County Fair Season Ends
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Sheep Show Results
Grand champion honors in
sheep competition went to
Elizabeth Herr, Narvon RDI,
who captured the trophy with a
heavyweight Hampshire market
Tom Ruoss, a sixth-grade student at the Brownstown
Elementary School, captured grand champion honors on
Thursday afternoon in hog competition at the New Holland
Fair.
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lamb. Elizabeth also had the
grand champion pen of three. Her
sister, Barbara, had the reserve
champion animal, as well as the
reserve pen of three.
Sheep show winners, by breed,
were:
Ephraia, Pa.
717-733-2218
Bill Alberte, right, a burly pressman for the
Ephrata Review, was this year’s winner at
the Ephrata Fair Milking Contest. He's
Cheviot
Ed Donough, champion ewe;
Darvin Davis, champion market
lamb.
Dorset
Tim Donough, Ist place
yearling ram; Barbara Herr, Ist
place ram lamb, also breed
champion ram; Barbara Herr,
Ist place yearling ewe, also
champion ewe; Ed Donough, Ist
place ewe lamb; Barbara Herr,
champion lightweight market
lamb, champion heavyweight
market lamb and champion pen
of 3.
Hampshire
Clyde Brubaker, Ist place
yearling ewe, also Ist place ewe
lamb and champion ewe; Ken
neth Brubaker, Ist place light
weight market lamb; Elizabeth
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Herr, champion heavyweight
market lamb and champion pen
of 3.
Ed Donough, champion ewe
lamb; Christian Herr, champion
lightweight and heavyweight
lambs, and champion pen of 3.
Steve Strauss, champion
lightweight, heavyweight and
pen of 3.
Margaret Herr, champion
lightweight, heavyweight and
pen of 3.
Robert Strauss won the senior
champion showmanship and
fitting honors in sheep com
petition, while Elizabeth Herr
took the junior trophy. Other
junior winners were Richard
New Holland
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 6,1973
iwn here being congratulated by last
year’s winner, Mrs. Helen Stuber and radio
personality Bobby Montgomery.
Strauss, Kenneth Brubaker,
Sarah Lynn Brubaker and
Jennifer Polly.
Shropshire
Southdown
Suffolk
Champion New Holland Steer
Sells for $1.06 a pound
The grand champion steer at
the New Holland Farmer’s Fair
topped all records this year as it
was sold for $1.06 a pound at the
New Holland Sales Stables,
immediately following the shows.
The 1,108-pound crossbred
steer netted Cindy Yoder,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Yoder, Morgantown RDI,
$1,174.48 plus a five-dollar bill
presented by the stables to each
entry.
Cindy’s high-priced steer was
auctioned to Norman Kolb,
Pitney Road, a livestock broker.
The reserve champion steer of
the show was owned by Gerald
Eberly, East Earl RDI, His 1,060-
pound Hereford was bought by
Gordon Fritz, a Smoketown
livestock dealer, for 61 cents a
pound.
The reserve champion
Hereford was shown by Cathy
Martin, New Holland RDI. The
champion Angus steer was shown
by Lisa Hoover, Gap RDI, which
brought 56 cents a pound from
Harold Hess, representing the
Farmers First National Bank of
Intercourse.
Joe Weaver, Gap RDI, showed
the reserve Angus steer and
Gordon Hoover, Gap RDI, had
the reserve champion
crossbreed.
Winners in the showmanship
competition were Linda High,
Lancaster, first; Jeff Martin,
second; Cindy Yoder, third;
Richard Groff, Leola, fourth.
Cathy Martin placed first in the
fitting competition with Cindy
Yoder finishing second; Linda
High, third; and Gerald Eberly,
fourth.
The grand champion hog of the
show, also held Thursday af
ternoon, was owned by 12-year
old Thomas W. Ruoss, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Frank Ruoss,
Ephrata RD2. _
The proud young sixth-grader
at Brownstown Elementary
School has had a quite successful
year with his hogs. Not only did
he win the showmanship award
at New Holland, but also he won
the title at Ephrata and
Manheim
The judge praised the 205
pound Duroc gilt for her trimness
and length.
The reserve champion hog was
shown by Susan Martin, New
Holland RD2 ”
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