High FFA dairy judging team from Solanco High School
includes, from the left, Kris Esbenshade, Joe Delong, Mark
Welk and Tom Arrowsmith.
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Top livestock judging team from Lancaster
includes, from the left, Margaret Herr, Brian
Chapman, Jan Waltz and Fritz Frey.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 28.1984-821
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County 4-H
Hess, Chris
contests
By Martha J. Gehringer
DOYLESTOWN - The skies
threatened rain but this didn’t
discourage the 4-H and FFA’ers
who traveled to Delaware Valley
College in Doylestown to test then
judging skills.
Saturday, April 14, marked the
third annual dairy judging and se
cond annual livestock judging con
test.
The dairy judging consisted of
six classes from the college’s dairy
herd. The breeds judged were Ayr
shires, Brown Swiss and Holstein.
The results from the day’s
events are: FFA High teams - 1.
Solanco Team 1, 2. Cloister Team
1, 3. Cloister Team 2, 4. Belvidere
High, 5. Solanco Team 2. 4-H High
Teams - 1. Berks County, 2.
Lebanon County Team 1, 3.
Lebanon County Team 2, 4.
Somerset County Team 2, 5.
Somerset County Team 1. The
Berks County Team was also the
overall high team for the day.
The individual results are as
follows - FFA High Individuals; 1.
Mark Welk - Solanco Team 1, 2.
Kris Esbenshade - Solanco Team 1,
3. Larry Gerhart - Cloister Team 1,
4. Phil Eby - Cloister Team 1. FFA
High Reasons: 1. Mark Welk -
Solanco Team 1, 2. Jim Zimmer
man - Cloister Team 1, 3. Kris
Esbenshade Solanco Team 1, 4.
Phil Eby - Cloister Team 1.
4-H High Individuals: 1. William
Lesher - Berks County, 2. Todd
Miller - Berks County, 3. Jay
Bicksler - Berks County, 4. Gary
Fink. 4-H High Reasons: 1. Gary
Fink, 2. William Lesher - Berks
Co., 3. Sandy Sutton - Somerset
Co., 4. Todd Miller - Berks Co.
The official judges for the dairy
competition were Carl Brown from
F.M. Brown and Sons Feed Com
pany, Peter Witmer, a farmer
from Lancaster, Tom Smith and
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