A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 17,1981
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
LANCASTER - Webster defines
knowledge as “the body of truth
and facts accumulated..over the
course of time.”
During the next three weeks
Lancaster Countians can see and
hear truth and facts about cattle
accumulated in the very large
body of a fiberglass cow. The
Champ.
The 25-year-old display, con
structed by Ralston Purina
traveled from St. Louis, Miss, to
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Kurtz adjusts the true “guts” of the display, a small fortune
of stereo equipment which regulates narration, lights and
movements of the Champ’s plastic and fiberglass viscera.
jis model of a fully formed embryo is just one of the many
educational displays contained in the Champ’s 12-feet high,
8-feet wide structure.
The Champ ‘returns’
make its first appearance in the
county in 20 years.
Sponsored by Keystone Mills,
Ephrata, The Champ, a walk
through lesson in ruminants was
displayed at Oregon Dairy’s farm
and store this past week.
Visitors entering the Champ’s
left side are greeted by the con
stant thumps simulating heart
beats.
“Welcome to the remarkable
ruminant,” says a voice which
seems to come from the lungs.
Throughout the tour, the voice
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explains the various metabolic
processes, including .digestion and
beef and milk making, all of which
are illustrated in the spacious 8-
feet-wide interior.
Moving toward the rump, folks
get a glimpse of a big bellyful of
hay, massaged by simulated
rumen motion.
The right side of the Champ
houses an udder and a model of an
unborn calf which depicts
development from 30 days to a 9-
month embryo.
“This is a family-oriented
display,” said Keystone Mills
owner, Harold Kurtz. He explained
that the majority of the Champ’s
visitors arrive after school.
Tfie 12-feet tall, 19-feet long
white-faced display was developed
from a 29 inch clay model. The
present fiberglass and plastic body
was formed from a full-size mold
of wood framing, wire mesh and
modeling clay. During con
struction in 1956, the amount of
clay needed for the full-si2e model
was so large that it depleted the
entire supply of modeling clay
available in the country.
A research team of
veterinarians, sculptors,
nutritionists and artists conducted
a series of studies to make the
display accurate and educational.
In the past, the Champ has
proved to be quite popular, touring '
the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Kurtz explained he had to order
the Champ more than a year in
advance for this weeks display.
The big bovine expected in the
Blue Bail area on Monday, will
then travel to the Andrew Miller
Farm, west of Manheim on Oc
tober 30, and finish its Lancaster
County tour at Quarryville
Community Park on November 3.
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Keystone Mills owner, Harold Kurtz, right, arid Ralston
Purina sales manager Paul Hann, left, are about to lean the
ins and outs of a ruminants via the Champ’s walk-in tour
which explains everything from digestion to calving.
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