Top dairy breeders display their ‘wares’
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Langel’s hobby earns him Ayrshire championship
BY LAURA ENGLAND
HARRISBURG - A retired Ohio
dairyman, who shows cattle as a
hobby, walked off with top honors
in the Eastern National Ayrshire
Show, Wednesday, at the Farm
Show Building.
Nelson Langel, owner of the
senior and grand champion
female, sold his 95-head Ayrshire
herd last June and retired from
fanning. He did not, however,
retire from the show ring and in
July decided to buy a string of
eight show cattle.
Of these eight, Langel got more
than he bargained for with Meigs
Creek C Fancie Marie who was
named the Eastern Show cham
pion. Marie, owned by Nelson and
Laura Langel of Scotch Haven
Farms, Kirkersville, Ohio, is a 6-
year-old sired by Oak Ridge
Flashy Classic.
Langel, who’s been farming for
60 years, showed Marie at the
Eastern Ayrshire Show in 1982 and
won reserve grand champion. In
capturing the grand title this year,
he said his champion has
developed and matured more
during the past year.
The reserve senior and grand
ribbons went to Matoon Pond
Farm, Gouveneur, N.Y., and
Matoon Pond Carrie’s Alison.
Owned by John Bell, 4-year-old
Alison is a Laurellea Dawn's Bozo
daughter.
Junior champion female honors
were earned by Barkstead Farm
and Gainey R. Julia, a senior
yearling heifer. Owned and
exhibited by Georgia Barker, a
chemistry and education major at
Mansfield College, Julia also took
junior and reserve grand cham
pion honors in the Eastern
National Junior Show held in
conjunction with the open show.
Barker’s senior yearling was
sired by Anchor Mere Jumbo. The
reserve junior champion of the
open show was Cottrells Starman
Hulla 11, owned by Cottrell
Homestead, West Kingston, R.I.
In Junior Show competition,
judge J. Douglas Dodds, Brandon,
BY LAURA ENGLAND
HARRISBURG - Wearing the
‘golden crown” in the National
Guernsey Show, Wednesday, was a
3-year-old cow from the Elm
Spring Farm herd.
Owned by Donald and David
Alexander, Lynn, Ind., Chedco T.
H. Maxine was awarded senior and
grand champion honors. The
Clovelly Top Hornet daughter was
also named total performance
winner for excellence in both milk
production and type.
Voted an All-American 2-year
Judge Robert Griggs, second from left, congratulates Etta
Alexander, David Alexander and Donald Alexander, proud
owners of Chedco T. H. Maxine, grand champion Guernsey
female.
Vt., selected Good Oar Vic’s Sunny
as senior and grand champion.
The 5-year-old sired by Donholm
Commander’s Victory is owned by
Robert Bell of Matoon Pond Farm,
Reserve champion honors went to
Oah Avenue Supreme of
Homestead Acres, Con
noquenessing, while Melody Lane
Style Design. Echo Notch Farm,
Westal, N.Y., won reserve junior
honors.
Del Acres Fire Chief, a yearling
bull owned by Rockland Farm,
Bear, Del., was named grand
champion bull of the open show.
Reserve honors went to Sunny
Acres Roswell, owned by Sunny
Acres Farm, Georgetown, N.Y.
The premier breeder and
premier exhibitor banners went to
Palmyra Farm, Hagerstown, Md.
During the course of the show,
Palmyra Farm took first place in
the bull calf, junior best three
females, 3-year-old dry cow, 2-
year-old cow, 3-year-old cow, best
three females, and dairy herd
classes.
The farm also won second in the
3-year-old best udder class and
breeder’s herd and took fourth in
the 5-vear-old cow class.
