Maryland 4-H Youth Win Louisville Contest
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The
Maryland 4-H Dairy Cattle
Judging Team completed the
season with a victory at the
recent North American
International Livestock
Exposition (NAILE).
Following the Maryland
State Contest in early
September, the top 14 individu
als in the senior division were
invited to participate in a day
and-a-half workout to compete
for eight positions on two judg
ing teams.
The youth representing
Maryland on the team at the
NAILE were Mike Creek,
Hagerstown, Md.; Jeena
Rinehart, Taneytown, Md.;
Barbara Schenning, Bel Air,
World Record Milk Production
Shattered By Wisconsin Holstein
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - A
Wisconsin Holstein recently
shattered the previous world
record for milk production, pro
ducing nearly 68,000 pounds of
milk in one year. Muranda
Oscar Lucinda, owned by Floyd
and Lloyd Baumann, and Fred
Lang, of Marathon, Wis., pro
duced 67,914 pounds of milk in
365 days on twice-daily milk
ings.
Adams County Holstein
Club Reorganizes
GETTYSBURG (Adams
Co.) The Adams County Hol
tein Club held a reorganizational
meeting recently at the Penn State
Extension Office in Gettysburg.
John Clowney of Lagging
Stream Farm in Gettysburg was
elected president of the board of
directors, while the outgoing presi
dent, Kevin Holtzinger of East
Berlin, was elected vice president.
Phil Van Lieu of East Berlin was
elected secretary, and Dean
Lobaugh of Aspers was re-elected
treasurer.
Marvin Brown of Littlestown
was named to serve as the club’s
representative on the board of the
state Pennsylvania Holstein
Association.
Tom Piper, county agent emeri
tus, was elected news reporter.
Other directors on the 1998
board include Donald Rhodes Jr.
of Gettysburg, Rose Wenger of
Littlestown, Todd Gulich of Lit
tlestown, Daniel Waybright of
Gettysburg, and Cheryl Ulrich of
New Oxford.
In other business, the board
approved a change in the term of
office for its representative to the
state board (state director).
The board changed its policy by
reducing the term of office of its
state director from three years to
one year; and by having the direc
tor elected by membership at the
club’s annual meeting, instead of
having the board appoint a director
during its reorganizations!
meeting.
In committee leadership
appointments, Marvin Brown was
named to head its Membership
Committee; Dan Way bright to
head its Special Activities Com
mittee; Kevin Holtzinger, Sales
Activities Committee; Todd
Md.; and Amanda Valentine,
Emmitsburg, Md. Anne Davis,
Union Bridge, Md., assisted Dr.
Lee Majeskie, Department of
Animal Sciences, University of
Maryland, in coaching the team.
A total of 20 teams and 78
contestants participated in the
competition. For individual
placings, Jeena Rinehart placed
Ist in Holsteins, 2nd in
Ayrshires and Guernseys, 7th in
Brown Swiss, and 14th in
Jerseys. She placed sth in oral
reasons and was high individual
in the contest, winning by 11
points with a total of 620 points.
Mike Creek placed first in
Guernseys and Jerseys, and
16th in Ayrshires and Brown
Swiss. Mike placed 2nd in oral
reasons and was 2nd overall in
This is the second world
record producer owned by the
Baumanns. In October 1996,
their home-bred cow, Twin-B-
Dairy Aerosta Lynn, produced
63,444 pounds of milk in 365
days on twice-daily milkings.
With the completion of her
365-day record in November
1997, Lucinda’s record of 3-04 2x
67.914 M 2216 F 2248 P sur
passed the record of Twin-B-
Dairy Aerosta Lynn, Lucinda is
Gulick, Breed Improvement Com
mittee; Holtzinger, Rhodes and
Wenger, Show Committee; Van
Lieu and Ulrich, Annual Meeting
Committee; Lobaugh, Clowney,
Brown, Ulrich and Holtzinger,
Budget Committee.
Leadership for the club’s Junior
Activities Committee is to be
appointed at the next board meet
ing. In the meantime. Van Lieu is
to contact neighboring county
clubs to leant how their youth
programs are organized.
Also, a chairman for the Cheese
Sale Committee is to be named
later.
In other matters, membership
renewal issues were discussed. It
was decided that dues-delinquet
members would be contacted prior
to a membership meeting set to be
held Dec. 29 at the Extension
Office.
As a result of discussions of pro
jects and events the club supports,
Gulich is to explore the potential
for a co-sponsored calf sale; Way
bright and Ulrich are to develop a
proposal for an out-of-county tour;
and Waybright is to make plans for
a summer twilight meeting on a
county dairy farm.
Plans to co-sponsor a county
dairy princess were tabled, pend
ing the identification of qualified,
interested candidates.
