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By Pat Bradley
Berks Co.
Correspondent
ALLENTOWN - The 35th
annual Eastern Penn
sylvania 4-H Bee! and Lamb
Show and Sale wu held late
last week, at the Allentown
Fair Grounds.
Hie show and sale wu
originated on Dec. B,IMI, by
four agricultural leaders
from Hatfield, Pa. At that
time the show and sale wu
held at the Hatfield Fair
Grounds where Bucks and
Montgomery County boys
and girls offered 29 animals
for sale.
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Northampton Counties
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show lambs - steers at Eastern contest
joined the show sale bringing
total entries to 58 animals.
Since 1944, Bucks, Mon
tgomery and Lehigh
Counties have continued the
event with the addition of
Schuylkill County and the
readmission of Northampton
County.
The show and sale has
been held at the Allentown
Fair grounds since 1969. This
year’s event attracted 58
beef exhibitors and 20 lamb
exhibitors from the four
counties.
The Lamb Show was
divided into three classes for
showmanship and. two
classes for the Pens of
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wu Mrs. Barbara Gilbert,
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Hie first and second place
winners in each class are u
follows: ' Class I
Showmanship Under 14
years of age: 1. Paul Young.
Doylestown, 2. Daniel
Hunsberger, Dan boro. Class
II Showmanship; 1. Janet
Goll, New Hope, 2. Sarah
Fretz, ZionsviUe. Class HI
Showmanship: 1. Larry
Daniels, New Hope, 2.
Johanna Geiger,
Doylestown.
The winners for the best all
around lamb were Ruth Ann
Hunsberger • Champion and
Larry Daniels - Reserve
Champion.
The winners for the Pens
of Lambs Class were Beth
Ann Neboda - Champion and
Gail Snyder - Reserve
Champion.
There were six classes in
the Beef competition, with
judging done by Dr. Erskine
Cash, Professor of Animal
Science at Penn State
University.
The winners for the
lightweight competition are
as follows: lightweight
Class I; 1. Jeff Poliskiewicz,
Bangor, 2. Jane Smith,
Northampton. Lightweight
Class II: 1. Gwen Hower
Northampton, 2. Jim Dunn,
New Ringgold. lightweight
Class III: 1. Keith
Breininger, New Tripoli, 2.
Steve Dunn, New Ringgold. (
The champion lightweight
beef was exhibited by Gwen
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Diane Krause. Lehigh Co., won the whole show, Friday night at the
champion heavyweight steer class Allentown Fair Grounds,
and grand champion steer lor the
Hower, Northampton and heef are as follows. Medium
the Reserve Champion was Weight Class I: 1. Kenneth
exhibited by Jim Dunn, New Ruch, New Ringgold, 2. Pat
Ringgold. Salezze, Germansville.
The winners for the three Medium Weight Class II: 1.
classes of medium weight* Allen Miller, Nazareth, 2.
Ruth Ann Hunsberger proudly displays her
champion Suffolk lamb at the 35th Annual 4-H Beef
and Lamb Show and Sale, held this past Friday and
Saturday at the Allentown Fair Grounds.
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Medium Weight Class HI: 1.
Marth Guest, Nazareth, 2.
Blair Hower, Northampton.
The Champion Medium
Weight Beef was exhibited
by Martha Guest, Nazareth
and the reserve champion
was exhibited by Kenneth
Ruch, New Ringgold.
The winners in the three
classes of heavyweight beef
are as follows: Heavyweight
Class I: 1. Dave Guest,
Nazarteh,' 2. Ardith Wetzel,
Kempton. Heavyweight
Class II: 1. Gail Snyder, New
Tripoli, 2. Joseph Sikorski,
Emmaus. Heavyweight
Class HI: 1. Diane Krause,
Slatington, 2. Carol Krause,
Slatington.
Hie show ended with the
selection of the Grand
Champion and the Reserve
Grand Champion of the Beef
Show. They are respec
tively; Diane Krause and
Carol Krause.
Diane and Carol were also
chosen as County winners
for Lehigh County. Other
County winners are as
follows: Northampton;
Martha Guest, Champion,
Gwen Hower reserve
champion. Schuylkill; Jim
Dunn champion, Steve Dunn,
reserve champion. Bucks;
Christine DeFazio, cham
pion, James Quartuccio,
reserve champion.
Poultry
production
declines
HARRISBURGH - Penn
sylvania poultry production
for the week ending
November 15, decreased 24
percent from the previous
week and 23 percent from the
same period last year, ac
cording to the Crop
Reporting Service.
Placements of broiler
chicks in the commonwealth
were 971,000.
Average placements
during the past 10 weeks
were eight percent above a
year earlier.
In the 21 key poultry
producing states placements
were 57,066,000. This
represents an Increase of
eight percent .above last
week and 10 percent above
the same week a year ago.
Average placements in the
21 key states during the past
10 weeks were 13 percent
above a year ago.
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