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VOL 31 No. 46
PSU Students Select For Nittany Lion Classic
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER When you hear
the name Nittany Lion Fall
Classic, you may get the im
pression we are about to report on
an upcoming Pennsylvania State
University football game. But read
on. PSU students and a member of
the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association staff invaded Lan
caster County Wednesday to select
cattle for a dairy cattle sale
sponsored jointly by the PSU Dairy
Sheep Producers
Seek Queen
The Pennsylvania Sheep
and Wool Growers Association
is once again seeking can
didates for the Lamb and Wool
Queen, to be crowned at the
Keystone International
Livestock Exposition in
Harrisburg, Oct. 2 to 6.
For more information on the
contest contact Debora Felak
RDI, Box 29, New Tripoli, Pa.
18066, phone; 215-29^2926.
Druck , Eaton Are York 4-H Steer Show Winners
BY JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
YORK A growthy bred-and
owned purebred Simmental topped
the York Fair’s 4-H steer show for
exhibitor Joe Druck.
It was the first time to take the
prestigious purple rosette for
Druck, a 17-year-old York R 2 4-
H’er, and York Fair beef exhibitor
for seven years. Born July, 1985,
the blocky beef easily outweighed
Joe Paterno, center, Penn State football coach, and Beth Heald, Pennsylvania State
Dairy Princess, discuss the replica rotating milk can presented to the Penn State football
team because they won their game with Temple University last Saturday evening.
Don Duncan, chairman of the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Committee also presented
a $l,OOO check to Paterno for the Penn State University Academic Student Scholarship
Fund. The check was given in the name of quarterback John Shaffer who was named the
most valuable player of the game. Penn State won the football game 45 to 15.
Paterno said they would prominently display the milk can trophy and “brag a bit about
how they won it.”
A duplicate milk can trophy will be presented at the Penn State,Pittsburgh game later
this year.
Four Sections
Science Club and the State Holstein
Association.
This sale to be held October 31 at
the Ag Arena in State College has
become an annual event that gives
students the hands-on experience
of working with professionals at
the PHA and the opportunity to be
involved in a learning experience
of business management and
every other detail related to a top
quality holstein sale.
In addition, the Nittany Lion Fall
Classic has become known for the
support of noted holstein breeders
in their consignments and the
quality of cattle that have gone
through this sale. For example, a
very good animal went Excellent
right after last year’s sale. And
during the farm visits this week,
an animal that was sold two years
ago in the Classic was reported to
have gone Very Good and made an
outstanding record as a two year
old.
Kim Kriebel, sale chairman;
Rusty Russell, assistant sale
chairman and Michele Campbell,
salfeMßWHttee; all from the PSU
Dairy, Science Club joined Jeff
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competitors bom several months
previous.
In the reserve champion spot
was John Eaton, Jr., Windsor Rl.
His Chi-Angus cross was born in
April, 1985, and was purchased in
the 1985 Donald Walters family
club calf sale. At the York 4-H Fair
in July, Eaton’s “Rocky 4” had
taken the champion honors.
4-H Breeding
Beef
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 13,1986
These participants in the selection of sale entries for the Nittany Lion Fall Classic took
a moment break for this photo Wednesday and gathered around the Spring Belle cow
that is the dam of their bred heifer consignment and is a daughter of the 17-year-old
foundation cow of the herd. From left to right: Daryl Millif; 3Migrßeile; Rusty Russell,
PSU; Jeff Harding, PHA; Roger Mills, Spring Belie; Kim KTOKpPSU and Michele
Campbell, PSU.
Jennifer Calderazzo’s Angus
senior calf topped its age division,
then got the judge’s nod for breed
champion as the 4-H breeding beef
took center stage Sunday in the
York Fair’s Livestock Arena.
“Premier Lass”, bom May,
1985, was bred by Premier Angus
Farms, and purchased by the 10-
year-old, second-year 4-H mem
ber. At the 4-H Preview Show in
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John Eaton Jr. (left), showed reserve champion 4-H steer,
and champion honors went to Joe Druck's Simmental shown
here by father, Phil Druck.
DHL4 Discusses The Future
BY MARY MAXWELL
Centre Co. Correspondent
STATE COLLEGE— Delegates
from 48 county Dairy Herd Im
provement Associations attended
the third annual state meeting in
State College recently. This group
represents 6,150 dairy herds in
Pennsylvania.
“United We Stand” was the
theme of this year’s two-day
conference. Dick Barth, Penn
sylvania DHIA general manager,
remarked, “The well known
saying ‘United We Stand, Divided
We Fall” also expresses a truth
about the future of DHIA. In order
to prosper,” continued Barth, “our
organization must find ways to
meet the challenges of the
changing economics in dairying. A
united effort toward common
purposes becomes vitally im
portant to the health of DHIA ”
$8.50 per Year
Dick Sechrist, executive
secretary for National DHIA,
speaking on the future of DHIA
said, “Changes may have to occur
in this organization if the future
needs of the members are to be
met. What began as a loosely-knit
organization promoting milk
testing and using the Babcock test
in the nulk house or back porch
was now evolved into a highly
sophisticated, computer-assisted
business organization testing
today’s milk in central
laboratories.”
Sechrist believes that National
and Pennsylvania Dairy Herd
Improvement Associations must
build on the early work and suc
cess of their organizations to
prepare for the inevitable changes
to come. He feels that by the 21st
century consumption of dairy
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