A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 30, 1995
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Lancaster Da/ry Herd Improvement Assoc.
1592 Ofd Ltna Rd. Manhe/m, RA 1754 S
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increase of fifty from a year ago.
Since December 1993, the average
JOE GRAYBEAL
President
The Lancaster DHIA Board of
Directors met in August. The
Board is pleased to report that
operations are running smoothly.
Jere High, Lab Manager,
reported the number of samples
being tested in our lab was higher
than projected. Lab results are
being mailed back to the dairymen
in less than two days from date of
test.
Manager, Jay Mylin, informed
the board that 1188 herds were on
test at the end of July. This is an
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) First choice of six pre
gnancies brought the highest indi
vidual price of consignments
offered Wednesday night at the
Eastern National Holstein Sale in
the Small Arena of the state Farm
Show Complex in Harrisburg.
For 55,200, Daniel Over and
William Snider, of Martinsburg,
bought the first choice of six pre
gnancies resulting from embryos
from the mating of sire Maiscficld
Bell wood-Et and dam Pasen Lead
man Madam.
The annual sale lasted a little
more than three hours and resulted
m a total of 5109,475 paid for 60
loLs, with an average price of
SI 824 per lot
The choice ol the six Madam/
Bellwood pregnancies was con
signed by Matthew Senna, of
Wattsburg. Madam classified an
Excellcnt-90, and Bellwood is
classified Exccllcnl-92. Bell
wood’s PTAs were reported as
+2,662 pounds milk, +94 pounds
fat, and +B2 pounds protein.
5-Year-Old
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lion record showed production of
23,000 pounds milk, she has been
milking 75 pounds per day since
becoming fresh in March.
A daughter of Bridge View
Elegant Jadc-ET, out of dam Long
View Jubilation Rayna, Raisin has
a son in Brazil which was the grand
champion bull in the 1994 All-
Amencan show. She also has a
daughter that was named unanim
ous 1993 All-American intermedi
ate calf and junior champion of the
World Dairy Expo.
Raisin also was named grand
champion of this year’s Maryland
Canton Show, grand champion at
the slate fair, and in 1993 was
reserve grand champion All-
American As a 4-ycar-old, she
was reserve All-Amcncan, and
last year she was nominated All-
Amcncan aged cow.
Also competing for the supreme
title was a senior 3-ycar-old
Jersey, Hillacrcs Toplin Mindy,
owned by Va. Associates, Gear
brook, Va. Leadsman was Paul
Stiles.
Mindy, classified Exccllenl-91,
posted a 365-day, 2-7 lactation of
16,020 pounds milk, 779 pounds
fat, and 646 pounds protein.
A daughter of Hoosier Valley
Just Toplin out of Hillacres Survil
1c May, she was purchased at the
Top of the Harvest Sale as a senior
yearling. In the showring this year,
she was supreme champion of the
Maryland Stale Fair and at the
Montgomery County Maryland
fair. In 1993, she was junior
champion at the All-American
number of cows on test has
increased by almost 4,000 per
month.
Rodney Denlinger, chairman of
the by-laws committee, reported
our solicitor recommended no
changes to our new by-law propos
al. The committee will have a pre
sentation prepared for our annual
meeting in December.
The Eastern Caucus of NDHIA
will be held November 12-13 in
Ithaca, New York. Several board
members were encouraged to
Eastern National
Madam’s PTAs are +2,042 pounds
milk, +llO pounds fat, and +B2
pounds protein.
Madam also had a 365-day first
lactation production of 30,420
pounds milk, 1,254 pounds fat, and
964 pounds protein.
The next highest selling con
signments brought $3,100 each.
Pamtom Lmdy Nola-ET, a year
ling born May 21,1994, consigned
by Pamtom Farm, owned by Herb
and June Kerr, Hudson Falls, N.Y..
sold lor 53,100 to Top of Sussex
Syndicate, Newton, N.J.
Nola is a Townson Lmdy
daughter out ol a 2E, 94-EEEEE
Hilltop-Hanover Miss Naomi, a
lourth generation Excellent and
fourth generation Excellent
mammary.
As an aside, Pamtom Farm also
showed the grand champion Hols
tein of the Eastern National Hols
tein Show held Thursday, which
went on to be named supreme
champion of the Pennsylvania All-
American Dairy Show.
Rimark Hardlac Morgan-ET, a
yearling bom August 24, 1994,
Holstein Supreme Of All-American Dairy Show
Jersey Show in Louisville, Ky.
