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VOL. 34 NO. 27
Keystone Farm Credit Elects Directors
SHOEMAKERSVILLE (Berks
Co.) Keystone Farm Credit,
ACA held its Annual Stockhol
ders* Meeting in five localized,
sectional meetings between April
17 and April 24, 1989. this was
the first Stockholders’ Meeting for
Keystone formed at the beginning
of the year by the merger of
Penn state Dairy Club elects a Dairy Princess. From left
to right are Jill Kutz, outgoing Dairy Princess, Catherine
Baxter, alternate, and Carolyn Norman, 1989*1990 Dairy
Princess. Seated Is sweetheart Katie Comerford.
Tioga County Student
PSU Dairy Princess
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Carolyn Norman, daugh
ter of Ernest and Dorothy Norman
of Liberty, has been elected the
1989 Penn State Dairy Princess.
As Dairy Princess she is
responsible for representing the
Dairy Science Club at club events
throughout the year, such as the
New York To Host
National Guernsey Meeting
The 112th annual meeting of
the American Guernsey Associa
tion will be held May 19-22 at the
Marriott-Thruway Hotel in
Rochester, New York. The con
vention is being hosted by the
New York Guernsey Breeders’
Cooperative. They have planned
lour days of relaxation. Guernsey
Activities and scenic tours.
| The convention begins on Fri
Four Sections
Berks-Lehigh Valley, Lancaster
and Southeast Farm Credit
Associations.
The ten people elected to serve
on the Keystone Board of Direc
tors were Galen Crouse, Ezra
Good and Mervin Sauder of Lan
caster County; Earl Keefer of
Dauphin County; Donald Need
Dairy Expo and Banquet, Dairy
Day JubUe* Nittany Lion Fall
Classic, Dairy Youth Workshop,
Pennsylvania’s Finest Tailgate
and Dairy' Day at the Mall.
Carolyn is a junior majoring in
agricultural science with a minor
in dairy and animal science. She
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day, May 19 with the- convening
of the AGA board of directors
meeting at 9:00 a.m. Registration
opens at 1:00 p.m. followed by a
welcome reception and buffet in
the evening.
Saturday, May 22, is filled with
a dairy quiz bowl, queen contes
tant interviews, seminars and a
farm tour. Then it is off to Letch
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13,1989
ham and Jefferson Yoder of Ches
ter County: Charles Frederick of
Bucks County: Ellis Kunkel and
Ernest Miller of Berks County and
Charles Diehl of Northampton
County.
Fifteen were elected to serve on
the 1990 Nominating Committee.
Serving Keystone in that capacity
from Lancaster County will be
James Kettering and Lamar Mill
er; from Dauphin County, Paul
Clugston; from Lebanon County,
Kenneth Sellers and Robert P.
Smith; from Chester County, Jim
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Aged Cow Tops
At Delaware
Holstein Show
BY SUE CROW
Maryland Correspondent
HARRINGTON, DE The tall,
aged cow owned by Norman Voss
Jr. of Clayton took home’ all the
glories at the 10th annual Dela
ware State Holstein Show. Pretty
View Dominion, the first-place
aged cow and senior champion,
also took tops honor* in the udder
class.
Judge Jane Pebble of Oxford,
Pa., said every herd should have an
animal like her. Norman also took
home the junior champion title
with a summer yearling heifer, The
Steinhauers Jet Minnie.
The junior show was dominated
by the Dixon family. They had
first-place animals in all the clas
ses and went home with the pre
mier breeder and exhibitor ban
ners. Kevin Warren of Kenton won
the junior champion title with his
intermediate heifer, Diexiedel
Dazzler future Haise.
The four-year-old owned by
Samuel Dixon IV recived the
senior champion trophy and was
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Extension Celebration Marks 75 Years
Many local extanalon services across the nattovthis week planted a tree to mark the 75th
anniversary of the SmlthrLever Act. Celebrating In Lancaster are (l to r); James Huber, chair
man, county commissioners; Darvin Boyd, president, Farm & Home Foundation; Robert
Brenneman, county commissioner; Noah Wenger, state senator; Jay Irwin, county agent;
James Nearhoff, Pennsylvania Nursery Association and Max Smith, retired county agent.
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Joe and Marcella Vogel have made sheep production
their retirement project. They currently have nearly 100 Col
umbia* on their 80-aere Stony Run Farm In Kempton. Their
present goal Is to enlarge the flock to include 100 breeding
ewes.
Stony Run Farm
Retirees Realize Dream
With Columbia Sheep
BY USA RISSER
KEMPTON (Berks Co.)
Most people regard retirement as
the time they stop working and
begin taking it easy. Not so for Joe
and Marcella Vogel. Raising sheep
is their retirement project
“We’d rather do this than play
golf or bridge or go to luncheons,”
stated Marcella.
“I like working with animals,”
added Joe. “I like to work, and I’ve
$12.50 Per Year
been a frustrated farmer all my
life.” Although he wanted to farm,
circumstances worked against it
until five years ago.
And so, after a career as a sales
man, Joe fulfilled his dream of
becoming a farmer. Along with
Marcella, he raises purebred Col
umbias, many of which are sold as
freezer or market lambs.
It all began in 1984 when a
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