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Champs at Eastern National
TIMONIUM, Md. - The
Grand Champions at Sun
day’s 4-H Club and Future
Farmers of America
competition of the 34th
go out
Eastern National Livestock
Show went to two Ohio
youngsters and an Indiana
shepherd.
Nmeteen-year-old Belinda
Melton of Washington
Courthouse, Ohio beat 127
other 4-H’ers to take the
Grand > Champion steer
trophy with her 1285 pound
entry.
Her crossbred Chianina z
Angus steer sold for $4 a
pound to Pasadena Super-
Thrift, Pasadena, Maryland.
Melton also received $lOOO
from the American Chianina
Association for her win.
Another Ohio youth
exhibited the Grand
Champion market hog.
Eighteen-year-old Jeff
Frobose, Pemberville,
showed the top bog, a 230
pound Hampshire crossbred.
Frobose’s grand champ
sold to Hatfield Packing
Company, Hatfield for $2530
—sll a pound.
Frobose also took first
place in the 195-210 pound
class and second place in the
235 pound class with his
entries in the 4-H and FFA
contest.
Shelley George of
Wakarusa, Indiana, and her
130 pound Suffolk lamb were
tagged Grand Champion of
the 34th Eastern National
Livestock Show. The lamb
brought |6.25 a pound at
public auction held at the
Maryland Fairgrounds,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 4,1980—85
of state
selling to Pasadena
Super-Thrift for $808.50.
George also won first
place in the 110-115 pound
Suffolk class and her sister,
' Tammy, won with her
crossbred lamb
and took second place in the
121-130 pound Suffolk class.
The Reserve Grand
Champion -steer was
exhibited by David Carlson,
19, of Edwards, Illinois. His
1305 pound entry sold to
Esskay Quality Meat
Company, Baltimore,
Maryland, for $1.45 a pound.
The Reserve Champion
market hog was a 225-pound
Hampshire shown by Todd
Brown, 13. of Edinburg,
Local hog places high
in Minnesota test
EPHRATA W.J. Ruoss,
Ephrata, placed high in the
recent National Barrow
Show Production Tested
Barrow Contest.
His barrow was put on test
in the National Barrow Show
Production Tested Contest at
the National Barrow Show
Test Station in New Ulm,
Minn., on May 23. The test
was completed on August 29
and the barrows were
evaluated at Geo. A. Hormel
& Co.’s Austin, Minn., plant.
There were 757 barrows
which started the test and
196 or 26 per cent of the
Virginia. The hog was also
purchased by Esskay
Quality Meat Company.
Brown’s sister, Teresa,
took first place in the 215-220
pound class.
The Reserve Grand
Champion market lamb was
shown by Wendy Harmann
of Woodbury, Connecticut.
Her 132 pound Hampshire'
brought $330 from Henry
Stapf Meat Market,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Harmann also took third
place in the 90-101 pound and
the 102-115 pound Hampshire
classes, second place in the
85-100 pound Suffolk class
and third place in the 121-130
pound Suffolk class.
barrows finished the test
meeting all of the
requirements. His barrow
met the requirements ex
celling in Average Daily
Gain and carcass merit.
Ruoss is a Duroc hog
producer.
The carcass
measurements on his
barrow were: length 29.6;
fat depth 0.75; loin eye area
5.45.
The National Barrow Show
is sponsored by Geo. A.
Hormel & Co., and the
National Association of
Swine Records.