A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 19,1983
National Jr. Dairy Show
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animals among the best. "I wanted
to come,” Mrs. Welsh said, adding
that since both the champions are
Pennsylvania Junior Bellringers,
she thought they were good enough
for this level of competition.
The Welsh Ponderosa Farm
includes 180 cows with mostly
Holsteins and Swiss, but some
Jerseys and Aryshires too. “I like
them all,” Mike says. They farm
close to 1000 acres and this year
marks a memorable recovery
from a bam fire in March of 1962
where they lost 10 show calves.
“My goal has been that we can
get to the point where we can sell
animals we can be proud of,” Mrs.
Welsh states. “Our next challenge
is to take this type with other sires
to make it better,” she concluded.
“Qualities such as dairyness,
balance, and how straight the
animal walks on its feet and legs,”
were among the top qualifications
for a prize winning Guernsey in the
National Guernsey Junior Show,
according to judge William
McGee, Mississippi State
University. As 137 entries from 10
states paraded through the ring,
the entry of Mr. and Mrs. Galen
McDonald, El, Imler, and shown
by their nephew, Curtiss Feathers,
was singled out for one of the top
placings.
Green Slopes Poppy’s Patrician,
a senior heifer calf daughter of
South Pens Trailblazer, took the
Reserve Junior Championship for
the McDonald’s Green Slopes
Farm.
“I think she is great,” McDonald
stated and added that because of
David Black, first-time exhibitor at NAILE, with his heifer,
Black Pond Poet Jessie, sixth placer in class of 28.
her great size and scale, her teeth
are always checked in the ring.
“Patrician” has been unbeaten in
14 shows this year and Junior
Champion in 13 of them. Bred by
the McDonalds, she was their only
entry, but McDonald added that
they had three other good
prospects at home but could not
bring them.
The Junior Championship went
to Holly Griggs, Oklahoma, and
the Senior and Grand Cham
pionships went to Susan Fish,
Missouri. Reserve Senior and
Reserve Grand went to Margaret
Wallis, Missouri. The state herd
award went to Missouri with
Wisconsin in second place and
Kentucky taking third.
More than 120 junior Holstein
breeders from seven states
exhibited in the Holstein Junior
Show. The “competition was
tough,” according to dairyman
Dick Lewis, Orient, Ohio, judge of
the event.
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association and the
Pennsylvania Junior Holstein
Association, 10 Pennsylvania
Holstein youth made the trip to
Louisville with their state herd
animals.
“We had real good support this
year,” stated Diane Bowen Bliss,
Director of Junior Programs with
the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association, State College. Adding
that they are pushing for full
support for this program, Bliss
said, “I think they (the youth) get
good, valuable experience here,”
“we did real well, exceptionally
well.”
This marked the second year
that a state junior herd was taken
to Kentucky. Juniors are
responsible for paying the trucking
and feed, and the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association pays for the
entry fees, straw, shavings, and
hires a herdsman to care for the
animals. Partially funded by the
Junior Holstein Club Calf Raffle
each year, all the winnings from
the show go back into the junior
association to fund other junior
programs. “It’s a lot of planning,”
Bliss stated.
To qualify for the state herd,
junior animals must place high in
the three major shows in Penn
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the state junior show, and the
Eastern National. The ten juniors
participating this year were
Constance Ohlinger, Mohrsville;
Benjamin Wolfe, Millville; Irene
Benner, Millerstown; Thomas
McCauley, Elizabethtown; Luke
Bowser, New Enterprise; Shawon
Georgetti, Avella; Kelly Krebs,
Glen Rock, Daniel Albright,
Landisburg; Paul Carr, Somerset;
and John Foster 111, Petersburg.
The herdsman was Creedin Cor
nman from Carlisle, and Burton
Staman, Jr., Montgomery, hauled
the equipment to the show.
For all but one of the juniors, it
was the first year at this com
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been trying to teach the kids, is
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some professional show habits,”
Bliss stated. “We’re all working
together, trying to help the
younger kids,” she added.
Each junior was given a blue
skirt with the Pa. Holstein insignia
on it and throughout the show,
these skirts could be seen at the
head of the class. “It’s so
everybody knows Pennsylvania,”
Bliss commented as she said that
they did much better this year than
they did in 1982.
Shawn Georgetti, Avella, started
off the junior show with a first
place in the junior calf class with
Sha Vic Ta Ultimate Billy Jean.
Following this lead, Benjamin
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