Jersey breeders honored at annual awards banquet
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
MEADVILLE - The annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania
Jersey Cattle Club last weekend in
MeadviUe featured many out
standing families, herds, and
juniors. From the crowning of the
Jersey Queen to the production
awards and the recognition of
outstanding service to the breed,
the annual meeting was filled with
a wealth of Jersey achievements.
The Distinguished Service
Award for 1966 was presented by
Chuck Moose, New Wilmington, to
two breeders. When deciding on
which couple was to receive the
recognition, the committee
reached an impasse and decided to
honor couples who have dairy
farmed since the 1940’5.
The HiUcrest Farm of John and
Blanche Hoye, Volant, and the
Spring Run Farm of Dick and Kate
Moose are well known throughout
the state and also recognized
nationally. Although retired from
dairying now, farm names are still
Don Koontz (left), Fredonia; Robert Kenny, Enon Valley;
and David Reusing, Meadville, were recognized for the high
producing herds in the state.
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS Pennsylvania Jersey Cattle Club
Staff Correspondent (PJCC). The sale was held on
MERCER - Prices remained Friday, April 11th, at the Mercer
steady as 28 bred heifers and nine County 4-H Park, Mercer, Pa. Held
calves were paraded before Jersey in conjunction with the PJCC
breeders for their bids at the an- Annual Meeting in Meadville the
nual bred heifer and calf sale of the following day, the sale ended with
Also selling the $l2OO was the consignment of William
Eliason, DE (left). Don McClelland is at the halter. Lester
Martin, Chambersburg is the buyer.
GR Ladybug Saint Chic sold $1,200 to Dean Moose. Pic
tured are (left to right): Carol Hobaugh, Dean Moose, Don
McClelland and Bill and Jesse Moore, consignors.
recognized on some of the best
cows of the breed.
Both couples have helped other
dairymen and numerous 4-Hers to
step into the Jersey breed and their
advice and help was well ap
preciated through the years.
John and Blanche Hoye were
instrumental for the start in
dairying of John McConnell, their
son-in-law, who currently farms on
the home farm.
Dick and Kate Moose, owners of
the highest milking herd in the
state for several years, helped
their son, Gerald, current owner of
Overnight Jerseys, and their
nephew, Dean, currently farming
on their home farm, into a great
beginning in the Jersey breed.
When presenting the award,
Chuck Moose concluded, “Both
couples are well deserving of the
Distinguished Service award.’’
A relatively new but widely
coveted award was again given to
a herd that had to meet high
criteria. The Genetic Im
provement Award is sponsored
Jersey bred
each year by the Norman Family
of Liberty in memory of their
relatives who started them in the
Jersey business.
The award requires a herd to use
20 percent young sires as service
sires in their herd, and must be at
least 80 percent homebred. The
award is given to the herd with the
highest average cow index in the
state after meeting these criteria.
Presented by David Norman,
Liberty, the award was given to
Dr. Robert and Helene Dreisbach
and their daughters, Patty and
Carol, Hamburg, who own and
operate the Longmeadows Farm
Jerseys. Their average cow index
increased from a plus 8 in 1964 to a
plus 28 in 1985. The entire
Dreisbach family was on hand to
receive the award.
Production awards were topped
by the herd of David Reusing,
Meadville, who managed his 22
cow herd to the high milk average
of 15,173 pounds, with 658 pounds
fat and 550 pounds protein. He also
received the award for the highest
protein average.
Vantage Jerseys, Fredonia,
came in second place for milk and
protein production with 14,288 M
and 654 F, and 524 protein. Owned
by Donald and Angie Koontz, the 95
cows of the Vantage herd are
milked in a freestaU and parlor
setup. The 40 cows of William R.
Yoder, Meyersdale, took high fat
production honors with 661 pounds
of fat, 12,996 pounds milk and 497
pounds protein. Awards for high
milk, fat and protein production
were given to producers to herd
size and individual cow production
awards will be given later in the
year.
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The new Jersey Queen, Beth
Warner, assisted in the presen
tations of the awards. Crowned
Friday evening as the junior to
represent the Jersey breed this
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heifer sale tops $1,200
an average of $839.28 on the stylish
bred heifers and $552.77 on the
showy calves.
The high bid of the sale was
shared by two consignments with
each selling for $l2OO. The con
signment of Jesse R. Moore,
Volant, brought top price on the
final bid of Dean Moose, New
Wilmington. GE Ladybug Saint
Chic, sired by Favorite Saint, is
due in May to Magic of Ogston, one
of the high TPI bulls of the breed.