1 Palmyra Farm 2 Rockland Farm 3 Mars
Haven Farm
Yearling Bull
1 Rockland Farm 2 Sunny Acres Farm
Grand Champion Bull
Rockland Farm
Reserve Grand Champion Bull
Sunny Acres Farm
Jumor Heifer CaH
1 Echo Notch Farm 2 Heather Brooke Farm 3
Glenn Ayr
Intermediate Heifer Calf
1 Toll Gate Farm 2 Edgewood Farms 3
Rockland Farm
1 Cottrell Homestead 2 Dunn Morin Farm 3
Englan Farms
Junior Yearling Heifer
1 Echo Notch Farm 2 Matoon Pond Farms 3
Maple Dell Farm
Senior Yearling Heifer
1 Barkstead Farm 2 Cottrell Homestead 3
Englan Farms
1 Palmyra Farm 2 Englan Farms 3 Maple Dell
Farm
2-YearOkl Cow
I Palmyra Farm 2 Tn Line Farm 3 TnLme
Farm
Spring Farm tops Natl. Guernsey Show
Elm
old in 1982, Maxine is currently
milking 16,000 pounds of milk per
year. The champion was pur
chased by the Alexanders last year
from a Massachusetts breeder.
"We were looking for an animal
with both good production and
type," David Alexander said.
"Maxine had a good ancestory
behind her.”
The reserve senior and cham
pion laurels went to Branstetter’s
Deacon Clara, a 3-year-old owned
by Fowler Branstetter, Edmonton,
Ky. Sired by Lyrene' Wistar
NATL AYRSHIRE SHOW
Show results
Bull CaH
Senior Heifer Calf
Junior Champion Female
Barkstead Farm
Reserve Jr Champion Female
Cottrell Homestead
Jr Beit Three Female*
3 Year-Old Cow
1 Palmyra Farm 2 Haynes Farm 3 Paimyra
Farm
4-Year-Old Cow
] Matoon Pond Farms 2 Maple Del) Farm 3
Haynes Farm
S-Year Old Cow
I Scotch Haven Farms 2 Haynes Farm 3
Matoon Pond Farms
3 Years and Over Dry Cow
1 Palmyra Farm 2 Ken War Farms 3 Toil *»ate
Farm
Senior Champion Female
Scotch Haven Farms
Reserve Sr Champion Female
Matoon Pond Farms
Grand Champion Female
Scotch Haven Farms
Reserve Grand Champion Female
Matoon Pond Farms
Best Milking Female
I Matoon Pond
Produce of Dam
1 Haynes Farm 2 Maple Oelf Farm 3 Ken Wan
Farms
Dam and Daughter
I Palmyra Farm 2 Maple Dell Farm 3 Scotrh
Haven Farms
Best Three Females
I Palmyra Farm 2 Haynes Farm 3 Matoon
Pond Farms
Dairy Herd
I Palmyra Farm 2 Matoon Pond Farm 3
Haynes Farm
Sr Cet-ot Sire
1 Maple Dell Farm 2 Towerview Farm 3
England Farms
Total Performance
Palmyra Farm
Breeders Herd
1 Haynes Farm 2 Palmyra Farm 3 Matoon
Pond Farm
Slate Herd
1 New York State Ayrshire Breeders Assn 2
Maryland Ayrshire Breeders Assn 3 Pa Ayrshire
Breeders Assn
Premier Breeder
Palmyra Farm
Premier Exhibitor
Palmyra Farm
NATL Ayrshire Junior Show
Show Results
Junior Heifer Caff
1 Echo Notch Farm 2 Michelle Rene Den
derman 3 Maple Dell Farm
Intermediate Herfer Calf
1 Maple Dell Farm 2 Bells Farm 3 Maple Dell
Farm
Senior Heifer Calf
I Englan Farms 2 Cowbell Acres 3 Maple Dell
Farms
Junior Y earling Heifer
1 Echo Notch Farm 2 Homestead Acres 3
Rockland Farm
Senior Yearling Heifer
1 Barkslead Farm 2 Englan Farms 3
Homestead Acres
Junior Cfumpton Female
Barkslead Farm
Reserve Jr Champion Female
Echo Notch Farm
2-Year Old Cow
1 Homestead Acres 2 Maple Dell Farm 3 Toll
Gale Ayr Farm
3-Year (Md Cow
1 Bells Farm
4-Year-Old Cow
1 Rockland Farm
3 yn and over Dry Cow
1 Bells Farm 2 Engtan Farms 3 Matoon Pond
Farms
Deacon, Clara also won the best
udder and best milking female
honors.
