—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct. 11. 1975 28 Manheim Fair celebrates 22nd year I Continued from Pan 20|. second-place lightweight Hampshire market lamb, first-place pen of three Hampshire market lambs, champion Dorset ewe, reserve champion pen of Hampshire lambs, and the third place Dorset market lamb. Barbara has been a member of the beef and sheep club for four years and says she really enjoys it. "My family has always had sheep and I just picked it up," she explained when asked how she became in terested in the animals. She has 10 Dorsets and Hamp shires of her own. Henry Gruber (left background) livestock buyer for A&B Packing Co., looks over a class of FFA steers Gruber judged the popular event on during the Manheim Fair. Head Wednesday evening. Rick Pfautz, Ephrata R 2, was named as the senior champion showman during the hog show at the Manheim Farm Show Pfautz showed several of his Duroc hogs at the event. Barbara’s sister, Elizabeth, continued her winning ways by the grand champion pen of lambs, reserve grand champion individual lamb, champion senior showman, first-place heavyweight Suffolk lamb, first-place lightweight Suffolk lamb and champion Suffolk lamb. The 16-year old sheep enthusiast and member of the Red Rose Baby Beef and Sheep Club is a junior at Garden Spot High School. Thirteen-year old Chris Herr had the champion carcass lamb at the Manheim Fair Manhelm Fair, and was reserve champion junior showman. Active in sheep showing for five years, he says "it’s fun.’’ The family has between 80-100 head of sheep on their farm near Narvon. Other first-place sheep show winners at the fair - the last of the season in l,an caster County - were: Ken Burkhart. Denver, Hamp shire ram lamb: Sarah Lynn Brubaker. Lancaster, ewe lamb; Richard Strauss, Ephrata, 1-2 year old Hampshire ewe; Kevin Rohrer, Manheim. fat lightweight lamb, and pen of pictures fat lambs; Lewis Good, Reinholds, Suffolk ewe lamb; and individual lightweight fat Suffolk iamb. More first-place winners are; Richard Strauss, 1-2 year old Suffolk ewe; Good, pen of Suffolk fat lambs; Ken Burkhart, Dorset ewe; John Zander, Kirkwood, Dorset ewe lamb: and individual heavyweight Dorset fat lamb. Kevin Rohrer had the individual Dorset fat lamb and pen of fat Dorset lambs. In Southdown competition, Tim Donough of Manheim R 4 ran away with the rib bons. Paul Horning of Reinholds showed the Junior Champion of the Holstein show at the Manheim Fair on Thursday night. She is a daughter of Penn Octo Kenny. » ' 1 1 ' - It’s pretty expensive to buy right now... kids like to look over the farm machinery at any display and these youngsters were no exception. The ig is Linda Kauffman of Penn Springs Farm, Elizabethtown. Besides showing the reserve grand champion, she also had the first place two-year old. .V.' Manheim Fair display attracted much attention from the adults as well as the youngsters. ,r v
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