UNIVERSITY PARK - Dairy
Science Club members at Penn
State are getting ready for their
major event of the year the 59th
Annual Dairy Exposition. Spread
over several weeks in April, the
exposition features judging con
tests next Saturday, the Penn State
Dairy Princess Contest April 18,
and “Show Day” April 28 featuring
fitting and showing contests.
The judging contest set for
Saturday, April 7, will feature 4-H
and FFA clubs from throughout
the state. Chairperson Alan P.
Kozak, Penn State senior in dairy
production from Washington, and
assistant chairman William
Zollers, junior in dairy production
from Mertztown, will bring
together 12 official judges to place
classes and score oral reasons.
The judges are all Penn State
alumni working in the dairy field.
Included are Jeffrey Harding of
Brookville; David Castrogiavanni
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4-H, FFA dairy judging slated at Penn State
of Montrose: Lloyd Pease, Dale
Oliver, Carl Anderson, and
Richard Hess of Lancaster;
Warren Poage of State College;
Richard Packard and Steven
Neely of Wilkes-Barre; and James
McMurray of West Alexander
with two more to be appointed.
The judging contest will be
comprised of four divisions: 4-H,
FFA, collegiate amateur, and
collegiate professional.
Registration April 7 begins at 9:3
a.m. at the Dairy Bams at
University park, with the contest
starting at 10:00 a.m.
Contestants will judge eight
classes representing the five
major breeds Ayrshire, Brown
Swiss, Guernsey, Holstein, and
Jersey. 4-H and FFA members will
give oral reasons for two classes,
while professional collegiate
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classes. Amateur collegiate
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Individual and team winners in
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Fire sweeps Bucks County farm
BY JACK HIJBLEY
QUAKERTOWN - Aided by
strong winds, a fire swept through
the Bucks County farm of C.
Wilmer Mood and family early last
Saturday morning, causing an
estimated $200,900 damage to
buildings, equipment, feed and
livestock.
Originating in faulty wiring
leading to a mercury vapor
security light, the fire began on one
end of a 100-cow dairy barn
housing Windy Spring Farm’s
frmasttr Farming, Saturday, March 31,1984-A29
at the conclusion of the Dairy register the day of the contest for
Exposition at an awards banquet an entry fee of $3.00 per person. 4-H
April 28, sponsored by the Dairy participation is limited to eight
Science club. contestants per county and only
Any interested 4-H and FFA
clubs who were not contacted may
Arctic Cat snowmobile business.
Fire from the 30 exploding
snowmobile gas tanks ignited the
surrounding meadow grass and
quickly spread to an adjacent 120-
foot, two-story barn housing
livestock.
About 18 cows and calves in
Mood’s beef operation died in the
blaze, with an additional five
animals destroyed later due to
lung damage.
Awakened shortly before one
a.m. by a call from tenants
Tractors
Equipment
eight contestants per school for
FFA participation.
Elizabeth and Jeff Weierbach, also
residing on the farm, Mood turned
off the electricity and rushed to the
barn. Succeeding in opening one
door, Mood glanced over his
shoulder to see the house roof
ablaze. Situated some 300 feet
downwind of the two bams,the
home’s wooden shingle roof was
quickly ignited by flaming debris.
Mood turned from the bam and
ran back to his house, leading his
wife, Donna, and four children,
ages three to nine, to safety.
Attempts by the Weierbachs to
gain access to the livestock were
unsuccessful, and resulted in Mrs.
Weierbach being treated for smoke
inhalation.
Firemen from Milford Square as
well as five other companies
arrived at the scene, lt£ miles north
of Spinnerstown on Myers Road, in
time to halt the fire’s advance on
the home and Mood’s grain dryer,
and finally gained control of the
blaze after a three hour battle.
Structures destroyed or
damaged in addition to the two
barns include a milk house,
wooden silo, and a storage shed
located on the opposite side of
Myers Road.
Equipment and other losses
include two tractors, two tractor
mounted sprayers, a grinder
mixer, more than 400 bales of hay
and straw, seed supplies, and
about four tons of feed.
“I thank God for the safety of my
family,” Mood said, adding that
friends, neighbors and local
churches have done much to ease
the impact of the disaster.
In addition to Windy Spring
Farm’s beef cow/calf operation
and snowmobile business, Mood
plants the farm’s 110 acres, as well
as an additional 400 acres, in corn,
soybeans, wheat and hay crops.
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