VOL 37 NO. 43
Lancaster DHIA
Calls Member
Meeting
The Lancaster County Dairy
Herd Improvement Association
has scheduled a membership meet
ing next week for local officials to
present an update as to what is hap
pening in DHIA. The meeting is
scheduled for Wednesday even
ing. September 9, at the Farm and
Home Center. Starting time is 7:30
p.m.
Robert Wenger, president, said
the meeting is called to answer
member questions and discuss
bylaw changes. All Lancaster
DHIA members are invited to
attend.
Field Day
Attracts Farmers
GAIL STROCK
Mifflin Co. Correspondent
McALLISTERVILLE (Juniata
Co.) Hard work that went into
preparing for Juniata County’s
Conservation Tillage Field Day
recently paid off when more than
60 farmers and conservationists
converged here to hear presenta
tions on soil compaction, crop
residue management, alfalfa man
agement, soil tests, and conserva
tion tillage and equipment.
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Office Closed
Lancaster Fanning’s
office will be closed on
Monday, September 7, to
observe Labor Day. The
advertising department
and the news desk will
reopen on Tuesday.
Supreme Champion Hogs And Cow Named At Allentown Fair
Seeds Wins With Jersey
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
ALLENTOWN (Berks
Co.) —Now make it 10 Supreme
dairy cow championships in 30
Mildred Seeds, Downingtown, again won the supreme
championship with the Tina cow. The homebred Jersey
repeated last year's honors.
Four Sections
The new Maryland Farm Bureau Queen, Dawn Downey,
with her parents Frank and Carolyn Downey and brothers
Ryan and Wade. Brother Kirt, not in the photo, had returned
to a new semester at Duke University.
Master Farmer Visits Russia To Compare Notes
Georg* Moyer looks for mail from Russia In front of his Dairy of Distinction farm.
Moyer visited the black soil region along the Seim River last month.
years for Mildred Seeds, Downing
town. The lop honor dial comes
when all breed grand champions
compete at the Allentown Fair
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 5, 1992
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
ALLENTOWN (Lehigh Co.) —
The swine industry is looking for
the “best carcass,” which was evi
dent in the hog named supreme
market champion on Wednesday
at the Allentown Fair.
Benjamin Lazarus, 17, son of
Grant and Linda Lazarus, Ger
maiisville, picked up supreme
championship honors with his
medium weight (225-pound)
Landrace/Duroc/Chester White
barrow from his family’s Busy
Acres herd.
This is Ben’s first grand champ
ion at Allentown, and he has been
showing for about nine years.
Judge Kenneth Fetterolf, a
Hampshire and Duroc breeder
from Centre Hall and a leader of
the Centre Hail 4-H Ag Club, said
the hog, as a carcass, will show its
squareness “down the top and at
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Lazarus, Wessner Sweep Hog Show
Downey Crowned
Maryland Farm Queen
EVA MARTIN
Maryland Correspondent
TIMONIUM, MD. Dawn
Downey, 17-year-old daughter of
Frank and Carolyn Downey was
awarded the honor to represent
Maryland Farm Bureau as their
Queen for 1992. The contest took
place at the Cow Palace of the
Maryland State Fair Sunday night
Dawn, who was Washington
County Farm Bureau Queen, was
chosen from participants repre
senting 23 Maryland counties. She
accepted her crown from 1991
queen, Kelly Holland of Worces
ter County.
Miss Downey lives with her
parents and three brothers, Kirk,
Ryan and Wade on a 700-acre
Benjamin Lazarus won supreme market hog champion
with his 225-pound Landrace/Duroc/Chester White barrow
on Wednesday at the Allentown Fair.
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dairy, beef and grain farm in
southern Washington County. She
has been active in 4-H for the past
eight years, showing her Jersey
and Holstein dairy animals, Suf
folk sheep and German Shepherd
dog. A champion public speaker,
she participated as a Maryland
delegate to the 1991 National 4-H
conference, testified at Maryland
Public Hearings to defend 4-H
against proposed budget cuts, is a
4-H Ambassador and participant
in Maryland 4-H Teen Focus.
Dawn has also gained experi
ence for her role as queen from
prior reigns as Maryland State
Jersey Queen and Washington
County Dairy Princess.
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EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
FRYSTOWN (Berks Co.)
For George Moyer, returning from
a 14-day trip to Russia was like
coming home to heaven. Because
the com and alfalfa on Moyer’s
Dairy of Distinction farm looks
great, the contrast was remarkable,
compared to the dry pastures and
thistle patches they saw on the trip.
“We take so much for granted,”
said the 1989 Master Farmer.
“They have better soil than we do,
but they arc 50 years behind in
methods and technology.”
Moyer was part of a “people-lo
pcople” group organized as a sus
tainable agriculture delegation.
They left on July 24 and relumed
August 9.
“My goal was to find out how
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