VOL 32 No. 40 Urban and rural cultures met at the Farm-City Day on Penn Square, Reading Thursday. As a chicken supplied by Berks County 4-H’ers provides entertain ment for young and old Reading residents. Nutritiopists Declare Cottonseed The Ideal Feed BY PAT PURCELL LANCASTER Whole cotton seed may replace conventional feeds for the high-producing dairy herds, according to nutrition experts speaking to dairy, farmers and feed mill representatives at the PACMA Dairy Nutrition and Purcell, Good Join LF Staff Raised on a 50-head dairy farm in Oxford, Pennsylvania, Pat Pur cell comes to Lancaster Farming with an understanding of the dairy industry. Pat also raised Black Angus and hogs, before her parents sold the dairy farm in 1969 to enter the mushroom farming industry. While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Joumalism by attending evening classes at the University of Delaware. Pat was the Sports Editor for the Chester Pat Purcell PERIODICAL S DIVISION W 209 PA I I I-1: LIBRARY PENNSYLVANIA ST ATI: UNJVKRSJIY UNIVCRSIIY PARK PA J 6-0,;.' IBOP Herd Health Conference, held Tuesday at the Lancaster Farm and Home Center. “We arc feeding higher produc ing cows which need a quality feed, high in fiber, protein and energy and also nutrient dense. Conventional feeds of the past do County Press in Oxford, Pa. for nearly three years. In 1984 Pat left the .weekly paper and took a break from classes to start her own week ly, The Rambler, out of Honey Brook, along with two partners. Pat returned to the University of Delaware to complete her degree in the fall of 1984 and spent the next three years‘as the accounting manager for the real estate firm of Patterson-Schwartz & Associates, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware. (Turn to Pag* A 35) Lou Ann Good Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8, 1987 not accomplish that. The whole cottonseed has all those things,” said Dr. James Ferguson of the University of Pennsylvania at New Bolton Center. The cottonseed, used for more than twenty years in some western states, in its whole form is some what of a newcomer to the north east. What did find its way to the east was in the form of meal. Today with advancements in stor age capabilities, transportation and marketing, area farmers have access to a constant and depend able source of what some nutri tionists claim to be the ideal feed stuff for the high producing herds. According to Glenn Shirk, Lan (Turn to Pacta A 231 County Agents Receive National Honors LANCASTER Jay Irwin, county extension director and Arnold Lueck, retired county agent will be awarded the Distin guished Service Award by the National Association of County Agricultural Agents at ceremonies met week in Fargo, North Dakota. This honor is presented only once to an agricultural agent and the last time the award was brought to Lancaster County was more than twenty years ago, when it was presented to Max Smith. Irwin is being cited specifically for his work in coordinating the efforts of hundreds of national and county agents and others during the avian flu disaster which devas tated the county in 1983-84. The NACAA recognizes the hours Irwin devoted to the specific needs of the families which were affected by the crisis which -saw nearly 16, Kit-Way Has High Averages In Adams Co. BY GINGER SECRIST MYERS Adams Co. Correspondent HANOVER Wayne and Susan Reeder, Kit-Way Holstems, have the high herd averages for milk, fat, and protein in Adams County. Their 68 Registered Hols tcins averaged 20,589 pounds of milk, 765 pounds of butterfat, and 665 pounds of protein on their June test. Yet, according to Wayne, being first on the list or being tenth isn’t what motivates this ambitious couple to spend most of their working hours in their dairy bam. Rather, they rank pride in their work and the opportunity to work together daily as a team a their prime rewards. Wayne and Susan Reeder are dairying on a mini mum investment. They rent (heir dairy facilities and buy in all their feedstuffs. They credit their constant cow care with their success in surpassing the 21,000 mark on their rolling herd average, the highest in Adams County. million birds put to sleep. Irwin counseled families and established stress management meetings through out the county. “It was a national tragedy and an enormous project. We had 500 people working on the project. It was a disease which we had no cure for. I was just helping with Lancaster Holstein Field Day BY PAT PURCELL Shell Mar Acres and the Lancas ter County Holstein Club hosted nearly 250 people Thursday even ing for the 1987 Field day in a camival-like celebration which marked the Lancaster County Holstein Club Field Day of 1987. What was once known as a simple gathering for breeders took on a carnival -like atmosphere and became a night of fun and fpllow- Five Sections Wayne and Susan moved to Adams County three years ago from Frederick County, Maryland. They purchased an established herd north of Gettysburg that Way ne recalls, “needed some good care very badly.” They rented the dairy ing facilities and started with a herd that was rolling at just short of 14,000 pounds of milk in Novem ber 1984. They also brought with them from Maryland 23 of Wayne’s cows that he had bred while work ing for 17 years for Marlin Hoff as a herdsman. Wayne credits his experiences with Hoffs herd as an invaluable learning opportunity. It was his success in managing herds (Turn to Pago A 39) what I could do hi a small way,” said Irwin. This is not the first national award for Irwin. In 1985 he received the United States Depart ment of Agriculture’s Distin guished Service Award for his work during the avian flu crisis. He (Turn to Pago A 25) and families which was the goal of this year’s chairman, Lowell Brubaker. “In the past the event has been held lo.draw breeders together, but we wanted an event which the entire family could enjoy, so we have tried to have something which would interest everyone,” said Brubaker. While the judging was taking fUiuasusiriHaiftin ! $8.50 Per Year
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