liiiSiliß&aSSfiS roi. 37 No. 48 Farmer Overcomes Fear Of Government To Battle Manure Problems The Evan Burkholder Farm In Fayetteville, Franklin County, was recently honored with the 1992 Clean Water Farm Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Conser vation Districts (PACD). Burkholder farms with his wife, Lori, and sons, from left. Aus tin, 6; Aubrey, 5; and Ashlin, 3. Photo by Andy Andnwa Bloomsburg State Fair Livestock Shows And Sale Reported JUDY PATTON Union Co. Correspondent BLOOMSBURG (Columbia Co.) The 138 th annual Blooms burg Fair livestock shows featured a Jersey as the supreme dairy champion, a Lamancha goat who attained permanent champion sta lager Chosen For Kildee Scholarship EVA MARTIN Maryland Correspondent FULTON, Md. Matthew E. Matt lager 01.A3V2 i 29V F'l KIODU'ALS DIVIMON KNNSYLVANIA STAiE UNIVERSUY W;.'o9 PA 1 TEE LIBRARY UNiUER'i• EY PARK PA four Sections tus, and a 4-H Livestock Sale which nrfted $19,663. Drawing visitors {% record 670,000 for the week) and exhibitors from all over the state, the fair was held last week. Mildred Seeds of Downing town won supreme champion of lager, the son of Charles and Judy lager of Maple Lawn Farm has been chosen as the 1992 Kildee Scholarship winner. A graduate of Delaware Valley College, Matt is now a student of Veterinary medi cine at Va-Md Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. In 1950, Dairy Shrine estab lished the Kildee Scholarship in honor of H.H. Kildee, long-time dean of the College of Agriculture at lowa State University. He was an outstanding judge of dairy cattle and supporter of student judging programs and activities. The scholarship is awarded for graduate study in a related field to dairy cattle production, to a stu dent who excels in the dairy cattle judging. Each year, one student (Turn to Pago AST) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 10, 1992 five breed champions with Top-O- Hill Admiral Tina, a four year old Jersey. Judge Paul Knight, York, felt Tina had more dairyness than the recently fresh Holstein champ- (Turn to Page At 6) The Lori family with tha grand champion of the KILE junior beef show are from left, Jessica, Jennifer, Jonathan with parents, Debbie, and John. Photo byEveratt Newswtn gar, managing adltor. ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Fanning Staff FAYETTEVILLE (Franklin Co.) For years, Evan Burkhol der lived in fear afraid of the Department of Environmental Resources (DER) and other gov ernment agencies finding out that he had severe problems on the farm. But for a number of years, while trying to pay off huge farm debts in light of his father’s paralyzing stroke, Burkholder could do little. While the costs of farming went Chinese Admire Lancaster County Farms LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.) A Chinese entourage toured an Ephrata farm this week to learn more about composting, maintain ing water quality, and making use of waste products. To the tour group’s delight, they also got to sniff the aroma of some Heavyweights Win KILE Jr. Beef Show EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) — The junior beef show, always a highlight of KILE, was held Sunday afternoon in the small arena of the farm show building. When the selection of division champions was complete, judge Lynn Holley, Bowling Green, OH slapped the two heavyweight champions for his grand and reserve of the show. Jonathan Lori, Scottdale, West moreland County, had the grand champion with his 1270 lb. Limousin and Ryan Luellen, Mooreland, Indiana had the reserve champion with his 1305 lb. 609 Per Copy up, the problems with a manure storage pad increased. The flat pad only held so much. What it didn’t hold during rainfall washed away easily into a nearby stream. The pad pushofT, inclined upward to help keep the moisture off, allow ed contaminated water to flow down the slope directly into the stream. In heavy rains, it got messy. Manure into stream The manure, heavy with nutri (Turn to Pago A 34) freshly burning tobacco and gulp down watermelon and tomatoes picked fresh off the vine. The group, considered smoking connoisseurs, admired the fine quality of tobacco grown by Aaron and Clark Stauffer, who said that much of their crop is shipped to China. Angus-Maine crossbred. In the lightweight classes, Chrissy Daniels, Connersville, IN, had the champion with a Hereford and Lewis Moore, Osterbuig, Bed ford County, had the reserve champion with a crossbred. Heather Fuls had the champion middleweight and Justin Fuls had the reserve middleweigth champ ions, Both youths are from Berlin in Somerset County and they showed Chiania-Maine-Anjou- Angus crossbreds. The top placings in the six clas ses are as follows: JUNIOR BEEF STEERS Junior Stoor - Lightweight- 1 Nathan Claycomb, 2 Jay Hess, 3 Travis Donough Junior Stoor - Lightweight- 1 Chrissy (Turn to Page A 35) $19.00 Per Year (Turn to Page A 36)
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