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Vol. 39 No. 38
State Farm Show Complex Undergoing $1.2 Million Floor Fix
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) State Department of Agri
culture (PDA) officials said that a
Tuesday reading of a testing
device that monitors for asbestos
in the air showed high levels in the
offices of the state Farm Show
Complex and resulted in workers
being sent home.
Wednesday, the reading of the
testing instrument showed that all
was safe, according to Gene
Schenck, PDA press secretary.
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative
Awards NICE Scholarships
SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative
awarded scholarships to five stu
dents to attend the 1994 National
Institute on Cooperative Educa
tion (NICE), July 18-21 in Wash
ington, D.C.
The students, sons or daughters
of Atlantic members, earned the
scholarships by participating in
the Pennsylvania Council of Co
operative’s 1994 Summer Insti
tute. The program, held June
26-29 at Shippcnsburg University,
teaches high school students about
cooperative business in a fun and
educational setting.
Doll Family Takes York Holstein Honors
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
YORK (York Co.) Dar-Dale
Count Apple nearly missed the
York County Holstein Show.
But the junior three-year-old,
shown as an “added entry” in the
100-head annual county show,
earned her keep on the last minute
trip, taking senior and grand
champion for the Dale and Darla
Doll family of Glen Rock.
Harry Roth, recipient of NAAB’s Distinguished Service Award, with Atlantic Breed
ers’ weii-know Leadman bull.
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While the incident is still being
investigated, and a number of
Farm Show staff have been tem
porarily reassigned other duties
until officials are confident that the
offices are indeed safe, the asbes
tos scare will not affect any shows
or events set to be held at the
complex.
The reason for the testing device
being in the offices of the Farm
Show staff was because of a $1.2
million PDA project to upgrade the
floor of the Main Exhibit Hall in
the Farm Show Complex.
Those receiving NICE scholar
ships include;
Anne Fulcomer, a daughter of
Ken and Aileen Fulcomer of Ty
rone. Anne, 18, is a 1994 graduate
of Tyrone Area High School,
where she was a member of the
FFA, Future Business Leaders of
America and chorus. She was list
ed on the Honor Roll for five
years. Anne plans to attend the
Penn State University Altoona
Campus This fall to study veterin
ary medicine.
At the PCC Summer Institute,
Anne served as project manager
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Bred and owned by Dana Doll,
the Modie Valiant Count daughter
was the top choice by judge Den
nis Patrick of Woodbine, Mary
land. Though she showed a bit less
height than the older final con
tenders for the grand honors,
judge Patrick praised her stylish
ness and correctness in citing her
as his winner.
The champion win also helped
wrap-up the Doll family’s third
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 30, 1994
According to Schenck, air
testing devices had been placed in
the offices as part of regular oper
ating procedures involved with a
current project to remove flooring
tile from the 3-acre Main Exhibit
Judy and Richard Trinca and herdsman Dari Johnstonbauflhwlth the VG-87 Trin
cas’ Royalty Crystal that has mHked up to 142 lbs. Of milk paf.daypaayldethe ihtroduc
tion to the Dairy of Distinction supplement with this issue. The Northeast Dairy Farm
Beautification Pregram has named 33 new winners across Pennsylvania for 1994.
This brings the number of state winners to 555. Look tor this supplement with farm
photos, stories, and advertising messages related to this fine effort to promote milk
by recognizing well-kept dairy farms. Photo by Evaratt Nawawangar, managing adltor.
consecutive win of the coveted
premier breeder and exhibitor
banners at the county Holstein
show, held July 23 at the York
Fairgrounds.
In the contending reserve senior
and grand champion spot was
Woodbine Astro Val-Twin, the
winning four-year-old bred and
owned by the Knight family, Air
ville. Tall, deep-bodied and styl
ish, she is sired by Bridon Astro
Hall.
The plan is to replace the slick,
old asbestos-containing tile with a
new type of non-skid flooring
material.
Workers have been actively
Jet.
Junior and reserve junior cham
pion honors both went to the show
string of Coredale Farms, the Rod
man Thompson family. East Ber
lin.
Champion heifer was the fall
yearling Coredale Tital Violet, an
Emerald-Acres S.A. Titan daugh
ter bred and owned by siblings
Roy Thompson and Shirley Trim
mer. Runner-up was the winter
Roth Recalls AI History
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HERSHEY (Dauphin
Co.) —When you want to talk to
someone who knows the history of
the Al industry, you turn to Harry
Roth, general manager, Atlantic
Breeders. Roth is the recipient of
the National Association of Ani
mal Breeders Distinquished Ser
vice Award that will be presented
in late August at the 48th NAAB
annual meeting.
In an interview earlier this
month, Roth said many things have
changed since he started working
with the AI industry in 1956. At
that time there were five AI organi
zations in PA, and Roth credits the
competition as one of the reasons
improvement and progress were
made.
“In those days we had to prove to
ourselves and to the farmers that
we could achieve better pregnancy
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removing the tiles since June,
using practices to create ah “asbes
tos abatement environment,”
Schenck said.
The improvement project to the
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yearling Gentle-Touch Chr Val
Roxy, sired by Emlo Chairman
Valiant, and owned and exhibited
by 4-H’er Amy Trimmer.
Nearly a dozen youngsters par
ticipated in the always-popular
Kiddie Klass, featuring beginners
from age 3 to 8, exhibiting young
calves. The top winning pair in the
crowd-pleasing contest were Kid-
rates than the bull could,” Roth
said. “That was a 15-year struggle.
“The ’6o’s were the most critical
to the industry, and we may be
going through a time like it right
now. The economic pressures on
the dairy farmers m the ’6o‘s was
tremendous. Milk prices were as
serious an issue as they arc now. 1
remember Joe Taylor, head of
Penn Stale’s dairy department,
made a lot of presentations on the
need to increase productivity and
efficiency—so much so that many
farmers began to react negatively
to the message. They said, ‘We arc
working as hard as we can now.’
They didn’t know how they could
be more efficient. And we have the
same story today with much the
same reaction.
The emphasis on genetic
improvement didn’t happen until
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