C22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 17,1981
Bred gilt champs
(Continued from Page C2O)
swept the Chester White
championships
Sired by his boar, Tarzan,
the champion gilt, TM Silk 7-
2 is the sixth Farm Show
champ for Twm Maples
Farm.
Parlett’s reserve cham
pion Chester White, TM Bess
8-5, was sired by a Missouri
boar called Mule Skinner
Parlett said he’s been in
the business of raising
Chester Whites smce he was
nine-years-old. Parlett has
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Todd Bennecoff, 13, exhibited the champion Hampshire bred gilt. Todd and
his father, Terry, have 40 sows of both the Hampshire and Berkshire breeds
James Parlett, Airville, tied up the Chester White bred gilt championship for
the sixth time in Farm Show competition. Twin Maples Farm also took the
reserve champion honors. Both champs were sired by Tarzan.
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Little Jim Nelan 111 got his feet wet in the Yorkshire swine show ring at the
early age of four. The youngest showman in this year’s Farm Show is the son of
Joan and Jim Nelan of West Alexander.
been contending for the
champion ribbons ai Farm
Show smce the 1940’5, with
most of his championships
coming in the past twelve
years.
When selecting the Spotted
Swine champion, Judge
Bressner described the gilt
as “taller fronted, long,
carrying her stoutness up
through her front-end”. He
added, “She’s the type of pig
I’d like m my factory. ’ ’
Showmg the champion was
Gary Homan, R 2 Centre
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The champion was sired
by Bandit, a boar owned by
Homan, out of a litter of pigs
farrowed by a gilt purchased
by Homan at Farm Show two
years ago. Those were
Homan’s first Spots, and
he’s been bringing their pigs
back to Farm Show each
year since.
The reserve champion
Spotted Swine was exhibited
by Hobart Muller of R 2 New
Oxford, Adams County, in
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The reserve champion Duroc bred gilt was shown by Eugene Sweigard,
Halifax. Assisting his father with the show swine was 8-year-old Garth, who said
he’s been showing hogs half his life.
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Clayton Winebark, Indiana County, exhibited both the champion and reserve
champion Berkshire gilts. He is pictured with the champion. Both gilts were
sired by Winebark's boar, Monster.
his first year of Farm Show
competition.
With 20 head of purebred
sows, Muller said he began
raising purebred Spots three
years ago This year’s
reserve champion bred gilt
was sired by the 1979
Keystone International
Livestock Exposition
champion, Beyond Lobo
Calvin Lazarus and Sons,
Whitehall, swept the
Yorkshire contest, taking
both the champion and
reserve champion honors
The Lehigh County swine
breeders’ champion was
their January entry. Im
perial’s Miss Elite, sired by
Legend. This marks the
eighteenth year of showing
at Farm Show for the
Lazarus family. However,
this is the first year they took
both champions.
Their reserve champion,
Imperial’s Miss Patton, was
sired by the same boar as the
champion, and her dam is a
sister to the champion’s
dam. Lazarus explained
their grand dam set the
record at the 1978 Farm
Show bred gilt sale for high
selling gilt, bringing $B5O
she was purchased by the
Lazarus family.
The champion Landrace
gilt was shown by John
Mummert, 19, of R 1 Seven
Valleys, York County. She
was the entry of Tunnel Hill
Farm, operated by John’s
mother, and his brothers and
sisters. They’ve been raising
purebred Landrace swine
for the past ten years and
have had two Farm Show
champions here in the past
six years.
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The champion, THF
Wilmington 2-4, is sired by
DEO Cibbe.
The reserve champion
Landrace gilt was shown by
Mark Stehr, Brooks End
Farm, Beavertown, Snyder
County. The gilt’s, Belinda,
is co-owned with Reno and
Park Thomas
The January gilt is sired
by an Irish import boar,
Royal Eros, and out of a
Scotch dam. She is bred to an
imported Scotch boar, ac
cording to Stehr, and is due
to farrow February 13.
The results of the swine
show are as follow's
DUROC
JANUARY GILT
1 4 Sweigard s Durocs reserve grand
champion Halifax Dauphin Co 2
Darlene McConaughey Smicksburg
Indiana Co 3 Clyde McConaughey
Smtcksburg Indiana Co 5 Glenn 0
Ebersole Duncannon Perry Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 Glenn O Ebersole grand champion
2 Clyde McConaughey 3 Calvin H
Lazarus & Sons Whitehall Lehigh Co 4
Sweigard s Durocs 5 Rodger Banker!
