Geni Hiestand Chosen to Represent County Poultry Assn
Geni Hiestand a 20 year old from Marietta is selected by Lancaster County Poultry Association to represent the county. She will compete for the state poultry queen title during Pennsylvania Dutch Days in Hershey from August 20 to 25. Her family runs Hiestand Inc and she has experience in egg gathering grading and blood testing breeders.
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Lancaster County Poultry Association
Gen Hiestand
Paul L Huestand
Marietta al
Hiestand
Hershey
Hiestands
Geni
Hiestand, Inc
County Poultry Association
E’town
Farm Calendar: 4H State Days and Milk Producers Picnic
Calendar notes 4H State Days at Penn State on Monday August 5 with a 10 30 a.m. milk producers picnic at Lenape Park Chester County. An 8 00 p.m. Lancaster County Soil and Water District Directors Meet follows at the Farm and Home Center. Next, Wednesday August 10 features an Atlantic Breeders session.
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Penn State University
Interstate Milk Producers Picnic
Lenape Park
Chester County
Lancaster County Soil and Water District
Farm and Home Center
Guernsey Field Day Set for August 13 in Lancaster County
The Lancaster County Guernsey Association will hold its annual Field Day on Tuesday August 13 at the K D Linde Farm nine miles south of Quarryville on Route 47. Activities start at 10:00 am with judge Donald Brown of Apple Brook Guernseys. Afternoon slides and lunch priced at 0.50. Lunch reservations due by August 10 with Lapp Linde or Arthur Breneman. Contact numbers 768-8177 464-3950 or 529-2513.
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Lancaster County Guernsey Association
Linde
Quarryville
Donald Brown
Applebrook Guernseys
Elmer Lapp
Lapp
Arthur Breneman
Pork Producers Asked By Letter For Program Support
Lancaster County Swine Association requests serious support for the Nickels for Profit program started January 1 1968 by the National Pork Producers Council. They urge joining the local group for a yearly fee of $260 and support a voluntary 5 cent checkoff on a $50 hog at market to boost per capita pork consumption.
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Lancaster County Swine Association
National Pork Producers Council
Crossbred Gilts Win At FFA Swine Show
A pair of crossbred gilts won grand and reserve grand championships at the FFA Swine Show held Tuesday morning at the Lancaster Union Stock Yards. The leading gilt moved up from the crossbred class champion with the reserve likely following in sequence.
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Lancaster Union Stock Yards
Merle Groff Tops Lancaster County Plowing Contest
Merle Groff won the Level Land Division with 531 points at Lancaster County Plowing held at Tony Grumelli’s farm near Nine Points. Ivan Yost captured the Contour Division with 487 points, while John C. Campbell led the big plows. Groff, Yost, Campbell will represent Lancaster County at the state contest in Hershey on August 27.
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Tony Grumelli
Ivan Yost
Miss Heistand
Merle Groff
John C. Campbell
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Groff
Christiana al Yost
Garden Spot Young Farmers Association
Box
New Holland
Hershey
Richard Groff
Lititz
Willis Krantz
Quaryville
Richard
Yost
Marvin Zimmerman
East Earl
John E. Campbell
Zimmerman
Risser and Houser Elected Officers in Milk Testers Group
Two Lancaster County Red Rose DHIA milk testers were elected to state association posts. Jay M. Risser became president and Wilbur Houser was chosen secretary at a Penn State meeting last month, announced by Victor Pinstow.
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Lancaster County
Red Rose
DHIA
Pennsylvania State Association of Milk Testers
Victor Pinstow
Jay M. Risser
Lampeter Road
Lancaster
Wilbur Houser
Penn State
Lolita Cow Tops First County Holstein Show
An aged cow won grand champion at Lancaster County Holstein Show at Guernsey Sales Pavilion. Fultonway Ivanhoe Lolita, shown by J M Frey Jr, also claimed senior champion and best udder. Reserve grand champion was Robert Kauffman’s entry. Elizabethtown Ri’s Penn Springs Pioneer Peggy Peggy, Mooseheart Pioneer daughter, earned best udder in her class. Junior champion went to Sunny Craft Farm’s first place senior yearling.
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Lancaster County
Guernsey
Fultonway
J. Mowery Frey Jr
Beaver Valley Pike
Robert Kauffman
Elizabethtown Ri
Penn Springs
Peggy Peggy
Mooseheart
Sunny Craft Farm
Fultonway Ivanhoe Lolita
Sunny Craft
Clarence Stauffer
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Lynn Heistand
Manheim
L. F. Photo
Geni Hiestand
County Poultry Assn
Risser & Houser
Tester Assn
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