BIG-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13, 1995
1995 Somerset County
4-H Public
Speaking Contest
The 31st annual Somerset
County 4-H Public Speaking Con
test was conducted Wednesday
evening, April 26, at St. Peter’s
School in Somerset Forty-nine
members participated in the
event—32 in the junior division
and 17 in the senior division.
Junior division finalists were
Vincent Barbera, Alison Beeghly,
Margaret Blough, April Coberly,
Nicole Stemple, and Nicole
Svonavec.
Senior division finalists were
Laura Miller, daughter of Butch &
Bonnie Miller, Somerset and
Natalie Welch, daughter of Dave
and Connie Welch, Berlin. They
will compete at the State 4-H Days
contest at The Pennsylvania State
University held July 25-27. Other
senior division finalists were
Andrea Blough, Karen Rhoads,
Corey Sechler, and Herman
Weimer.
Judges for the evening’s com
petition included Roberta Antram,
Barbara Gravatt, Jeff Johnson,
Mike Kuhn, Michelle May, and
Delores Thompson.
( Junior leaders who served as
room chairmen were Ethan Miller,
Michele Shaffer, Lee Sines, Laura
Waltermire, and Valerie
Zborovancik.
The event was sponsored by the
Somerset County 4-H Develop
ment Fund, Inc. and the Somerset
County Farm Bureau, who contri
buted premium and expense
money, and the Somerset County
Cooperative Extension Office.
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Goat Club Meets
The Cumberland County 4-H
Goat Club met May 3 at the home
of Ruschelle Henry. Nine mem
bers were present.
Members were reminded of se
veral upcoming events. Members
were asked to help at the Benefit
Auction held May 19 at 6 p.m. at
The Embers. The Ag Expo will be
held August 9-12 at the Newville
Fair Ground.
Ron Zeigler gave a demonstra
tion on confoirmation of a goat
and the score card.
The next meeting will be held
June 7 at 7 p.m. at the home of
Derrick Carpenter.
Those needing additional infor
mation should contact one of the
leaders; Red Allen at (717)
776-5097 or Ron and Lois Zeigler
at (717) 776-7583.
4-H Sheep Club
The third meeting of the Cono
doquinet 4-H Sheep Club was
held rat Wednesday, April 19.
Charles Rossow, USDA, gave a
presentation on scrapie. Weigh-in
for the fall roundup was discussed
and will be held May 10 and May
13. (Call a leader for additional in
formation.)
York 4-H Beef Club
The 4-H Beef Club met April 3
at 7:30 p.m. at the 4-H Center in
Bair Station.
The Preview Show will be May
13 at York Fairgrounds. All steers
will be nose-printed at this time.
The club voted to purchase a
large brick inscribed for the York
County Beef Club to be donated to
Tioga County 4-H'ers at the top of the 96,000-seat Beaver Stadium at Penn State.
the exhibition building.
April Daughtery was elected
historian for York County Beef
Club.
A video was shown on ethics.
4-H’ers leant by doing. Taught
what counts is honesty, sportsman
ship, responsibility, family unity,
and agriculture.
The next meeting will be the
Preview Show on May 13 at the
York Fairgrounds.
New members are always wel
come. Contact Tim Beck or Lois
Rankin at the Penn State York
County Cooperative Extension for
more information (717) 757-9657.
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Co.) —Sixteen 4-H’ers from Tioga
County traveled to Penn State
recently as part of the Education
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the Tioga County Milk Auction.
The trip started at Wellsboro
and Morris and by 10 a.m. the
group was touring the Pennsylva
nia DHIA Milk Testing Lab. The
group discovered how the DHIA
lab machines test each milk
sample for fat, protein, and soma
tic cell count, all in a few seconds.
The group followed the milk
sample from the computer to the
final forms that are sent back to
the dairy farmer.
Then it was on to the new dairy
bams. Lisa Holden, professor of
dairy science, met die group at the
milking parlor to start the tour.
The group toured the new double
10 parlor, freestall and tiestall
bams. The 4-H’ers were quizzed
on “what did the curtain sidewalls
do in the freestyle bam?” The
answer: They let more air in for
ventilation.
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Holden also showed the two
different floor patterns on the
alleyways to study cow traction,
foor wear, and flow wear.
The 4-H’ers also visited two
graduate studies in the heifer
bams. One of the studies exa
mined feed bunk space require
ments for dairy heifers.
The study group was split into
three age groups of six, 12, and 18
months, and three different bunk
space requirements per heifer (9
inch, 18 inch and 24 inch). The
study will show what is the ideal
bunk space per heifer required.
The 4-H members could really see
how the study worked, since each
pen had nine heifers and each
bank area varied in length.
The group went on to the Dairy
Expo, a dairy show for the Penn
State Dairy Club college students.
Lunch was provided by the Penn
State and Block and Bridle Club.
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