Stewartstown youth wins heifer in drawing
Winner of the W.L. Mummert company’s dafry heifer contest is 4-H and FFA member
Tom Parks. R 1 Stewartstown. With Parks, from the left, are Dick Hamilton, owner of the
feed firm; York alternate dairy princess Deb Kann and Jeff Miles, sales representative
for the company.
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BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
HANOVER Tran Parks is a
yearling heifer richer this week.
The 15-year-old Stewartstown R 1
youth’s name was on the winning
ticket pulled in a drawing Saturday
for a registered Holstein heifer, the
grand prize in a contest sponsored
by the W.L. Mummert Feed
Company of Hanover.
For his luck in the draw, the 4-H
and FFA member took home
Philka Milestone Chief Vanity, a
March yearling bred by Phil
Laughman of Thomasville, and
purchased at the Adams-York
Calfarama sale by the Mummert
firm.
Sired bv Poverty Hollow
Milestone, the heifer’s first two
dams are both scored Good Plus
and the third dam is Very Good.
Both grand and great grand dams
have records over 20,000 milk and
800 fat.
The W.L. Mummert firm is
owned by former Lancaster
Countian Dick Hamilton and his
wife Janet. Hamilton’s decision to
purchase a heifer and award it to a
youngster had its roots in a
suggestion made during casual
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conversation with a fanner he
visited some time ago.
Both 4-H and FFA dairy-project
oriented youngsters in Adams and
York counties were invited to send
a contest entry letter to the firm,
explaining why they would like to
win the dairy heifer.
Hamilton was delighted when
over 60 letters piled up on his desk,
and impressed with some of the
“homework” that the entrants had
done in studying the pedigree
background of the calf and the sire.
“Take good care of her, show
her, and let us know where she’ll
be shown so that we can come and
see her,” was Hamilton’s request
to Parks after York alternate dairy
princess Deb Kann had pulled his
name from the checkered box
filled with tickets. In order to win,
the youngster either had to be
present, or have indicated
beforehand that a representative
would be there in his place if he
was unable to attend.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Parks, Tom is a sophomore FFA
member at Kennard Dale and a
member of the Aindlle Milk and
Money dairy 4-H club. In addition
to his contest prize heifer, Parks
owns four other dairy animals.
Ira Boyer, York representative
of American Breeders Service, will
donate a free breeding service, or
up to $5O credit toward ABS semen
for servicing the heifer.
In turn, her first heifer calf is to
be returned to the Mummert
company to continue a “calf
chain.’’ Following this initial
heifer award, Hamilton plans to
alternate the calf drawing contest
between Adams and York county
dairy youth.
On hand for the contest drawing
were representatives of Beacon,
Purina and Wayne feeds, who
donated an assortment of other
prizes including hats, vests and
feed, with halters donated by the
Caldwell Supply company.
Beacon Milling also announced a
50-cent credit on every hundred
pounds of feed purchased by a
youth for use in raising a project
animal.
Hamilton, following a 20-year
career in the Navy, became a
partner in a Maryland feed
business following his service
retirement. He purchased the 60-
year-old Mummert feed business
in 1977, from previous owner Bill
Spahr, and continues to service
agriculture customers in Adams
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