Novice showman has top steer
I By DIETER KRIEG
- Less
Wan five months ago, 14-
Pyear old Brett Holzhauer had
I never led an animhl into a
I show ring. Two dayh ago he
[ became the champion of the
j most celebrated event at the
I Pennsylvania Farm Show.
Ten-year-old Seth Gruber, New Tripoli, showed this year’s grand champion of
the junior market hog show at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Pn his second year
of showing swine, he captured his second grand championship title at Farm
Show on Thursday.
Gruber has market hog champ
By JOANNE SPAHR
HARRISBURG - Ten
year-old Seth Gruber proved
a point on Thursday mor
ning. For the second year in
a row, he has shown that
fathers really can teach
their children-the ropes in
the livestock business. Seth
is the son of Henry Gruber,
New Tripoli R 2, head buyer
Kucemchak’s market lamb wins
ByKENDAGE BORRY
HARRISBURG - Julie
Kuzemchak, Pleasant Gap,
Center County, an “almost
13” 4-H’er won the grand
championship honors in the
junior market lamb class in
Thursday’s competition at
the Pa. Farm Show. This
was the youth’s third year in
4-H competition, and first
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Holzhauer’s winning of the
grand champion baby beef
banner on Thursday stands
as the final chapter of a
Cinderella story which
began last Spring when
Brett’s father, Robert
Holzhauer, encouraged him
to take a 4-H beef project.
for Arbogast and Bastian,
Inc., Allentown, Pa. - , and this
year Seth showed the grand
champion of the junior
market swine show at
Pennsylvania State Farm
Show.
The elder Gruber, who has
been buying hogs for 19
years and judging contests
for, quite a few, says he and
year to compete in
Harrisburg. She showed a
116 lb. Suffolk wether, that
she bought in Columbus,
Ohio, for her project.
Reserve champion market
lamb was shown by Sarah
Brubaker, Lancaster. Her
112 lb. Suffolk lamb came
originally from the state of
Indiana.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 14,1978
The young man’s victory
represents - more than a
personal or family triumph.
As is the case every year,
county prestige is at stake.
This year the laurels
returned to Lancaster
County, after having been in
the Garden Spot two years
his son picked the animal out
together. v
Bred by William Nash,
Frankford, Ind., the 210
pound lightweight division
champion was selected over
the heavyweight division
champion shown by Greg
Strieker, Bernville Rl. A
Christian Herr, Narvon
R 2, also of Lancaster
County, showed the grand
champion pair in the sheep
show. His lambs were a pair
of Hampshires weighing 114
lbs. each. It was the veteran
shower’s first pair champion
at the Farm Show.
Reserve champion pair
were a pair of Hampshires
ago, and “almost” in 1977.
Last year’s owner of the
grand champion baby beef
animal was Janice Kaylor of
Elizabethtown. Although she
is a Lancaster County girl,
she keeps her animal on her
grandfather’s farm in
Dauphin which
allows her to be a member of
the Dauphin County Baby
Beef Club.
Miss Kaylor, taking a.
carefully groomed Chianina-
Angus crossbred into the
arena, wound up as reserve
champion this year.
The Baby Beef Show is one
of the few events held in the
Large Arena during the
Farm Show which is granted
full use of the facilities. The
animals and attending 4-
H’ers, ring crew, and of
ficials don’t have to share
the turf wijh anyone. It’s a
big event, drawing news
reporters and photographers
from all over the state.
With several thousand
spectators filling the seats of
the arena, and hundreds
more crowding around the
ropes near the outside
perimeter of the showing,
area, the Baby Beef Show
generates interest un
matched by any other
competitive event held here.
There’s excitement in the air
as the show goes on,
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In this issue
Farm Calendar 10
Letters 10
Editorial 10
Farm Show pictures 24,25
Homestead Notes 42
Home on the Range 45
My Thoughts 48
Jr. Cooking Edition 50
Kendy’sKollumn 50
Joyce Bupp 51
Ida’s Notebook 51
Classifieds 56
Hampshire, the champion’s
sire was “Stump.”
Last year Seth’s light
heavyweight was also
named grand champion. The
fact that the Lehigh County
4-H Swine Club member
has only been involved in 4-H
for the two years he has
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shown by Brian Zerby,
Knoxville, in Tioga County.
In the junior breeding
sheep classes, Chester
County dominated the
championship spots, winning
four of the six breed
championships. John Arrell,
Jr., Lincoln University, had
the champion Cheviot ewe;
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Snowball and his owner, Brett Hoizhauer.
Julie Kuzemchak, from Pleasant Gap, Centre
Co., showed the grand champion Jr. market lamb
at the Pa. Farm Show.
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