C2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 17,1981
Bred gilt champs tagged at Farm Show
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This year was the first Farm Show for Hobart
Muller, New Oxford, Adams County His February
gilt, HM Martha Too, sired by the 1979 KILE
champion boar. Beyond Lobo, took the reserve
champion honors in the Spotted Swine show.
Calvin Lazarus & Sons, White Hall, Lehigh
County, exhibited the champion and reserve
champion Yorkshire bred gilt Both champs were
sired by Legend. (There are a series of pics of the
champion and reserve champ champion is first)
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The champion Landrace bred gilt was shown by
John Mummert, 19, of Seven Valleys, York County.
The Tunnel Hill Farm champ was sired by DEO
Cibbe.
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earned the reserve champion honors in the
Landrace bred gilt show with their January gilt,
boasting fully-imported bloodlines. Pictured with
the gilt is co-owner Mark Stehr.
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BY SHEILA MILLER
FARM SHOW - The 65th
Annual Pennsylvania Farm
Show Breeding Swine Show
was held, for the first time
ever, on Saturday
preceedmg the Grand
Opening ceremonies, held
Sunday.
Plagued with controversy
of pseudorabies outbreaks,
the decision to hold the swine
competition was not made
until late in September. As a
result, the numbers of swine
entries did not set any new
Farm Show records, and
were actually down from
1980
In the Duroc Bred Gilt
Show, Glenn O. Ebersole, R 1
Duncannon, exhibited the
champion gilt. This was
Ebersole’s first year in
competiton at Farm Show
The champion was sired by
Empire, a boar owned by
Sweigard’s Durocs, R 3
Halifax.
Sweigard showed the
reserve champion Duroc
gilt. The yearling was sired
by an Illinois boar, owned by
Huffmgton Durocs.
Clayton Wmebark of R 1
Rochester Mills, Indiana
County has been showing
purebred Berkshire hogs at
Farm Show since 1949. In
those years, he said he
believes he’s taken 12 or 15 of
the championship trophies.
This year was no ex
ception. Wmebark’s 38 years
experience in raising
purebred Berkshires helped
him in breeding the
champion bred gilt, selected
by Judge Gale Bressner of
Chenoa, Illinois.
The January gilt was sired
by Monster, a boar
Wmebark purchased at the
National Summer Type
Conference held in Goshen,
Indiana. This boar not only
sired the champion, but the
reserve champion Berkshire
gilt as well She was
Wmebark’s February entry.
The champion Poland
China bred gilt of the 1981
Pennsylvania Farm Show
was exhibited by Barbara J.
McConnell, 17, of Volant,
Lawrence County. Her
champion, called Power Sue,
was sired by a Poland boar
called Super Iron.
Sue is one of five purebred
Poland China swine kept by
Barbara as 4-H projects
Living in town with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keith
McConnell, Barbara keeps
Glenn Ebersole, R 1 Duncannon, exhibited the
champion Duroc gilt in his first year of competition
at Farm Show. Judge Gale Bressner, left,
congratulated the winner
Eight-year-old James Thayer livened up the swine show and may have started
a new fad in show ring garb. Decked out in a silk top hat, the lad from Erie
guided his Yorkshire gilt around the ring only catching the slip-sliding hat
once or twice.
Spotted Swine bred gilt. The family from Centre Hall has been raising and
showing Spots at the Farm Show for the past two years.
the swme at a small, rented
farm located one mile out ot
town. Barbara follows m the
footsteps of her father who
exhibited market hogs at
Farm Show since 1948 as
FF A projects,
Barbara’s dad exhibited
the reserve champion
Poland China bred gilt.
Super Ann was sired by a
boar called Super Horse
Both sires of the champion
and reserve champion are
owned and raised by Mc-
Connell.
In the Hampshire com
petition, the champion gilt
was shown by Todd Ben
necoff, 13, of R 2 Kutztown,
Lehigh County. The gilt was
sired by Todd’s father’s
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Barbara J. McConnell, Volant, Lawrence
County, had the champion Poland China gilt.
Pictured with the champion. Power Sue, is Bar
bara’s father, Keith McConnell, who showed the
reserve champ.
boar, Bert, one of 40 head of
purebred Hampshires and
Berkshires raised on the
family’s 135 acre farm.
The reserve champion
Hampshire bred gilt was the
entry of another swine
breeder from R 2 Kutztown.
Carl Rabenold’s entry
followed Bennecoff’s for the
reserve honors.
Once again, the bred gilts
exhibited by Jamers Parlett
of R 2 AirviUe, York County,
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