Snader Wins Both Top Ribbons In County FFA Hog Show
Jerry Snader of Ephrata R1 showed littermate Hampshire hogs to the top two placings in the first annual county market hog show and sale held at the Green Dragon sponsored by Lancaster County Future Farmers of America. The nineteen year old graduate of Ephrata Area High School is past president of the Cloister Chapter.
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Snader
FFA
Jerry Snader
Green Dragon
Lancaster County
Farm Calendar highlights county 4-H events and fairs
County 4-H rounds up foods vegetables and flowers at Penn Manor High School August 6. Greenhouse operators and florists conference at Penn State August 6 7 and 8. Poultry growers association picnic at Daniel Good s home Columbia August 8. 4-H clubs meet at Lititz Springs Park August 8. Wildlife clubs tour Glatfelter Woodlands York County August 9. Horse show at Glick s Showgrounds Bare He Gemserie Arete.
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Red Rose Baby Reef
Lamb Club
Melvin Rohrer
Lititz
Meadow Hills
New Danville Pike
Penn Manor High School
Lancaster County “Poultry Growers Association
Daniel Good
Columbia
Lititz-Manheim
Lititz Springs Park
County
Glatfelter Paper Company Experimental Woodlands
York County
Columbia Bridge
Boots and Sadales
Reamstown Park
Glick’s Showgrounds
Holstein Tops June D H I A Records in Lancaster Herds
A Holstein cow in John A. Lapp’s Gordonville herd finished a 305 day lactation with 19 717 pounds of milk and 1 076 pounds of butterfat to top the Red Rose DHIA records for June. Bess, nine, had 5 5 percent and Jane from Henry Kettering’s Lititz herd produced 20 611 milk and 825 butterfat with 4 0 test. The high butterfat average came from Paul M Yeagley’s eleven registered Holsteins at Manheim with 66 pounds butterfat from 1 768 pounds milk. The second high average was Vincent H Hoover’s nineteen registered Holsteins at New Providence. Continued on Page 16.
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John A. Lapp
Gordonville Ril
Bess
Henry Kettering
Lititz
Jane
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Paul M. Yeagley
Manheim Ri
Vincent H. Hoover
New Providence
Holstein
Marilyn F. Harbold
Elizabethtown
Nannettee Stauffer
Ephrata
Paul E Muller
Linglestown
David S Muller
York Ré
Henry Hershey
John Bartsch
Richard S. Hess
Strasburg
Bart F Noel
Hanover
Charles F Smith and
Robert L. Hoover
Denver
F. Glenn Petter
Carlisle
W. Levis Phipps
Wilmington
Del
Delaware Valley College
Doyerstown
William M. High, Jr
Pottstown
Sinking Springs Farm
York
Robert L. Myers
New Freedom
George W. Strock, Jr
Mechanicsburg
Donald L. Hershey
Manheim
Robert Hess
Paul
Lucille Fissel
Biglerville Sr
John M. Umble
Robert E. Gilt
Littlestown
Aaron B. Weaver
Narvon
Hare
J. Brubaker
Mount Joy
Neevin
Judy
Osborndale Ivanhoe
Earl C. Stauffer
Cochran General
Lester High
Charlies Martin
Lionville
James Peeple
Oxford Ri
Mary Ellen
Harry Mumma
Guernsey
Tyimble
Kenneth Zurin
Rei
Tad
Canton Show Crowned by York Breeder in Brown Swiss
York breeder Wilson W Glatfelter shown a seven year old cow to the grand championship at the Canton 5 Brown Swiss show held at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeders Cooperative grounds. Glatfelter also won Senior Get of Sire with Adrienne Luckenbaugh and claimed top junior calf. He earned multiple ribbons including second in produce of dam and junior yearling with other placements. Gerald C. Magee showed the junior champion for Newburg.
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Southeastern Pennsylvania
Clyde W. Magee
Newburg
Guernsey
Rutter Brothers
York
Ayrshire
Bywaters and Horn
Dover
Jersey
Margaret Wollaston
Toughkenamon
L. F
Wilson W Glatfelter
Glatfelter
Adrienne Luckenbaugh
Spring Grove
Gerald C. Magee
FFA
Wilson Gladfelter
Only One Repeat Champion In SPABC Dairy Show
The 12th annual Southeastern Artificial Breeders Cooperative show crowned Mau-Wen Lucifer Sadie Star, an eight year old Holstein co owned by Paul and Lucille Fissel, as grand champion. Junior championships were earned by Marilyn Harbold for Holstein, with other breeds showing strong results. 243 Holstein head entered as judges named top five placements across breeds.
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Sadie Star
Paul
Lucille Fissel
Biglerville
Richard Keene
Marilyn Harbold
Elizabethtown
Jean ‘Lauer
Dover
Jersey
Margaret Wollastown
Toughkenamon
George and
Mary Leeds
Downingtown
Richard Groff Wins State Plowing Contest by Narrow Margin
Richard Groff of Lititz R38 captured the state level land contest with 517 points from a 70 by 300 feet field in Lancaster County. Wilmer McDonald 512, Karl Kroek 511, Merle Groff 508, J. Everett Kreider 502, David Buckwalter 496, Vorney Longenecker 494, and Vincent Becker 461 followed as over 150 spectators watched the competition.
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Richard Groff
Lancaster County
Groff
Wilmer McDonald
Lancaster
Karl Kroek
Manheim
Merle Groff
J. Everett Kreider
Quarryville
David Buckwalter
Lititz
Vorney Longenecker
Vincent Becker
Five Day Weather Forecast Warm with Scattered Showers
Temperatures will average around 66 degrees at night and 86 by afternoon over the five days. Little variation early, slight warming toward the end. Rain chances total 0.2 to 0.7 inch with scattered showers or thundershowers late Saturday and again later in the period.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ephrata Area
Manor Young Farmers
Safe Harbor Park
Penn State Univerity
D.hiia
Canton
Spabc Dairy Show
Carl Baldwin
Witeford
Edgar Bywaters
Harris Horn
John Stick
Cuthbert Nairn
Swiss
Donald Trimble
Quarryville R1
Mary Ellen Mumma
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