Keener (Continued from Page 1) Show. It had placed first in Lancaster County’s 4-H round-up. Steve has been showing m both 4-H and FFA competitions for a total of eight years. Aden Keener, 18, enjoys working with the cows as a herdsman on the Penn sprmgs Farm. The reserve senior and grand champion, “August Hill Rorkman Leseyle” was a two year old 4-H animal. Keener showed four of his own animals placing first with the senior calf and second with a senior yearling heifer. In the senior fittmg and showmanship contests, Keener took top honors, while Kauffman took the reserve honors. Not only is Keener capable of showing awnals, he is an excellent jH»e. In nationally 4-H dairy judgmg competition. Keener placed first in the Holstein division to earn a ninth place ranking on overall dairy judgmg. Deb Weaver, R 7 Manheim, took the junior showmanship honors. This was Weaver’s first year of competition as a member of the Lancaster 4- H Dairy Club. Although she does not live on a farm her father purchased a junior Ayrshire calf that was named junior champion of the Ayrshire competition. Weaver is the daughter of R. Clair and Anna May Weaver. Karen Long of Willow Street took the reserve junior championship with her senior calf. For the remainder of the Ayrshire competition, Ken and Joann Findley shared all .r .- J;' # r r * v ”‘it?vi , <-. ,i ’ , «; r w>w i 3 ;f ' !J ' l!!| ? c.y -, - •\ -• V^%<:^ -! '-*•• -•■ wp** m J —* - J -v <, S ' ~ f -n - i _ -* <■" * -~*, v !■ f jJ^i£'fv^r''-' w*-' '/L- ' -*'* . c^a'‘.-tA' J ) . A;.' '- -'t U r' I '* >' -"-v \ ~>\'.-H '- ,> ” i'c'*. #^ 4.7 i ,, VL~^r<'- v / j , ", ,5 ‘ •’- ' - v -~: 5. " -*\\'-‘ > *■- C’V'fi: • VV -A' ~ t ? v r . i rir , r ~—: ■»■••■*' —t~> s \ *'ii :■.- * , ’l. 1 . v_i - - J ’ the top honors. Ken Findley took the grand and reserve senior championship with his two and three year olds; while Joann Findley showed a four year old to win the best udder competition In the Brown Swiss breed competition, Kerry Boyd, with the assistance of his wife and father, took all the top honors. Boyd’s grand and semor champion, a three year old, “Susie”, was sired by “Vine Valley Chips Paul”. This female won the grand honors at the Ephrata Fair a few weeks ago. The reserve honors were bestowed to “Freda”, a two year old. In the junior classes, Boyd’s intermediate calf, “Clayview Titan KEB” sired by Lara-Le-Stretch-Titan took the top honors. This animal was chosen junior champion at the recent Pa. Junior Dairy Show in Harrisburg. The reserve junior champion honors were awarded to a junior yearling owned by David Kulp, Manheim. The judge for Manheim’s dairy show was Jed Beshore, a 1976 graduate of Delaware Valley College, where he participated on the dairy judgmg team. Presently he is m partnership with his father, near New Cum berland York County. Followmg is a list of final placmgs. HOLSTEIN Bull Calf 1. Walnut Run Farm, R 2 Lititz; 2. Gail Ginder, Elizabethtown; 3. Jeanme Ginder, Elizabethtown. tSk Arlen Keener, left, took the champion showman two young men have grown up together and both and fitting awards at the Manheim Fair, while work on the Pennsprings Farm owned by Mr. and Steve Kauffman exhibited the grand champion Mrs. Robert Kauffman, R 1 Elizabethtown. Holstein, “Pennsprings R. Maple Dimples.” These Junior Yearling Bull 1. Gail Gmder. Champion Bull - Gail Gmder, reserve champion bull - Walnut Run Farm. Junior Calf 1. Clyde Peters, Manheim; 2. Glenn Shenk, R 2 Lititz; 3. Jeff Shenk, R 2 Lititz; 4. Glenn Shenk; 5. Arlen Keener R 1 Elizabethtown. T r Calf 1 Debbie Landis, R 7 Manheim; 2. Marilyn Landis, R 7 Manheim; 3. Harold Witmer, R 3 Manheim; 4. Harold Brubaker, R 3 Manheim; 5. Lowell Brubaker, Manheim. Senior Calf 1. Arlen Keener; 2. Lamar 4^l Witmer, R 3 Manheim; 3. Jeanme Gmder; 4. Harold Brubaker; 5. Lowell Brubaker. Junior Yearling Calf 1. Steve Kauffman, R 1 Elizabethtown; 2. Harold Witmer; 3. Elma Bollinger, Manheim; 4. Lowell Brubaker; 5. Glenn Shenk. Senior Yearling Heifer 1. Harold Bollinger; 2. Arlen Keener; 3. Lowell Brubaker; 4. Ruby Bollinger. Junior champion - Steve Kauffman; reserve junior champion - Harold Brubaker. (Turn to Page 32) Lancaster Farmii 'ij, * < the Manheim dairy show. Exhibiting a Ayrshire calf, she also was named junior Ayrshire champion. This was her first year of 4-H competition. 19 Saturdi ' October 1“ 1979 -S', _*r- s^ *■ **" 5 * * \V- j ‘ s ' -i , *■*• s ■> , > </ vr;, - \ , rv - i;-,’ '; i *'' s iT''' _>. - ' <.* .“-‘■'V-’-T v ’•V T ' '' r s. ; ” ■c - 4. ,
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