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Margaret Herr of Narvon proved unbeatable in Dorset
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and champion Dorset ram.
Century Farm's Bob Elander and champion Oxford ewe
Century was the Oxford Show’s premier breeder.
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Charles Clouser, Nova; Ohio, with champion Merino ewe.
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Pa. sheep top three
KILE breeding shows
BY SUZANNE KEENE AND
JACKHUBLEY
HARRISBURG - With open
breeding sheep competition
kicking off the 28th Annual
Keystone International Livestock
Exposition on Nov. 2, more than
250 sheep exhibitors converged on
Harrisburg’s Farm Show complex
to watch judges pick and choose
their way through a field of some
1500 sheep during four days of
judging.
Six states shared top honors in
the breeding show, with Penn
sylvania breeders taking cham
pionship awards in three breeds.
The only Pa. exhibitor to take top
breed honors in both the ram and
ewe classes was well-known
Dorset exhibitor, Margaret Herr,
of Narvon. Her home-bred
champion ewe had been named
supreme champion sheep at this
year’s Elizabethtown Fair, and
will now be heading for the North
American International Livestock
Expo in Louisville.
Judge Gary Ricketts, sheep
specialist at the University of
Illinois, also named Herr’s ram to
the championship position, and
presented the Garden Spot High
School senior with the J.R. Hen
derson Memorial Plaque for
exhibiting the champion flock.
Though Charles Smith swept the
Cheviot show, he had to travel a far
greater distance than Herr to get
the job done. Traveling south from
Skowhegan, Maine, Smith
exhibited sheep owned by Robert
and Edith Kelley, winning both
champion ewe and champion ram
rosettes. The Kelley flock took top
honors in all but one class of
Cheviot competition.
A Pa. exhibitor shared the
spotlight with Ohio in the Shrop
shire show. Bradford County’s
Kenneth Moore, of Rome, showed
his ram all the way to the winner’s
circle, and also exhibited the
reserve champion ewe.
Keeping Moore from the
champion ewe position was Janis
Kennedy of Kennedy Farms in
Fremont, Ohio, who exhibited the
champion Shropshire and took
home three first-place wins in
class competition.
In the Oxford show, Robert
Elander of Saugerties, N.Y.
proved unbeatable in the drive for
champion ewe honors. Along with
six first-place awards, Elander
also showed the reserve champion
ewe and ram, and was named
premier breeder.
Exhibitor of the champion Ox
ford ram was Clarence Williamson
and Sons, of Xenia, Ohio, a
familiar name in the KILE win
ner’s circle.
A ewe owned by B&B Livestock
of Danville, Ohio, was named
champion of both the open show
and sale categories in Hampshire
competition.
Rebecca Hope of Knoxville, Md.,
exhibited the champion Hamp
shire ram, and took top exhibitor’s
flock honors. Showing the second
place flock were Tim and Sarah
Fleener of Lancaster.
The Corriedale competition was
dominated by dagger Brothers of
Mt. Gilead, Ohio, dagger Brothers
showed both the champion ram
and champion ewe.
The champion ram was a fall
ram lamb, and the champion ewe,
a yearling.
Show judge dohn Landers, a
retired extension sheep specialist
and secretary of the American
Romney Association, was most
impressed with the uniformity of
wool on the champions. “We do
have good fleeces,” said Dick
Matlack, who showed the cham
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Doris Powell and her son, Richie, with the Rambouillet ewe.
Doris is the daughter of Kenneth Moore, Rome, Pa., who
owns the champion.
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Dick Matlack, right, and Sam Dean show the champion
Corriedale ram and ewe, owned by Jagger Brothers of Mt.
Gilead, Ohio.
Janis Kennedy, Fremont, Ohio, and the champion
Shropshire ewe.
is owned by Robert and Edith KeHey of Skowhegan, Maine.
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