New Holland FFA Seniors To Fly to National Convention
Seven seniors in vocational agriculture at New Holland High School and their teacher will fly to the National Convention of Future Farmers of America in Kansas City next month as guests of New Holland Machine Company. Others attending include Paul Trimble and Clarence Bauman. Harold Brubaker, a state FEA officer and dairy judge champion. and Jerry Breneman of Penn Manor High School, who placed third in state livestock judging.
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New Holland High School
National Convention of
Future Farmers of America
Kansas City
New Holland Machine Company
Paul Trimble
Quarryville Ri
Clarence Bauman
Lancaster R7
FEA
Harold Brubak
Mount Joy
FFA
Jerry Breneman
Penn Manor High School
Farm Calendar Highlights Early October Expositions
Entries due Oct 1 for the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition and Eastern National Livestock Exposition. NEPPC annual meeting Oct 2–4 in Harrisburg. Oct 3–6 features the 30 P Wie-Baby Beef show at Manheim Farm Show with evening country music and 4-H Beef Club at Lampeter. Oct 4 includes swine and steer shows at New Holland Fair with judging and a parade planned at Manheim Farm Show.
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Northeast Poultry Producers Council
Neppcc
Harrisburg
Manheim Farm Show
Lampeter School
Calves Awarded to Future Farmers at West Lampeter Fair
Three Future Farmers received purebred dairy calves at the West Lampeter Community Fair. Holstein calf from John J Herr’s herd went to Stanley Graver, Lad abou Gypsy Hall Road. Guernsey calf to John Campbell. Ayrshire calf to Thomas Zartman. Recipients must raise calves under vocational agriculture supervision and sell them to fund their education.
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West Lampeter
John J. Herr
Mount Joy
Stanley Graver
Gypsy Hall Road
Lampeter - Strasburg High School
Shoemaker Brothers
Kirkwood
John Campbell
New Holland
John
Garden Spot
Ayrshire
David Mharnish
Thomas Zartman
Ephrata
Ephrata High School
Earl Livengood Wins Lampeter Swine Show
Seventeen year old Earl Livengood of Lancaster swept the market hog division at the West Lampeter Fair on Wednesday. Top award in the breeding swine division went to John Stoner of Strasburg for his aged Yorkshire. Livengood, who farms with his parents Mr and Mrs Phares Livengood, took the pen of two classes with two heavyweight Yorkshire hogs averaging 257 pounds.
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Earl Livengood
Morningside Drive
Lancaster
West Lampeter
John Stoner
Strasburg Rl
Yorkshire
Livengood
Phares Livengood
Four County 4-H Team to Judge at NEPPCO Meet
Four Lancaster County youths Roger Stone Robert Hoover and Kenneth Dombach will represent 4-H and FFA at the Northeast Poultry Producers Council meeting in Harrisburg. They compete with 11 other state teams in the 4-H poultry judging contest under coach Winthrop Merriam assistant county agent.
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4-H
FFA
Northeast Poultry Producers Council
Harrisburg
United States
Lancaster County
Roger Stone
Robert Hoover
Kenneth Dombach
Pennsylvania
Winthrop Merriam
Wesley Mast Sweeps Ephrata Fair Beef Show Honors
Wesley Mast from Elverson claimed grand champion with a 950 pound Angus steer bred by Kinloch Farms at the Ephrata Fair Beef Show. Nancy Frey of Marietta Ri also earned reserve champion with a Hereford and placed in the grooming and type judging. Judge Gerald Hess faced a downpour that moved the judging indoors to Keller building as 15 Angus and eight Herefords vied for top showmanship placings.
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Wesley Mast
Elverson
Ephrata Fair
Kinloch
Wesley
Nancy Frey
Marietta Ri
Gerald Hess
Elizabethtown
Northumberland County
Keller
Lampeter Daily Show Sees Repeat Champion and Reserve
Rohier Witmer shows four year old to top in Sucrnsey division for second year. Dorothy Garber takes junior calf reserve in Holstein group. J Mowery Frey Jr exhibits Oak ton BB Mistress Jo to win black and white division. J Robert Hess repeats as reserve champion in breed events.
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Rohier Witmer
Willow Street
Mac
Sophia
Sucrnsey
Dorothy Garber
Mowery Frey, Jr
Hans Hei
Oakton
New York
Robert Hess
Strasburg
Lampeter Fair Beef Show Winners Highlight Larry Weaver
Larry Weaver, a 16 year old future farmer from New Holland Al, won the West Lampeter Fair beef show grand championship with a 925 pound angus named Pap. He follows his prior year's title at New Holland Fair and will enter summer shows at Timonium Maryland, while reserve champion Hereford 1160 pounds named Pol was shown by Dorothy Grott, a Lancaster 4 H club member.
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Lampeter
Larry Weaver
Angus
West Lampeter
Larry Weare
New Holland
Lester Weaver
New Holland Fair
Larry
John Nolt
Lebanon County
Timonium
Maryland
Dorothy Grott
Lancaster
Pol
Rabies Outbreak Noted In Two Penn'a Counties
Harrisburg authorities from the Department of Agriculture and the Game Commission mobilize to combat a rabies outbreak in Bradford and Tioga Counties. Since January, fourteen cases involve foxes, skunks and raccoons likely transmitting to domestic animals. Bradford reports three cows and three foxes affected. Tioga reports three cows, three cats, one dog and one fox. No cases were reported in 1961.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
The
Game Commission
Bradford
Tioga
Five Day Weather Forecast Temperature Trend With Light Rain
The forecast calls for temperatures averaging two to seven degrees below normal over the next five days with nights around 52 and afternoons near 72. A cooler trend develops by Saturday with little daily change afterward and rainfall remaining light, less than a half inch mainly toward the period's end.
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Lampeter Dairy Champions
Guernsey
Rohrer Witmer
J. Mowery Frey, Jr
Hans Herr
L. F
New Holland Future Farmers
Neppco
Carson Kauffman
Willow Re Street
Mae Mast
Pbs
Lampeter Daily Show
S. K Shotsberger
Penn’a
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