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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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