E4-Uwotfr Farming, Saturday, Nwwtir 22,1956
Melwood Farm Tops Chester County DHIA For 7th Year
BY MARJORIE KEEN
Chester Co. Correspondent
GUTHREESVILLE - Melwood
Farm’s dairy herd topped Chester
County’s list of butterfat
production for the seventh year
with 973 pounds. The Holstein herd
owned hy Melvin Stoltzfus,
Cochranville, had a 24,000 pound
rolling herd average.
Recognition was given the
owners of the seven herds
producing more than 750 pounds
fat at the D.H.I.A. Annual Meeting
and Banquet in Guthriesville last
Thursday.
Alvin Stoltzfus’s Dunwood Farm
herd was second highest in fat with
848 pounds for the past testing
year. The Russellville herd in
creased its fat production by 76
pounds over the previous year.
Ardrossan Farms’ Ayrshire herd
also raised its fat, from 807 to 838
pounds. The Ardrossan herd,
owned by Mrs. Hope Montgomery
Scott of Villanova, has a rolling
average of 20,000, it is the first
Ayrshire herd in the county to top
the 20,000 marie.
The H and R Mason herd, Not
tingham, owned by Howard,
Robert, Allan and Steve Mason,
produced 790 pounds of butterfat.
Once again the Jonas B. Stoltzfus
Crawford
County
Hosts
Legislative
Tour
BY NANCY KUNICK
Crawford Co. Correspondent
MEADVILLE The Crawford
County Farmers Association
recently hosted their annual
legislative tour.
Jack Post, former Farmers
Association president, said
Crawford County is one of the few
counties that {dims a day with the
legislators. The purpose of the tour
is to permit the legislators to see
real farmers and get a un
derstanding of what farmers do.
“ Roy Wilt, Robbie Robbins, Jim
Merry, Connie Maine, Ivan Rose
and Dave Glenn were the officials
<m the tour.
The Vos burgh Farm, a beef
operation near Titusville was the
first stop. Operated by the brother
team of Richard and Russ
Vosburgh and Russ’s son, Curt,
Vosburgh Farm recently started
raising feeder calves.
Prior to the change they ran a
cow calf operation.
This year they sold one of their
farms which was comprised of 2SO
acres. They now have over 400
acres near one main farm. They
have been utilizing ASCS practices
and now plant rye grass between
their corn rows to prevent soil
erosion on sloped fields.
Vosburghs keep costs under
control by maintaining their own
machinery and purchasing good
secondhand equipment when
possible.
Roger Simpsox welcomed the
S'oup to his Holstein dairy farm
r the group’s second stop of the
tour. In just ten years since his
graduation from high school, hi
has built an addition to his bfuti
Mid pruchased 70 acres this past
war.
**He now has the capabilities of
4Mng his entire herd of 25 cows
jfHor to milking and expedite the
process. When he began to farm,
b t had only a former heifer bam.
The final stop on the tour was a
roll-time maple syrup central
evaporator. This is one of the
largest such mapling operations in
the state and it is owned by Troy
Firth of Spartansburg.
herd of Honey Bpok topped 750
with 788 pounds fat.
New additions to the list were
Ken and Marilyn Umble, Atglen,
with 780, and Richard Breckbill’s
Breck-a-De Farm herd, Oxford,
with 759.
Four new DHIA directors were
elected at the business meeting
following dinner at the East
Brandywine Township Fire Hall.
Joel Brown, Richard Hostetter and
David Walton were elected to.
three-year terms. Dennis Bush will
serve one year.
Dairy Princess Donna Bickel
urged members and guests to
actively promote milk con
sumption.
Cooperative Extension Service
Dairy Agent David L. Swartz
reported on the anticipated en
forcement of the Right to Know
Law by the Bureau of Labor and
Industry.
Ben Kauffman, Cochran ville,
entertained the group with his
impersonation of Honest Abe
telling “The Abe Lincoln Story”.
Representatives of the Chester Minty . . honoi .„r net > averages over 750
pounds of fat include: from left, Melvin Stoltzfus, Melwood Farm, Cochranville; Alvin
Stoltzfus, Dunwood Farm, Russellville; Ken Umble, Ken and Marilyn Umble, Atglen; Ed
Breckbill, Breck-A-De Farm, Oxford; Steve Mason, H and R Mason, Nottingham; and Sue
Kulp, Ardrossan Farms, Villanova. They received the awards at the recent Chester
County DHIA banquet.
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