A36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3,1984
Edward Ensor family was honored at Dairymen Division
meeting for 50 years of continuous membership. Accepting
recognition are Edna Ensor, left, and Mamie Garrett.
Quality production
is honored
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
HUNT VALLEY, Md. - Seven
cooperative memberships were
honored by the Middle Atlantic
division of Dairymen, Inc., for
outstanding excellence in quality
of milk production throught 1983.
The award is a sort of “magna
cum laude” of the dairy industry,
and only a small percentage of
producers annually qualify, due to
the strict requirements set for this
recognition
Winners of the Quality Ex
cellence Award are J.P. Wilcox and
C.M.Heaps, Fawn Meadows
Holsteins, Harold W. and Joyce A.
Raubenstine, Robert H. and Mary
Ellen Smith, Gilbert A. and
Mildred M. Stine, Roy W. and
Esther Speak, Carl 0. and Joyce
M. Stuff, and Wilmer A. and
Elizabeth A. Yoder.
All honorees must first meet all
Honor Roll, Silver and gold Quality
requirements, a quality program
begun in 1964 by Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers,
predecessor of the current Middle
Atlantic division of Dairymen. In
addition, Quality Excellence
winners must make the Honor Roll
every month, with inspection
scores of 99 or 100 points.
Honor roll requirements are a
monthly standard plate count of
less than 5,000, and monthly
somatic cell count of less than
500,000. In addition, all production
must be free of antibiotics, and no
suspensions of shipping for any
reason. Sediment must reach the
Excellent or Good levels, with a
freezing point of .530 or better, and
member must ship the entire
month.
Silver winners additionally must
make the Honor Roll 11 out of 12"
months, and on that exception
month maintain a standard plate
county of 50,000 or less. Inspection
scores must be 92 points or higher.
Gold Quality winners are
required to make the Honor Roll
all 12 months, with inspection
scored of 92 points or higher.
Also honored at the
cooperative’s luncheon awards
program was one 50-year con
tinuous membership.
Edward and Edna Ensor, Falls
Road, Parkton, began shipping
milk from about 25 cows in 1934,
marketing their production
through the Maryland Cooperative
Milk Producers. Today, herd size
is at 90 head of milkers.
This is the second 50-year award
for the Ensor family. A dairy
operation run by Ensor and his
father earned their first 50-year
plaque from MCMP in 1974.
Quality production awards include
GOLD CERTIFICATES
1983
David L Beiler or Amanda F Beiler Paul F
Brower or Treva M Anders Edwin t Calhoun or
Carolyn L Calhoun James D Dougherty and/or
Lorraine W Dougherty Vernon R Foster William
C Galbreath or Jean F Galbreath Hawhs Hill
Farm Inc William D Hesson Ml or Mary E Hesson
Alpha A Kauftman or Frannie L Kauffman Levi H
**
u
kh
Kinsinger and/or Lydia A Kinsinger Joseph H
Koepper Jr or J H Sr or Joseph Koepper Robert
W Mays Robert L McCuller or Nancy J McCuller
Robert E Measell or Sandra K Measell
Available on New Holland Equipment
• Manure Spreaders
• Grinder Mixers
• Forage & Hay Equipment Nb ' rs
k ***V,
Quality Excellence award winners honored by Dairymen, Inc. include, from the left,
Mildred and Gilbert Stine. John Wilcox and Martin Heaps, partners in Fawn Meadows
farms; and Joyce and Harold Raubenstine.
Russell N Miller or Rodney G Lee William A
Myers or Donna L Myers Kenneth E Oliver or Fay
M Oliver Rocksvu Farm Thomas P orCA Ensor
Glenville L Shade and/or Curtis Shade Harold E
Stahl or Janice M Stahl Norman M Stauffer or
Mary B Stauffer George Tubies and/or Luzie H
Tubies Unicorn Associates Inc W Kenneth
Vansant Jr or Darlene T Vansant William P
Webster and/or Jayme A Webster Daniel I
Wilhide or Patricia A Wilhide W Kenneth Smith
SILVER CERTIFICATES
1983
Aene Farm, MF or RW Chamelm Evelyn L
Amoss or Hamilton Amoss Jr Robert E Baker or
Charlotte E Baker H Howard Barkdoll and/or E
You'll like M
12* AHI V HtTimtfr* yvil/li v
* aSw jfJUnltui iLWtV SSiMj
• BONUS FOR BUYING • EXTENDED TERMS
If You've Been Waiting
For a Good Beal
Geneva Barkdoll Dale L Barshmger Daniel H
Bmgaman Jr or Betty L Bmgaman Gary R
Brauning Beniamin A Byers or Myra M Byers
Wilbur L Danner William J Dickinson or
LavaughnP Dickinson Edward H Ensor Ralph F
Garber or Marvin L Garber Ray M or Roger A
Garber J H Garsl Thomas Hanna Aaron Hert
zler High Point Acres c/o Donald L Beard or Linda
E Beard Michael A Hockman and/or Nancy C
Hockman Malcolm D Hoft or Arlene 8 Hoff
Arthur L Kilbourne or Delores H Kilbourne
Amos B lanlz or Katie D Lantz Fm 2 Maple Dell
Farm #2 William C Mearns Jr or Raiana M
Mearns John W Moser or Eva M Moser Richard
E Moser or Betty J Moser CarlW Nash and/or
SUPER
SPECIAL
EALS
STRIKE AGAIN!
T C.E.
We Have
#,
Sandra M Nash Frank B Ober Jr Joseph w
Oberholtzer Clayton W Pott or Dolly L Pott David
M Reifsmder or Vesta E Reitsmder Ralph
L Robertson Jr or Deborah S Robertson Ernest
Slabaugh and/or Miriam Slabaugh Douglas H
Smith or Rose T Smith Joseph S Stoltzfus
Stephen U Stoltzfus Jr Strawberry Hill Farm
J E L J J L Schennmg B F Strother and
Sons Kenneth H Swartz or Virginia D Swartz
Ray M Thomas or Linda K Thomas R Brian
Tntapoe or Dean R Tntapoe U Dale Vaughan
and/or Donald L Vaughan William H Warns or
Mary L Warns Katherine E Wilson or Talmadge
D Wilson Jr Wm Douglas Worthington or Linda
B Worthington
WILEY&SON
M
Here If Is!
'A
4' 4.;
1