A22-Umcaster Farming, Saturday, September 21,1985
BY WENDY WEHR
QUARRYVILLE - Two out
standing Welk-Crest entries
copped the top honors in Thur
sday’s Holstein competition at the
Solanco Fair.
Paul Welk, Holstem breeder
from Peach Bottom, exhibited
Welk-Crest Jemini Belinda to the
grand championship, while his son
Matt showed his two-year-old,
Welk-Crest Locust Leanne, for the
reserve grand champion open
honors as well as the champion
youth division award.
This is the fourth year in a row
that Welk and his sons have shown
the grand champions. However,
Welk said he wasn’t overly
confident going into the show,
having sold last year’s grand
champion at the prestigious All-
American Sale.
“It will be different now that we
sold our champion cow,” Welk had
told some fellow exhibitors prior to
Thursday’s show-ring activities.
But his homebred show string
came through, giving him the
championships as well as
Solanco’s premier breeder and
premier exhibitor banners.
The Belinda cow is a four-year
old sired by Shardale Arlinda Chief
Jemini. Judge Steve Shaw of
Linden-Loch Holsteins, Oley
Valley, described her as having
“no faults,” and a super fancy
udder.
The Welk-Crest entry was also
reserve grand champion and best
bred-and-owned at this summer’s
Lancaster County show. ~
Belinda is scored VG-85,
although she will be classified for
her second time in December. Also
to her credit is a production record
of 21,000 pounds of 4 percent milk
and 810 pounds fat.
Eleven-year-old Matthew Welk’s
reserve grand champion is a
Locust-Glen Ivanhoe Elevation
daughter. Leanne was also reserve
grand champion in the county 4-H
show this year.
The Little Britain fifth-grader
also earned the champion showing
and fitting award in Thursday’s
competition.
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Sarah (left), Helen, and Tom Arrowsmith shared the premier breeder honors for the
colored breeds at Solahco. Tom showed three of the open Jersey champions.
Welks return
Junior Champions
While Welk-Crest entries
dominated the cow classes,
animals carrying the Sukavin
prefix took the Holstein show
junior championships.
Karen Kauffman’s favorite
Sukavin Persuader Holly easily
earned the junior champion rosette
and much praise from the judge.
“Whenever a heifer like this
walks into the ring, the judge just
has to be happy,” said Shaw. “She
shows correctness from her nose to
her toes.”
Holly is a senior yearling sired
by Plushanski Persuader. Karen,
the daughter of Robert and Susan
Kauffman Jr., Peach Bottom, has
shown the heifer to some previous
wins, including the junior cham-.
pionships at the county Holstein
and 4-H shows and last year’s
reserve youth championship at
Solanco.
In the reserve junior champion
position stood Sukavin Wiseman
Rhea. This intermediate calf was
shown by Mike Mellott, an FFA
student who works for the Kauff
mans.
This is the first time the Killdee
Astrochief Wiseman daughter had
entered a show ring, so Mellott was
pleased to earn the reserve title.
Other winners in Thursday’s
Holstein show included Diane
Hershberger, who showed her
aged cow to the reserve youth
championship, and Rodney Griest,
who was named champion
showman and fitter amidst stiff
competition in the age 13 and over
category.
Colored breeds
Wednesday’s dairy competition
at the Solanco Fair included
quality Jersey, Ayrshire and
Guernsey shows.
The Arrowsmith family made a
comeback with their Hillacres
Jerseys, taking three open
championships and the premier
breeder banner for the colored
breeds.
Seventeen-year-old Tom
Arrowsmith had the grand
champion, Hillacres Jeweler
Scotch, and the reserve grand
champion, Hillacres Deni Jodi.
Tom bred the Scotch cow, while
older brother Matt bred the four
year-old Jodi.
The son of William and
Geraldine Arrowsmith of Peach
Bottom, Tom also showed the
junior champion, Hillacres
Samson Delilah. On hand to help
Tom, and show some of their own
first-place winners during the
show, were sisters Sarah, age 18,
and Helen, 15.
Jenny Harnish showed the
reserve junior champion of the
to winners’ circle at Solanco Holstein Show
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Paul Welk and sons Matt and Mark exhibited the grand champion Holsteins for the
fourth year in a row at Solanco.
Jersey show, Valley U Muffin, an
intermediate calf sired by
Wilderness Deninger ET.
In the Solanco Ayrshire show,
Robert and Sharon Nolan,
Parkesburg, Chester County,
returned with a winner. Tower
View Jerry’s Candice, reserve
grand champion in last year’s
show, earned the grand champion
trophy on Wednesday.
This Tower View Jeremy three
year-old is a daughter of last
year’s grand champion and one of
Sharon’s former FFA project
animals.
Another Tower View Jeremy
daughter, Dreamnol Jeremy’s
Catarina, earned the junior
championship for the Nolan’s. This
entry was a homebred senior
yearling.
Karen Hambrick showed her
homebred Pinelane Star Megan, a
four-year-old, to the reserve grand
championship.
Karen, a sister to Warren Sch
muck, helped earn him the
premier exhibitor award of the
colored breed shows.
Max Brommer showed the
reserve junior champion Ayrshire
in open competition and the
reserve champion in youth com
petition. Fred Esbenshade picked
up the youth division cham
pionship with his Unicorn H.K.
Diamond.
With only a few entries in the
Solanco Guernsey show, Steven
Wagner showed his two-year-old to
the senior and grand championship
and his senior calf to the reserve
junior championship. Elam W.
Mull had the junior and reserve
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grand champion, the senior
yearling.
Judging the colored breed shows
on Wednesday was Peter Witmer,
Guernsey breeder from Willow
Street.
Following are the top three
placings in each class of the
Solanco dairy shows.
HOLSTEIN
Junior Call
1 Sandra Kauffman 2 Pennstar Farms 3 Kelly
Miller
1 Kauffman 2 Miller 3 Sheri Bollinger
Intermediate Calf
1 Mike Mellott 2 Maurice Welk 3 Beth Kauff
man
Intermediate Calf Youth
1 Mellott 2 Kauffman 3 Andrew Welk
heifers to the Holstein junior championships at Solanco.
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pionship Wednesday at Solanco
Junior Call • Youth
Senior Calf
1 Joe Delong 2 Keith Miller 3 Rodney Gnest
Senior Calf Youth
1 Delong 2 Miller 3 Gnest
Junior Yearling
1 Pennstar Farms 2 Sandra Kauffman 3
Michael Peifer
Junior Yearling Youth
1 Kauffman 2 Peifer 3 Joe Delong
Intermediate Yearling
1 Mark Hess 2 Duane and Marilyn Hershey 3
Diane Hershberger
Intermediate Yearling Youth
1 Hess 2 Hershberger
Senior Yearling
1 Karen Kauffman 2 Diane Hershberger 3 Joe
Delong
Senior Yearling Youth
1 Kauffman 2 Hershberger 3 Delong
Junior Champion
Karen Kauffman
Res Junior Champion
Mike Mellott
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