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petition were Gordon R. female.- J.C. Enterprises
Smith, Landenburg, Chester also showed the reserve
County, whose senior heifer , ,
calf, “GC Miss Mimi,” was B rand champion and reserve
named junior champion senior champion female,
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one of best in the U.S.
Erdenbeim Farm
Lafayette Hill, Pa., was
named premier exhibitor in
the Cheviot sheep show.
The Erdenbeim Farm
received the honor by
amassing the highest
number of points in all
classes in the competition.
The farm took reserve
champion ewe honors with
ng
of
he
ERD Lass 284, a one year The champion Oxford ram
and under two year dd ewe. . was Barney & Sons Titan 712,
The -the -a one year old shown by Dr.
Cheviot ribbons Hwent to the-J J :r n R. W. Ritchey and Family,
Martin Brothers, Willard, 1 Canal Fulton, Ohio.
il
ls
of
ep
ham it ?up at
premier exhibitor award
along with the champion gilt
and reserve champion boar
in the Chester White Class.
Albert and Erik Thurow,
Yorkville, 111., took both the
champion boar and cham
pion gilt awards in the
Berkshire breeding swine
classes. James E. Martin,
Hampstead, Md., showed the
reserve champion boar and
gilt in the same divirf")p. I
LaVem Weller antnSonsj,
Dwight, 111., and James Tj-
Partlett, Airville, York
County, split the top prizes
awarded in the Open Barrow
On-Foot competition. j
The grand champion
barrow on-foot was a
Ohio. They showed the
champion ram, reserve
champion ram, and the
champion ewe.
In Oxford sheep judging
competition, Clarence
Williamson and Sons, Xenia,
Ohio, were named premier
exhibitors, showing the
reserve champion ram, a fall
ram lamb.
crossbred shown by LaVern
Weller & Sons. Reserve
grand champion was a
Chester barrow owned by
James T. Partlett. The two
men had previously won the
open championships with the
same two animals.
Other winners of in
dividual class judlng were:
Poland China Barrows On-
Foot: champion, James E.
{• Martin, Hampstead, Md.,
"reserve champion, Piper
Farms, Benton, Pa.
Yorkshire Barrows On-
Foot: champion, Reno H.
Thomas, Beavertown, Pa.;
reserve champion, Penn
State University.
“JC Princess 511,” a spring
yearling heifer.
The list of Shidemantles
winning entries reads like a
program catalogue: reserve
junior champion female,
champion bull calf, reserve
junior champion bull, senior
champion bull, reserve
senior champion bull, and
reserve grand champion
bull.
POLLED HEREFORDS
Five Point Pastures,
Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, was named premier
breeder and exhibitor for
Polled Herefords taking
eight of 18 major awards at
the Keystone International
Livestock Exposition.
Five Point Pastures
showed the grand champion
bull, grand champion heifer,
Champion ewe honors went
to DOA 300 owned by Double
0 Acres, Cresco, lowa. The
reserve champion ewe in the
Oxford division went to a
spring ewe lamb shown by
Walter Johnson, Alliance,
Ohio.
SUFFOLK
Four Star Suf folks,
Bloomingburg, Ohio, walked
away with the top honors in
the Suffolk Sheep classes.
The farm was named
exhibitor, won the
champion ewe, and showed
Keystone
PREMIERE EXHIBITORS
Three Pennsylvania swine
breeders were named
premier exhibitors.
Leading the list of Penn
sylvanians with top honors
were John Strawbridge and
Kenneth McCleary,
Stewartstown, York County.
After walking away with the
top awards in the earlier
Yorkshire classes,
Strawbridge and McCleary
were named premier
exhibitors in the Hampshire
classes in the afternoon,
winning champion boar,
reserve champion boar, and
champion gilt in the process.
Strawbridge and McCleary
have been showing their 20
Yorkshire and 40 Hampshire
hogs at the Keystone In
ternational every year since
the show began.
Jeff McKissick, Slippery
Rock, Butler County, was
named premier exhibitor in
the Spotted Swine classes.
Enroute to the exhibitor
honors, McKissick showed
the reserve champion boar
and no less than eight other
hogs which placed m their
divisions.
Piper Farms, Benton,
Columbia County, received
the premier exhibitor award
in Poland China Swine
competition. Roland W.
Piper, owner of the Piper
Farms saw his hogs take two
of the top five places in each
division that was judged
throughout the Poland China
class.
Hie list of champions in
senior champion heifer,
reserve senior champion
heifer and junior champion
heifer, along with the
champion bull calf, reserve
champion bull calf, reserve
champion bull, and reserve
junior champion bull.
The grand champion bull,
“FPP Vindicator 6H,” also
named champion bull calf, is
a junior bull calf. “FPP
Advancer’s Joy,” the grand
champion heifer, is a late
summer yearling heifer.
ACE Polled Herefords,
Millbrook, NY, won for the
champion heifer calf,
reserve junior champion
heifer and reserve grand
champion heifer, junior
champion bull, and reserve
grand champion bull.
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the reserve champion ewe
and ram. The other major
award winner in the Suffolk
competition was the Old
Trail Farm, Fostoria, Ohio,
whose aging ram lamb was
named the champion ram.
In Southdown Sheep
competition, W.G. Carpenter
and Sons, Jefferson, Md.,
was named premier
exhibitor, showing the
champion ewe, a fall ewe
lamb, and the reserve
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the final swine competition
includes:
Hampshire: champion
boar, reserve champion
boar, champion gilt, and
premier exhibitor,
Strawbridge and McCleary,
York County.
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The champion pen of Angus steers at the Keystone Expo was shown by Irvington Farms of
Gaithersburg, Md.
James Stratton, Greenville, Pa., exhibited the champion Duroc gilt at
the Keystone Exposition.
James Parlett and his champion Chester White barrow.
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