A4B*Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 10,1991 LINDA WILLIAMS Bedford Co. Correspondent MARTINSBURG (Blair Co.) The Hetrick Award, a brand new award presented to the out standing 4-H exhibitor at the Wednesday competition of the 41st annual Morrison Cove Dairy Show went to Wesley Metzker of Martinsburg for a two-year-old. The award was presented to the showman with the best owned and bred cow in the competition. Matt Black won the senior and grand champion awards in the Holstein competition. Reserve Senior and Grand Champions in Holstein competition went to Wes Metzker. Holstein Junior Champion was Rebecca Kelly and Holstein Reserve Junior Champion was Renee Baker. Holstein Other Holstein awards in first, second and third place were: Junior Calvss; Wesley Metzker, Tara Kocher and Rebecca Kelly. Intermediate Calves; Tara Kocher, Angela Frederick, and Renee Baker Senior Calvaa; Eric Frednck, John David Kelly, and Rachel Sellers. Summer Yaaiilnga: Roger Stock, David Kocher, and Jennifer Frederick Junior Yaarllnga; Rebecca Kelly, Lory Baker, and Jason Smeland. Intermediate Yaaiilnga: Renee Baker, Mandy Zook, and Mmam Kelly Senior Yaarllnga: Audrey Fox, Ron Wyles, and Roger Stock Junior Two Year Olde: Wes Metzker, Jennifer Frederick, and Clinton Black Senior Two Year Olds: David Kocher Thraa Year Olds: Wesley Metzker, David Kocher, and Eric Stine Four Year Olda: Matt Black, Clinton Black and Wade Burket. Aged Cowa: Miriam Kelly Dry Cows: Clinton Black, Eleanor Baker, and Wesley Metzker. Junior Hard: Wesley Metzker, Clinton Black, and David Baker. Guernsey Guernsey Senior and Grand Champion awards went to Aaron Gable. Jan Snider took the Guern sey Reserve Senior and Grand Champion awards. The Guernsey Junior Champion and Guernsey Reserve Junior Champion awards Wesley Metzker took the first annual Hetrick Award with this 2-year-old. Kocher took top fitting and showing awards in 4-H competition. 4-H Dairy went to Aaron Gable and Amber Clark. Other Guernsey Awards: Junior Catvos: Aaron Gable. Guernsey Intermediate Calves: Amber Clark, Aaron Gable, and Matt Morrow Senior Calves; Aaron Gable, David Chesney and Kristi Morrow. Summer Year lings: David Chesney. Intermediate Yearlings; Melissa Morrow Senior Yearlings: Amber Clark, Kristi Morrow Junior Two Year Olds: Jan Snider. Senior Two Year Olds; Aaron Gable, Apryle Hoover Four Year Olds: Kristi Snider. Guernsey Five Year Olds, Aaron Gable. Dry Cows; Aaron Gable and Melissa Mor row. Aaron Gable took the Guernsey Junior Herd awards Jersey Jersey Senior Champ and Grand Champ was: Tom Green leaf. Jersey Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand was Adam Fredrick. Jennifer Kellerman took the Jersey Junior Champion award and Michelle Sollenberger, the Jersey Reserve Junior Champion. Other Jersey awards; Junior Calvss: Jennifer Kellerman and Leslie Bailey. Intermediate Calves: Tom Greenleaf. Senior Calves: Keith Brumbaugh. Junior Yaarllnga: Michelle Sollenberger, and Lee Bailey. Intermediate Yaarllnga: Tom Greenleaf and Leslie Bailey Senior Yearlings: Aaron Frederick. Senior Two Year Olds; Tom Greenleaf. Three Year Olds: Adam Frederick and Leslie Bailey. Junior Hard: Tom Greenleaf and Leslie Bailey. Ayrshire In Ayrshire Competition, the Grand Champion award went to Rachel McCutchon and Ayrshire Reserve Grand Champion was James Schilling. Rachel McCutchon was Ayrshire Junior Champ and James Schilling, Reserve Junior. Jr. Yearling; Rachel McCutcheon, Edna Schilling Sr. Yearling; Bobby Jo Schilling. Jr. Calves; Walter. Sanlor Calvas: James Schilling, Linda Schilling Brown Swiss Joe Stitt took all top awards in Show Has New Award Left to right, with the champions, are Matt Black, Holstein; Aaron Gable, Guernsey; Joe Stitt, Brown Swiss; Monica Goshom, Milking Shorthorn; Tom Greenleaf, Jersey; and Rachel McCutchon, Ayrshire. Brown Swiss competition. James Schilling was Brown Swiss Junior Champ and Rachel Fox, Reserve Junior Champ. Brown Swiss Junior Calves first went to Audrey Fox. Joe Stitt took a first in Intermediate Calves. James Schilling was first in Brown Swiss Junior Yearlings and Rachel Fox, second. Joe Stitt, first in Senior Two Year Olds and Three Year Olds. Walter Schilling, first in Four Year Olds. Joe Stitt, first in Five Year Olds and Dry Cows. Joe Stitt also took a first for the best Brown Swiss Junior Herd. State Ag Budget Best (Continued from Pago A 37) by the Legislature: • Penn State University Agri culture Extension received $20.5 million. • Penn State research was increased by $500,000 to $19,518 million. • The Pennsylvania Milk Mark eting Board was returned to its 1989-90 level at $950,000. It had been cut by Casey during 1990-91 by $350,000. In so doing, Casey had been accused of reneging on a deal by which the dairy industry offered to support an increase in fees to help support the board. Casey had cut the board’s budget just after the increase in fees raised a little more than $300,000. Further, Casey had recom mended that the board receive no funding for the 1991-92 fiscal year. The current level of appropri ations is expected to bring the board on line with what it needed two years