)lstein Hall-Of-Famers Jefferson Yoder of Mifflin County was honored as a 1999 Hall of Fame inductee during this year’s banquet. Since he couldn’t attend last year’s convention, Yoder and his wife Reba accepted the award this year played piano. On April 10, they’ll celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. They have three children, Deb, Jeff, and Mike. In 1956, Harrison sold the farm where Miller grew up and PS Si i' .M / w - ' helped him purchase the Great- View Farm in Fishing Creek Valley where Miller’s legacy of great cattle began. In 1962, Miller talked his dad into classifying their herd. Un fortunately Harrison was killed in a farming accident just days before the classification. Miller decided to classify anyway be cause he felt his dad would have wanted it that way, and the herd ended up with four Very Goods and the rest all scoring 80 points and above. In 1967, Miller held the first Great-View dispersal sale to purchase the farm from his mother. He kept the yearlings and calves for his next herd and began milking again in 1968. The first Excellent came to Great-View when Miller pur chased a 3-year-old Don Auger Promise Lad daughter from Paul and Clarence Lytle in Mid dletown. On her second classifi cation at Great-View, she went Excellent. The first Excellent cow bred at Great-View was a calf held off from the 1967 dispersal. Great- They go tdgetfte^^|| just like bacon and q|j 4 . \ , v s Wm '»* I *■ t (Turn to Pago A 24) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 26, 2000-A23 Dieter Krieg Robert McKowen Renee Bates Farmshine Holstein World PA Holstein Profiles The editors of four farm publications were honored for their work in support of the Pennsylvania Holstein Associa tion at their annual meeting last week in Carlisle. They are: Everett Newswanger, editor of Lancaster Farming; Robert McKowen, editor of Holstein Pennsylvania Holstein News and Holstein World; Renee Bates, editor of Pennsylvania Holstein Pro files; and Dieter Krieg, editor of Farmshine. In the photo, Newswanger, left, receives his award from James Burdette, association president. SSf.ji m i' vi*i »-> 1 l
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