Bl4—Lancaster F—hi, Saturday, Octefcw 9, 1962
She has sure-fire way to pick hog champ
MANHEIM How do you go
about picking a potential champion
market hog when it’s just a wee,
little feeder pig yet?
Everyone - present and past 4-
H’ers and FFA’ers alike -probably
has their own little system and
check list to follow.
Hog finishers who do it tor a
living probably go into it a little
deeper.
And breeders, like Mark
Nestleroth, of R 5 Manheun, pay
close attention to things like blood
Imes and other ancestral factors.
But take note, pop, and all you
others, too, - there’s an easier way
to do it. Here’s the advice of nine
year-old Beth Nestleroth, who
showed the grand champion at the
Manheim Fair Monday mght m
only her second outing in the show
ring and her first fair competition
in Lancaster County.
“1 liked the way he looked,” Beth
said.
‘1 like the red, spotted pigs.”
And that little red, spotted feeder
she picked when she could
probably hold it in her arms grew
into a tall, long, lean barrow that
ended up weighing nearly four
times more than she does.
Book learning training pay off
MANHEIM Take note all you
FFA’ers out there - all that book
learning and classroom instruction
does pay off.
At least it did for 15-year-old Jan
Waltz, of the Manheim FFA
Chapter Tuesday night, when his
1200-pound Angus-Chianina cross
won the grand championship of the
steer competition at the Manheim
Farm Show.
In addition, the second-year FFA
member had the lightweight 4-H
champ and finished first in the
senior showing competition.
Just as it was a busy night for the
youthful FPA’er, his first year in
the Future Farmers of America
last year was an eventful one, too.
At the conclusion of bis
greenhand year, Jan finished
second in the state livestock
judging competition at Penn State
in June and will be going to Kansas
City in about a month for the
national competition. He’s
chaplain of the Manheim chapter,
too.
He explains that a combination
of three years of 4-H showing,
reading books and his FFA
training all contributed to his in
creasing knowledge of what it
With grand champion steer of Manheim Farm Show are Jan Waltz, second-year FFA member
at Manheim Central, and his mother. Nancy.
Judge Larry Arnold com
mented:
“He's super lean for his weight
and when you find a hog like that
there’s only one way to go. ”
The championship circle at
Manheim was a Dutch Valley
Farms affair all the way, too. In
addition to the grand champion
that came out of the heavyweights,
Chris Chapman had the
niediumweight champion that
went on to the show’s reserve
grand championship and older
sister, Liz, had the lightweight
champion.
And the Chapman sisters
couldn’t have been happier if they
had won themselves. Both em
braced the diminutive Beth as her
Duroc-Yorkshire-Landrace cross
was picked.
It was only the second com
petition for Beth, who had her
debut in the recent 4-H Koundup.
Results in the 93-hog show:
LIGHTWEIGHT
Class I 1 and 4 Rus Ackley 2 and 3 Denns
Shelly
Class II 1 Ken Nolt 2 Gordon Long. 3 Smith
Bros . 4 Steve Nissley
Class 111 1 Liz Chapman. 2 Mike Pflieger 3
Mike Pfautz, 4 Steve Nissley
Lightweight Champion Liz Chapman
Lightweight reserve Mike Pflieger
takes to produce a good beef
animal.
And he has the practical
background, too. His parents,
Ardith and Nancy Waltz, finish
steers on their Manheim R 6 farm.
His coal-black champion, named
J.R. because he’s a bit stubborn,
came from the Keystone Cattle
Service operation of Cliff and Lynn
Orley at Lebanon.
The grand champion baby beef is
out of an Angus dam sired by the
three-quarter Chianina bull, Silver
Dollar.
The show’s reserve champion
and champion of the 4-H com
petition was shown by another
Manheim Central sophomore,
Kelly Rohrer, 15, daughter of
Yvonne Rohrer, RS Manheim.
Also, an Angus-Chianina cross, it
tipped the scales at just 25 pounds
less than the grand champ. It came
from Marlee Farms in Maryland.
Judge Bill Holloway, of York
County, admitted it was a tight
competition between the two but
picked the FFA animal over the 4-
H because of its heavier
muscling, thicker top and heavier
loin.
