Norman Hertzler and Nevin Shughart were recognized as
having Cumberland County high production herds at the
Cumberland County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
annual meeting. Norman Hertzler, second from Right, 270
Stoner Road, Mechanicsburg, whose 35 Registered and
Grade Holstein cows produced and averaged 20,292 lbs. of
milk and 661 lbs. of protein, received high herd in milk and
protein honors. Nevin Shughart, Second from Left, 1012
Baish Road, Mechanicsburg, received recognition for high
herd in butterfat production. His herd of 30 Registered and
Grade Holsteins produced an average of 722 lbs. of butterfat.
Shown with Norman and Nevin is Samuel Shenk, Presidents
of the Cumberland County DHIA and Vonda Wickard,
Cumberland County Dairy Princess.
The Cumberland County DHIA Greatest Increase in
Production Award went to Glenn W. Myers, Rl, Box 53,
Newburg. William Myers is shown receiving the award plaque
from Cumberland County Dairy Princess Vonda Wickard as
DHIA President Samuel Shenk looks on.
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Hertzler were recognized for having Individual high cows
records at the Cumberland County OHIA Banquet. Michael
Miller, Second from Right R 3, Carlisle, received the high cow
in milk production award for cow #6O who produced 30,587
lbs. in milk this year. M. Thomas Sheaffer, center, R 5,
Carlisle, received the high cow in butterfat production award.
Tom’s Huntsdale Ginger Astronaut, produced 1024 lbs. of
butterfat at age five. Norman Hertzler, Second from Left, 270
Stoner Road, Mechanicsburg, received the high cow in
Protein Production Award. Norman’s Moo-Echo Ivanhoe Star
Silver record of 919 lbs. of protein was high for the county.
Samuel Shenk, President of the Cumberland County OHIA
and Vonda Wickard, Cumberland County Dairy Princess are
shown with the award winners.
Bee study
increased
WASHINGTON, D.C.
U.S. Department of
Agriculture scientists
stepped up research in
southern Texas on ways
to eradicate, control or
limit the spread of a
parasitic mite
dangerous to honey
bees, a USDA research
official said today.
Terry B. Kinney, Jr.,
Agricultural Research
Service administrator,
said bee specialist
William T. Wilson began
a four-month assign
ment at Weslaco, Tex.,
near the area in the Rio
Grande Valley where
the mites, Carapis
woodi, were first
discovered in July.
Inspectors for USDA’s
Animal and Plant
Health Inspection
Service found the mites
in a bee colony near the
Mexican border.
Wilson, lead scientist
at the agency’s U.S.
Honey Bee Research
Laboratory in Laramie,
Wyo., will determine
research strategies to
use against the mite.
At the same time,
Kinney said, in
cooperation with the
research agency’s
Bioenvironmental Bee
Laboratory at Belt
sville, Md., bee scientist
Alfred Dietz of the
University of Georgia
will seek to develop
treatments for queens
and packaged bees to
ensure they are free of
the parasite. •
In surveys after the
July discovery, USDA
inspectors found the
mites at five other
Texas locations and at
bee apiaries in
Nebraska, South
Dakota, New York,
Florida and Louisiana.
State agencies and
USDA’s animal and
plant inspection service
placed quarantines on
the movement of bees
from those sites