A22-Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, December 1,1984
Blair
DHIA
winners
High herd in production
plaque in Blair County OHIA
goes to Tom Kelly, whose
herd averaged 21,176 lbs. of
milk, 771' lbs. of butterfat
and 688 lbs. of protein.
Wilson herd produces
in Bucks DHIA
DOYLESTOWN - At the con
clusion of its 61st year, Bucks
County DHIA had five herds with
rolling herd averages exceeding
19,000 pounds of milk. Fifty-one
whole year members completed
the DHIA testing year on Sept. 30.
Theodore S. Wilson, Richboro,
achieved the highest production in
both the milk and protein
categories with 19,889 lbs. of milk
and 646 pounds of protein from his
60 head of registered and grade
Holsteins.
Other herds with over 19,000
pounds milk, all of which were
Holstein, were: Crooked Acres
Dairy, New Hope; Delaware
Valley College, Doylestown;
Walter and David Wurster, Ott
sville; and Happi Hollow Farm,
Perkasie.
Crooked Acres Dairy also topped
Brown named Inter-State director
SOUTHAMPTON - H. Lee
Brown, an Oxford area dairyman,
was recently named the new
District 11 director of Inter-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative.
Brown, 41, succeeds Horace L.
Prange, who retired from the
Inter-State Board of Directors at
the cooperative’s annual meeting
Nov. 15.
A Chester County dairyman,
Brown operates a 460-acre farm
and owns a herd of 120 Holstein
cows. He also raises registered
Percheron horses.
Brown has been active in Inter-
State affairs since he joined the
cooperative in 1966. He served as
District 11 president and has
participated in local and district
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the butterfat category with 736
pounds on 55 registered Holsteins.
Seven other herds also produced
more than 700 pounds of butterfat.
They were: Theodore S. Wilson;
Delaware Valley College, with
both the Brown Swiss and Holstein
herds; J. Howard Roth, Kint
nersville; Richard O. Smith, New
Hope; Walter and David Wurster;
and Ken and Virginia Hager,
Kintnersville. The Smith herd is
registered Guernseys.
The Bucks county average per
cow was 15,950 lbs. milk and 604
lbs. fat with a 3.78 test. The
average number of cows in the
Association was 3,173.
Officers of the Bucks County
DHIA are: David Wolfinger,
president; Raymond Gross, vice
president; and Clyde Bishop,
secretary-treasurer.
activities.
He was a former Elk Township
supervisor and has been a member
of both the Chester County DHIA
and Chester County Farmers
Association board of directors.
The Chester County native and
his wife, Judy, are the parents of
three children - Leigh Ann, 13,
Kristen Lee, 10, and Chad, 7.
Horace L. Prange, Cochranville,
was an Inter-State director for 14
years. He and his wife, Laura,
were honored by District 11
members Nov. 18 at the
Russellville Grange Hall. The
couple was presented a milk can
shaped plaque designed by Joyce
Peifer, Kirkwood, a former Inter-
State Young Cooperator.
Among the top DHIA production winners in Blair County are, from the left, Tom Kelly,
Carol Hoover and Gary Bechtel.
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