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Franklin County
KAUFFMAN STATION - The
12 directors of the Franklin County
Holstein Club are: Roy Cordell,
president; Alvin Meyers, vice
president; Grant Gayman,
secretary-treasurer; George
Cashell, state director; J. Robert
Meyers, Jr., news reporter; Jaye
Young, Ed Brake, Robert
Eckstine, Bradley Beidel, Jim
Burdette, Harold F. Crider, and
Stanley Burkholder.
Membership for the club stands
at 275.
In July the club will be spon
soring their annual Field Day. This
program, chaired by James
Burdette, will be feature a guest
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speaker. Several cow classes will
be judged, ddor prizes will be given
as well as awards to the judging
winners. Approximately 25
agribusinesses will be setting up
displays. Fried chicken box lun
ches will be available.
The annual show is scheduled for
August 21 at 5:30 p.m. Show
chairman is Paul Eckstine. Judge
of the show is Dennis Patrick of
Rothrock Farms, Kempton. Only
Franklin County residents are
eligible to show here, and the total
entries usually exceeds 175. This
total makes it one of the largest
county shows in the state.
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This year Franklin County will
have a new project. On October 10,
at the Franklin County
Fairgrounds, they will host their
first solo sale in 10 years. It is
planned to have 50 of the best
animals from within the county
and from surrounding areas.
Robert Eckstine and Brad Beidel
will be heading up this project.
In November the club will hold
their annual tour. It has been their
policy to tour an area that can be
completed between milkings one
year. The alternate year, an area
further away is selected,
sometimes overnight. This com
pletes a two-year cycle.
Jaye Young serves as chairman
of the Youth Committee which has
156 members. The officers of the
Junior Holstein Club are: Debbie
Hawbaker, president; Tom
Eckstine, vice-president;
Stephanie Meyers, secretary; and
Beverly Meyers, treasurer.
The youth hold a bowling and
pizza fun night in the spring. They
also hold a youth show with the
county Holstein Show. In the
summer, an ice cream social and
ball game is held.
Franklin County has a very busy
and effective Dairy Promotion
Committee. From the start, this
committee has been chaired by
members of the Holstein Club.
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Franklin County Holstein club directors include: front row
from left, George Cashell, Roy Cordell, Alvin Meyers and
Grant Cayman. In the back row, front left, Robert Eckstine,
Harold Crider, Jaye Young, Stanley Burkholder, Brad Beidel,
James Burdette, J. Robert Meyers, and Ed Brake.
Robert Eckstine and Ed Brake classifier comes into the area a
share the chairman respon- supper meeting is held for all those
sibilities with Harold Crider who classify. The classifier
serving as treasurer. presents a short talk, then opens
Unique to this club is a the meeting for informal
classification program. When the discussion.
Westmoreland Holstein Club
GREENSBURG The newly
elected Directors for the West
moreland County Holstein Club are
John McHvaine of Greens burg,
Ken Walters of New Alexandria
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MESHOPPEN President of
the Wyoming-Lackawanna
Holstein Club is John Rhoades.
Other officers include: Ken Teel,
vice-president; Roger Sherwood,
Lancaster Holstein
LANCASTER At a recent
board of directors meeting, the
annual club sale was scheduled for
August 14,7 p.m., at the Lampeter
Fairgrounds. They will also be
hosting their annual show on July
24 at 10 a.m. Denny Patrick,
Kempton will be the judge.
A $5OO donation will be given to
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, iima 14,1986-Al9
Wyoming-Lackauvanna
Holstein Club
and Steven Waryanka of Irwin.
They recently held a bam meeting
at the James McQuaide farm near
Slickville. A cow class was judged
and a classifier was on hand to
discuss Linear Classification.
secretary; and Francis Hirkey,
treasurer. July 27 is the tenative
date for their annual picnic. Their
annual meeting will be held in
February, 1987.
Club
the dairy princess program to be
used for a public speaking and
etiquette class. It was also an
nounced that Sally Bair, after 14
years service, resigned as club
news reporter. Kim Stroud of
Federated Genetics was named as
Sally’s replacement.