Hoover VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff NORTH CORNWALL (Leba non Co.) Nelson Ebersole is probably more widely known in his Lebanon County community for his Annville-based real estate and auctioneering businesses. What many may not know is that he also has had a life-long interest in Holsteins and currently has a farm with about 30 registered Holsteins. Bradley Hoover holds the halter of his prize 4-H chain calf while sponsors Elsie and Nelson Ebersole, of Ebersole Auctioneering and Suburban Realty, present it to Hoover. f Farmer Boy Ag Systems : —I v % - >* - THANKS and CONGRATULATIONS TO David and Donna Etchberger Featuring: A Division of (OP Feeding Systems Full Line of Parts in Hours: Non-Fri 7 to 5:30 Stock For Your Poultry, Hog Sat 7:30 to Noon and Cattle Needs 24 Hour Farmer Boy Ag Systems Service Inc. Prices 410 East Lincoln Avenue, Myerstown, PA 17067 „ _ B/a 717-866-7565 • 1-800-845-3374 '“iSw™ Wins 4-H Chain Calf On Tuesday, in conjunction with the Lebanon Area Fair youth dairy day activities! on behalf of his two businesses he presented a regis tered Holstein to the winning youth of an essay contest Ebersole made possible. Judged by an independent com mittee, the contest was set up by Ebersole to create an opportunity like the one he benefitted from as a youth. He said he wanted to return the . .vt favor. See, when he was young, he won a similar contest He said that when he was 12, he worked all summer on an uncle’s farm milking cows, baling hay, hauling manure, etc., and with the money earned, bought a Holstein calf and enough feed for the calf. That calf died. Distraught but not discouraged, he entered an essay contest for a chain calf that was offered by the Northern Lebanon FFA chapter. A chain calf contest is one in which the recipient of the chain calf raises that calf, breeds it back and then donates the first heifer calf back in order to hold another contest and continue to provide the opportunity to own and breed cattle. If no heifers are bom, the bull calves are sold and the money used to purchase a heifer to be offered as a contest calf. The gift keeps on giving. Speakers WESTMINSTER. Md. Car roll County recently held its annu al 4-H public speaking contest. A total of 112 4-H members presented 160 speeches at the Ag Center in Westminster. 4-H speakers received top hon ors at the Carroll County 4-H Public Speaking Contest in the senior division (members ages 14-18). They are Rebecca Dowls ley, champion radio address; Lau ra Gibson, champion prepared speech and radio address; Tamyra Robrecht, champion prepared and extemporaneous speeches; Rachel Dyky, reserve champion prepared speech; and Amy Davidson, reserve champion, extempora- /4^s^afSr^ A Division of <o|) Fans and Controls Ebersole said he contributed the calf Tuesday because, “I wanted to give back something to the com munity because of how good the Lord has been to me and I hope it will start somebody else in the Holstein business.” In his own case, Ebersole won the Northern Lebanon FFA essay contest and the calf was an Osbom dale Ivaphoe daughter, which Holstein breeders know turned out to be an excellent pedigree. “And that’s how I got interested in Holsteins,” he said. After high school he worked for Atlantic Breeders Cooperative as an artificial insemination techni cian and serviced more than 25,000 cows. Later his auctioneering busi ness grew, as well as his Suburban Realty business, both located along Main Street in Annville. He approached Lebanon 4-H leaders about his plan for a contest calf and with a go-ahead, he pur- Receive Top neous. Reserve champions were Jessica Fritz and Amy Petkovsek. In the Intermediate Division, 4-H’ers ages 11-13, who partici pated in the Carroll County 4-H Public Speaking Contest and received the highest awards are Danielle Wilmsen, reserve champion prepared speech; Sam Chamelin, reserve champion extemporaneous speech; Amanda Dell, champion prepared speech; Emily Hester, reserve champion radio address; Sara Kopp, reserve champion prepared speech; and Ashley Szymanski, champion radio address. Others were Blair Mersinger, Emily Chamelin, Heather Weisse, and Gary of Myerstown, PA for choosing Farmer - BoyAg Systems, Inc. to construct r new 48’ x 500’ Tunnel ntilated Broiler House! /Mfc Poultry Contact Provided by dVn* FAMERS PRIDE INC. Fredericksburg, PA Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 3, 19M-A25 <!!§> Feed Bin and Aw chased Valley-Pond Farm Mark Ann, bom Oct 10,1995, from Her shey Bare, a local dairyman who has helped many times with com munity agriculture projects and programs. Ebersole raised the calf to its current age. This one shouldn’t die. Seven youth responded to the contest and essays were to be about why the youth wanted the calf, and how they would take care of it While a committee made the final selection, Ebersole said he looked at all the essays and that all the applications were "wonderful.” The winner was Bradley Hoov er, son of Reid and Dianne Hoover, Lebanon. A broadly smiling Bradley seemed a little too excited to talk, though he said that in brief, he wrote in his essay that he would take care of the calf and that he wanted to breed back an even bet ter calf to pass along to the next guy (or girl). Honors Brauning. Winning honors in the Junior Division (4-H’ers between ages 8 and 10 years) in the Carroll Coun ty 4-H Public Speaking Contest were Heather Withncll, champion extemporaneous speech; Rebecca Fouls, reserve champion radio address; Heather Slivccky, champion prepared speech and reserve champion extempora neous Kim Bosley, reserve champion prepared speech; Sandy Bolm, champion extemporaneous and prepared speech; Katie Bass ler, champion radio address; Maryann Pctkovsek, reserve champion extemporaneous; Whit ney Dell, reserve champion radio address; and Danielle Hess. i ’vw* 8* . . / * iers
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