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BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
AIRVILLE - Hogs kind
of go through fads,” says
Jim Parlett, a slow grim
creasing his face ‘ Sort of
like politics ”
Parlett, a top purebred
hog breeder, should know
From the family’s Twin-
Maples farm at Airville R 2
have come some of the
nation’s champion Chester
Whites over the past several
years
In December, fellow
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Sitting atop a knoll in the rolling hills south of farm includes 300 hogs, 30 steers, and more than
Airville, the James Parlett family’s Twin Maples a dozen sheep m their variety of livestock
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purebred enthusiasts
recognized Jim's knowlege
and devotion to the pork
mductry by electing him a
national director of the
Chester White Association.
By one of those strange
quirks of fate, Parlett didn’t
even make it to the session in
Springfield, Missouri, where
he was initially to serve on
the nominating committee
Hurrying to catch a flight to
the Midwest, Parlett got as
far as Marietta and
developed car trouble
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During the caucausing, the
Chester White breeders
phoned Parlett for consent to
run him for the three-year
term on the nine-member
board
Most ot the breed business
is conducted at the three
Chester White Spotlight
events, type-conferences,
with shows and sales that
are held at various locations
throughout the country.
A participant tor over a
decade in these breed
showcases, one of Parlett’s
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more memorable years was
in 197 b, when he took the
champion boar honors and
reserve champion gilt
placings at the Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, nation show
Some ot the show winnings
happened closer to home At
the 1979 Keystone In
ternational Livestock
Exhibition in Harrisburg, he
garnered the award tor
grand champion carcass, a
repeat of the carcass honor
won back in 1968 Although
the Parlett s can t be sure,
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they’re possibly the only
exhibitors to take that top
honor twice
On the heels of the Faun
Show competition, where
Parlett will show and sell
eight market Chesters and
three Spots, comes the up
coming national Spotlight at
North Carolina Other breed
show-sales for the year will
include those in Lubbock,
Texas, and Frankford, In
diana
None ot the Chester White
breed showcases* has ever
been scheduled in the
Northeast Parlett hopes he
can be instrumental in
changing that in his term ot
board membership and
would like to see Penn
sylvania host the first such
event in the region
Headquartered in
Rochester, Illinois, the
Chester White Association
maintains a staff ot nine
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office and field personnel,
with a variety of programs
aimed at further improving
the big white hogs and
promoting pork products
The board 13 responsible
for keeping the association
operating in the black'
Parlett explains 'Funds are
raised through registration
tecs, advertising in the breed
publication and 15 percent
sales fees charged at the
type conference sales
Everything exhibited at the
shows is then offered
through these sales as
breeding stock "
Chester White breeders,
along with other purebred
hog organizations, are af
filiated with the National
Association of Swine
Records, or NASH
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