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VOL 36 NO. 34
Pennsylvania Dairy Distinction Winners Announced
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
EPHRATA (Lancaster
Co.) With June dairy month
activities completed and July ice
cream month underway, the selec
tion of Pennsylvania’s Dairy of
Distinction winners has also been
These dairy princesses went downtown in Philadelphia Tuesday, to promote the
great taste of Ice cream. From left, front row: Bucks-Montgomery County Dairy Prin
cess Tanya Martin, Bucks-Montgomery Alternate Heather Derstlne, Chester County
Dairy Princess Becky Blank, York County Alternate Annie Rauhauser, and York Coun
ty Dairy Princess Penny Jordan. From left, back row: Pennsylvania Dairy Princess
Kristen Mentzker, Tioga County Dairy Princess Candice Kennedy, Tioga County Alter
nate Julie Siegrlst, Lebanon County Alternate Karlene Weaver, Lebanon County Alter
nate Stephanie Wagner, and Bedford County Dairy Princess Shannen Lafferty.
Ice Cream Promotion Goes Downtown
PHILADELPHIA Why
would nearly 20,000 men, women
and children stand in line, for
three hours, under a blazing hot
noonday sun, in downtown
Philadelphia?
For ice cream what else!
It was ice cream and frozen
INDEX
Sec. A... Market Reports
& General News.
Sec. 8... Women’s News,
Public Sales & Mailbox
Market.
Sec. C.. Business News
& Classified 4-36.
Sec. D... Classified 1-3.
See Story Index Page A 3.
Four Soctioni
completed. The Dairy of Distinc
tion awards program recognizes
dairy farm families that maintain a
clean, well-kept farm. The idea
behind this beautification program
is that good looking farms help
give a good impression of the sour
ce of the dairy products available in
yogurt - all you could eat - in
cones, in a dish with cookies and
sprinkles, or drizzled with Her
shey’s chocolate or strawberry
syrup or two scoops floating in a
foamy seat of Barq’s Root Beer,
and it was all FREE. The possibil
ities were endless and so was the
ice cream at the fifth annual Phi
ladelphia ice cream festival.
Everyday Is Sundae, sponsored by
the dairy farmers of the Middle
Atlantic Milk Marketing
Association.
Everyday Is Sundae celebrates
June as Dairy Month and kicks off
July as National Ice Cream Month
at Independence Hall, in down
town Philadelphia. The 1991 festi
val was held Wednesday, June 26.
The event gives ice cream manu
facturers the opportunity to put
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 6, 1991
the grocery store.
Run by volunteers in 10 districts
across the state, the local commit
tees select up to 10 dairy farms in
each district that meet the stringent
requirements of the score card used
by the program. A team of local
judges visits each farm that has
forth their best advertisement -
their product - and they put right
into the consumer’s hand. They
are sure that once the consumer
tries their product they will purch
ase it the next time they go to the
grocery store.
America’s number one dessert
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Annual Livestock Judging Contest
Draws 4-H’ers From 7 Counties
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
More than 60 4-H’ers from seven
counties stretched the limits of
their understanding and experi
ence with livestock at the 1991
applied for the recognition and
makes a roadside inspection.
Each year, Lancaster Farming
supports the state program by pro
viding an 11x14 farm portrait print
to each winning farm in the state.
The local committees take the
photographs and the portraits are
made in time to be presented at the
Dairy of Distinction’s annual
meeting at Ag Progress Days at
Rock Springs in August. In addi
tion, plans call for a special section
to be part of the August 3 issue that
Enthusiasts Attend
National .|ersc\ ('om ention
In Record Numbers
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming\Staff
HAGERS T OW N ,
Md. More than 700\ Jersey
cattle enthusiasts showed bp here
for the 123rd national convention
of the American Jersey Cattle Club
and the 33rd meeting of the
National All-Jersey Inc. last
weekend, setting records for
attendance.
The East Coast location of the
national convention at the Hager
stown Ramada Inn and Conven
tion center proved to be a popular
one, with state organizations from
Maryland and Virginia serving as
host.
Members from all over the
United States showed for the five
days of activities, ranging from
dinner theater, farm tours, shop
ping tours, historic tours (the area
is heavy with Civil War memor
ials), workshops, seminars, meet
ings, slide shows, get-togethers,
national heifer sale, junior activi
ties .. .
And the message from club
officers and organizational admi-
The first place senior team from Lebanon County is com
prised of, left to right, Brian Kreider, Daryl Bombgardner,
and Dan Atkins.
southeast regional 4-H livestock
judging contest Tuesday at the
Manheim Fairgrounds.
In the end, practice, practice,
practice proved to be the winners’
formula, as the Lancaster Co.
Livestock Judging Team, coached
60a Par Copy
will feature the farm photographs
and some points of interest about
each winning farm.
Here are the farms from across
Pennsylvania that the local com
mittees have named as 1991 state
winners.
District 11: Harold and Marlyn
Hill, Sandy Lake; Ron Bern, Union
City; Ronald J. Yaple, Waterford;
Lawrence Popovich, Union City;
George Brown, Cambridge
Springs; Roger and Mary Bly,
nistrators was optimistic, despite
the oft-mentioned low and unst
able milk prices.
During the Monday business
meeting of the American Jersey
Cattle Club, Harold B. Wnght,
president, told members that they
should be happy with the trends
with dairying with Jersey cattle in
the United States, and to continue
to work hard to improve the
breed’s efficiency and quality.
“The year 1990 was a good one
for most dairy farmers. The price
for 3.5 (percent fat) milk in the fed
eral order system reached $14.69
per hundred weight by February
1990. This was tempered by the
severe drop in prices at the end of
the year,” Wright said.
“We should also be mindful that
many Jersey owners were paid
from 10 cents to $2 per hundred
weight more than other dairy far
mers, because of end product pric
ing, cheese yield dollars, protein
bonus or multiple component pac
ing,” he said.
Wnght told the group to not
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by Chet Hughes, livestock agent,
captured first place in the junior
judging competition. The team is
comprised of Casey High, Dale
Livengood, and Angie Erb.
The Lebanon Co. team grabbed
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