MEDIUMWEIGHTS
Class I 1 Dean Allison. 2 Malt Pflieger, 3 Tim
Pfautz,4 BobCarnathan, 5 Steve Nissfey
Class II - 1 Dean Allison, 2 Rob Wttman 3
Steve Nissley. 4 Duane Shelly 5 JeffGerlach
Class 111 - 1 Chris Chapman. 2 Barry Geib. 3
Dean Allison. 4 Damn Myer 5 Duane Shelly
Class IV 1 Kerry Myer, 2 Tim Pfautz. 3 Ken
Nolt 4 Smith Bros. 5 Dennis Shelly
Class V - 1 Chris Chapman, 2 Jeff Gcrlach 3
Ken Nolt. 4 Mike Gorman 5 Mike Gorman
Class VI 1 Ken Nolt, 2 John Wiker. 3 Mike
Gorman
Middleweight Champion Chris Chapman,
reserve champion Kerry Myer
HEAVYWEIGHTS
Class i - 1 Beth Nestleroth. 2 Mike Pfautz 3
Gordon Long. 4 Renee Haldeman 5 Barry Geib
Class II 1 Bob Carnathan, 2 Judy Zim
merman. 3 Sheldon Heisey. 4 Barry Geib. 5 Jeff
Kreider
Class 111 i Beth Nestleroth. 2 Judy Zim
merman. 3 Barry Geib. 4 Jeff Gerlach. 5 Mike
Pflieger
Class IV - 1 Smith Bros. 2 Steve Heisey. 3
Sheldon Heisey 4 BobCarnathan 5 Jeff Kreider
Class V I Renee Haldeman, 2 Jeff Gerlach
3 Barry Geib. 4 Jim Wiker 5 Jan Waltz
Class VI - 1 Matt Pflieger. 2 Jan Waltz. 3
Shawn Haldeman. 4 Smith Bros. 5 Cliff Weaver
Class VJi 1 Liz Chapman. 2 Kerry Myer, 3
Barry Geiber. 4 Shawn Haldeman. 5 Smith Bros
Class VIII 1 Gordon Long. 2 Shawn
Haldeman. 3 Mike Pfautz. 4 Smith Bros. 5 (tie)
Steve Heisey and Dwayne Shelly
Heavyweight Champion
Reserve Liz Chapman
Show Grand Champion Beth Nestlerolh.
Show Reserve Champion Chris Chapman
Pairs Champion Gordon Long, reserve Chris
Chapman
SHOWING
Senior—l Jan Waltz 2 Chris Chapman
Junior 1 Steve Heisey. 2 Sheldon Heisey
Novice 1 Shawn Haideman 2 Beth
Nestleroth
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
Manheim
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Snow
Beth Nestleroth
Nine-year-old Beth Nestleroth proudly displays her
Manheim Farm Show rosette and trophy while her grand
champion market hog takes a well-deserved' ickbr ik.
Chris Chapman with her reserve grand champion market
hog of the Manheim Farm Show.
Results of the show:
FFA DIVISION
Mediumweight 1 Vernon Hetsey, 2 Mike
Pflicger 3 Phil Nissley. 4 Duane Shelly, 5 Brian
Lowe, 6 GailQmder
Light Heavyweight • I Jan Waltz, 2 Matt
PWieger, 3 Randy Gibble, 4 Duane Gernert, 5
Dennis Shelly. 6 Jeannte Gmder
Heavyweight -1 Jett Rohrer. 2 Barry Geib. 3
Ed Nissley. 4 Stacey Shenk. 5 Doug Hoover
FFA Champion - Jan Waltz Reserve • Vernon
Heisey
Lightweight • 1 Jan Waltz, 2 Bryan Balmer, 3
Carol Grader, 4 Diane Musser. 5 Becky Lefeaver.
6 Gail Gmder, 7 Jill Kettering
Mediumweight -1 John Hess, 2 Vernon Heisey.
With her reserve grand champion Manheim Farm Show
steer is 4-H’er Kelly Rohrer, R 5 Manheim.
4-H DIVISION
3 Alida Farrington, 4 Doug Musser, 5. Julie
Hershey. 6 Angela Longenecker. 7 Trevor
Hershey
Light Heavyweight -1 Michelle Nissley, 2 Joe
Garber. 3. Chris Chapman. 4 Gim Nissley, 5 Greg
Hoover, 5 Jeanme Ginder
Heavyweight 1 Kelly Rohrer, 2 Lon Good, 3.
Phil Nissley. 4 Chad Rohrer. 5 Liz Chapman, 6.
Stacey Shenk
4*H Champion • Kelly Rohrer Reserve - Lon
Good
Grand champion - Jan Waltz, Reserve grand
champion - Kelly Rohrer
SHOWING
Junior 1 Carol Ginder, 2 Kelly Rohrer, 3
Angie Longenecker, 4 Gim Nissley
Senior -1 Jan Waltz. 2 Lon Good, 3 John Hess.
4 Phil Nissley