lafeastejirifarmiha VOL. 37 No. 37 Aged Cow Wins Lancaster Holstein Show VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster Co.) An aged cow entry in the Lancaster County Holstein Show took grand champion honors Thursday, edging out some quality show cattle in the younger classes. Dale Olver, Penn State Dairy Extension, was judge for the show, naming New Direction Ijon Dcsire-ET grand champion. Thomas McCauley, who showed the 7-year-old Holstein for his father Alan, said it was the first time she was shown in a milking Young Farmers Learn Significance Of Valley ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff SUMMIT STATION (Schuy lkill Co.) It’s possible you may have a bit of history in your bam. Items on several farms located in the Mahantango Valley a centerpiece of 19th century Pen nsylvania Dutch life—could con tain “elements of the past that should be preserved,” said Rev. Carl Shankweiler. Shankweiler spoke to more than 200 young farmers here at a ban York Swine Breeders Protest Pseudorabies Inaction JOYCE BUPP York Co. Correspondent YORK (York Co.) Purebred swine breeders in York County are not a happy group of producers these days. They want Pennsylvania animal health officials to pork up mea sures to deal with the spread of pseudorabies. Some 80-plus producers and swine industry representitives turned out recently for a York The 1993 regional Young Cooperative Leaders are. from left, John and Edith Car penter, chair couple from Linden; Jere and Angela Hlssong Jr., south central region leaders from Greencastle; Jeffrey and Beth Kelchner, northern region leaders from Watsontown; F. Leslie and Lois Hershey, southeastern region leaders from Kirk wood; and Robert and Joy Jackson, western region leaders from Brownsville. PERIODICALS DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY W 209 PATTEE LIBRARY _ UNIVERSITY PARK PA 16802-1802 Four Sections class, always being dry at show time. According to McCauley, Desire represents the last of a group of embryo transfer sisters which were flushed from the same dam, Blair BR Carmel Delight Desire is a daughter of Sterk Ra Ijon. Although Desire’s sire’s name isn’t as common as some of the contenders in the show (which saw a number of Hanover Hill pedigree and other daughters of well-known Holstein sires chosen for class winners), the aged cow comes (Turn to Pagt A3B) quet during the Pennsylvania Young Farmers annual Summer Conference last week. Shankweiler, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Valley View, said that the Mahantango Valley center of Pennsylvania Dutch Culture in the early 1800 s. Many hand-crafted furniture and other items built during that period are eagerly sought after by museums and collectors. And many of the items of the (Turn to Pago A 26) meeting addressing the spread of pseudorabies into the county. As part of that meeting, the York Pork Producers offered a resolu tion calling for Pennsylvania to move into a mandatory pseudora bies cleanup program. “We would like to see Pennsyl vania move into the second stage of the federal government’s clean up program,” said purebred breed er Steve Wilson, New Freedom. The program would include test- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 25, 1992 From the left, Thomas McCauley holds the halter of the grand champion of the Lan caster Holstein Show, an aged cow he showed in a milking class for the first time. Duane Stoltzfus shows his father's reserve grand champion. Various Groups Support Vet School EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Scientists, companion pet own ers, animal rightists, and bankers joined farmers in a common cause Thursday. No one wants to see the University of Pennsylvania’s ing of all herds within a mile and one-half of a pseudorabies quaranlined herd. Several of the relatively small, family farm swine breeding herds in York County are state and nationally known for their out standing bloodlines and show herds. And, while most have regu larly tested and worked toward maintaining pseudorabies-free herds, the increasing rate of dis (Turn to Page A2B) School ot Veterinary Medicine close. State government recently enacted the 1992-93 budget that completely eliminated $15.3 mil lion in appropriations to the school. The school had been receiving 40 percent of its operating income from the commonwealth. The ter mination of state funding has placed the school in serious jeopar dy of having to close its doors. The meeting sponsored by the Pennsylvania Farmers Association at the Harrisburg Community Col lege showed great support from a wide variety of special interest groups. Dr. Mama Whittington, senior vice president of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, said restoring of funds for the school was top priority. “We have put hundreds of millions of dollars into the inters tructure of the school,” she said. “And we have every intention to continue to do that. Our Veterinary School is the best in the country and a very valuable asset to the Cooperative Leaders Meet STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) More than 4Q coopcraavc members representing 13 cooperatives and two co-op coun cils attended the 18th annual Pennsylvania Council of Coopera tives (PCC) Young Cooperative Leaders Conference at the Days Inn-Penn State in State College. The purpose of the conference was to further educate conference attendees about the importance of the cooperative way of doing busi ness and emphasize the need to become involved in the leadership opportunities offered by agricul tural cooperatives. William Perry, manager of gov ernmental affairs for Milk Market ing, Inc., a marketing cooperative based in Strongville, Ohio, 609 Per Copy University.” <Roger Caras, president of the American Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals, was even more forceful in his comments. “Frankly, I find it difficult to believe that I flew here from Mon treal to even discuss such a plan to close your vet school,” Caras said. “This seems out of joint with reali ty, intellectual vandalism, and a denial of the future not to mention the fiscal folly involved in the stale that has its number one industry dependent on veterinary medicine to sustain its present and future.” “Why are you inviting back the dark ages?” Caras asked. “Because someone has said that the school is private? If a great, great school serving a state with billions of dol lars of agriculture and animal hus bandry can ever be considered pri vate nonsense.” William Nichol, executive sec retary of the Pennsylvania Holstein (Turn to Page A3O) reminded the participants that far mers and farm-related businesses organized the first cooperatives more than a century ago in order to do business more effectively as a group. Today, cooperative mem bers must consider the important role that cooperatives play in the agricultural economy and support them for that fact. “Cooperatives arc people,” said Perry, “and we are the ones that must remind the public that we have an important way of doing business.” Perry said countries in Eastern Europe will turn to cooperative principles in establishing then free form of business enterprise. “We must consider business on a global (Turn to Pago A 29) $19.00 Per Year
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