A24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 3,1981 New Holland celebrates 50th with chain BY DEBBIE KOONTZ NEW HOLLAND - It was double delight at the New Holland Farm Show this week as the show celebrated its golden anniversary and a young showman earned Grand Champion at the Beef Show the first time he has ever at tempted such a feat. That young showman was Er nest Mast of Morgantown who simply described himself as "very surprised” when chosen cham pion. Ernest’s steer was a Charolais/Hereford cross, weighing in at 1215 pounds and selling to the Leola Family Restaurant for $3.39 per pound. Reserve Champion honors, and the Senior Showman title ot the beef show went to Janae Martin, New Holland, a five-year veteran of both 4-H and FFA. Janae’s steer was a Simmental/Angus cross weighing 1170 pounds and selling for $1.28 per pound to The Bird-In- Hand Motor Inn and Restaurant. Sale averages for the steer show were $.96 per pound without the champion and $1.06 with the champion. Thursday’s list ot excitement also included the swine show which recognized such youngsters as Jimmy Martin, 14, of New Holland who earned the Grand Champion title and Laura Folker, 9, of Pork Chop Farm in New Holland, Reserve Champion. ' Jimmy’s 267-pound hog sold tor $3.40 to Hatfield and Laura’s hog, Smokey, a Chester/Hampsture cross weighing in at 222 pounds about three times the weight of its owner, sold for $3.05, also to Hatfield. The new Grand Champion of the Steer Show is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Mast, owners and operators of a potato and a 100- head-beet farm. Ernest is a member of Garden Spot FFA. , Fifteen-year-old Janae Martin hails from New Holland and is the daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Bob Martin. Janae reports that this year is her fifth year in FFA and 4-H making this year "the 17th year my Little Laura Folker holds a trophy half as big as she is, after selling her reserve champion hog to Hatfield, represented by Jerry Clemens. DON'T BE SLOW Call Now To Place Your CLASSIFIED AD Ph: 717-394-3047 or 717-626-1164 family has been involved in 4-H. ’ ’ The Martin family’s operation includes -chickens, 48 head of Holstems, and 38 steers. Champion hog owner Jimmy Martin is the son of Mary Mai t;;. and is in his seventh year ol 4-H. Last year was another big year tor Jimmy in that he was named Grand Champion also a proud accomplishment since he reports only onfe pen of hogs at home. Laura Folker, Reserve Cham pion hog shower, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Folker and is currently in her third year of 4-H. Laura also earned Champion Fitter of the Swine Show. In addition to the traditional trophy and ribbon, these four young showers will receive an 8 x 10 color picture of their champion animal.* Other results of the swine and steer show are as follows: STEER SHOW LIGHTWEIGHT I Gary Eberly East Earl 2 Scott Bailey Blue Ball 3 Joanne Eberly East Earl 4 Emily Weaver Ephrata 5 Hope Hershey Kmzer MEDIUMWEIGHT I Janae Martin New Holland 2 Lisa Heft AUamstown 3 Bobby Snyder Ephrata 4 Fred Weaver Ephrata 5 Lon Martin Narvon HEAVYWEIGHT I Ernest Mast Morgantown 2 .Krista Yost Lancaster 3 Jett Hershey, Kmzer 4 Kevin Lengel East Earl 5 MarcyLeaman Lancaster GRAND CHAMPION Ernest Ma*st RESERVE CHAMPION Janae Martin JR SHOWMAN I Emily Weaver 2 Fred Weaver 3 Krista Yost 4 Joanne Eberly 5 Donna Groff SR SHOWMAN I Janae Marttn 2 Ron Martin 3 Kevin Lengel 4 Scott BaileyS Marlin Mast FITTING I James Martin 2 Scott Bailey 3 Fred Weaver 4 Ron Martin 5 Scott Hertzog SWINE SHOW LIGHTWEIGHT I Chad Folker New Holland 2 Laura Folker New Holland 3 Jimmy Martin New Holland 4 Douglas Hertzog Ephrata 5 Emily Weaver Ephrata HEAVYWEIGHT I Jimmy Marttn 2 Laura Folker 3 Fred Weaver Ephrata 4 Floyd Huber East Earl 5 Floyd Weaver GRAND CHAMPION Jimmy Martin RESERVE CHAMPION Laura Folker CHAMPION FITTER Laura Folker RESERVE FITTER Jimmy Martin SR SHOWMAN David Fisher JR SHOWMAN Heidi Fisher iBIi In his first year of competition, Ernest, right, yers the ~ 5-poui . steer, . walked away with the Grand Champion title of Family Restaurant, represented by Christie the New Holland Steer Show. With him are Lapp. Wilmer Lapp and George Desmond. js 1170-pound steer was shown by Janae from the Bird-In-Hand Motor Inn and Martin of New Holland and now belongs to Resturant. buyers Walter Monf and Paul' Hatfield purchased this grand pounds and sold for $3.40 per pound hog at the Swine Sale, Thursday, at the New Jimmy Martin, showman, is the buyer Holland farm show. The hog weighed 267 representing Hatfield. Jerry Clemens. ions s
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