York 4-H’ers hold sheep,
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
THOMASVILLE - Two York
County 4-H members hauled home
champion rosettes and impressive
sized checks to fatten their bank
accounts, as the sheep and swine
clubs held a special joint roundup
and sale. Thomasville Livestock
hosted the new event, with the
show held Monday evening,
followed by the Tuesday evening
auction of the winners.
Terry Flory’s grand champion
was the first lot to come under the
evening’s spirited bidding to
auctioneer Harry Bachman. The
long-time 4-H sheep exhibitor from
Red Lion saw the price climb to
$2.10/pound before the gavel
cracked, awarding the champion
of the lamb roundup to York area
builder Bob Kinsley of York.
Kinsley’s representative con
tinued nodding as Red Lion 4-H’er
Melissa Trostle posed her 105-
pound reserve grand champion,
and won that entry as well with a
York jy, 4pt<- iy
Bachman, bought grand champion lamb of Terry Flory at York
roundup for $2.10 per lb.
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$1.60/pound offer.
A $1.05/pound bid from Uniquely
Yours purchased the champion
lightweight, an 80-pound lamb
belonging to Sonja Shearer, Ab
bottstown.
Dave Myers, Wellsville, claimed
the champion mediumweight title,
selling his 90-pound lamb to the
York County Sheep Club for a 90
cent/pound bid.
Tammy Flory’s 85-pound
reserve champion lightweight sold
for 75 cents/pound to Jim Parlette,
while Melissa Trostle got a 90
cent/pound price for her reserve
champion mediumweight, a 100-
pound lamb going to auctioneer
Harry Baughman.
Two lambs brought dollar-per
pound bids, a 115-pounder
exhibited by William Dietz 111, of
York, and purchased by Leonard
Sipe, and the 110-pound lamb of
Tiffany Dietz that went to Eleanor
Sipe.
For Tim Ferrence of Spring
Grove, his very first grand
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for the champion lightweight,
exhibited by Morris Spahr of York.
- Then it was Hatfield in action
again, paying 70 cents/pound for
Greg Bankert’s champion light
weight, following with a 63
cent/pound bid to Gus Parlett for
his heavyweight winner.
Several faces fimiliar to sheep
and swine club followers were in
the lineup of exhibitors who took
top awards in the fitting and
showmanship contests that
climaxed the Monday evening
show.
Greg Bankert of Hanover, who’s
been handling hogs almost since he
could walk, outmaneuvered all
other entries in the showing con
test, to be named the champion
showman of the swine roundup.
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champion 4-H swine win was in
deed a sweet victory, as well as a
productive one.
Hatfield Packing Company’s
buyer, Ezra Good did a lot of bid
nodding throughout the swine sale,
beginning with a $3.50/pound price
for Ferrence’s 245-pound Duroc
market hog.
But the lanky 4-H’er also carted
off a special prize of a crisp shiny
$lOO bUI. The $lOO payment came
from purbred Duroc promoter
Roger Bankert of Hanover.
At the Bankert family’s swine
sale earlier this year, Bankert
offered a $lOO bonus U any 4-H
buyer whose hog won a cham
pionship. Bankert has already
handed out three of the big bills,
and there are still a few project
animals around the state waiting
for their chance in the tanbark
ring.
Hatfield again claimed the top
bid at $2.00/pound when Gus
Parlett of Airville paraded his
reserve champion market animal
around the sawdust.
Still nodding to the auction
booth, Good also claimed the
champion pair shown by Brian
Bankert, at the price of an even
dollar per pound.
Spangler and Sprenkle of York
was successful m finishing the
bidding for Kris Miller’s reserve
champion pair, and paid the York
exhibitor .80 cents/pound for her
matched hogs.
Hog producer Jerry Rutter
boosted the price to 90 cents/pound
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swine roundups
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bought by Ezra Good, of Hatfield Packing, for $3.50 per lb
Kris Miller took the reserve
championship, with several years
of experience in showing hogs from
the family’s York hog operation.
For Tim Ferrence, the champion
victory was iced over with yet
another win when the Spring Grove
hog showman scrubbed and
polished his entry to be named best
fitter of the contest. Close behind
came East Berlin 4-H hog member
Gary Burgard, chosen the reserve
fitting winner.
Judge for the combined roundup
was Chester Hughes, Lancaster
York FFA’ers
that tested their machinery skills.
Mark Wagner of Red Lion
performed the most flawlessly,
finishing in first place over runner
up Brien Devoe of Kennard Dale.
Others, as they placed, were Bo
Bush, Kennard Dale, James
Klahold, Eastern, Jim Eisenhour,
Dover, Ron Horn, Dover and Tracy
Crain, Northern.
A market sale wrapped up KKA
activities at the fair on Friday
night, with Hatfield Packing
Company’s Ezra Good the final
bidder on both champion and
reserve market hogs.
Good’s bid of $2.85/lb. for the
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Additional buyers at the lamb
sale include Ron Trostle, Walter
Dunlap, Wege Pretzel, Thomas’
Meats, Red Lion Rental, Yorkco
Meat Market, Gerald Dietz and
Roger Bankert.
In the swine sale, buyers also
included Glenville Farm Center,
Danner’s Insurance, Godfrey
Brothers, Roger Bankert, Rutter’s
Family Restaurants, Walter
Dunlap, White Oak Mills and
Robert Muller.
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champion, and $1.40/lb. for the
reserve hog fattened the bankbook
of Dover FFA’ers Gerald Stermer.
Jr., who exhibited the top pair of
market pig winners.
Stermer, a junior at Dover, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ster
mer, Sr., East Berlin R 2. The four
hogs he had selected from the
family’s stock for his FFA entries
are cross breeds, from Yorkshire
and Landrace lines, and each won
its class at the fair’s competition.
Other first place market hog
winners were Judy Ruppert of
Dover, Beth Innerst and Jeff
Holtzinger of Red Lion, and Bo
Bush of Kennard Dale. J.B.
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