ago. • A rural leadership program, “RULE,” received funding of $200,000. • In anticipation of nutrient managment programs being hand led through the conservation dis tricts, the budget includes an addi tional $300,000 to bring the con servation districts’ total state con tribution up to $l.B million. Fund ing of conservation districts are funding in part by state, federal and county governments. • PennAg fund received $1 mil lion, the same as last year. PennAg is an economic revitaliztaion fund program. • FFA received $40,000, which Gov. Casey did not veto, as he has in previous years. • The Apple Marketing Board was allocated $50,000. The board began receiving state funding sev eral years ago, after low apple prices, poor weather conditions and Alar scare reductions in con- Milking Shorthorn The Goshorn family from Blairs Mills RD took all honors in the Milking Shorthorns. Monica Goshom was Senior and Grand Champion and Mark took reserve honors. Monica was also Junior Champ and Shannon Wright was Reserve Junior Champ. Wright also won a first place in Shorthorn Intermediate Calves. All other awards went to the Goshoms. Fitting and Showing Rachel Fox was Blair County Champion Junior Fitter and Mark Baker took honors for Bedford County at the Morrison Cove 4-H sumer purchases threatened to force the board to shut down. • The county fair fund, which Casey had recommended be cut severely, had funding increased to $3.75 million. • The allocation for the Farm Show was maintained at $1 mil lion. Casey had sought to cut its budget to $650,000. • The Farmland preservation program received a cut of $1 mil lion. However, future funding seems likely. According to the tax plan, start ing in July 1993, funding for farm land preservation would come from taxes on cigarettes. Included in the current tax plan is a 13-cent per-pack cigarette tax hike. The hike will bring the total tax on a pack of cigarettes to 31 cents. Out of that 31 cents, the state is to devote two cents toward farmland preservation. The actual amount raised, based on current cigarette consumption, would generate about $24 million a year for farmland preservation. However, statistics show that cigarette consumption in Pennsyl vania has been steadily declining. • The University of Pennsylva nia, whose funding Casey had wanted to slash, received all of its appropriations. Funding was restored for the UP’s veterinary school at $8,005,000. New Bolton Center got $3,924 million. The Center for Animal Health and Pro ductivity got $1.29 million. The food and animal clinic got $2,113 million. As far as taxes, which are included in House Bill 185, a 162-page document, several items have officials uncertain as to the effect on a farmer’s income: • Taxes on accounting fees should impact farmers. • In use for inheritance taxes, the state will be valuing farmland as farmland, not on speculative value. Dairy Show. Baker was also Bedford County Champion Junior Showman. Blair County Champion Showman was Wes Metzker. Blair County Champion Senior Showman was Matt Black and Bedford County Champion Senior Showman was Bobbi Bechtel. Black and Bechtel took the same honors as fitters. Other fitter and showmen awards were as follows: Junior Mattor Showman: Mark Baker, David Kocher and Ron Wyles. Senior Matter Showman: Eleanor Bak er, Matt Black, and Bobbi Bechtel. Junior Matter Fitter: David Kocher, Tara Kocher, and Mark Baker. Senior Matter Fitter; Eleanor Baker, Bobbi Bechtel, and Angela Homan. Ever? • A possible imposition on livestock and poultry operators is taxes on building cleaning, main tenance and exterminators. According to a Republican source, if the tax does not exclude farmers attempts will be made quickly to cut it out through other legislation. • To help fund mass transit, the tax plan will collect $1 for every tire. This obstensibly would mean truck, tractor, wagon and imple ment tires. • Also to help fund mass transit, electric utility rates will go up by 12 mils. With rural electric compa nies and cooperatives already pay ing more, it could have a “feel able” impact. • The increase in income taxes will cut into take-home pay, which could make farm labor less attrac tive, possibly create more “under the table” employment situations, or reduce the rural job offerings, already limited. • Sales tax on any interstate tele phone calls, retroactive to July 1, may add additional costs to agribu sinesses, if not family farmers. • A new tax on building private roads may have some implications on farmers. Most farmers probably will not feel the impact of taxes on delivered confections and pizzas, which is lumped in with building private roads. • It’s still unknown what effect the increased corporate taxes will have on family farm corporations. • Another sales tax is related to computers, computer programs and computer services. A number of agriculture computer services have been growing. The affect to these costs is also unkown. • A sales tax on building main tenance is vague and could possib ly involve farm and agricultural operations. • There is also a new sales tax on lawn care services.
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