D4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 14,1984
WEEDSPORT, N.Y. Judges McCullough of Rosebank Farm,
have been named for the 7th An- Germantown, N.Y., will judge the
nual Empire Classic Show July 27 Open Polled Hereford Show at 3:30
and 28 at the Cayuga County p.m. July 28.
Fairgrounds, Weedsport. The two Wheeler, who is cattle manager
day event is sponsored by the at Double M-B Ranch, is a veteran
Empire Polled Hereford herdsman and showman. He was
Association. with Franklin Roosevelt’s Clove
Ted Wheeler of Double M-B Creek Farm at Poughquag before
Ranch, SoUthwick, Mass., will coming to the Double M-B Ranch,
judge the Junior Polled Hereford He will be judging the junior
Show at 7:30 p.m. July 27, and Carl showmanship, heifer, steer and
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bull calf classes. Ken Auyer of
Memphis, Junior Advisor, said
entries have been received from
young people from all parts of the
state and from Pennsylvania.
McCullough has been manager
of Rosebank Farm’s purebred
Angus operation since 1978. He is a
graduate of Penn State University
with a major in animal production
and where he was a member of the
college’s judging team and
president of the Block and Bridle
Club. He was also active in 4-H and
represented Pennsylvania in the
national 4-H livestock judging
contest at Louisville. He is
secretary of the New York Angus
Association and on the board of
directors of the Penn State
Stockmen’s Club.
He has shown Rosebank Farm
Angus at the Dutchess County
Fair, the New York State Fair,
Keystone International Exhibition
at Harrisburg, Pa., and Eastern
States Exhibition at Springfield,
Mass.
A special feature of the Open
Show will be the first Empire
Polled Hereford Association
Futurity Classes with three bull
and five heifer entries competing
for Futurity premiumns of $156
first prizes; $l2l second prizes’
and $7O third prizes. These entries
are the finalists in the First
Futurity which opened in
November, 1982, with 32
nominations. These 1984 Futurity
breeders are Homestead Hereford
Farm of Whitney Point, Marshall
Farms of Port Byron, Spring
Bottom Farm of Fairfied, Pa.; Si-
Jo Farm, and Kelly Lewis of
Pulaski, and Sycamore Acres of
Trumansburg.
Except for the Futurity classes
there are no cash premiums in the
highly competitive annual Empire
Classic Show which attracts en
tries from the top Polled Hereford
herds in the northeast.
Sue Haynes of Groton, show
chairman, said, “Our Classic Show
gives the breeder with the small
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the performance of his cattle in the
show ring competition with the
investment in time of only a
weekend instead of the 10 days or
more of a state or regional show.
And often the results of our annual
Empire Classic Show serve as a
preview for the larger shows.”
She also emphasized the im
portance given to performance at
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ST. PAUL, MN. According to
a recent Livestock Conservation
Institute newsletter, Illinois
legislators have appropriated
$70,000 for indemnities for the
pseudorabies pilot project in that
state.
The $70,000 will be used to pay
indemnities for pseudorabies
infected breeding swine if shipped
to slaughter. Producers will
receive $25 per breeding animal,
Tim Linthicum, JCL Cattle Company, Welch, Okla., took
grand champion heifer honors at the first-ever Eastern
Regional Limousin Junior Heifer Show, held June 16 in
Nashville, IN. Linthicum’s heifer, a 5/10/83 entry, topped a
strong field of 87, and also took the intermediate champion
award on her way to the grand championship. Linthicum went
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the Empire Classic Show where all
entries are weighed, measured,
and scanoprobed for backfat
thickness. This information is
made available to show par
ticipants, to spectators, and to the
judges.
“All persons interested in beef
cattle are invited to attend our
Junior Show or our Open Show,”
Mrs. Haynes said.
plus the animal’s slaughter value.
Sows, boars and replacement gilts
over six months of age will qualify
for indemnity.
The Illinois project was
originally proposed to include
federal indemnities, but USDA
declined to approve indemnities
for the project, so pork producers
secured state funding for that
purpose.
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