D4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 15,1983
Show ‘em” class will debut as well
ri| 1 • as a descriptive point scale for
Shropshire judging.
* Tom Calvert, Berlin, exhibited
ram lamb 8206 to his first grand
championship. Throughout 1962,
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County earned Reserve Champion Ram honors with this top
entry. Nancy MacCauley of Atglen lends a hand in the win
ner’s circle.
Breezeview Suffolks breeze through Farm Show
FARM SHOW As the Farm
Show’s Suffolk competition
paraded in the small arena,
Sunday, judge Leroy Boyd kept his
eye on a Chester County entry that
had, “a tremendous head and a lot
of stretch to him.”
Soon afterwards, judge Boyd
tagged Bill MacCauley’s ram
lamb, “Nightrider,” Grand
Champion Ram. Before the
competition ended, MacCauley’s
Breezeview Farm prefix claimed
another champion.
A member of Octoraro FFA,
MacCauley collected the Reserve
Champion Ewe rosette with
yearling ewe, “Lady Jane."
John and Dianne Conaway,
showing for Pine Haven Farm of
Newville led their Walking Tall
grandson to a Reserve Champion
Ram slot. The ram lamb, dubbed
“Dexter,” was one of 12 animals
the Conaways hauled from their 60-
ewe Cumberland County flock. The
flock includes both Suffolks and
Rambouillets.
York breeder Paul Leader
secured a 1983 Farm Show
-'hampion when his spring ewe
mb notched a Grand Champion
n. According to Steven Ebersole,
10 shows and handles Leader’s
,ow string during competition,
,e lamb uas appeared at several
<iows throughout the season in
luding, Sussex Co., N.J., Carlisle,
<ILE, York and Montgomery Co.
Md. Earlier in the day, Ebersole’s
Hampshire show string also
finished with a flurry of ribbons.
Additional results of the Farm
Show Suffolk competition follow.
Ram. 1 to 2 Yrs
1 Dana Kelly Hartstown 2 Kelly McConnell
Fredencktown 3 Lynn Burger Kunkletown
Ram Under 1 Yr
1 William MacCauley - Grand Champion 2 H
Richard Eberts (Pine Haven Farm) - Res
Champion 3 W MacCauley
2 Ram Lambs
I W MacCauley 2 Paul Leader 3 Dana Kelly
Ewe. llo2Yrs
1 W MacCauley - Res Champion 2 Paul
Leader 3 Lynn Burger
Ewe Under 1 Yr
1 Paul Leader - Grand Champion 2 W
MacCauley 3 Tracy Brookover Mt Moms
2 Ewe Lambs
1 P Leader 2 W MacCauley 3 Pine Haven
Farm
Breeders Yount Flock
1 P Leader. 2 W MacCauley. 3 D Kelly
Pen ol Lambs
1 W MacCauley 2 P Leader. 3 D Kelly
Get of Sire
I W MacCauley 2 P Leader. 3 D Kelly
Flock
1 W MacCauley
FARM SHOW - Elyin Witt, I’hc recurve champion
Champion Acres, exhibited this lamb on foot was shown by Julie
year’s champion carcass lamb on Kuzemchak of Pleasant Gap,
foot at Farm Show. The Fayette Centre County. It was the second-
County sheep producer’s entry place heavy weight lamb,
topped the heavyweight class.
Bill MacCauley displays the winning form of “Lady
the 1983 Farm Show Reserve Champion Suffolk Ewe.
Troy Ness, handler for Paul Leader of York, notches a berth
in the winner’s circle with Leader’s ewe iamb named Grand
Champion Suffolk Ewe.
Champion Acres has
carcass lamb on foot
the yearling buck, Jointly owned by
Calvert and Shober Farm, has vied
for ribbons at KILE and the Ohio
State Pair.
The Shober-Calvert partnership
maintains several head at two
locations. The 80-head Berlin flock
in Somerset County includes
Shropshires, Hampshires and
Dorse ts. In Greene County, ap
proximately 180 head are main
tained and include Shropshires,
Cheviots, Merinos and Dorse ts.
Lancaster County breeders Tim
and Sarah Fleener added another
rosette to their successful showing
record. Familiar faces to ovine
ringsides, the Fleeners exhibited
their ewe lamb to a Reserve Grand
Champion title.
Additional results of the Farm
Show Shropshire classes follow:
Ram. lto2Yr*.
1 Warn and Annette Menhennett Pes
Champion, 2 Charles and Barbara Platt. Ge*-
tysburg. 3 Sandra Troxell, Beaver Springs
Ram, Under 1 Yr.
1 Shober-Calvert Grand Champion, 2 W &
A Menhennett, 3 Shober Calvert
2 Ram Lambs
1 Shober Calvert, 2 W t A Menhennett. 3 Tim
and Sarah Fleener
Em, 1 to 2 Yrt-
1 W & A Menhennett - Grand Champion. 2
WtA Menhennett.3 T&S Fleener
Ewe. Under 1 Yr.
1 T & S Fleener Res Champion. 2. W t K
Menhennett. 3 Shober Calvert
champion
Other show results follow
LIGHTWEIGHT
1 3 Barbara I Herr R 2 Narvon 2 David L
Harpster Boalsburg
HEAVYWEIGHT
1 Elvin Witt. Champion Acres. Champion. 2
Julie Kuzemchak. Pleasant Gap. 3 Darlene Me
Conaughey Rl Smicksburg
The Menhennetts 2-year-old ewe bested the female
competition and collected the Grand Champion Shropshire
Ewe plaque, displayed by Nancy MacCauley.
2Em Lamb* 4S Fleener
1 W 4 A. Menhennett, 2. T & S Fleener 3 GetolStre
Shober-Calvert 1 T 4 $ Fleener 2. Kenneth Moore, Rome. 3
Breeders Young Flodi C &B Platt
1 W. 4 A Menhennett, 2 Steven Calvert, Hoc*
Berlin;3 T.tS Fleener 1 W * A. Menhennett. 2 T » S Fleener. 3
1 W . . 3 T ***“*
Diane Conaway and husband John of Newville, Cum
berland County, display one of Pine Haven Farm's finest.
“Dexter," a ram lamb notched the Reserve Champion Ram
spot during Sunday’s contest.
lane,
This ram lamb, "Nightrider," owned and handled by Bill
MacCauley, 17, of Atgien, Chester County walked off with the
Grand Champion Suffolk Ram Rosette.
Suffolk Assn . elects officers
FARM SHOW The Penn
sylvania Suffolk Sheep Association
held its annual meeting on Sunday,
Jan. 9 during the 1983 Penn
sylvania Farm Show in
Harrisburg. The Association
elected its 1983 officers and ap
proved a motion to support Suffolk
rams entered in the 1983 Ram
Performance Evaluation Test.
Ford A. Cooper of R 2,
Reynoldsville, Jefferson County,
was elected president and William
McCauley of Atgien, Chester
County, was elected vice president
of the Association. George Hunter
of R 2, Stoneboro, Mercer County,
was elected secretary-treasurer.
Hunter and John Conoway of Rl,
Newville, Cumberland County,
were elected to three-year terms
as members of the board of
directors for the association.
The group voted to award |5O
cash prizes for all Suffolk rams
entered in the 1963 Performance
Tests for rams at the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture’s Meat
Animal Evaluation Center in State
College. The Performance Testing
Program is designed to assist
breeders and buyers in identifying
top quality sires to improve
breeding in the sheep industry.
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