I‘T Ift \n ■ 11 Jjl |I VOL 28 No. 42 Penn State’s Ag Progress Opens Tuesday Ag Progress inside Price of progress AlO Computers AJ9 Clinic, Al 9 - Ask the specialist ; Al 9 The only woman 824 Acid rain D 5 Where to go Dl7 Wap 018 & 23 Trellised apples D 26 Lancaster County style E 2 Sod-seeded brassicas £22. Southcentral, Eastern Holstein champions crowned With best three females of Southcentral Show are Cornman family, premier breeder and exhibitor, from the left, Creedin, Steve, Debbie, Clarence Jr, Annette and Ellen, with grand daughter. Becky Cornmans, Dums share top honors BY BETH HEMMINGER Staff Correspondent CARLISLE Creedin Cornman and family, also known as Justa Beauty Holsteins, went home from the Southcentral Championship ■plow last Saturday with several Fery happy faces and just as many atop place ribbons and trophies to (■match. i The Cornman family garnered Six Sections No, this rig won’t be demonstrated at Ag Progress, but it contrasts with the $2O million in the latest ag technology that will be on display at-Penh State. This antique furrow-turner - was part of York County’s plowing contests featured on pages A2O-21. AG PROGRESS Crops in research plots that haven’t been wilted or stunted beyond recognition, special guests, $2O million worth of machinery and equipment, some 300 exhibitors, and more than a score of special events and activities await the record crowd of 80,000 or more at Ag Progress Days at Penn State’s Rock Springs Research Center Tuesday through Thursday. Activities on Tuesday and Thursday begin at 9 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. Wednesday hours continue from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Theme of Ag Progress, which is designed to illustrate (Turn to Page A19)~ several top pladngs, including the first place three-year-old, first place best three females and captured the Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand Champion of the show. However, what really brought the smiles when the announcetnent was made that Justa Beauty Holsteins won the Premier (Turn to Page A 34) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 20,1983 Plan to he there BY ROBIN PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent KUTZTOVVN a member of the prominent ftothrock herd, Ri, Kerapton, walked away with top honors last Saturday at the Eastern Pennsylvania Cham pionship Holstein Show "held at the Kutztown Fairgrounds. “Down-Home Pete Sandy”, a three-year-old, Straight-Pine Elevation Pete daughter, owned by Bruce L. Kothrock, dazzled judge, Jake Enng, of Sluppensburg, with "the best legs... the best udder...” in the show, as she won the three year-old class with the best udder, the Senior Championship, and then the Grand Championship over the aged cow, Woodedge Bbotmaker .Lady, owned by Keystone Farm, Easton. This was not the first tune "Sandy” caught the judge’s eye. She was nominated All-American two year old in 1982, and also placed first in the two year old class m 1982 at the Eastern National. Just fresh as a three year old, "Sandy” is currently milking 122 pounds a day and plans are to super-ovulate and flush her later this year. As a two-year-old, "Sandy” f hushed with 22,000 Rothrock 3-year-old wins ‘the grand’ pounds of milk and was classified very good-88. Reserve Championship honors went to the aged cow entry of the Donald Seipt Family, Keystone Farm, Easton. “Woodedge Bootmaker Lady” is a daughter of Placamar Bootmaker out of Woodege Marquis Ned Lucy. Described as "the epitome ot dairyness”, by the judge, “Lady” Flanked by Montgomery, Northampton-Lehigh and Berks dairy princesses are Eastern Holstein reserve champion, left, with Donald Seipt, and grand champion with Jack Miller, Rothrock herd manager, and judge Jake Emig. Features inside Rough and Tumble A 32 Hydroponic lettuce A 22 Cherry Hills A3O Horse lover 814 Tips for showing 830 4-H Achievment 834 Old-time blacksmith D 2 Lancaster bull £lO Courageous riders FlO Chlanina field day Fl 2 ' Cheese tradition FIS was also awarded Best Udder in Her class. Junior Championship honors went to the Ohlinger Family, Rl, Mobrsville, Reu-Hel Farms, as the heifers owned by the two daughters of Elwood and Ruth Ohlinger took the nod for the Junior Championship and the Reserve Championship. (Turn to Page A 27) $7.50 per Year
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