A24-LancMt«r Farming, Saturday, Dacambar 13,1986
Hidden View Farm Repeats As Top Berks DHJA Herd
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Berks County Correspondent
LEESPORT - Berks County
DHIA closed out its 58th year last
week with the annual awards
presentations and banquet at the
Berks County 4-H Center,
Leesport. The 219 herds on test in
the county boasted an average of
16,600 pounds of milk on 13,235
cows.
Usually at the top of the list and
alwqys in the top five herds leading
the county is the Hidden View
Farm of Charles and Tim Kissling
families, Robesonia Rl. Their
registered Holstein herd of 68 cows
averaged 22,182 pounds of milk, 832
pounds of fat and 693 pounds
protein to again lead the list in all
three categories.
Second place in milk and protein
production in the county was the 58
Holsteins of Forrest Strieker,
Wernersville Rl. His cows
averaged 21,731 pounds of milk, 670
pounds of protein and 760 of pounds
fat to give him third place for fat
production.
Second place for fat production
in the county went to the 100 cow
herd of David Schrack,
Womelsdorf. His cows averaged
773 pounds fat with 20,121 pounds of
milk and 634 pounds of protein.
The individual cow awards
featured the high lifetime milk and
fat production award to the Lee
cow of Heindel Farm, Womelsdorf
Rl. She produced 235,511 pounds
milk with 9,818 pounds of fat.
The high Ayrshire in the county
for 1986 also belonged to Heindel
Farm. “Dawn” produced 22,070
pounds of milk, 898 pounds of fat,
and 676 pounds of protein to lead
the county in all three categories.
The Brown Swiss herd of Dean
and Brenda Daubert, Bernville,
High individual cow awards in each breed went to: back row, Carl Hollenbach, David
Bitler, Jerry Krone and George Seidel. Front row, Dean and Brenda Daubert and David
Phillips.
The new directors included: back row - Don Duncan, - >, jr
nish, Forrest Strieker, Harold Dietrich, front row: Christine Grube, Tim Kleinsmith, and
David Gross.
Rl, took home the high Brown
Swiss honors. Their cows, Sugar,
producing 25,909 pounds of milk
with 818 pounds of protein, lead
those divisions while Emily topped
the fat list with 897 pounds.
High Guernsey for milk and fat
belonged to Carl Hollenbach,
Bemville Rl. She produced 18,772
pounds of milk and 742 pounds of
fat. Jerry Krone, Oley, Rl, owned
the highest Guernsey for protein
production with 597 pounds.
The highest producing Holstein
in milk production hails from the
Vista Grande Farm, Fleetwood,
R 4, herd of David and Phoebe
Bitler. Bethany produced 34,845
pounds of milk. The highest
producing Holstein in fat
production went to Flute, owned by
Plushanski Farms. She produced
1,596 pounds fat. Plushanski
Farms also owns the highest
protein producer with 1,076
pounds.
Highest producing Jersey in
milk and protein production went
to “Joy” in the Irish Creek Jersey
herd of David Phillips, Mohrsville,
Rl. She produced 17,176 pounds of
milk with 648 pounds protein. The
Dreisbach’s Longmeadows Farm
herd owns the highest fat producer
with 889 pounds.
Sam Yoder, Shoemakersville,
owns the highest producing
milking shorthorns with the
Roncher cow producing 15,630
pounds of milk, the Alfair cow
producing 571 pounds of fat and the
Jill cow producing 490 pounds of
protein.
Low somatic Cell couqt awards
were also given. Presented by
Clyde Myers, Berks County ex
tension agent, the awards per
sonified the care given to high
producers and high quality milk.
Myers stated there were 24 herds
in the county with counts under
200,000 with four of these herds
milking over 100 cows. He also
noted that the production average
for these low count herds was
17,600 pounds of milk, noting that
low somatic cell count herds
produce more milk.
The lowest herd in the county
went to Harold Schuler, Fleet
wood. With a low somatic cell
count of 91,000, Schuler’s 38
Holsteins pumped-out 19,128
pounds of milk, 667 pounds of fat
and 603 pounds of protein to put
him in 36th' place in'production in
the county. Second lowest cell
count award went to the mixed
herd of Harold Dietrich Sr.,
Hamburg, Rl, maintaining a count
of 126,000.
