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.