Stump family youths share
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
BERNVILLE - Amidst bun
dling up with coats, scarves
and mittens, slipping over the ice
to do chores and fixing frozen
water pipes comes the time to
prepare animals for the showring
highlight of wintertime. It’s Farm
Show time again!
In Berks County, the Stump
family of Stumpland Registered
Holsteins, R 1 BemvUle, prepares
in force for their favorite show of
the season.
The 50 Stumpland Holsteins of
the John and Rita Stump family
have an extra advantage. They
have five devoted, hard working
siblings working with them. With
Donna, age 20; Doris, 15; Doyle,
17; Denise, 14; and Dwaine, 11,
doing much of the daily chores at
home, nothing is left undone. What
one brother or sister cannot get
done, another pitches in and chores
are completed.
“They work together,” their
father states proudly. Their
cooperation in daily chores is also
reflected in their preparation of
their show animals and can also be
seen when they are exhibiting their
Stump youths with their father, John, include from the left, Dwaine, Donna, Doyle,
Doris and Denise.
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help each other.
This year the Stump children
plan to take five of their favorite
cows. “We usually don’t take
heifers and calves,” states Donna,
saying that their cows always
seem to show better. There is
“Candy”, a Glendell Arlinda Chief
daughter, of Doris’, and “Brandi”,
her full sister, an 87 point, ft-year
old belonging to Denise, that they
are most hopeful about. Dons and
“Candy” captured the Grand
Championship Showmanship title
at Kutztown this past year and also
has to her credit a Reserve Senior
Championship as a two-year-old in
1981. Denise and “Brandi” took the
Grand Championship at Kutztown
in 1982 and are looking forward to
the challenge of the Farm Show.
Donna’s preparing her 4-year
old Betty Chief daughter, “Crissy”
and her aged cow “Ursie” while
Doyle’s counting on his just fresh
aged cow, “Susan”, a sister to
“Ursie”.
As the kids remembered back to
receiving their first animal from
their father, they all agreed that it
was really hard to wait until they
were old enough for 4-H. “We used
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to have fits when we couldn’t go,”
states Doris referring to the time
when she had to watch her older
sisters and brother do to a show.
It seems that Debbie, an older
sister now married and on her own
farm near Frystown, set the trend
for her brothers and sisters by
starting the 4-H “tradition”.
Debbie was named “Distinguished
Junior Member” of the Holsteion
Gub in 1981 and taught her
brothers and sisters much of her
expertise. “They learn from the
older ones,” Johm Stump stated.
The 4-H leader of the Western
Berks Dairy Gub for the past 11
years, John Stump stresses proper
preparation for a show in both the
animal and the exhibitor. “I en
courage them to get up and watch
the older ones,” he says when at a
show or local fair. “There’s just
many little things they must
watch,” he adds.
To further show efforts, the
Stumps hosted a field day on their
farm a few years ago to teach
preparation and techniques to the
younger members of the club. “I
try to get all of them out there that
I can,” he states. The county
Holstein club continues the field
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days each year and it is proving to
be an invaluable tool for teaching
the youngsters, Stump explains.
“In our club, the older members
help the younger ones,” Stump
explains, taking his family
philosphy to his 4-H club.
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With Pebble off the home farm,
Donna takes over the “oldest”
position and has charge of naming
offspring and the registration
paperwork. Receiving the honor of
“Honorable Mention, All Penn
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Doyle Stump with “Susan.”