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Umbrell, Brubaker Cap Year With 4-H Swine Honors
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
BIRD IN HAND (Lancaster
Co.) More than 125 4-H mem
bers, family, and friends were on
hand to show their support of the
county 4-H Swine Club at a special
banquet at Bird In Hand Restaur
ant Thursday night
Seven-year 4-H member Tina
Umbrell, 18, daughter of Dennis
and Linda Umbrell, Elizabeth
town, was honored as 1993 Out
standing Member of the club. She
serves as club vice president. Tina,
who said that she has been very
proud of her showmanship accom
plishments at the Elizabethtown
and Manheim fairs, in addition to
the roundup and carcass shows in
the county, attributes the honor to
her hard work. This year, Tina
placed first in senibr showmanship
at the county roundup, was
awarded a blue ribbon for the top
10 project books two years in a
row, and raised 19 market hogs in a
profitable year.
The 1993 Lancaster County
Miracle Child was honored as
Rookie of the Year for his attitude
and enthusiasm he put toward his
club. P. Jacob Brubaker, 9, son of
Doug and Brenda Brubaker, Kin
zer, has participated during his
first year at the roundup and car
cass shows. According to his
mother, Brenda, Jacob also helps
out in all phases of the family’s fin-
LEBANON (Lebanon Co.)
The Red Rose Horse and Pony
Carriage Club celebrated its silver
anniversary recently with a
14-mile drive through the pictur
esque farmland of Lebanon Coun
ty. The drive included a stop at the
farm on which the idea for the
club was bom more than a quarter
century ago.
The caravan of 16 carriages,
which ranged from two-wheel
pony carts to four-in-hand road
coaches, took their drivers and
passengers back to their roots with
a visit to the farm of the late Harry
Hamish located east of the village
of Prescott
At the farm, Richard Glatfelter,
of East Petersburg, one of three
founding members who took part
in the drive, outlined the birth of
the club.
“Harry, I and some others
showed and raced ponies,” Glat
felter said. “One day after the rac
ing season had ended we were
here and Harry suggested we
should do something more with
our ponies. Over a big pot of bean
A caravan of carriages pulls into Richard KraMer farm, Prascott Road, Lebanon
County, for halfway rest stop during silver anniversary drive.
Top project book winners were, from left, first place, Ger
ald Boyd; second. Sarah Boyd; and third, Derrick Frank.
ishing operation, including sort
ing, moving, and feeding pigs.
Top project book winners were,
first place, Gerald Boyd; second,
Sarah Boyd; and third. Derrick
Frank. A special leader award was
presented to Ed Donough for seven
years of service, and an apprecia
tion award was given to Hatfield
Quality Meats.
Chet Hughes, extension lives
tock specialist, said this year the
membership on the county swine
club has increased to 91 members,
11 percent over last year. During
the past six years, the club's enroll
Carriage Club Celebrates 25th
soup we decided to form a club.”
From those beginnings, the Red
Rose Club has grown into an orga
nization .with 18S family members
from the five-county area of Lan
caster, Lebanon, Berks, Chester
and Dauphin, plus New Jersey and
Maryland.
Annual* drives over the past
quarter century have taken mem
bers west through the Gettysburg
battlefield, east through Valley
Forge National Park, south into
Maryland and north into the Poco
no Mountains.
But Sunday’s drive was a nos
talgic step back to commemorate
the silver anniversary of the club.
The afternoon drive began with
a catered luncheon hosted by club
members Glenn and Robin Wen
ger in Myerstown.
Then, assembled in a block
long caravan, the group drove
west and south through Lebanon
County farm country. A halfway
rest stop was. made at the Richard
Kreider beef farm.
At a brisk seven-mile-per-hour
pace, the group clip-clopped
ment has increased by SI percent.
This year, 27 are going to the state
Farm Show seven more than
last year, he said. This is club’s
sixth year as a countywide organi
zation, and they held their eighth
show and sale at Manheim and
their fifth successful carcass show.
Club officers are Tracy Bollin
ger, president; Tina Umbrell, vice
president; Amy Bollinger, secret
ary; Regina Landis, assistant sec
retary; Matt Umbrell, treasurer;
Travis Donough, assistant treasur
er; and Scott Stoltzfus and Gerald
Boyd, news reporters.
Three founding members of the Red Rose Horse and Pony Carriage Club prepar
ing for start of silver anniversary drive on Sunday Include Richard Glatfelter, East
Petersburg, on wagon; Joseph Kugler, Lebanon; and Charlene Hall.
through the colorful farmland that the group returned to the Wenger February at the Lebanon Pumping
was beginning to show its fall farm . Myers town, for unhitching. Station,
finery. reloading of vans, and the trips Officers of the club include
Following the 14-mile jaunt, hack home. Barbara Smoyer, Grantville, ptes-
In addition to drives, the club ident and Eleanor Harrison, Ches
also holds an annual sleigh ride in ter County, vice president.
Tour To Showcase On-Farm Composting
on Woodlyn and take the first left.
The farm is on the comer on your
left. The tour is open to farmers,
landscapers, nursery and green
house owners, others in the green
industry, municipalities, and any
one else interested in learning
about medium-scale composting.
Andy and Rose Kumpf and
George Leidig, of Autrusa Com
post Consulting, will be on hand
to explain what materials they are
composting, where the compost
materials come from, how the
composting process is managed,
and what is done with the finished
compost
The Kumpfs, Leidig, and Sally
Pick, extension’s recycling educa
tion director, will also be available
(0 answer questions.
There is no charge for the tour.
For directions to the farm, call the
recycling education office at (215)
454-1245.
Seven-year 4-H member Tina Umbrell, 18, daughter of
Dennis and Linda Umbrell, Elizabethtown, left, was honored
as 1993 Outstanding Member of the Lancaster 4-H Swine
Club on Thursday night. P. Jacob Brubaker, 9, son of Doug
and Brenda Brubaker, Klnzer, was honored as Rookie of the
Year.
CREAMERY (Montgomery
Co.) Montgomery County
Cooperative Extension’s Recy
cling Education Office has
arranged with the Kumpf family
for a tour of their new on-farm
composting operation on Wednes
day, October 27, 11 a.m., at the
Kumpf farm, Trooper & Woodlyn
Roads in Worcester.
Disposal of organic wastes is an
increasing problem for many far
mers, municipalities, and people
in the green industry such as land
scapers, nurseries, and green
houses. Composting on an inter
mediate or large scale turns organ
ic wastes' into a valuable soil
amendment and conditioner.
Compost can enhance soils or
replace costly peat and topsoil.
To get to the farm, take 363
(Valley Forge Rd.) to 1 mile north
of Germantown Pike, then go east