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The organizational committee for the newly formecTJersey
sire sampling group, Liberty Jersey Sires, are, left, seated:
Bill Dietrich, Helene Dreisbach, John Myers, Ginger Myers.
Back row, left: Glen Kenny, Leon Sollenberger, Royce
Thorton, and consultant to the group Dr. Duane Norman.
Absent for the picture but also on the board are Jim Billman,
David Chamberlin, Dale Kauffman, Don Koontz, Bill Meeder,
Jerry Moose, Robin Phillips, and Bill Ulrich.
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Pennsylvania, and New York for
the purpose of sampling more
young Jersey sires.
The meeting was chaired by Cari
Wolff, Southeastern Field
Representative for the American
Jersey Cattle Club. Wolff has been
instrumental in assisting the group
in its organizational structure. She
was also instrumental in the
organization of a similar group last
year in the south called Dixieland
Jersey Sires.
Glen Kenny, Enon Valley, ad
dressed the group on how the
organization has been structured.
Kenny noted that the Articles of
Incorporation have been filed and
the bylaws have been adopted.
Kenny explained that according to
the bylaws, the organizational
committee will serve as the first
Board of Directors with the first
elections scheduled for the fall of
1987. Kenny also explained that net
income from bulls proven by the
group will be distributed only after
there is at least $2,000 in the pool.
Net income will be distributed to
paid members and will be divided
25 percent for semen usage and 75
percent for daughters in the first
proof.
Membership chairman Ginger
Myers reported that the group
currently has 29 paid member
herds. The group’s goal is to have
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obtain 35 daughters in 35 herds on a
bull for a 70 percent repeatability.
Myers stressed that membership
is vital for implementation of the
program. Membership is still open
and contracts can be obtained
from Ginger Myers, Helene
Dreisbach, Glen Kenny - all from
Pennsylvania, or Jim Billman -
Ohio, and David Chamberlin -
New York.
Acting as a consultant for the
group, Dr. Duane Norman,
research geneticist with the USDA,
made a presentation on selection
philosophy. Paralleling the growth
of young sire sampling in the
Holstein and Jersey breed in 1960
with 113 and 19 young sires for each
breed respectively, to his 1983
figures of 1,082 Holstein young
sires and 67 Jersey young sires,
Norman stresses the need to ac
celerate the breed’s efforts to
sample more young bulls.
Acknowledging , tremendous
strides in production improvement
in the Jersey breed, Norman still
projects that the breed needs to be
sampling about 120 young sires
annually for maximum breed
progress.
Norman also explained that with
many breeders in the tri-state area
30 YEARS AGO
Need first for an adequate
auditorium and secondly dining
facilities for large groups were
listed by some 20 Lancaster County
farm organizations as primary
needs in the proposed Community
Center.
Lancaster County Agricultural
Agent Max M. Smith reminds
fanners Oct. 10 is the flyfree date
for planting wheat in this section, if
Dual variety is used.
Barley planting is in full swing,
and many fanners are getting
ready for wheat planting.
Mount Joy’s Community
Exhibit, running Wednesday
through Saturday of next week,
will wind up the 1956 Lancaster
County community fair season.
This week, fairgoers have their
choice of two, the New Holland
Farmers Fair and the Manheim
Community Farm Show. Livestock
judging at both fairs was
scheduled for Thursday.
In its final weather and crop
report for the 1956 season the State
Department of Agriculture today
said that during the week ended
Monday farmers in the north-
“I’D LIKE TO TALK TO YOl T ABOFT
JOLVTAG LEHIGH VALLEY FARMERS"
—Secretary Norman \N Sollenberger of Chambersburg
“Are you happy with your milk market?
“Is it guaranteed like ours is?
“Are you satisfied with the benefits?
“If you're a dairy farmer in Adams or Franklin county who’d
like to start a dialogue, call me at home (717)352-3265 or call
the office."
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more concerned than ever about
protein pricing, the group’s
philosophy was to rank their
prospective candidates on CY$
rather than PD$ alone.
Questions concerning sire
nomination procedures and con
tracting with the breeders and the
AI units, were answered by Bill
Dietrich and John Myers. They
explained that the first step in
nominating a bull is for the breeder
to get him registered. A pedigree
on the bull with then be forwarded
by the Club to all interested par
ties.
Myers noted that all the studs
have expressed an interest in
working with this group. Contracts
will be handled individually per
bull. The bull will not be purchased
out-right by LJS. Fifteen percent
of the gross income from semen
sales of a proven bull will return to
LJS to be distributed 30 percent to
the breeder and 70 percent for the
LJS income pool. The group has
not signed any contracts to date.
The availability of AI interest far
exceeds the present membership’s
capability to adequately sample
more than one or two bulls per
year, Myers stressed. He also
noted the need to increase the
group’s number of member herds.
THIS WEEK
western portion of the state had
one of the best working weeks of
the entire season. The first general
frost on September 21 ended the
growing season for this year.
In the previously rain-soaked
western counties of Pennsylvania
very little rain and plenty of
sunshine was reported last week
and fields were dry enough to
support machinery, the Federal-
State survey report declared. But
the rest of the State cool weather,
cloudy skies and some rains
caused by remnants of hurricane
“Flossie” continued to restrict
farm operations.
The 1957 Pennsylvania Farm
Show, to be held in Harrisburg Jan.
14-18 will have as its theme
“Pennsylvania Agriculture Builds
for Tomorrow.”
Under this theme the 41st all-
Pennsylvania show will stress new
and coming technological
developments, mechanization,
agricultural research, fuller
preparation of present education,
extension and the day rural youth
for farming during the years
ahead.
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