perioo icals W2C9 pATTEE f . L c TAT e UNIVERSITY PENNSYLVANIA ST a TE U UNIVERSITY pARK P 6 -W- VOL. 29 No. 41 Queens Manor repeats W. Pa. Holstein win Doeheriener family sweeps Championship Show titles WASHINGTON - The Washington Country Fairgrounds was buzzing with excitement last Friday, Aug. 3, as Holstein breeders from throughout Western Pennsylvania paraded their cattle around the show ring of the Western Pennsylvania Cham pionship Show. When the parading had ended and the class champions had been selected by judge Bert Stewart, Hornby, Ontario, the Ed Doebenener family of Jamestown was standing alone in the limelight. Owners of Queens- Manor Holsteins, the Doeberieners walked away with both the grand champion and reserve grand champion female and bull titles. The senior champion and grand champion female, C Houdale Tempo Rachael, was shown by Justin The, senior %■ year-old champion was sired by Potomac Fever outbreak strikes Lancaster and York County horses BY JACK HUBLEY MANHEIM A disease of unknown origin has been keeping Manheim veterinarian, Dr. Jeffrey Edelson, on the road since early July, as Edelson, who’s practice is limited to equine treatment, struggles to keep up with a wave of Potomac Fever sweeping Lan caster and eastern York Counties. A recognized authority on the debilitating disease, Edelson has treated 60 cases in the last five Youthful dairy showing careers dawn & ebb at Lebanon Adam Sonnen, 14, of R 1 Richland, with his Grand Champion four-year-old of the Open Holstein Show at Lebanon Fair. Four Sections Roybrook Tempo and was bred by Jaques Houde. C Gala Hill Kelly Ned-Red, also from the Queens-Manor herd, was selected reserve grand champion. The 4-year-old cow was sired by Agro Acres Marquis Ned. . The Doeberieners dominated the Holstein bull show as well. Leadfield Privelege, a semor yearling bull owned by Queens Manor-Leadfield and shown by Ed Doebenener, was named grand champion bull. The champion was sired by Leadfield Columbus-ET. Leadfield Priority-ET, a junior bull calf also sired by Leadfield Columbus-ET, was named reserve grand champion. The bull, owned by Queens Manor-Leadfield, was shown by Justin Doeberiener. Placing high in several of the classes, the Doeberieners were awcpded the premier exhibitor pmpuyiwn to Page A 22) years, with an alarming 25 cases arising since the first week of July. Edelson says that the majority of his cases are located along the Susquehanna River in the Edelson to speak at Farm and Home Center LANCASTER Of interest to horse owners will be a lecture presented at Lancaster’s Farm and Home Center on Thursday, August 23, at 7:30 p.m. Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 11,1984 Reserve grand champion of the Western Pa. Championship Show is shown by Ed Doeberiener, left, while the grand champion is shown by Justin Ooeberiener. Wnghtsville and Washington Boro areas. Sporadic cases have also cropped up in Elizabethtown, Smoketown and Bird-in-Hand. “One strange thing about the The topic will be Potomac Fever, a serious equine disease currently on the increase in Lancaster and York Counties. disease is that it will pick out an isolated horse in a stable or large herd of animals, without spreading through the entire herd,” Edelson notes, adding that eventhough The featured speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey Edelson, a Manheim area equine veterinarian with extensive experience in treating the disease. FFA’ers - one at beginning & one nearing end - meet BY DICK ANGLESTEIN LEBANON Youthful dairy showing careers begin and end in the ring And, it’s always nice - no matter if such careers are debuting or nearing a close - that they dawn or ebb on a winning note. Such was the case in the Open Dairy Show at the Lebanon Fair on Thursday. Fourteen-year-old Adam Sonnen - although a veteran of several years in 4-H - is still in the early stages of his youthful showing career. In fact, he’ll begin his pre- Greenhand days in FFA this year at ELCO High School. Adam, son of Malcolm and Jaruce.Sonnen, R 1 Richland, with a stylish four-year-old entry cap tured the Senior and Grand Championships of the fair’s Open Holstein Show on Thursday. Judge J. Lloyd Ebersole, of Tunkhannock, called the Jemini Pt ' ' ' Vit, AUG I 6 $7.50 per Year entire herds don’t come down with the affliction, all breeds and types of horses are susceptible. Symptoms begin with signs of depression and a refusal to eat. According to the veterinarian, this depression stage may last from 12 hours to six days, and is marked by a dramatic drop in the horse’s white blood cell count. Following depression comes a siege of acute diarrhea that (Turn to Page A 25) daughter a well-balanced, strong cow with great foreudder at tachment. Just behind the beginning FFa'er is another ELCO farm youth, John B. Kline, of Myer stown, who, as he nears the end of his youthful showing career, is in the running for one of the top Future Farmers of America honors in the nation. Eastern Regional Star Farmer, Kline - who has had his own dairy herd since graduating - will be competing this fall with three farm youth from separate sections of the country for Star Farmer of America. On Thursday, Kline’s aged cow, which he bought recently through Mel Kolb, won the reserve Senior and Grand Championships, of the Open Holstein Show, looking back on his own youthful (Turn to Page A2I)
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