Dwayne Coble takes life’s challenges in stride Dwayne Coble. 13, readies "Cinnamon” for the steer competition at Farm Show last week. Scarcely more than two weeks after losing his arm in a farm-related accident, he was back in the barn working with his Farm Show prospect. COMPUTRAC* —— -I I I 1 I ■ I I I I I I I /iW Mail today / W 1^1 1 ■Sd 11 j>TjJ NuPulse America, Inc ■ F W, T 908 Stewart St. * FEEDING EQUIPMENT Madison, WI 53713 Please send more information NAME [ ADDRESS J CITV J TELEPHONE | Computrac can be adapted to your present system to reduce the cost even more. Computrac doesn't have to be more expensive to be better. Call or write to find out how you can cut your feed bills. STATE BY JACK HUBLEY As with many young livestock exhibitors across the state, the Farm Show looms large in the life of 13-year-old 4-H’er Dwayne Coble. And like most farm-raised boys, Dwayne has learned to accept more responsibility than most boys his age. On the family’s 129-acre cattle and hog farm near Hershey, there’s always work to be done, and Dwayne has proven himself equal to the task. But the old adage about “all work and no play” holds true even for the most industrious of farm families-and especially for the younger family members with plenty of energy to bum after the chores are done. Farm Show has always been an effective outlet for this energy. A kind of second holiday season where young exhibitors can showcase their ability to raise, fit and show quality livestock. And Farm Show may well have been on the mind of young Dwayne Coble on the day after Thanksgiving while he tended to the task of spreading manure. With the tank spreader loaded, Dwayne turned to turn off the PTO when his sweatshirt became entangled in the PTO’s knuckle. Though his brother Dave came running from the bam im mediately upon hearing Dwayne’s cries for help, the damage had already been done. 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Did this parents has made the adjustment young man lose his arm or merely period easier. • sprain a wrist? “He’s had a tot of support from Scarcely five days after retur- his schoolmates and church, too,” mng home from Hershey, Dwayne says his father, pointing out that as was already back in the routine of many as 35 people visited him in prepping his Farm Show prospect, one day during his hospital stay, a Charolais-Angus steer named And this support was manifested Cinnamon. again last Friday when a group of » n ;, wo^ e(^ ever y day U P more than 65 businesses and till the show. It was fun, but I had a private individuals, organized by couple of difficulties,” he says Dauphin County Beef Club leader matter-of-factly. “I wasn’t really Jim Foreman, joined hands to used to it right away.” drive the price of Dwaynes 1,080- Dwayne never considered pound steer to $6.10 per pound, dropping out of the running for the Dwayne has already determined Farm Show, and his parents, Dave to channel part of his Farm Show and Sylvia Coble, were prepared to earnings into next year’s market back his decision all the way to the steer prospect. The rest of the ar ®“- . t money will go into a savings ac- At first he was afraid of being count for his future education, knocked down,” recalls Dave, “but Dave Coble says that his son will ties worked with the steer daily be fitted for a prosthesis in the and even haltered him himself. I near future. Which should put this n-i° OI K I .^ do a ambitious young man’s goal of , raising his own herd of purebred Which is precisely what the Angus heifers squarely within young Coble did at this year’s reach. junior market steer show, less than “He’s accepted it now,” con two months after his debilitating eludes Dwayne’s father. “We feel accident. Leading Cinnamon into there’s been a lot of answered the large arena with the rope held prayers.” in his left hand and extending Farm Show ‘B5 saw many a across his chest, Dwayne cam- champion pass though its doors, paigned the steer to a fifth-place But no one can dispute the fact that win in the lightweight division. the grandest champion of them all The young exhibitor is taking was a young Dauphin County other formidable tasks in stride as cattleman named Dwayne Coble, well. “I can write with my left hand,” points out the previous right hander. “I picked it up right away." 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