BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent BAIR While clouds of dust marked the movement of men and machines competing in the York County plowing contest Aug. 11, an overnight downpour softened the soils for state competitors who sank their moldboards into the ground the following day. Con testants competed in small, large and contour plowing divisions at the state & local level. The plowing competition was part of a three-day extgravaganza, from August 11-13 hosted at the John Shearer farm and adjacent York County 4-H Center, by area plowing organizations, the Chamber of Commerce, extension and agri businesses. Final day of the three day event saw entrants from six states compete for national plowing titles. A mini-!air atmosphere filled the Center and surrounding wooded area, with equipment, seed and related ag-businesses setting up displays for the duration of the plowoffs. Several hundred turned out each day for the contests, which also featured demon strations of various pieces of tillage equipment brought in by dealers for display. Charles Hess, who chaired the three-day local, state, and national championships, emerged from weeks of monitoring meeting details with lus plowing skills still intact, taking both county and state honors in the small plow division. Talk with BUTLER - The #1 Building Company BUILDINGS ENGINEERED FOR FARMER ERECTION ■ butle"mTg “ ■■■■■■■■■ ■■ | Attn. P.E. Hess _ . Box 337. Oxford. PA 19363 I ■ Dealer inquiries Available in Pennsylvania Countie* - Berks, Schuylkill, ■ ■ Armstrong, Indiana, Erie, Crawford, Warren, Elk, Cameron, McKean, ® Clinton Lycoming, Sullivan, Wyoming, Lucerne, Columbia. Butler, Mercer. ■ ■ Lawrence, Beaver, Bradford. Susquehanna, Adams, Cumberland. York “ New Jersey Countie* - Susses, Morris. Passaic. Atlantic. Cape May, Mon ■ mouth. Middlesex. Somerset, Warren, Hunterdon. 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Route #l, Box 163 Clear Spring, Md. 21722 PH: 301-582-1552 Silver Spring m Lancaster County. Potato grower, Burkhart has won numerous awards since bis first entry in the plowing contest in 1968, and has also competed four times at the national level. Robert Miller, Millersburg Kl, who won the contour division, is also a veteran among contest, plowmen. The Dauphin County Guernsey dairyman made his initial venture into the contests in the early 1960’s and won his first state competition in 1967. In 1976, when Pennsylvania hosted the national plowing championships at Kock Springs, Miller plowed his way to national honors. Hess and burkart are now eligible to compete in the 2984 national contest, which is expected to be held in the midwest. There is no BY JOYCE BUPP Stall Correspondent BAIR Plowmen from six states throttled up and sank sharpened plow points deep into the soils of the John Shearer fprm last Saturday, as the national plowing championships wrapped up a three-day tribute to mold board tillage techniques. The “plowing Olympics” featured 27 contestants taking part in large, small and antique plow categories, with entrants traveling from lowa, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Ohio to join participating host Pennsylvanians in the national judging. D. E. SMITH. INC. GOMPF CONSTRUCTION FOUR COUNTIES Miffiintown. Pa. 17059 CO. INC. CONTRACTOR PH; 717-436-2151 1841 j erry - s Road R.D., Bo* 249 Street Md. 21154 Coslpor t Pa. 16627 PH: 301-692-5350 PH; 814-672-5751 contour division at the national level. • - Winners in the state contest’s small plow division are, Charles Hess, York County, first; Jay Stoner, Cumberland County, second; Neil Leffler, Dauphin County, third; and Bradley Kine, Somerset County, fourth. In the state contour category, William Crain, Cumberland County, placed second to winner Bob Miller of Dauphin County, with York entry Terry Sunday placing third. Placing behind Frank Burkhart, Lancaster County, m the large plow division were Gary Cram, Cumberland County, second; Frank Kocevar, Dauphin County, (Turn to Page ASS) Pa. plowmen among When the lengthy judging periods finally ended and the winners called up to receive their awards, Pennsylvania Kobert SetiOui 3isf AG PROGRESS DA^ SEE WHAI s2Bo< $60O( AG PROGRE! ill STOI or WILL BUY YO
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