In a discussion of youth awards,
the board requested dial its Budget
Committee come up with sugges
tions for additional awards to be
initiated in 1988.
In other news, Clowney is to
organize the club’s ice cream sale
fund raiser for the carnival in Har
ney, Maryland.
Also, the board took under
advisement a letter offering sug
gestions for different club projects.
the contest.
Barbara Schenning placed
sth in Jerseys and 9th in
Holsteins. She ranked Bth both
in oral reasons and overall in
the contest. Amanda Valentine
placed 10th in oral reasons in
the contest and ranked 13 and
14th, respectively in Holsteins
and Guernseys.
For team results, Maryland
ranked Ist in Guernseys,
Jerseys, 2nd in Ayrshires and
Holsteins, and 6th in Brown
Swiss. The team talked their
way to first place in oral reasons
and ranked first overall in the
contest, out-distancing the sec
ond-place team from Wisconsin
by 33 points. Minnesota ranked
third followed by Ohio and
Missouri.
the fourth cow to produce more
than 60,000 pounds of milk in
365 days. Previous record hold
ers include, Raim Mark Jinx,
with a 3x 365-day record of
60,440 pounds milk, and Bell-Jr
Rosabel-ET, with a 3x 365-day
record of 60,380 pounds milk.
Lucinda (VG-86) was born
July 1,1993. She is sired by Art-
Acres Ned Boy Oscar-ET and
out of High-Sights Cleitus Lulu,
and 87-point Cleitus daughter.
She is first on the National
Leaders List for milk in the 2x
305-day junior three-year-old
class, and first for protein and
fifth for fat in the same class.
The herd was verification tested
three times during her lactation.
Lloyd Baumann said Lucinda
is given no special treatment in
the herd - “she’s right there with
all the others.” BST was admin
istered during her lactation.
“When she had a good first
lactation (44,950 pounds milk in
365 days) we were hoping she
World Records for Milk Production
Muranda Oscar Lucinda-ET
Floyd & Lloyd Baumann & Fred Lang
Marathon, WI
Completed November 1997
67,914 pounds milk 2x 365-day
Twin-B-Dairy Aerosta Lynn
Floyd and Lloyd Baumann, Wausau, WI
Completed August 1996
63,444 pounds milk 2x 365-day
Raim Mark Jinx
Raims Dairy, Cedaredge, CO
Completed May 1995
60,440 pounds milk 3x 365-day
Bell-Jr Rosabel-ET
Bell-Jr. Group, Calhan, CO
Completed January 1995
60,380 pounds milk 3x 365-day
Robthom Suzet Paddy Skagvale Graceful Hattie
Robert M. Thomson Jr., Springfield, MO Tenneson Bros., Sedro Woolley, WA
Completed August 1993 Completed October 1971
59,300 pounds milk 2x 365-day 44,019 pounds milk 2x 365-day
Are you into it ?
Maryland 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Team from left, Anne
Davis, assistant coach; Mike Creek and Dr. Lee Majeskie,
coach. Seated from left, Barbara Schenning, Jeena
Rinehart, and Amanda Valentine.
would do well if she stayed on
the same track,” he added.
“She’s the type of cow that’s ‘all
milk’.”
He also said she had
remained steady and strong the
entire lactation, and that good
feed management contributed to
her production. “If you have a
good feeding program and good
forages, the cows will milk,” he
noted. He estimated Lucinda is
consuming close to 80 pounds of
dry matter daily.
Lucinda has two milking
daughters in the herd, a two-
Holstein Association USA
Tullando Royalty Maxima
Tullando Farm, Inc., Orford, NH
Completed December 1992
58,952 pounds milk 3x 365-day
Beecher Arlinda Ellen
Beecher Holsteins, Rochester, IN
Completed October 1975
55,661 pounds milk 2x 365-day
Breezewood Patsy Bar Pontiac
Gelbke Brothers, Vienna, OH
Completed May 1974
45,270 pounds milk 2x 365-day
year-old Darkstar and a two
year-old Ethan. Langs-Twin B
D-Star Jolie is recently fresh
and has a 93-day record of
11.298 M 308 F 352 P. Langs-
Twin-B Lacey-ET has a 237 day
record of 28.848 M 942 F 986 P.
“It’s a good family,” Lloyd said of
the group. The Baumanns plan
on implementing an embryo
transfer program very soon with
Lucinda.
“If there was any cow that
could have made this much
milk, it would have been her,”
she said. “She’s built to milk.”
Mowry Prince Corinne
Clarence and Kenneth Mowry, Roaring
Spring, PA
Completed December 1974
50,759 pounds milk 2x 365-day