A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 28,1982
Layman, Milton Hershey top hay and silage show
ROCK SPRINGS - While the
wet weather that plagued more
than a few hay fields early this
summer had fanners wondering
about the quality of their crop,
fanners like Douglas Layman of
Waynesboro saw his hard work
payoff.
The Franklin County farmer had
a Grand Champion hay sample
during the annual Pennsylvania
Hay and Silage Show, held in
conjunction with Ag Progress
Days. •
Layman’s sample, a later cut
ting of alfalfa with less than 10
percent dry matter, tested in at:
crude protein - 23.9 percent; acid
detergent fiber - 27 percent; total
digestible nutrients - 70.7 percent.
Reserve Grand champion honors
went to Du Mar Farm of
Harleysville, Montgomery County.
The reserve Grand sample, as was
the Grand Champion entiy, was
field cured plus mow finished with
no hay preservative. Du Mar’s
alfalfa-grass mix ended with a test
of: CP-20.7 percent; ADF-30.7
percent; TDN-67.3 percent.
In the hay crop silage division,
Milton Hershey Schools of Dauphin
County, once again, finished in the
winner’s circle with their low
moisture mostly legume sample.
The winning entry tested at; dry
matter - 48.4 percent; CP-23.1 -
percent; ADF-29.7 percent; TDN
-68.7 percent; pH-5.2.
William Meams, Jr. of Get
tysburg collected Reserve Grand
Champion honors with his direct
cut grass silage. Meams’ low
moisture sample tested at; DM-66
percent; CP-20.1 percent; ADF
-40.4 percent; TDN-60.5 percent;
pH-4.6.
Show results in Division I (hay
field cured, mow finished, no
preservative) follow;
AHaHa-first cutting
1 Herman Espy Spruce Creek 2 Robert Me
Williams Pen Argyl 3 Richard Lieberman Pen
Argyl 4 Robert Gabel. Newport 5 Milton Her
shey
Alfalfa-later cutting
1 Douglas layman 2 Nevm Rice Perry Co 3
Robert Pardue Milton 4 Lewis Gardner Potter
Co 5 Melvin Stoltrfus Cochranville
Alfalfa Grass' first cutting
I William Peoples Mifflmlown 2 Paul
Bollinger Myerstown, 3 Tim Holt Middleburg 4
RocKview State Correctional Inst Bellefonte 5
Roger Young. Westover
AlfalfaXGrass later cutting
1 Du Mar Farm. 2 Nevm Rice 3 Paul Bollinger
4 John San Key Clearfield 5 Charles Belles
Susquehanna Co
Clover
1 David Glass Berks Co . 2 Paul Bollinger 3
Ritter Ridge Farms Muncy, 4 Robert Gabel 5
David Harrop. Milroy
Clover X Timothy
I Eugene Marshall Jersey Shore 2 Robert
Gabel 3 LuAnn Marshall Jersey Shore 4 Paul
Bollinger 5 Fanmcn Farms Dubois
Birdsfoot Trefoil
1 William Mearns
BirdslootTrcfoil Mixed
1 William Mearns
Grass-first cutting
1 Milton Hershey, 2 Carl Pearce Kylertown 3
IF Altemose and Sons Effort 4 John Sankey 5
At OrnerSons.Rockton
Grass-second cutting
1 Nevm Rice 2 David Peachey Belleville 3
Leroy Rowles Clearfield. 4 Lester and Jan
Paulhomus Cogan Station, 5 Herman Espy
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Mixed Hay
1 Marshall Wolfs. Si Marys. 2 I F Altemose
and Sons. 3 John Shearer. Port Royal. 4 David
Harrop. 5 Roger Young, Westover
Mixed hay
I JohnSankey. 2 Klein Farms, Easton 3 David
Glass. 4 Lloyd George Catawissa, 5 David
Harrup ,
Summer Annual Grass
I Paul Bollinger. 2 IF Altemose and Sons
Results of Division II (partially field cured plus
heat dried, no preservative) follow
Grassfirst cutting
1 Ervin Miller, Easton
Division 111
(partially field cured phis hay preservative)
Alfalfa-first cutting
I Lester and Jan Paulhomus. 2 Herman Espy
Alfalfa-later cutting
I Glenn Carper, McClure. 2 AL OrnerSons. 3
Herman Espy. 4 Linden Halls Farm. Linden
AlfaNaX Grass-first cutting
1 Herman Espy
Mixed Hay
I Linden Hills farm
Mixed Hay
1 Herman Espy. 2 Linden Hills fArm
Hay Crop Silage
Mixed Hay. wilted
1 Milton Hershey. 2 Herman Espy, 3 Gary and
Dean Walter. Lewisburg. 4 Soenka Haseloff.
Milton, 6 Donald Logue. Prosperity
Mixed Hay, low moisture
I Milton Hershey. 2 Lynn Stoudt. Bernville. 3
Robert Pardue, 4 Albert Hack, Berwick. 5 Her
man Espy
Mixed Hey, direct cut
1 ' oil Gate Ayr Farm, West Alexander
Mixed Hay. wilted
1 William Bedillion. Washington
Mixed Kay. low moisture
I William Mearns, 2 Larry Bedi'hon. Claysville
Small Grains, direct cut
1 Lynn Stoudt
Small Grains, wilted
1 Herman Espy. 2 William Riggle. West
Alexander
Small Grains, Low moisture
1 Herman Espy
Lazarus boar tops Pa. performance sale
UNIVERSITY PARK - A pen of
6-month-old Yorkshire boars, sired
by CLLB Bob’s Tank 7-1, collected
the high bids during the Com
monwealth’s sth Performance
Tested Boar Sale, Wednesday at
the Pennsylvania - Meat Animal
Evaluation Center.
Bred by Calvin Lazarus and Sons
of Busy Acres Farm, Whitehall, lot
number one from the high
indexing pen brought $1,300 and
was purchased by the New Jersey
Department of Corrections. The
pen arrived at the Fenn State test
site on April 20.
With an average daily gain of
2.43 pounds, the top Yorkshire
finished the testing period at 251
pounds and reached the target
weight of 230 pounds in 142 days.
Ultra-some tests measured the
boar’s back fat at .72 inches, loin
eye at 5.18 square inches and lean
cut at 62.4 percent.
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The Grand Champion Hay sample, right, was finished with now preservative. Du Mar Farm
submitted by Douglas Layman of Waynesboro, of Harleysville collected Reserve Grand
The alfalfa sample was field cured plus mow honors,Teft, with their alfalfa-grass mix.
The boar's littermate, me second
animal across the auction block,
brought the next-high bid of $1,050,
also from the New,--Jersey
Department of Corrections. The
boar had an average daily gam of
2.43 and finished at 248 pounds.
Back fat measured in at .81 inches,
lom eye at 4.98 square inches and
lean cut at 61.1 percent.
Nineteen Pennsylvania pens and
one Delaware, pen comprised the
sale’s offerings. According to Bob
Kimble, director of the Fa. Meat
Animal Evaluation Center, 44
boars that sold averaged $527 per
head. The figure was just $l3 less
than last year’s record-breaking
average. The animals were
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Jersey, West Virginia and New
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follow: 24 Yorkshires $583; 12
Durocs $452; 3 Landrace $533;
3 Spotted $375; 1 Hampshire
$675; 1 Chester White - $350. - DT
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