Also enhancing her value was the
consistently high production of her
dam, a Quicksilver Noble daughter
with records to 17,746 M and 833 F.
Sharing the limelight was the
consignment of Thomas Eliason,
Harrington, DE, Kalmar Win
chester Meghen. This heifer is due
in July to a fancy Canadian son of
Quicksilver. “Meghen”, sired by
Meadville hosts Jersey Convention
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
MEADVILLE - The genetic
advancement of the breed, top
producing herds, and resolutions
concerning the current dairy
situation took top priority at the
annual meeting of the Penn
sylvania Jersey Cattle Club held
last weekend at the Quality Inn,
Meadville.
Beginning on Friday, April 11th,
with the Bred Heifer and Calf Sale
in Mercer, the weekend gathering
of over 100 Jersey breeders con
tinued with the crowning of a new
Jersey Queen, youth awards,
production awards, and the annual
business meeting on Saturday.
Featured speaker for the event
was Cari Wolfe, Somerset Area
Representative of the American
Jersey Cattle Club.
“We are fortunate to be iden
tified with the breed of dairy cattle
The New Jersey Queen, Beth Warner, stands with Carol
Hobaugh, the 1985 Jersey Queen.
Receiving the Distinguished Service award were two well
Known Jersey couples. Dick and Kate Moose, (left) New
Wilmington, are congratulated by Chuck Moose. Also
receiving the award'was John and Blanche Hoye, Volant.
With them is club president Chuck Rhein (far right).
an unproven son of Milknhoney
General, featured a high testing
Samson dam with tests to 6.5%.
She was purchased by Lester and
Ruth Martin, Chambersburg.
The high selling entry of the calf
sale was the consignment from the
Moose family of Romar Farm,
New Wilmington. Romar Bruce
Lace brought $685 on the final bid
of James E. Andrew, EspyvUle. A
daughter of Mayfield Volunteer
Bruce, Romar Bruce Lace also
featured a high producing dam
with records to 14,760 M and 655 F.
Second high seller was the
consignment of Thomas San
derson, Conneaut Lake. Purchased
for $675 by Shelby Sommers,
Conneautville, the Nippersink
daughter featured a high
producing dam.
Volume buyer of the sale was
that provides us endless op
portunities,” Wolfe began in her
presentation to Jersey breeders.
But, she reminded dairymen that,
“We need to challenge her ef
ficiency.”
Wolfe cited “profitable
production” as a key to success
and stated “ration formulation is
critical to profits.”
“A guess as to what your herd
needs is a far cry to a planned
approach to feeding,” she stated.
“The information is out there, if
not utilized,” the enthusiastic
Wolfe added, “you’re missing an
opportunity on what these Jersey
cows can really do.”
Wolfe listed production testing
(DHIA), ration formulation, and
sire selection as the steps towards
progress within a herd.
“Pick the best bulls available,”
she encouraged. “If you’re doing
anything right, your heifers should
Kenneth E. Rummell, Alliance. He
purchased eight bred heifers for
the total price of $6,420 to begin a
Jersey herd in Ohio. Brass Bell
Jerseys of Enon Valley added
three new calves for $1470 to their
stock as the volume buyer for the
calf sale.
Brass Bell Jerseys also pur
chased the second high selling
animal of the bred heifer sale for
$1075. Valley-U Volunteer Cora,
the consignment of Robert Ulrich,
Quarryville, featured a plus
proven sire and a dam with
production over 14,000 M and tests
up to 5.3%. The heifer was due in
June to A-Nine Top Brass.
Auctioneer for the sale was
Lloyd Braham and announcement
of the pedigrees was handled by
Don Koontz, Mercer.
be better than the cows you’re
milking now,” she stated. She also
added, “Young sires need to be
sampled...this helps provide the
choices for the future.”
An advocate of young sire
sampling, Wolfe had spoken to a
small group of breeders on Friday
evening about the possibility of
forming a Pennsylvania-based
young sire sampling group.
Wolfe was instrumental in
organizing Dixieland Sires, a
recently formed young sire
sampling organization of breeders
in the Southeast. Dixieland Sires
currently involves 45 herds in eight
different states frith over 7000
cows. They are currently sampling
seven young bulls and working
with A.I. organizations for the
collecting, housing, and semen
distribution in order to provide an
adequate repeatability on a wider
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