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Vol. 40 No. 42
Steer Wins Supreme Over All Champions At E-town
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas
ter Co.) It’s tough to be a
supreme champion animal exhibi
tor. There are times when you
could cry.
Jessica Stoltzfus had every rea
son to be upset after being stepped
on again by her grand champion
steer. So she cried. It was the sixth
time in two days the otherwise
gentle animal, weighing 1,305
pounds, wouldn’t behave.
Despite having to nurse a sore
right foot, Jessica stopped the tears
only to wipe away a few more
when she was honored the first
time for exhibiting the supreme
World Record Milk
Production Set Second
Time This Year
BRATTLEBORO, VL For
the second time this year, a world
record for milk production has
been set, again by a Holstein cow.
Raim Mark Jinx, owned by Lor
ance and Verla Raim, of Raims
Dairy, in Cedarcdgc, Colo., has
become the second cow this year to
produce more than 60,000 pounds
of milk in 365 days.
With the completion of her May
1995 Dairy Herd Improvement
Records test. Jinx’s record of
60,440 pounds of milk surpassed
the previous record of 60,380
pounds made by Bell-Jr Rosabel,
owned by the Bell-Jr. Group, of
Calhan, Colo.
Jinx’s production record
includes 1,938 pounds of fat, and
1,884 pounds of protein on a three
timcs-per-day milking schedule.
BST was used.
The herd was verification tested
twice.
Jinx was bom Dec. 6,1988. Her
sire was Walkway Chief Mark and
Heather Jaslenskl’s crossbred pig Is York Roundup
champion and sells for $2.90 per pound to Hatfield Packing
Company, represented by Ezra Good.
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champion animal on Thursday
evening at the Elizabethtown Fair.
Jessica, 14, daughter of Frank
and Irene Stoltzfus, Elizabeth
town, showed her heavyweight
Angus/Maine Anjou crossbred
steer, Willy (not named after the
whale in die popular movie, she
said), to supreme animal.
Jessica, a freshman at Elizabeth
town High School, was surprised
at the award, her first-time champ
ion and the first time champion
animal in any of the classes she’s
shown.
The Lancaster County Baby
Beef 4-H Club member said she
plans to show at the Denver Fair
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her dam was Raim Columbus Jen
nyr-eiid 85-point Columbus
daughter.
Jinx is first on the National
Leaders List for milk in the 3X
365-day mature class, first for 3X
365-day mature class for protein,
and first in the 3X 305-day mautre
class for protein.
She is second to Tullando Roy
alty Maxima in the 305-day mature
class for milk.
Lorence Raim, who bred and
owns Jinx, said he was pleased
with her performance.
“She’s the kind of cow that con
sistent produced more milk with
every lactation.” he said, “not the
kind that was just mediocre or
good and then have a phenomenal
record. When you look at her
305-day record, she was increas
ing about 10,000 pounds each
lactation”
Although the herd is separated
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York 4-H Holds Swine Roundup And Sale
lancaatar Farming, Saturday, Auguat 26, 1995
Jessica Stoßzfus shows her steer to supreme over all champions at the Elizabeth
town Fair.
Walker Visits Lancaster, Chester Farms
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
RONKS (Lancaster
Co.) U.S. Representative Bob
Walker visited farms in Lancaster
and Chester Counties Monday on
his annual tour to answer questions
from rural constituents.
The first morning stop was at the
farm of the Carl Landis family
where a dozen or more farmers sat
on straw bales in the front lawn to
hear Rep. Walkeranswerquestions
about NAFTA, GATT, taxes, reg
ulation reform, and the new farm
bill.
On the foreign trade issues.
Walker said NAFTA has had mix-
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
THOMAS VILLE (York Co.)
Heather Jasienski and her dad
had a slight difference of opinion
about a pig she selected to raise as
one of her 4-H projects this sea
son.
She liked it He didn’t.
But the pig that Heather picked
from the Michael Jasienski fami
ly’s farrow-to-finish hog opera
tion at Felton fulfilled her expec
tations. The 248-pound crossbred
bested 72 other contending pigs at
the York County Swine Roundup
to take home the champion honors
for the IS-year-old Red Lion High
School sophomore. The roundup
and sale were held August 13-14
at Weikert’s Buying Station.
Jasienski’s champion opened
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ed success because of the collapse
of the Mexican peso. As Mexico
becomes more prosperous, we
have a better chance the NAFTA
agreement will be a very good plus
for the long term relationship.
As for GATT, Walker said this
agreement sets the stage for the
next century where global compet
ition is going to be an important
part of whether we will be a pros
perous nation or not.
The senator said parts of GATT
set up bureaucratic organizations
that he called “over-kill.” Never
less, he said you need a structure in
which to make global competition
work. With GATT we were able to
the bidding at the annual livestock
sale, bringingthe event’s top price
of $2.90 per pound.-Winning bid
der was long-time, regional youth
swine sale supporter Hatfield
Packing Company, represented by
buyer Ezra Good. A 4-H swine
project exhibitor for six years.
Heather raised a total of 14 head
this season.
Hatfield jumped back into the
spirited bidding for the reserve
champion, the Hamp-Duroc cross
bred exhibited by Tammi Grubb,
Hanover. The final bid was $1.75
for the 242-pound, runner-up win-
ner. Grubb, 14, is a freshman at
South Western High School and a
4-H exhibitor for five years.
A matching pair of homebred,
York-Hamp crossed pigs claimed
the champion pair from the seven
she is raising this year, her seventh
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negotiate with trading partners
around the world. ‘To believe this
nation can get along without some
trade agreement and be isolated
from the rest of the world is just
completly outside of the realm of
reality,” Walker said. “We are the
world’s largest exporter even if we
have a trade imbalance. I believe
GATT gives us the possibility to
have a strong position in world
export markets.”
Walker said that while the way
we go about environmental regula
tions may change, no one is sug
gesting that we are backing off the
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as a 4-H youth competitor. She is
a freshman student at Dallastown
Area High School.
Weighing in at 223 and 233
pounds, the champion pair sold to
D.R. Kem Plumbing and Heating,
represented by Don Kefo who of
fered the final bid of 75 cents.
Jennifer Flinchbaugh, York,
was the reserve pair winner, with
her 217- and 210-pound Hamp-
York crossbreds. A Dallastown
High freshman, 14-year-old Jenni
fer raised eight hogs for 4-H pro
ject work this summer, her sixth
season in the program.
The pair sold on a 67-cent bid
from Hatfield’s Ezra Good.
Champion lightweight, shown
by Justin Hutington of Jacobus,
weighed in at 201 pounds, and
sold for SO cents per pound to
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