Berks youth, coaches excel BY ROBIN PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent BERKS COUNTY—“I felt that they evaluated cattle as well as any team I worked with,” stated Carl Brown, Birdsboro. He spoke of the Berks County 4-H Dairy Judging Team and their representation of Pennsylvania. Brown and the team recently returned from Louisville, Ky., where they placed second in the nation in dairy cattle judging. The team consisted of Todd Miller, R 1 Hamburg; William Lesher, R 1 Bemville; and Jimmy Younker, R 2, Fleetwood. The fourth member, Charles Seidel, R 1 Hamburg, went along as assistant coach. Seidel was ineligible for this contest since he placed seventh nationally in the dairy judging contest in Madison, Wise., earlier this year. The coaches included Carl Brown, salesman and nutritionist with F.M. Browns Sons Feeds; Christine Williams, vo-ag teacher and FFA advisor at Kutztown High School, and Jerry Crone, Brown Swiss and Guernsey breeder. This was the first year Penn sylvania was represented with a 4- H team in Kentucky. “We tried to find another contest, high level competition,” Brown stated. Brown has extensive experience coaching dairy judging teams. Working in extension and teaching in Virginia, he coached the 1978 Virginia 4-H team to the national championship. Since moving to Berks, he has coached the dairy judging teams for five years. Because two of these youth were not eligible to judge in Harrisburg this year, they had judged and won before), (they wanted to find stiffer competition. With Todd Miller in his last year of 4-H, the three friends also wanted to try their skills as a team one last time. “It seemed that we all clicked together,” Jimmy Younker said about the team. “They’re two of the best friends I ever had,” sAI THE MOST DURABLE FOR FARROWING AND NURSERY Raise Healthier Pigs with Less Weaning Stresp and Set-Back 1. 1 -.r . * t'* jwA The Proven Plan To Increase Your Hog Confinement Profits. Stanfield* Heat Pads are the low est cost source of extra heat for your young pigs in your hog con finement operation. tri-county CWTCMdC (717)274-3488 wWMiWC W «9 / Ctrl «3 Hours Mon -Fn 7:00 to 4:30 William Lesher added. The national contest in Kentucky is only about four years old, ac cording to Brown. This year 18 teams from 14 states were represented. The Maryland 4-H team took the blue with a total combined score of 1725 using the top three scores. Pennsylvania took the red ribbon, losing by only three points with their score of 1722. To place this high overall, the team needed high scores in each of the six divisions. This is where the individual team members ex celled. Todd Miller placed first in the ' ihire judgir • with a score William Lesher with his many 4-H and FFA awai HEAT PAD AVAILABLE PENS ai of 100. With Lesher taking eighth and Younker 19th, the team finished in second place. In the Brown Swiss judging, James Younker lead the team with a first place in that division. Pennsylvania again took second place in Brown Swiss. With the Guernsey class placings, James Younker placed high on the team with a third place to Lesher’s 15th place and Miller’s 19th placing. With these averaged, Pennsylvania came on top in the Guernsey division with a first place for the team. (Turn to Page A 37) Comparative Power Coete Per Day Per Litter LP GAS INFRARED HEAT BULB STANFIELD HEAT FAD Todd Miller displays major trophies and awards he has won. ELECTRIC INFRARED Call For Details THRIFTY DUTCHMAN n SUPPLY /Aj FARM - HOME - GARDEN I \ 100 S. Railroad Ave., New Holland, PA 17557 (717) 354-2266 m 1 Division of A.B.C Groff, Inc in dairy Sometimes your problems just get bigger. Luckily, so do our solutions. If you need a big utility tractor to handle tougher than-normal jobs, we have two suggestions New John Deere 1450 and 1650 Tractors Both have a direct-injection 4-cylmder diesel engine 55 engme/50 PTO hp in the 1450 and 67 engme/60 PTO hp in the 1650 Each has 9-speed collar shift transmission Planetary final drives Differential lock And hydraulic wet-disk brakes Mechanical front-wheel drive is available as a factory-installed option New John Deere 1450 and 1650 Tractors proof that sometimes bigger really is better NEW JD 55 HP TRACTOR Priced Well Under $13,000 judging mmmug *• '|y [s*^l \JOHN DEERE/ • - i
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