Junior champion honors were
earned by two Fa. Guernsey
breeders. Green Slopes Farm,
Imler, and Green Slopes Poppy’s
Patrician won the grand junior
champion title, while Hollow View
Farm, Quarryvilie, and Hollow
View Blazer Sherry won the
reserve honors.
The junior champion was a
semor heifer calf sired by South
Penns Trail Blazer. A semor
yearling heifer, the reserve winner
is also a Trail Blazer daughter.
In the National Junior Guernsey
Show, held in conjuction with the
open show, Burgess Farm Hornets
Melanie wore the golden crown.
Shown by Scott Darron, Leßoy,
N.Y., S-year-old Melanie is owned
by Wyners Place Guernsey, East
Pembroke, N.Y.
The reserve semor and grand
champion ribbons went to Scott
Bates, Southington, Ohio, and
Locust Hill Lila. Lila, a senior 2-
year-old, is owned by Nelson
Farms, Southington, Ohio.
Junior champion winners were
Littlefields Monarch Violet, owned
by Littlefield Farms, Watertown,
N.Y., junior champion, and
Anovadale’s Choice Buttercup,
owned by Elizabeth Anne Zim
merman, Frederick, Md., reserve
junior champion.
Spring Walk Farm, Big Praine,
Ohio, won the prestigious premier
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 1,1983—A27
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overall champions, from left, Georgia Barker, Ulysses, and
reserve grand champion Gainey R. Julia, and grand champion
Good Oar Vic’s Sunny, shown by Jim Ward. Vestal. N.Y.
The Eastern National Ayrshire Show grand champion, 5-
year-old Meigs Creek C. Fancy Marie, is pictured with, from
left, judge Douglas Dodds, herdsman Paul J. Snashall, owner
Nelson Langef, Pa. Dairy Princess Tammy Cree, and Harold
Rader, president of the Pa. Ayrshire Association.
5-Year Old Cow
1 Matoon Pond Farms 2 Homestead Acres 3
Rockland Farm
Semor Champion Female
Matoon Pond Farms
breeder award, while Wyners
Place Guernsey won premier
exhibitor honors.
During show competition. Spring
Walk Farm earned the following
first placmgs. junior 2-year-old
cow, 4-year-old cow, and best three
females. Wyners Place Guernseys
took first in the 5-year-old and over
dry cow, 5-year-old and over cow,
and the exhibitor’s herd classes.
Judge for the show was Robert
C. Griggs Jr., Mustand Oklahoma.
In the Junior Guernsey Show, judge Robert Griggs
selected, from left, Burgess Farm Hornet's Melanie, shown by
Scott Darron, Leßoy, N.Y., as grand champion, and Locust
Hill Lila, shown by Scott Bates. Southington, Ohio, as reserve
grand champion. Also pictured is Angee Mohr, National
Guernsey Queen.
Reserve Sr Champion Female
Homestead Acres
Grand Champion Female
Maroon Pond Farms
Reserve Grand Champion F emafc
Homestead Acres
national guernsey show
Show Results
Junior Herter Catt
1 Keystone Guernsey Farm 2 LnhehekJ Farms
3 Hollow Vtew Farm
Intermediate Heder Call
1 Rutter Bros 2 Wyners Place Guernseys 3
Ripley Farm
Senior Heder Call
1 Green S'ooes Farm 2 CoHil. Rams 3
Spring Walk Farm
Junior Yeartinf Metier
I Elizabeth Anne Zimmerman 2 Lebanon
Val cy Farms 3 Twin Brook
Senior Yeerlmc Metier
I Hex to* V*ew Farm 2 McX combs Guernsey
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