ar-4jncaster Farming, Saturday, November 12,1977
Rally Farms, Millbrook, N.V., showed the grand champion of the open and
inior on-foot steer shows at the Keystone'lnternational Livestock Exposition
■>is week. From left to right, the individuals posing with the steer are: Judge
iary Minish, Urbana, III.; Jesse and Gayle Bontecou, owners of Rally Farms: Jim
ilass, president of the N.E. Region of the American Chianina Association: and
red Smalstig, manager, Rally Farms. Glass presented the Bontecous with a
5000 check for showing a Chianina to the grand championship.
Oiianina-Angus
wins Keystone
steer show
By JOANNE SPAHR
HARRISBURG - A 1130
ound Chianina-Angus
rossbred bred by Rally
arms, Millfarook, N.Y., was
amed grand champion ot
le on-foot open and junior
eer shows at the Keystone
iteraatwnal Livestock
last week.
‘‘Rally Mr, Friggio,” a
ilf-blood Chianina sired by
friggio,” was first named
?htweigbt champion and
•and champion in the open
low before besting the
nior show champ, an
njou-Angus crossbred,
icwn by 17-year-old Mary
ice of Huntertown, Ind.
Along with Rally Farms’
m came a $5OOO stipend
om the American Chianina
isociation for taking the
and champion of show
th their breed.
The reserve grand
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champion, over all, was also
a Chianina-An shown bv
K.O. Cattle Company of
Clinton, Ind. The 1295 pound
heavyweight was first
named champion of its class
and reserve champion of the
open show, before taking the
reserve title over all.
Rally Farms who bred the
grand champion, raises
approximately 250
registered Angus cattle, and
breeds only 25 of those to
Chianina each year.
“We choose to breed our
bottonr end to Chianinas,
hoping to get 50 real good
commercial cows,” says
Fred Sraalstig, farm
manager. “There’s also a
real good market for the
steer calves,” he points out,
saying that a Chianina
feeder calf can go for twice
the price of an Angus.
The calves require no
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“I like Chianinas, they’ll
really grow,” says Smalstig,
pointing out that the grand
champion’s mother was the
smallest Angus at
RailyFarms.
Although he appreciates
Chianina, Smalstig points
out that he is really out to
promote the Angus breed,
since in his estimation, it
takes a good Angus mother
to make a Chianina a win
ner.
“Yon look at the cham
pions,” he challenged, “and
you’ll see that most of them
are black. Angus will really
hang up the carcasses-they
have the marbling.”
This is the fourth year
Rally Farms has been
breeding with Chianina and
the first year they have
shown in a national show.
“Our prime reason for
entering this show was the
carcass contest with it,”
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says Smalstig. “This is the
only show we know of that
also judges the carcasses.
Although they have been
showing at New York state
fairs and county shows,
Smalstig says they have
never offically measured the
carcass quality of their
Chianina-Angus show
animals and “this way with
the college doing it is the
most factual, unbiased way
to find out.” In Wednesday’s
carcass results Rally
Farm’s steer placed third in
the light-weight class.
Other top winners in the
open steer competition in
cluded Harry- J. Molitor’s
family of Fayetteville, Ohio,
with the champion mid
dleweight steer, a Limousin
Cross. Reserve mid
dleweight champion was a
Simmental- Angus cross
shown by Gary White of
Eaton, Ohio.
The reserve champion
heavyweight, another
Chianina, was shown by Jim
Glass of Millbrook, N. Y.
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