B2o—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 6,1982
6 Aged 9 Longhorn takes
Denver championship
DENVER, Col. The Mountains
and Plains Texas Longhorn
Association awarded the coveted
bronze trophy, “Driften Home”, to
the owner of the Grand Champion
Texas Longhorn Steer in their Bth
Annual Steer Show to Joe
Muggenborg, Piedmont,
Oklahoma, and his 10-year-old
steer, Freckles.
Each year the MPTLA
highlights the National Western
Stock Show rodeo performance
with their colorful array of Texas
Longhorn steers herded into the
arena and judged from horseback.
This annual event represents the
historic trail drives that lead the
Texas Longhorn from Texas to the
East.
Over $B,OOO dollars in prizes
including the $5,200 dollar bronze
sculpture by Leoti, Kansas
western artist, Charlie Norton
were handed to the winner during
the last two rodeo performances of
the National Western.
Reserve Champion steer and a
pair of trophy spurs from Garcia
Bit and Spur Company were
awarded to the Baker’s Safari B
Ranch, owners, Dr. L.V. and Pat
Baker, Elk City, Oklahoma, with
their nine year old steer,
Oklahoma Heritage.
Steers were judged by Hap
Magee, Danville, California,
owner of one of the largest Texas
Longhorn Ranches in the country.
He is the owner of the famous 43-
year-old Texas Longhorn steer.
Scoop, and has supplied television
with Texas Longhorns over the
years.
This year’s winners divided over
$2,300 in individual categories. In
the Best Horned Trophy Division,
first place went to a 15-year-old
steer, Big Red, owner Bob Shultz,
Franktown, Colorado; Second
place, T.D. and Sid Kelsey,
Ramah, Colorado with Pansy’s
Pride 68; and Third Overall Grand
Champion, Freckles.
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grand champ by the Mountains and Plains Texas Longhorn
Association during the Bth annual steer show at the National
Western Stock Show. The Grand Champion was judged in
three classes, horn, color, and historical conformation.
Steer Division, First place went to
the Overall Grand Champion,
Second, Jean Wickland, Castle
Rock, Colorado with her 9-year-old
steer, John Denver, and Third,
C. J. Frantz, Perryton, Texas.
The most Historical Con
formation Steer was captured by
Baker’s Safari B Ranch, Reserve
Champion Steer. Second place
went to T.D. and Sid Kelsey,
Pa. announces livestock marketing program
HARRISBURG - A state
industry cooperative program
designed to sell more Penn
sylvania beef, pork, lamb and veal
has been announced by State
Agriculture Secretary Penrose
Hallowell.
“The Livestock and Livestock
Products Marketing Program, will
include consumer education on the
nutrition, versatility and
economics of red meats, along with
producer education programs and
Ramah, Colorado with their 14-
year-old steer, Pansy’s Pride 68,
and Third, Overall Grand
Champion.
Steers will again be judged at the
National Western Stock Show in
1983. Anyone interested in showing
should contact; Lowell Goeramer,
MPTLA President, P.O. Box 25,
LaVeta, Colorado 81055.
promotion of their products,”
Hallowell said.
“Meats will be promoted both
‘genetically’ and specifically as
Pennsylvania beef, pork, lamb and
veal,’’ Hallowell said. “Livestock
producers will be assisted in using
improved, more uniform
marketing systems. Packers and
processors, wholesale and retail
food distributors and the consumer
wall be encouraged to buy Penn
sylvania livestock and products.”
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BEST IN DESIGN, PRICE AND EXPERIENCE
4-H capons have now been raised
and sold in Pennsylvania for 50
years.
Annually about 350 youngsters
grow, process and sell 30,000
capons for about $500,000, at 10
pounds dressed weight each.
Youngsters can bank about
$lOO,OOO of this money. County
leaders, agents and 4-H agents
plan, organize, and carry out this
program in each community.
Recently, 200 dressed birds have
been sold at auction after being
judged at the 4-H Roundup. One
grand champion bird and one
reserve champion are chosen,
while other carcasses get blue, red
or white ribbons. Auction prices
recently brought 6-35 dollars a
pound for the grand champion pair
of birds and an average of 2-5
dollars per pound of capon for all
other dressed birds exhibited.
County Agent John Schwartz of
Adams County holds both high
records.
In 1932, L.A. Harteis of Cambria
County sold his 7 1/2 lb. dressed
blue ribbon capon at auction for 75
cents a pound. This was the
heaviest bird in the show. He said
recently at the Roundup in the
Ebensburg High School, it gave
him the inspnation to start far
ming. Gerry McCammon, County
The program is staffed by the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture and financed 80 per
cent by the Department and 20
percent by livestock and industry
groups through the Livestock and
Livestock Products Marketing
Council, an executive council
under the Pennsylvania livestock
Association. Joan L. Liesau,
Chester County, will coordinate the
program, working with the
livestock industry.
“The Livestock and Livestock
Products Marketing Program will
compliment existing programs,”
Hallowellsaid.
Voluntary contributions are
invited for promotion and
educational costs of the program.
Salary, benefits and travel ex-
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Update on the poultry industry
8y JSerb Jordan
Penn State Extension Poultry Specialist
Agent, lead this 4-H roundup in
Cambria County.
A capon is simply a de-sexed
cockerel or male chicken at about
14 - 24 days of age at tune of
surgery. After surgery they get
fragile and hard to raise, so the 4-
H’er must be a good manager. It
takes a youngster who can manage
work well to be successful raising
capons.
Capon meat gets tender, juicy,
tasty, and more moist than other
poultry as the bird grows. Most 4-H
capons are sold for $1.40 a pound at
8 to 11 pounds dressed, while many
commercial capons sell for prices
over $1 a pound for dressed car
casses weighing 5 - 7 pounds. The
younger the bird sold, usually the
more profit made per bird.
Youngsters who manage
projects well can earn 2 to 4 dollars
per hour spent or about $5-7 net
income to labor and management
per bird, if all goes well.
Twenty-five counties in Penn
sylvania report 4-H members and
their families in this project. Most
of the 4-H capon .memebers are in
Susquehanna, Beaver, Wayne,
Lancaster, Washington, Fayette,
York, Huntingdon, 'Westmoreland,
Franklin, Cambria, Carbon,
Allegheny, Adams and Chester
counties.
penses are covered by the
Agriculture Department. For
more information, contact: The
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, Livestock and
Livestock Products Marketing
Program, Room 100, 2301 North
Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA
17110; phone, (717) 787-5086.