The award for the most im
proved herd for milk, fat and
protein production went to the
Muddy Creek herd of John
Bicksler, Bethel R 2. His cows
produced 15,855 pounds of milk, 557
pounds of fat and 471 pounds of
protein, for an increase of 5,140
pounds milk, 157 pounds fat and 131
pounds protein.
Awards were also given to
supervisors for years of service
and the least mistakes in their
reports on each herd in their
district. JoAnn Moser, Hamburg,
received the highest bonus of $2OO
for the least mistakes made in
1986. Robert Keppley, Newman
stown, received a longevity bonus
for 30 years of service.
The association elected new
directors, for the 1986-1987 year.
They are: circuit 1, Tim Klein
smith; circuit 3, Leonard Stoltz
fus; circuit 4, Helene Dreisbach;
circuit 5, Darrel Harnish; circuit 6,
Donald Duncan; circuit 7, Harold
Dietrich Sr.; circuit 9, David
Gross, and circuit 10, Forrest
Stnckler. The new owner-sampler
herd director is Christine Grube.
Harold Schuler, left, and Harold Dietrich Sr., topped the
county for the lowest somatic cell count herds. Schuler's herd
maintained an average of 91,000 for the year.
Forrest Strieker, Mrs. Tim Kissling and David Schrack took
home the high herd awards.
Maryland Youths Win
Hort Show Honors
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Maryland’s youth delegation
continued a tradition of excellence
in competitive events during this
year’s fifth-second annual meeting
of the National Junior Hor
ticultural Association, held Oct. 31-
Nov. 3 in the Marriott Hotel at
Raleigh, N.C.
The Maryland 4-H horticulture
judging team finished second
among 17 similar teams, and a
Maryland FFA delegation placed
fifth among 10 state teams in its
category.
Maryland 4-H teams have
finished fifth or better in national
youth horticulture judging com
petition every year since 1970.
They have won six national
championships since 1972, in
cluding last year.
Danny Sheehan, 15, of Mal
ta woman (Charles County) led the
way for this year’s Maryland 4-H
judging team by placing fourth in a
field of 65 individual 4-H con
testants. He had been high in
dividual in judging both flowers
and ornamental plants during
senior 4-H horticulture judging
competition this year at the
Maryland State Fair.
Tom Gibney, IS, of Colora (Cecil
County) was sixth in the national
contest. He had been runnerup in
senior 4-H horticulture judging
competition this year at the
Maryland State Fair and first in
horticultural pest identification.
Mary Beth Janicki, 15, of
Pikesville (Baltimore County)
placed ninth in the national con
test. She was high overall in
divdiual in senior 4-H horticulture
judging competition this year at
the Maryland State Fair.
Mark Secrist, 16, of Cordova
(Talbot County) was the fourth
member of the Maryland team.
For the third year in a row,
Maryland was represented in the
FFA category of the NJHA contest
by a team from Brunswich high
school (Frederick County).
Members of the all-girls team were
Chris Axline, Kelli Pry and Kellie
Harding.
Miss Axline was fifth among 36
individual FFA contestants in the
national contest, and Miss Pry
finished ninth.
In the consective years of
national competition the Brun
swick FFA horticulture judging
teams have consistently placed
either fourth or fifth. Their FFA
advisor is Karen Arrington, a
vocational agriculture teacher at
the school.
Three Maryland youth par
ticipated in the honors division of
the NJHA horticulture judging
competition. This category is open
to persons who have placed fifth in
previous national contests or were
members of national cham
pionship teams.
Julia Ford, 17, of Winfield
Heights (Carroll County) placed
fourth in the honors division, and
Christie Schneider, 17, of Pleasant
Valley (Carroll County) was fifth.
Stephen L. Sprout, 20, of Rising
Sun (Cecil County) also par
ticipated in the contest.
Harry C. Hearn, Jr., of North
Laurel (Howard County) was third
in the junior open NJHA judging
category for individuals in the age
range of 15 to 18. He placed second
in the same event last year.
George S. Marvin of LaPlata
(Charles County) coached the
Maryland 4-H horticulture judging
team, as he has done every year
since 1978,