Hanover York Co
MARCH GILT
1 Smiths Hog Farm Washington
Washington Co 2 3 Clyde Me
Conaughey * Kenneth D Fetterolf
Centre Hail Centre Co 5 Denise A
McConaughey Smicksburg Indiana Co
BERKSHIRE
JANUARY GILT
1 Clayton D Winebark t Sons grand
champion Rochester Mills Indiana Co
2 Dennis L Grumbine Myerstown
Lebanon Co 3 4 5 Russel Cornbower
New Freedom York Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 2 3 4 5 Clayton D Winebark &
Sons reserve grand champion
MARCH GILT
I 3 Cfayton D Winebark & Sons 2 4
Dennis L Grumbine 5 Russel Corn
bower
POLAND CHINA
JANUARY GILT
12 3 Marlin Deaven Fredericksburg
Lebanon Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 2 Barbara McConnell grand
champion Volant Lawrence Co
MARCH GILT
1 2 Keith McConnell reserve grand
champion Volant Lawrence Co 3 Rocky
Acres Farm New Tripoli Lehigh Co
HAMPSHIRE
JANUARY GILT
1 2 Carl H Rabenold reserve grand
champion Kutztown Berks Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 Terry Bennecotf & Son grand
champion Kutztown Lehigh Co 2 Carl
H Rabenold 3 5 Charles Bomgardner
Annvitle Lebanon Co 4 Blue Mt View
Farms Annviile Lebanon Co
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MARCH GILT
1 Terry Bennecolf & Son 2 Charles
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CHESTER WHITE
JANUARY GILT
12 5 James T Parletr grand
champion Atrville York Co 3 4 Smiths
Hog Farm Washington Washington Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 James T Parlett reserve grand
champion 2 Rodger Bankert 3 Junior S
Hower Catawissa Columbia Co
MARCH GILT
12 4 James T Parlett 3 James E
0 Bnen Abbottstown Adams Co 5
Charles E Gnest Abbottstown Adams
SPOTTED SWINE
JANUARY GILT
1 Gary N Homan A Daughters grand
champion Centre Hall Centre Co 2 5
Leslie Lazarus A Bros Germansville
Lehigh Co 3 4 Russell E Kegg Bed
lord Bedford Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 Hobart W Muller reserve grand
champion New Oxford Adams Co 2 5
Leslie Lazarus & Bros 3 Kama Homan
Centre Hall Centre Co 4 Gary N
Homan & Daughters
MARCH GILT
1 3 Leslie Lazarus A Bros 2 Bambi
Homan Centre Hall Centre Co 4
Hobart W Muller 5 James T Parlett
YORKSHIRE
JANUARY GILT
12 4 Calvin H Lazarus A Sons
Whitehall Lehigh Co 3 5 Elwood E
Houser Lebanon Lebanon Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 Calvin H Lazarus A Sons 2 5
Elwood E Houser 3 Thomas M Arnold
Lebanon Lehigh Co 4 Timothy G
Hcagy Lebanon Lehigh Co
MARCH GILT
1 Leon L Arnold Lebanon Lebanon
Co 2 Thomas M Arnold 3 Willow Glen
Farms Strasburg Lancaster Co 4
Calvin H Lazarus A Sons 5 David 0
Thayer Girard Erie Co
Grand Champion
1 Calvin H Lazarus A Sons
Reserve Grand Champion
1 Calvin H Lazarus A Sons
LANDRACE
1 JANUARY GILT
1 Reno H Thomas reserve grand
champion Beavertown Snyder Co 2
Tunnel Hill Farm Seven Valleys York Co
3 4 Jay D Blatt Annville Lebanon Co
5 Brvan Blatt Annville Lebanon Co
FEBRUARY GILT
1 Tunnel Hill Farm grand champion
Seven Valleys York Co 2 Rockv Acres
Farm New Tripoli Lehigh Co 3 4
Glenair Farm Elizabethtown Lancaster
Co 5 Edward Bartley Valencia Butler
Co
MARCH GILT
1 Rocky Acres Farm