dover Youns Farmers Crop Show Alfalfa Ist Cutting •‘•’s-- ■*. Vf V- ■'«' f r * s< PARS Soil Service Distributor of Liquid Calcium Delivered in Bulk To Your Farm Call: 717-872-7342 or 717-367-2667 | HOG PRODUCERS! ♦ Get Top Price |j ♦ for Your Hogs at mHP 1 | New Holland /Bp| | ♦ « i “ - ' ♦(! ♦ Sold in sorted lots the auction way. See X. X them weighed and sold and pick up * £ your check. ♦ SALE EVERY MONDAY-8:00 A.M. | NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. Z Phone 717-354-4341 J Daily market Report - Phone 717-354-7288 * Abe Diffenbach, Manager 4th Cutting 1 Tom Boyer 2 Richard Stough 3 Wayne Myers Timothy I Royßerkhetmer 2 Richard Stough 3 George Livingston Ist Cutting Clover 1 Crist Shearer 2 Joe Stump 2nd Cutting 1 Mervin Livingston Timothy Clover 1 Sherman Grove 2 Sherman Grove 3 Joe Stump Mixed Alfalfa Ist Cutting 1 Shermon Grove 2 Dan Gross 3 Joe Stomp 2nd Cutting 1 Sherman Grove 2 Dan Gross 3 Joe Stump 3rd Cutting 1 Joe Stump 2 Bob Smyser 3 Brian Lighty 4th Cutting 1 Lynn Wolf Mured Grass Ist Cutting 3 Sherman Grove 2 Wayne Myers 2nd Cutting 1 Doll Zirkle 2 William Livingston 3 Joe Stump Corn Silage 1 Lester Sunday 2 Steve Gross 3 Tom Boyer Haylage 1 Ralph McGregor* 2 Joe Stump 3 Eisenhart Bros Barley 1 Mervin Livingston 2 Lemar VanHyning Wheat 1 Bruce Kunkle 2 Earl Livingston 3 Mervin Livingston Oats 1 Joe Stump 2 Sherman Gross 3 Earl Livingston Rye 1 Paul Jacobs 2 James Crowl High Moisture Corn 1 Steve Gross 2 Ralph McGregor 3 Ralph McGregor Shelled Corn 1 Steve Gross 2 Mervtn Livingston Z >l* y* - ;y ► Ji f ** competition 30*' " 'afc' A sniff...and a squeeze...are part of York county agent John Smith's techniques for determine the tops in samples of hay and haylage. 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