Buckwalter dominates at Lancaster 4H Swine Show
Richard K Buckwalter of Lititz R3 wins both championship and reserve titles at the Annual 4H Swine Show at Lancaster Stockyards. Hogs from Dutch Valley Farm Manheim R. sell for 71 and 40 cents per pound to Penn Packing Philadelphia. Overall sale totals reach 6546.7 dollars on 28 315 pounds. Also champion Yorkshire best showman. Berkshires and Chester White and Duroc Jerseys divisions noted with local growers.
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Lancaster Stockyards
Richard Buckwalter
Lititz
Barrows
Richard K Buckwalter
Dutch Valley Farm
Manheim R
Penn Packing
Philadelphia
Richard
Yorkshire
Richard E Buckwalter
Berkshie
Mar Ln
Crowning of State Poultry Queen at Hershey Park
Farm Calendar notes event lineup with Crowning of State Poultry Queen at the Hershey Park Bandshell on Saturday afternoon. Also listed are DHIA Directors meeting at the Farm and Home Center Monday evening and the State and National Plowing Contest at Hershey Tuesday through Thursday with continuation on page 8.
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State
Hershey Park
DHIA
Farm and Home Center
Hershey
DHIA Reports High June Herd Averages at Red Rose Farm
The Red Rose Research Farm Lancaster led June with a 531 pounds daily milk yield from 262 cows producing 893 percent cow days. Willow Houser, Head Tester, notes 37 percent fat and 196 pounds butterfat per day as part of the high herd record. Stanley G Greime Manheim R4 posted the second high herd for the third month with 23 cows and 826 percent cow days.
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Red Rose
Pitney
Lancaster
Willow Houser
Stanley G Greime
Manheim
Earl Stauffer Chosen Lancaster FFA Star Farmer 1968
Earl Stauffer an Ephrata High School senior was named Lancaster County Star Farmer of 1968 at a Farm and Home Center interview. The 16 year old son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Stauffer won the honor and a trip to the National FFA Convention in Kansas City Missouri in October, selecting over three other contestants.
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Ephrata High School
FFA
Lancaster County Star Farmer
Earl Stauffer
Clarence Stauffer
Ephrata al
Kansas City
Local Holstein Assn Sponsors Youth in State Contest
Lancaster County Holstein Association sponsors a local contest for 4 H and FFA youth as a preliminary feature to the annual state Holstein Boy and Girl contest. Donald Eby of Gordonville RI chairs the local youth committee and notes the program honors junior members with registered Holsteins showing leadership.
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Local Holstein Assn
Lancaster County Holstein Association
FFA
Pennsylvania Holstein Assn
Donald Eby
Gordonville Ri
Versatile Young Farmer Faces Tomato Dilemma on Quarryville Farm
Jim Esbenshade, 21, operates a diversified Quarryville R2 farm with 22 acres of tomatoes. He buses produce to cannery markets in Virginia and Delaware and sometimes calls in field pickers due to the Campbell Soup Co strike. He fears losses if the strike lasts and notes one third of his crop may go to waste. He restores old machinery, including two Massey Ferguson tractors, as part of his farming strategy.
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Jim Esbenshade
Quarryville R2
Virginia Main
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Campbell Soup Co
Jim
Campbell Company
Milton
Solanco High School
Texas
Oklahoma
James Esbenshade
Farm And Home Debt Reduced at Center Board Meeting
The Farm and Home Center debt fell from over 500000 to 190000 after applying Esbenshade Estate funds. The board paid Buckwalter Construction Co. 6000 and agreed to 1000 more to architect Haak and Kauffman, leaving 2000 in balance. Snavely Garber led the session.
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Foundation
Farm and Home Center
Esbenshade Estate Fund
Buckwalter Construction Co
Haak and Kauffman
Garber
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Buckwalter
L. F
Dennis Shoemaker
Bainbridge
Franklin Ruess
Ephrata
Scott Heisey
Elizabethtown
Kerry Boyd
Hampshire
FFA Co. Star Farmer
Esbenshade
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