Heisey
By JOANNE SPAHR
MANHEIM - This year
the Manheim Community
Fair boasted a junior market
hog show with 108 entries, a
record amount which is
about 30 animal above last
year’s total of 78. Out of
those 108 market hogs,
Stanley Heisey, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Heisey, Elizabethtown R 4,
took the grand champion
market hog title with his
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shows champion of Manheim hog show
Rl. Heisey, who is a member
of the Elizabethtown Pig and
Rabbit Club, showed only
two animals at the fair, with
his 229 pound animal first
named grand champion
heavyweight.
The five-year showman,
who in 1976 exhibited the
grand champion hog of the
Lancaster County 4-H show,
comes from a family of top
showmen. Just this year his
siblmgs-a twin brother and
sister combination-took the
grand and reserve grand
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A champion pair of market
hogs was also picked on
Wednesday afternoon. That
title went to animals shown
by Beth Chapman, tne 12-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Chapman, Hutch
Valley Farm, Manheim R 5.
The 200 and 207 pound
mediumweight animals that
Miss Chapman showed
were Yorkshire-Duroc
crossbreds, bred and raised
at Dutch Valley Farms
where her father has been a
partner since January.
In both her first year on
the farm and in 4-H with the
Penryn 4-H Club, Miss
Chapman had only shown
one time previous to the
Manheim Fair, where she
was also named the first
place fitter m the junior
division.
The reserve champion
pair of the show were owned
by Robert Strauss. The
animals were first named
champion heavyweights
before going onto the
division title.
Nelson Breneman, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Amos W.
Breneman, Columbia R 2, a
member of the Penn Manor
FFA chapter, showed the
reserve champion mdividual
market hog. The 210 pound
Duroc was first named
champion mediumweight.
Breneman, age 15, is a
sophomore at Penn Manor
High School
SQnDJfc.
Show.
Judge tor the show was Ed
Hildebrand, livestock
specialist of feeder pigs and
hogs for the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association.
The results of the show
follow;
Senior Sow: 1. Bernadme
Gish, Elizabethtown.
Junior Sow: 1. Kerry
Boyd, Ephrata R 5; 2. Ber
nadine Gish, 3 Lee Witmer,
Lititz.
Champion Sow Kerry
Boyd.
Lightweight Market Hogs
Class 1 1. Nelson
Breneman, Columbia R 2; 2.
Jay Gainer, Manheim; 3.
Allen Ackley, Lititz Rl; 4.
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:anley Heisey showed the grand champion market hog of the Manheim Farm
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Mike Pfautz, Stevens Rl; 5,
Jay Gainer.
Class 2: 1. Ron Zim
merman, Ephrata; 2. Allen
Ackley, 3. Ramon Hunt,
Millersville; 4. Barry Geib,
5. Jay Gainer, 6. Kerry
Boyd.
Class 3: 1. Steve Strauss,
2. Jay Gainer, 3. Kevin
Rohrer, Manheim R 7; 4.
Barry Geib, 5. Jay Gainer.
Lightweight champion
Steven Strauss.
Lightweight reserve
champion: Nelson
Breneman.
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Hogs
Class 1: 1. Kevin Rohrer,
2. Barry Geib, 3. Barry Geib,
4. Rick Strauss, Ephrata Rl;
5. Ramon Hunt.
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Marietta Rl; 2. Ramon
Hunt, 3. Earl Geib, Manheim
R 4; 4 Peg Mullen, Bam
bndge; 5. Ramon Hunt.
Class 3- 1. Nelson
Breneman, 2. Kerry Boyd, 3.
Peg Mullen.
Class 4: 1. Ron Zim
merman, 2. Tun Pfautz,
Stevens Rl; 3 Allen Ackley,
4 Steve Hershey, Manheim
R 6; 5. Peg Mullen.
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