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Top Hornet daughter reigns as Guernsey champ
HARRISBURG No one has to
ask Russel Subject or Doug
Panepento of Leroy, N.Y. if their
July 1961 purchase paid off.
Shortly after they bought
Burgess Farm Hornets Melanie,
the 5-year-old freshened with a
lone Palm TH Jupiter heifer to add
to their Erinwood Farm string.
Then, she collected a Reserve
Grand Champion title at the New
York State Fair.
But more recently, Wedresday '
afternoon to be exact, the Clovelly
Top Hornet daughter paraded her
way to a National Guernsey Grand
Champion honor during the All
American Dairy Show.
Bred to Co Hill Farms TH Big
Tex, Subject and Panepento’s
This 5-year-oW Cloveliy Top hornet grand champion title for owners Russell
daughter. Burgess. Farm Hornets Subject, left, and Doug Panepento, both of
excelled in Guernsey competition to claim the Leroy; New York.
HARRISBURG - For a few
fleeting - moments, Tuesday, the
Farm Show Complex bad all tfae -
flavor of life near the Swiss Alps,
as dozens of the big brown cows,
complete with brass bells, paraded
to the sounds of mountain yode ling.
The parade, of course, was the
march of champions, a tan bark
highlight which characterizes a
Brown Swiss Show.
From the procession emerged
the Eastern National Brown Swiss
Grand Champion, Idyl-Wild im
prover Jinx.
Owners Pete and Martha
Vanderham of Mira Loma,
California, selected one animal to
a junior champion victory, accepts the Premier Breeder and
Exhibitor banners and congratulations from George Op
perman, secretary-treasurer of the Brown Swiss Cattle
Breeders’ Association.
champ is projected at more than
20,000 pounds of milk and 1,000 of
fat.
Don Alexander and John
Merryman teamed up on a
Reserve Grand Champion title for
Bushy Park Farm of Wake,
Virginia. Their - Clovelly Top
Hornet daughter, Chedco TH
Mamby topped her 4-year-old class
and moved into the reserve slot.
Pennsylvania breeder Alissa
Fava of Scenery-Hill notched the
Junior Champion title with her
senior yearling, Co. Hill Farms BT
Nutmeg.'Sired by the Fava-bred
bull. Big Tex, the junior yearling is
out of Co Hill Farms F Nora with
records to 18,760 pounds of milk
and 812 of fat.
California Swiss claims eastern title
trek eastward and represent their
Bridge View herd. And judge Dave
Dickson’s decision confirmed the
Vanderhams’ choice.
The 3-year-old Westlawn Stretch
Improver daughter completed her
first lactation at 18,960 pounds of
milk and 788 pounds of fat for a 4.1
percent test. Currently bred to
Bridge-View Jesta Jubilant, the
grand champ earned All-American
2-year-old honors, last year.
Reserve Grand Champion
honors went to J K Jeavarissa
Jodie, owned by Lary and Susan
Passke of Tierra Verde Dairy,
Brashear, Texas. The first place 4-
yearold is sired by VB Favor
Show judge William Etgen went
with Holcomb BF Daisy for
Reserve Junior Champion. Sired
by Housley Dari Fayvor, the senior
' yearling is owned by the Robert
Holcomb family of Greene, N.Y.
The Holcombs continued their
tanbark success on Wednesday to
earn the Premier Breeder Banner.
The Premier Exhibitor banner,
however, remained in Penn
sylvania for another year. John
Marchezak of Twin Brook Farms,
Bentleyville, made a strong
showing in all classes, taking the
majority of group classes and
winning the state 3-year-old
Futurity with his Minnie's Choice
(Turn to Page A 33).
Vronicka Boy and out of L-J Rare
Jodie.
Wayne Sliker of Top Acres
Farm, St. Paris, Ohio, brought his
nationally-known show string
eastward and did not walk away
empty-handed.
Sliker’s senior yearling Top
Acres Prissy Dee nailed down the
Junior Champion title. Sired by
Rancho Rustic My Design, the
junior champ is out of Graystone
Stretchy Princess with records to
22,430 pounds of milk and 925
pounds of fat.
The Ohio breeder took
Pete and Martha Vanderham, right, join
their champion Brown Swiss, Idyl-Wild im
prover Jinx. The 3-year-old Westiawn Stretch
Improver daughter is no stranger to the
tanbark having earned senior champion
honors at the Western National Brown Swiss
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25,1982—421
Antoinette and Joe Fava of Co Hill- Farms, Scenery Hili
exhibit the junior champion Guernsey Co Hiil Farms BT
Nutmeg, a senior yearling owned by their daughter Alissa.
Sired by Co Hill Farms TH Big Tex, the junior champ is
currently bred to Telestar.
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Guernsey Exhibitor honors.
another champion before the day
ended. His 17-month-old Welcome
In Stretch son, Top Acres Stretchy
Starwars-ET notched the
Champion Bull title. In addition,
the Premier Breeder and
Exhibitor banners, once again, will
hang at Sliker’s Top Acres Farm.
Reserve Junior Champion
honors went to Roseledge Lynson
Brynn, the' junior calf entry of
Carol Prime, Augusta, Maine. jin^BuiicaH
Sired by Top Acres Stretchy - i Top Acres, St Pans. OH, 2 Tierra Verde
Lynson, Prime’s champ is out of Dair X- Brashear, IX, 3 Cresta Verde Brown Swiss
Roseledge Bell B.
Earnest St. John arid Jr Cooper
Show and racking up on All-American 2-year
old title in 1981. The Vanderhams. who hail
from Mira Loma. California, get a little
assistance with their fruits of victory from
Pennsylvania Swiss Miss Anne Daubert. Pine
Grove.
collectively earned the Reserve
Champion Bull title with their
senior calf ES J Coop Design. Sired
by Rancho Rustic My Design, the
young bull is out of Head’s Crest
Stretchy Nita with records to 20,560
pounds of milk and 890 pounds of
fat.
Additional results of the Eastern
National Brown Swiss Show
follow:
(Turn to Page A 29)