012— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 20,1980
Unique events
planned for KILE
HARRISBURG-Looking
for something different to do
October 2-6? If so, the
Keystone International
Livestock Exposition, KILE,
will offer unique and in
teresting events for five full
days at the Farm Show
Complex in Harrisburg.
Have you ever seen
trained sheep hitched to a
wagon and performing
maneuvers 9 If not, here’s
your chance.
The Etzler’s Sheep
Driving Team of Van Wert,
Ohio, will perform figure
eights, 90 degree turns and
other driving features on
Friday and Saturday, Oc
tober Sand 4.
The team will perform
Friday at 8:30 a.m. on the
steps of the State Capitol
Building, and at the Farm ' A KILE Trade Show will
Show Building that af—be held throughout the five
temoon and all day Satur- days. Almost all your
day. A special performance livestock and specialty
has been planned for needs will be found at the
Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the Trade' Show. The KILE
large arena. The team is Trade Show will offer far
tame and pettable, an ex- mers, exhibitors and the
perience you won’t want to general public a chance to
miss. get the equipment and
Childrens’ tours will be
conducted Friday, October
3, and Monday, October 6. A
barnyard babies exhibit will
be the main attraction both
days, featuring baby lambs,
calves and a litter of piglets.
Baby chides hatching in an
incubator, baby ducks
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playing on a water slide,
kittens, puppies and more
wQlbethoe.
' For craft enthusiasts, an
all-inclusive Agriculture
Craft Show win be- held
Sunday, October 5, from 9
a.m. to 8 p.m. Anything and
everything related to
agriculture goes. Potters,
apple sculputred dolls, pig
pottery, straw basket
weaving, broom crafts,
linens, woven wool items,
plus many other unusual
crafts wiU be on hand.
Craft exhibitors will
demonstrate their individual
crafts and a children’s table
will be set up at booths for
children to dabble and ex-
periment. Admission is free
to this most unusual craft
show.
supplies they need in an esay
and accessible way. The
show will also have the
unique advantage of offering
specialty items not normally
found in central Penn
sylvania.
The main focal point of the
Exposition, naturally, is the
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top quality livestock' on
exhibit and in competition.
Last .year over 3000 beef
cattle, sheep, swine and
horses were entered from 23
states.
Livestock exhibition
begins Thursday, October 2.
Judging in all divisions
starts Friday morning with
the Appaioosa horse show at
9 a jn. in the large arena. A
feeder calf show and feeder
pig show will begin at 10 a.m.
with sheep competition
starting at noon.
A feeder pig sale at 4:30
p.m. will be followed by a
feeder calf sale at 6:30 p.m.
A Chianina cattle sale will
be held on Saturday, October
4, at 4:30 pm, and five
breeds of sheep will be sold
at the KILE Bred Ewe Sale.
A Paint Horse Sale follows in
the small arena at 9 p.m. -
On Sunday, October 5, the
Duroc Barrow show begins
at 11 a.m. with all other
livestock and horse divisions
beginning at noon. That
evening at 5 p.m. the 1900-81
Pennsylvania' Lamb and
Wool Queen 'and Penn
sylvania Suffolk Queen will
be selected at the sheep
arena in the main exhibition
building.
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At 5:30 p.m. the KILE
Ladies Lead Contest will
begin. This event features
young women modeling the
latest in wool fashion* while
leading a trained sheep at
halter. The Pennsylvania
Sheep Shearing Contest will
follow at 7 p.m.
On Monday, October 6,
swine classes will begin at 8
a.m. in the small arena with
sheep and beef cattle classes
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717-523-3342
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beginning at 8:30 a.m. The
Arabian Horse Show kicks
off at 9:30 a.m. in the large
arena. All animals will bi’
released at 5 p.m. Monday*
evening.
KILE is sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Livestock
Association in cooperation
with the Pennsylvania Farm
Products Show Commission,
the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture and
various breed organizations.
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