The grand champion of the All-
American Ayrshire Show was
Scotchdale BBK Iris, owned by
Marla Shaffer, of Wooster, Ohio.
Leadsman was John Howman.
Though her classification was
not available by presstime, she was
this year’s grand champion of the
Ohio Stale Fair and she has won
three additional grand champion
ships at other shows.
A daughter of Bonnie Brae Kel
log and dam Scotchdale Flashy
Iris, as a 4-year-old fresh in June,
she made 117 pounds, 90 pounds
From the left, state Dairy Princess Rhonda Joy Kleklak
and state Secretary of Agriculture Charles Broslus stand
with the lineup of grand champions of the Pennsylvania All-
American Dairy Show. From the left is Gary Culbertson at
the halter of the supreme champion Holstein, Becky Long
with the runnerup supreme champion and grand champion
attend.
NDHIA has taken significant
steps forward with its Performance
Economics program. Dairy far
mers expressed a need for combin
ing production and financial data.
This may be an opportunity for
DHIA to provide even more useful
data. A pilot project to test the
program should be completed by
the end of 1995. Lancaster DHIA
supports this important project
being handled by NDHIA.
Lancaster DHIA is a member of
the DRPC Raleigh Advisory
Board. Membership on the board
alternates between a dairyman and
a manager (or extension person
nel). Since Joe Graybeal’s term is
about to expire, the board of direc
tors appointed Jay Mylin to be our
next representative to the Advisory
Board of DRPC at Raleigh.
Holstein Sale Totals $109,475
consigned by Rimark Holsieins, $3,100. with reported interest from the arti-
Litchfield, Conn., found a Pen- Morgan is a La-Poe K Hardlac- . ficial insemination industry
nsylvania buyer when sold to ET daughter out of dam Ri-Mark because she is the only Hardtac
Michael Lynch, of Friedens, for Aerostar Mo-ET, a Very Good 86 female from Mo.
Pamtom Linday Nola-ET, a yearling from the farm that also showed the supreme
champion Holstein of the Pennsylvania All-American Dairy Show, Is lead around the
show ring in the Small Arena of the state Farm Show Complex as Lot 34 of the Eastern
National Holstein Sale. From the left at the auctioneer’s table are Harry Bachman at the
microphone, Horace Backus raising his hand in response to a bid, and William Nlchol,
executive director of the Pa. Holstein Association also attentive to bidders. Nola sold
for $3,100.
and 90 pounds milk respectively
on her first three tests.
The top Guernsey of the Nation
al Guernsey Show was Jastes Ben
Joy, a junior 3-year-old, owned by
Ben Joy Syndicate, of West Salem,
Ohio. Leadsman was Delbert
Yoder.
A daughter of Wampanoag
Smokey Ben and dam Jastes Smo
key’s Joanne, a Very Good-88,
Ben Joy was this year’s supreme
champion of the Kentucky Slate
Fair and grand champion at the
Maryland State Fair.
As far as production, fresh in
June, she has been consistently
jper, d po. . .Hereford
purchased from Salunga Acres. Cory’s was the only entry in
the Ephrata Fair Steer Show. Cory, son of Theresa and Jim
Simo, lives In Lancaster and is a FFA student at Garden
Spot High School.
averaging about 65 pounds milk
per day.
The grand champion Milking
Shorthorn of the All-American
Show was Pinesedge BT Alfair-
EXP, owned by Marjorie Kuszlyk,
of Kuszlyk Catde Co., Batavia,
N.Y., who also was at the halter in
the showring.
The senior 2-year-old was fresh
for the first lime in June and has
been producing more than 70
pounds of milk per day. She is a
daughter of Prairie-Pine WRS Big
Time-ET, and dam Pinesedge
E.D.T. Alfair (2E-90).
Complete results of the week’s
Brown Swiss, Marjorie Kuszlyk at the halter of the grand
champion Jersey, Delbert Yoder at the halter of the grand
champion Guernsey, Paul Stiles at the halter of the grand
champion Jersey, and John Howman at the halter of the
grand champion Milking Shorthorn.
shows were not available at press
time and are to be published next
week in luincaster Farming.
However, of special local inter
est, Lebanon Valley Farms, of Pal
myra, showed the reserve grand
champion Guernsey of the Nation
al Guernsey Show. The operation,
run by the Robert and David Smith
families showed Lebanon Valley
B Kan, a senior 3-ycar-old that
was also named the winner of the
Total Performance Cow Award,
presented by the Pennsylvania
Guernsey Breeders Association in
honor of Lee Yost of Benton.