A32-Uncast«r Farming, Saturday, June 21,1986
BY BETSY STITT
Blair County Correspondent
HUNTINGDON A growing
interest in dairy goats was evident
at the Pennsylvania Dairy Goat
Show held last weekend at Hun
tingdon.
Goat enthusiasts from Penn
sylvania, New York, New Jersey,
Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia brought together over 500
goats for the three day show. This
“Big Weekend” also served as a
kick-off for the National Dairy
Goat Awareness Week which ends
Senior Best Doe of Show honors was captured by the
Toggenberg owned by Delores and Truman Peifer.
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Best of Show honors for the youth show went to Tammy
and Dawn Spitler and their LaMancha.
BY JOYCE BUPP . ... t .
YorkCountyCorrespondent family and historic pride.
vrvßic ap hnsmpssps The arrest came in 1933, when a
woukTcare to talk fbout having
been arrested and fined over a regulating the amountof creamin
product they put out for con- commercially sold milk. Rutter s
H } c Guernsey herd was producing a
”at Rutter’s Farm and Dairy, tterfat product than the
9ino N npnrpp Strppt an arrest state s legal limit. And when the
nd to f ’ [hr firm persisted in selling milk with
Cindy Rutter Johnson, a third-generation member of the
Rutter corporation, helped answer visitor's questions about
the dairy herd and milking operations.
Over 500 Goats Compete in ‘Big Weekend’
today. Goat Awareness Week was representative, Jmathan Merkle, °
intended to make the public more relinquished his duties to Glenda
aware of the goodness of goat milk H ockenberry of Port Royal,
and goat milk products. Glenda raises a herd of Saanens
One of the more prestigious and LaManchas.
awards presented during the event Youth Show winners
is the Miss Pennsylvania award. The youth show was held
To be eligible a goat must be Saturday with 17i goats entered,
owned and bred by a Pennsylvania Champ i ons of ea ch breed for the
resident. Receiving the award this you t b show are: Alpine, Sinking
year was CH Spruce-Up Misty, a spring Vanessa owned by
Toggenburg owned by Delores and Jonathan Merkle; LaMancha,
Truman Peifer. Laurel Ridge Blossom SC Heidi
A new youth representative was owned by Tammy and Dawn
also fhosen. Last year s Spitler; Nubian, Sheaffers Wild
King Dorns Sandy owned by
Brenda Stroup; Saanen, Sinking
Spring Victoria owned by Jonathan
Merkle; Toggenberg, Earth-Way
Strawberry owned by Trisha
Trimmer; and Recorded Grade,
Haines Willow Run Falonna owned
by Michele Haines.
Tammy and Dawn Spitler’s
LaMancha was named Best of
Show for the Youth Show.
Amy Marie Boldwin, Bellefonte
won the junior showmanship title
in the junior division. Michele
Dutrow of Logantown won the title
in the senior division.
Buck Show
Also judged on Saturday were
the 66 entries in the Buck Show.
The following are the champions of
each breed.
Alpine, Can-D’s Rome Daniel
owned by Lawrence McVey;
LaMancha, Catalpa Hills Shady
Prince, owned by James Collon;
Nubian, Amor MM Bernna’s Bran
Don owned by Stuart and Barb
Crammer; Saanen, One Time
Farmo Beauregard owned by
Karen Manfredonia; and
Toggenburg, Open Gate Snowflake
Beethoven owned by Charles
Fullard.
Best Buck of Show honors went
to the Nubian owned by Stuart and
Barb Crammer.
Senior Doe Show
In the senior doe show, which
took place Sunday, 137 entries
were exhibited. The following are
the champions of each breed.
Alpine, Earth Dance Lynde’s
Minnie owned by Robert and
Jennifer Gourle; LaMancha,
Posey Acres HS Tavia owned by
Debbie Smeltzer; Nubian, CH
Winterberry Marvin’s Caresse
owned by Ann Whitney; Oberhasli,
Bri-Ra-Bar Fraulein owned by
Barbara and Lee Blouch; Saanen,
Sinking Spring Victoria owned by
Jonathan Merkle; Toggenburg, CH
Spruce-Up Misty owned by Delores
and Truman Peifer; and Recorded
Grade, CH Look-Over’s Jennifer
Honeydew owned by Bonnie Jean
Rutters Celebrate 65th Anniversary
was forthcoming.
“Product Too Good; Milk Dealer
Penalized,” announced the
headline that appeared in a local
paper, elaborating on the arrest
and subsequent $25 fine.
Such notoriety proved a boon to
the Rutter family’s dairy business.
New customer orders for the “too
good” product poured into the
offices.
Through the month of June, the
Rutter firm is celebrating a
combined salute to their 65th year
in business, the opening this year
of their 50th farm store and of
course, June Dairy Month. A
recent open-house highlighted the
combined anniversaries and
brought some 4,000 York area
residents and customers to tour the
ultra-modern processing and
milking facilities.
Rutter’s Dairy has it’s roots deep
in the rich loam of central York
County. In 1747, Andrew Rutter
received a pigskin deed to a 200-
acre grant from Spnngetts Penn,
grandson of William Penn. The
first bam was built in 1806. Its
stone walls still stand today,
sturdy, beautiful and providing
farm storage 180 years later.
When Andrew’s grandson,
Best Buck of Show honors was garnered by Stuart and
Barb Crammer and their Nubian.
Debbie Smeltzer took home Junior Best Doe of Show
honors with her LaMancha.
McLoskey.
Senior Best Doe of Show honors
were captured by Delores and
Truman Peifer with their
Toggenburg.
Junior Doe Show
In the Junior Doe Show 149
contestants competed for the blue.
The following are the champions of
each breed.
LaMancha, Posey Acres WV
Xtra owned by Debbie Smeltzer;
Nubian, Shade-Mt Full Spotts
owned by Brenda Stroup;
Born just in time to help celebrate the Rutter's 65th an
niversary were twin calves, Jack and Jill. Calf-raiser Marge
Rutter offered Jack a bottle as visitors oohed and aahed over
the newborns.
Jacob, died in 1904, his nine quarts of the surplus and offer it
children were left to run the family f ° r * ale - door-to-door. All but two
farm. Jacob’s sons, George and the ?l uarts sold: and Crystal
Ebert, better known until his s P™g Dalr / “ " amed for lhe
recent death as Bud, founded the S P™B usedtac ° ol themdk ~ was
in business. The raw product was
An excess of milk from the purchased from their brother
Guernseys prompted the two d l iam ’ main^lned erd
brothers in 1921 to bottle up 15 of 25 cows.
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Oberhasli, Walnut Bottom
Johannes Ericka owned by
William Ober; Saanens, Sinking
Spring Winifred owned by Todd
.Biddle; Toggenburg, Double
Chantys Crystal owned by Shirley
Sheilds; and Recorded Grade, EW
Joy-Us Vande SF Night-Love
owned by Debra Van Valkenburg.
Junior Doe of Show honors went
to the Debbie Smeltzer and her
LaMancha.
Jennifer Bice of California
served as the judge for the show.