A24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16,1982 j n Qp en Polled Here
Hausner wins top honors with half-sisters
BY SHEILA MILLER
FARM SHOW It was a day of
double victories for young John
Patrick Hausner of York County on
Wednesday during the Open Polled
Hereford competition here at
Farm Show. The young cattleman
exhibited both the grand and
reserve grand heifer champions
even though he was busy keeping
up with classes at school while his
entries paraded to the top of the
show.
Handling the halter for J.P. was
his mother Joanne Hausner while
his dad, John, readied the cattle
for their victorious day, putting the
final touches and polish to the
cattle for their stroll to the win
ner's circle. The Hausners, owners
of JDH Polled Herefords, R 2
Dover, have been raising the red
and white beef cattle since 1968.
J.P.’s junior yearling entry, JDH
Special Miss, was selected by
judge Ronald Bolze of Kansas
State University as the first place
heifer in class and later as junior
champion. In the final lineup,
Special Miss proved how ‘special’
she is and was tagged grand
champion female of the 66th Farm
Show. She is a daughter of CMF
Master Future 1, the son of BT
Future Roundup.
Special Miss’s dam, JC Lady
Oakland 22, also produced the
reserve grand champion heifer of
the show. JDH Miss Joann, a
March daughter of the champion
producing Enforcer 107 H, stood at
the top oi her class and was
selected as the champion heifer
calf. According to John Hausner,
the two champion’s dam won this
same class back in 1976. The &-
year-old cow might well be on her
way to producing another
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the grand championship honors in the Open Polled Hereford
Show, held Wednesday, and the Junior Breeding Beef Show
on Thursday. The reserve grand champion Polled Hereford
heifer was J.P.’s calf champion, held here by mother JoAnn.
The calf, an Enforcer daughter, was actually named after
J.P.’s mom, JDH Miss JoAnn. Looking on is Polled Hereford
Queen Jacqueline Kirschner.
Robert Livingston ojf Dover, York County, exhibited the
Polled,.Hereford reserve junior champion heifer, T L Miss
Destiny.
bred to Dutchman, a son of the
popular Justa Banner bull.
“This is the first year J.P.’s
taken both the grand and reserve
grand female honors,” remarks
John. “He’s doing a lot better with
his 4-H project animals than
Joanne or I ever did.” Although
JDH took home the reserve junior
champion bull honors this year
with their late junior yearling, SCH
JDH Betulation M6I.
The Pa. Polled Hereford Queen,
Jacqueline Kirschner of R 2
Monongaheld led her early junior
yearling heifer to the senior
championship. SJF Vindi Beefette
is the daughter of Stanns Mr. Beef
2F out of FPP Vindi Kate 59J.
The reserve senior champion,
Mr. KL Herd Matron MKSB, was
exhibited by Greg Snyder,
Schochary Ridge Farms, R 3 New
Tripoli, Lehigh County. Purchasd
in South Dakota last year, the
junior yearling is a Mr. KL Herd
maker J 271 daughter.
Robert Livingston of Dover,
York County, showed his entry in
the March-April junior yearling
heifer class to a blue ribbon. Then
TL Miss Destiny was awarded the
reserve junior champion rosette.
Her sire is CMF Master Future
1.
Adams County’s Spring Bottom
Farm began their harvest of
championships at this year’s Farm
Show by taking the reserve heifer
calf honors with their junior heifer
SBF Royal Trans AM. Owner
Frank Darcey shared the fact that
his was the heifer’s competition
debut. The daughter of Tran
sformer 307 k Trans AM is out of a
cow Darcey purchased last year in
Montana.
In the bull show, Spring Bottom
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The grand champion Polled Hereford bull purple ribbon again. The Montana-bred bull is
turned in a repeat performance. Hilger Special owned by Spring Bottom Farm, Fairfield, f
415 was last year’s Farm Show grand champ Adams County,
and came back as a 2-year-old to claim the
Schochary Ridge Farms exhibited the
reserve grand champion Polled Hereford bull,
SRF Ridge Vindicator, the second place 2-year-
bons. With a 2-year-old entry co
owned with JV Farms of
Douglassville, Berks County,
Spring Bottom claimed the grand
champion bull trophy for the
second consecutive year. Hilger
Special 415, a son of Hilger Royal
138, was last year’s Polled
Hereford grand champion at Farm
Show. Since then the Montana
bred bull has gone on to be tagged
grand champion of the Montana
State Fair, reserve grand
champion at North Dakota’s State
Fair, N.J. Summer Show and
Maryland Summer Show, and
senior champion at the Maryland
State Fair.
Judge Bolze followed the grand
and senior champion with the
reserve senior champion shown by
Greg Snyder. SRF Ridge Vin
dicator, the second-place 2-year
old claimed the reserve grand
champion honors. He is a
homebred bull sired by Mr. Her
dmaker J 271, a son of Glenkirk
Vindicator. Last year this bull was'
the Farm Show junior champion.
The bull calf champion, SRF
Victor Craig was exiubited by'
Spring Run Farm of Abbottstown,
York County. The winter bull calf
is the son of FPP Victor 98H.
For reserve bull calf champion,
judge Bolzeselected the first-place
entry in the January-February
class. SJF Rocky Gilead was
shown by John Kirschner, Sr. of R 2
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old and reserve senior champion bull. Posing
with the champ are owners Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Snyder.
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