4-H runs in Steve Shaw’s family
By DIETER KRIEG
HARRISBURG - Fifteen
year old Steve Shaw didn’t,
hesitate at all when he was
asked why he is a 4-H Club
member. “It runs in the
family, we’ve been in far
ming for a long time and 4-H
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just comes natural,” the
Berks Countian replied.
Steve, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Shaw, Oley, was
this year’s owner of the
grand champion 4-H
Holstein at the Pennsylvania
Junior Dairy Show. It was
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held here a week ago as a
part of the week-long All-
American Dairy Show.
The young man was also
quick to give his father a
share of the credit for the
success he has had with his
4-H projects, including show
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ring competition. “Having a
father who knows cattle
helps me a lot,” Steve ex
plained. “My father was a 4-
H’er and is one of our club’s
leaders today. He has been
in the dairy business since
the day he was bom.”
A member of the Eastern
Berks Dairy Club, where he
is currently the game leader,
Steve exclaims that “4-H is
really great; you learn
valuable information about
showing cattle and all other
aspects of dairying.” That’s
important to young Shaw,
who says he’d someday like
to farm on his own or go into
a partnership with his
father. There are 150 acres,
105 of which are tillable, on
the home farm.
Steve and his 17-year old
sister, Wendy, have already
begun a small herd of their
own, the home-bred animals
of which come under the W-S
Linden Loch prefix. Wendy,
like her brother, is very
much interested in dairy
cattle. She has four state
Junior Holstein Show titles
to her credit, the most recent
one coming just last week
when she won the Penn
sylvania FFA Holstein
division. It was the second
year in a row that she ac
complished that feat. In the
two previous years she won
the Pennsylvania 4-H
Holstein division cham
pionships.
Steve’s 4-H champion this
year was a cow which was
purchased at a private sale
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in Maryland last year. Since
then, he has shown her eight
times, almost always win
ning grand champion
honors. Richard Keene of
Gilbertsville, N.Y., who
judged the Holstein contest
last week, described the
white bovine as “a
tremendous dairy cow.” She
is estimated to produce
19,400 pounds of milk and 821
pounds of butterfat this year
as a 6-year old.
But 4-H is a lot more than
showing and fitting cows.
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and maturing, winning and
losing, challenges and
routines. According to Steve,
there isn’t anything about 4-
H that he doesn’t like.
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