A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 22,1984
The parade of champions
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milk and 916 lbs. of fat with a 4.4
test. She has peaked at over 100
lbs. a day in her second lactation.
She is classified VG-88.
But this is probably the last
Solanco title for Tiffany. She will
be sold at the All-American
Holstein Sale in Harrisburg next
week.
Mark Welk’s reserve winner, 4-
year-old Cherry, has now earned
that title three years in a row at
Solanco. She’s classified VG-87 and
is also a top producer in the Welk’s
herd.
Mark also led Cherry to the
grand championship in the
Holstein junior division com
petition this year.
The Welk’s did quite well
throughout the day, taking first
place ribbons in a number of the
group classes as well. Paul’s
younger son Matt was even named
top exhibitor in the age 12 and
under category of the fitting and
showing competition.
The only grand championship
title that didn’t go to the Welk’s
during the Holstein show was the
reserve grand championship in the
junior division. Karen Kauffman,
also of Peach Bottom, earned that
honor with Sukavin Persuader
Holly. Kauffman will be showing
Holly in the Pa. Junior Dairy Show
in Harrisburg next week and
possibly in the All-American show
as well.
This year’s Solanco dairy
exhibition was the largest ever
with over 170 entries. The in
creased entries were primarily in
the color breeds, shown on Wed
nesday. Competition was part
cularly stiff in the Jersey and
Ayrshire shows.
Waltz, Landis take beef honors
BY JACK HUBLEY
QUARKYVILLE It was “ladies
first” on Thursday night as Lan
caster County’s 4-H Beef Heifer
Roundup kicked off the beef cattle
competition at the Solanco Fair.
And this year’s queen of the
court was Skarship Kyma 1033, a
Jan. ‘B3 daughter of Pine Drive Big-
Sky owned by Jan Waltz of
Manheim.
The son of Art and .Nancy Waltz
finally led his Canadian-bred
heifer to the top after a number of
respectable finishes in com
petitions earlier this year. Kyma
was named second in her class at
the State Angus Breeders Show
Jimmy Landis keeps improving. He bettered last year's
reserve champion win by exhibiting this year's grand
champion market steer at the Solanco Fair.
Rob and Sharon Nolan swept the Ayrshire competition at
Solanco on Wednesday. Here are their grand and reserve
grand champions, Cadrin and Candice.
Bob Ulrich of Quarryville
captured the grand championship
in the Jersey show with Valley-U
Mercury Lynn. Shown by Bob’s
son Tim, four-year-old Lynn has
never been exhibited before.
Classified VG-88, Lynn’s a good
producer for the Ulrich’s. She has
a 14,300 pounds milk record and 730
pounds fat.
The reserve grand champion in
the Jersey competition, Clearview
Criterions Holly, was shown by Pat
Jenkins from Toughkenamon,
Chester County. Holly, the first
animal that Pat ever bred herself,
is a 10-year-old who has done well
for Pat over the years. She placed
first in the aged dry cow class at
Farm Show last year.
The junior division Jersey
winners were Elizabeth Jenkins
and Jerry Shertzer. Elizabeth
and placed third in her class
among stiff competition at this
year’s National Junior Angus Show
in Columbus, Ohio.
Cinching the reserve spot was
another Pine Drive Big Sky
daughter, RF Lady Big Sky, owned
by Quarryville’s Fritz Frey.
Frey’s Mar. ‘B3 heifer was a top
contender in Ohio, placing second
in her class in the owned-heifer
division.
Judging this year’s event was
Lee Wagner of Bethlehem, who
turned his attention to placing a
competitive field of steers once the
heifer show had concluded.
showed Dusty Star of Clearview to
the grand championship. Pine
Mountain Chocolate Ashley won
the reserve title for Shertzer of
Lancaster. He’ll be showing
Ashley at the Pa. Junior Dairy
Show on Monday.
The open division Ayrshire titles
were swept by Rob and Sharon
Nolan of Parksburg. Dam and
daughter, Cadrin and Candice,
captured the grand and reserve
grand trophies for the Nolans.
Donald Brown, judge for the
Wednesday show and Guernsey
breeder from Oxford, described
Cadrin as “a big strong cow with a
lot of dairy character.” An aged
dry cow, Cadrin is classified 92.
Brown noted that two-year-old
Candice, Cadrin's daughter,
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The steer competition was
separated into FFA and 4-H shows
with Quarryville’s Jimmy Landis
taking top honors in the 4-H show,
then going on to be named grand
champion over both shows.
Weighing 1,130 pounds, Landis’
entry was a Viking son purchased
from Sam Wiley of Nottingham.
The son of Jim and Linda Landis,
Jimmy’s big win came during his
second year of 4-H competition,
after taking reserve champion
honors during his first year in 1983
with another Wiley-bred calf.
It was a big day for this 10-year
old 4-H'er, who was named reserve
champion junior fitter in the
earlier swine competition
Showing the reserve grand
champion was Bryan Whitman,
whose 1,185-pound Power Play
sired steer ran a close race with
the grand champion, taking
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Byers wins with pig
Cindy Trimble exhibited her brother Scott's 240-pound
market hog that won the heavyweight class and went on to be
named the show's reserve champion.
at Solanco Fair.
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Pat Jenkins is at the halter of her 10-year-old reserve
grand champion Jersey.
Bob Ulrich and his son Tim showed the grand champion
Jersey at Solanco.
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Waltz in the Lancaster Co. 4-H Beef Heifer Roundup at the
Solanco Fair.
that nobody wanted
BY JACK HUBLEY
QUARRYVILLE - Jeff Byers
managed to shoot holes in the old
you get what you pay for” theory
this year by taking grand cham
pion market hog honors with a pig
that he took home for free.
The winning Duroc-cross started
its “show” career earlier this
spring when a group of Solanco
high school’s graduating seniors
crayoned “Class of ‘B4” on its side
and released the pig in the school’s
enclosed courtyard as a parting
joke.
The prank porker was
discovered by custodians who
turned it over to the school’s vo-ag
department, that in turn offered it
to anyone of the school’s
agriculture students who would
step forward.
"And I was the only one who
wanted it,” chuckles Byers, who
managed to get the last laugh. Jeff
took his new FFA project home to
Holtwood where his father, John
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