A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 22, 1998
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
KUTZTOWN (Berks
Co.) A senior 3-year-old
Brown Swiss cow owned by Bran
don Treichler of Kutztown late last
week was named supreme champ
ion of the Kutztown Fair daily
shows.
The Brown Swiss, one of two
milking animals entered in the
breed show, outperformed grand
champions from seven other
breeds Ayrshire, Guernsey,
Holstein, Jersey (the largest show
of the colored breeds), Lineback,
Milking Shorthorn, and Red &
White (Holsteins).
The judge for the colored breed
shows was Ray Seidel of Kerchen
hill Holsteins, Kutztown. The
Holstein show was held earlier in
the week and was reported in the
August 15 issue of Lancaster
Fanning.
The Kutztown Fair colored
breed youth and open division
shows are essentially the same.
Treichler not only won supreme
and breed show grand champion
with his Rivervale Brandon Pride,
he also showed the junior champ
ion of the Brown Swiss show, a
junior yearling, Rivervale Chal
lenge Charity.
Jill Vail of Myerstown showed
the reserve grand champion Brown
Swiss, a 4-year-old, Myline Dot
son Ambition.
The reserve junior champion
Brown Swiss was the second place
junior yearling, Rivervale Blend
Georgia, owned by Brett Treichler.
While Vail showed the reserve
grand Brown Swiss, she had a
sweep of the Ayrshire breed with
her entries.
The grand champion Ayrshire
was Vail’s senior 2-year-old, All
mine Heligo’s Ambrosia.
The reserve grand champion
was a 4-year-old, Myline Trident’s
Reebok.
The junior championi Ayrshire
was a junior yearling, Myline
Andres Aspen, while the reserve
junior champion was an intermedi
ate calf. Allmine Heligo
Milwaukee.
Kerry Hoffman shows his grand champion Lineback of
the Kutztown Fair.
Brown Swiss Supreme Of Kutztown Dairy Shows
In the Guernsey breed, the grand
champion was a senior 2-year-old,
Roselyn Prince Jay-ET, showed by
Nathan Phillips of Mertztown. It
was the only Guernsey in milk
exhibited.
The reserve grand champion
was the junior champion, also
exhibited by Phillips, a semior
yearling, Stonemill WG Billy
Faith.
The reserve junior champion
Guernsey was an intermediate
calf, Stonemill WGS Jon Kolean,
owned by Kara Brendlinger of
Kempton.
In the Jersey breed, the senior
and grand champion was a junior
3-year-old, JMJ Imperial Cranber
ry, owned by Jill Neiman of
Fleetwood.
Neiman also showed the reserve
junior champion of the show, a
senior yearling, JMJ Malcolm
Blueberry.
Tire reserve senior and reserve
grand champion was the second
place junior 3-year-old, Limekiln
Lester Jubilee, owned by Benja
min Mast of Oley.
Andrew Youse of Oley showed
the junior champion, an intermeid
ate calf, Sybrook Kent Lynn.
The Lineback breed was repre
sented by one animal, a junior
3-year-old, Pocopson Meadow
Becky, exhibited by Kerry Hoff
man of Bemville.
In the two-animal Red & White
show, tire grand champion was the
junior champion, an intermediate
yearling. Jaylu Adonis Heidi, exhi
bited by Brett Treichler. The
reserve grand champion was the
reserve junior champion, a senior
calf, Fawnridge Needa Jewel,
shown by Brandon Treichler.
In the three animal Milking
Shorthorn show, Joell Koller of
Lecsport showed all animals. His
junior 3-year-old, Pinescdge YoP
la of Kusmar, was senior and grand
champion, while his intermediate
calf, Kusmar Shammrock Patti,
was junior champion and reserve
grand champion.
Roller's senior yearling,
Pinesedge Patti of Kusmar, was
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Joell Koller in the center, showed her champion Milking Shorthorns with help from
friends and family. From the left, Stephanie Orth, Joell, and Keil Yoder.
Com Harvesting Equipment
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The no-till plot was planted into
tye stubble and hairy vetch. The
same applications were applied.
The com picker draws the stalk
into an area that pinches the com
and pulls it off, similar to how it is
done by hand in the field.
According to several growers,
the challenge is coming up with a
machine that can differentiate
two harvesters demonstrated to the crowd included one that uses a rotating
blade and the other with a conventional chopping silage head.
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In a separate demonstration, sweet corn growers were provided information on
several varieties of bicolor sweet corn planted both no-till and conventionally tilled.
The demonstration at the test plots was on a corn picker by a company based in
Wisconsin.
between useful, marketable eats
and those that won’t sell on the
auction block or at the farm mark
et Trouble is, according to a grow
er from Lancaster County, the
machine processes all cars equally.
Variedcs need to be planted, if
using the picker, that mature at the
same dme.
Also, according to an equipment
demonstrator, growers need to
consider several factors before
deciding to pay about $26,500 for
the machine, including materials
and labor cost and sweet corn
market prices, before deciding on
the cost effectiveness of the picker
compared to hand-picking.
The growers had a chance to
look into the wagon at the sweet
com picked by the harvester.
Many noted that the sweet com ear
size was sufficient.
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