Parlett’s Chester White wins top market hog honors
BY DONNA TOMMBLLEO
| FARM SHOW -GusParlett, 12,
displayed an ear-to-ear grin,
Thursday, when show judge Buell
Gunderson, selected Parlett’s 220
pound Chester White barrow as the
1982 Farm Show Grand Champion
Junior Market Swine.
Parlett’s hog, which previously
won its light heavyweight class,
scored another champion notch for
Gus earlier this year during the
AirvUle 4-H round-up.
The York County youngster is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Parlett of Airville. Gus chose his
champion from the home breeding
stock which includes 300 head of
purebred Chester Whites and
Spotted Hogs.
Judge Gunderson went with the
Kurt Brown’s reserve light
heavyweight champ for-' his
reserve grand champ. The Nor
thumberland County youth is a
member of the Leck-Kill 4-H club.
His family’s feeder pig and
farrowing operation includes
Yorkshire, Duroc and Spotted
Swine.
Two Lancaster County youths
exhibited their hogs to a weight
vlass championship.
Chris Chapman, 14, of Manheim
captured the lightweight cham-
pionship with her Yorkshire x-
Duroc x Landrace gilt. Chris is
the daughter of John and Claudette
Chapman.
New Holland 4-H'er Laura
Folker, 14, collected a Champion
plaque in the heavyweight division
with her Chester White x-
Duroc x Hampshire barrow.
Laura is the daughter of Edith and
Tony Folker.
Middleweight Champion honors
went to 11-year-old Susie Burkhart
of Mohnton. The Chester County
youth scored the victory with her
Yorkshire gilt. Susie, a member of
Mie Chester County Swine Club, is
pne daughter of Nancy and Richard
Burkhart -
Washington County youth Rod
McConn was selected as junior
showman during the all-day
competition.
Brian Bankert, 15, of Hanover
was named the intermediate
showman,-an award he claimed at
two previous Farm Shows.
Bankert is the son of Darlene and
Rodger Bankert.
Senior showman honors went to
Mike Pfautz, 17 of Lancaster
County. With seven years of
showring experience, the win
marked Pfautz’ second Farm
Show showman award. Mike is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy P.
Pfautz of Stevens.
A Watch next week’s Lancaster
'farming for complete junior
market swine results.
Majeslde to
speak at dairy
goat meeting
ORTANNA - On Wednesday,
Jan. 20, the South Central Penn
sylvania Dairy Goat Association
will host a talk on ways to acom
plish genetic improvement in dairy
goats.
The speaker, Dr. J. Lee
Majeskie of the Cooperative Ex
tension Service at the University of
Maryland, works closley with the
Maryland Goat Dairy Herd Im
provement Association program.
In a similar presentation made
Recently at the USDA’s Eastern
"Regional Research Center Goat
Milk Seminar, Majeskie stressed
the need for a “structural program
for improving genetic gains.”
The public is invited to this free
presentation which begins at 7
p.m. at the offices of the Adams
County Extension Service on Rt. 30
West of Gettysburg.
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Mike Pfautz, 17, of . iptL
showmanship title, while 15-year-old Brian Bankert of
Hanover claimed champion honors in the intermediate
division.
Hampshire - scored a big win for Laura Folker, of New
Holland. Folker’s hog was named heavyweight champion.
Yorkshire gilt. The 11-year-old Chester County 4-H’er is the
daughter of Nancy and Richard Burkhart of Mohnton.
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crossbred Yorkshire gilt. The Lancaster youth is the daughter
of John and Claudette Chapman of Manheim.
The Grand Champion Junior Market Hog is joined by
exhibitor Gus Parlett, 12, and Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture E. Chester Heim. The York County youth’s
Chester White weighed in at 222 pounds and also took
champion honors in the light heavyweight class.
Kurt Brown, 12, is all smiles following his reserve grand
champion win with his Duroc gilt. Kurt is a member of the
Leck-Kill 4-H Club of Northumberland County.
Rod McConn scored a big victory during Thursday’s junior
market swine competition. The Washington County youth was
named champion showman in the junior division.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16,1982—A33