Solanco
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BY JACKHUBLEY
QUARRYVILLE If it’s worth
doing, it’s worth doing right. That
about sums up the philosophy of
Atglen’s MacCauley family when it
comes to raising sheep.
And the Solanco Fair’s sheep
breeding show was yet another
opportunity for 14-year-old Donna
MacCauley to emphasize that the
family does indeed do things right.
When the fair’s three breeding
shows had come to a close, the
daughter of Joan and Bill Mac-
Cauley had captured top honors in
two-thirds of them, exhibiting the
grand champion Suffolk and
Cheviot ewes as well as the show’s
top Suffolk ram. All of the winning
entries were bred at home where
the family maintains a flock of
about 75 sheep.
Though the MacCauleys are best
known for producing prize-winning
Suffolks, Donna added Cheviots to
the flock a few years ago. “They’re
easier to handle,” said the Oc
4-H steer is Solanco
grand champion
BY JACK HUBLEY
QUARRYVILLE - Lancaster
County Extension livestock agent
Chet Hughes ought to be flattered.
His namesake is tall, dark and
good-looking. And, to top it off, he
was named grand champion
market steer during the Solanco
Fair’s final round of beef judging
that saw the cream of the FFA and
4-H shows vying for the overall
title.
Named “Chetty”, the fair’s top
beef was shown by Tracey Landis,
daughter James and Linda I Hindis
of Quarryville. The name can
hardly be considered coincidental,
since Tracey bought her purebred
Angus steer from Hughes last fall.
"He caught my eye-he had a lot
of style,” said the exhibitor,
recalling her reasons for choosing
the March steer. Sired by In
dependence, the 1,330-pound steer
was out of a Power Play daughter
that happened to be the first heifer
that Hughes ever raised.
Judge Bill Holloway, of GH2
Angus Associates, put Chetty at
the top of his heavyweight class
before naming him champion 4-H
steer, and finally grand champion
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srand championship trophy after winning Solanco’s FFA steer
show.
toraro ninth grader, whose petite,
all-white Cheviots ■> m”n.
terpomt to the lanky black-faced
Suffolks.
In Shropshire competition, the
show belonged to Leonard Brown
111 of Kirkwood. Winning the show
has become an annual event for
this Solanco High School junior,
the son of Leonard and Mary Jane
Brown.
With no grand champion being
named in the fair’s market lamb
competition, 18-year-old Deb
Martin of Conestoga became the
show’s undeclared double
champion by winning both the
lightweight and heavyweight
divisions with a pair of purebred
Suffolks.
A recent graduate of Penn
Manor, the daughter of Melvin and
Dorothy Martin admits that
keeping her 15 Suffolks in
groceries is no small task. “It’s an
expensive hobby,” she says “I
work two jobs just to feed my
sheep.”
Judging this year’s sheep events
was York County Extension agent
Johanna Geiger.
Listed below are sheep show
results.
Breedy Sheep
Shropshire
Ail Classes
Leonard Brown
Champion Ram
Leonard Brown
Champion Ewe
Leonard Brown
of the show.
The grand champion title turned
out to be one of only a few beef
titles that eluded Quarryville’s
Frey family on Thursday night.
Fritz Frey, 18, collected champion
honors in the 4-H heifer show and
FFA steer show earlier in the
evening, before earning the
reserve overall spot behind
I^andis.
Anna Mane Frey shared the
spotlight with her brother by
showing her heifer to reserve
champion honors, and capped the
evening by placing first in the
showmanship contest's senior
division.
A homegrown steer, Fritz Frey’s
1,265-pound reserve grand
champion was the product of one of
the family’s fullblood Chianina
bulls and an Angus cow.
In the heifer show, which serves
as the county’s 4-H Heifer Roun
dup, the brother-sister Frey team
took both champion and reserve
honors
At the top was Twin Oak
Blackbird 2004, an April, 1984
Foolish Pride daughter bred and
owned by Fritz. At reserve was
MacCauleys win twice in sheep show
Suffolk
Ram Lamb
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Champion Ram
Donna MacCauley
Reserve Champion
Deb Martin
Yearly Ewe
1 Cindy Harniih 2 Donna MacCauley 3 Ai i
Herr
Ewe Lamb
1 Donna MacCauley 2 Deb Martin 3 Ann
Herr
Champion Ewe
Donna MacCauley
Reserve Champion
Cindy Harmsh
Pair of Lambs
1 Donna MacCauley 2 Deb Martin 3 Ellen
Herr
Flock
Donna MacCauley
Get of Sire
Ann Herr
Cheviot
Ewe Lamb
1 Donna MacCauley 2 Curt Barrett
Champion Ewe
Donna MacCauley
Reserve Champion
Curt Barrett
Get of Sire
Donna MacCauley
Market Lambs
Light Weight
1 Deb Martin 2 Tom Arrowsmith
Heavyweight
1 Deb Martin 2 Donna MacCautey 3 Tom
Arrowsmith
Showmanship
Senior Division
1 Cindy Harnish 2 Leonard Brown 3 Donna
MacCauley
Junior Division
1 FllenHerr 2 Tom Arrowsmith
Champion Showman
Cindy Harnish
Reserve Champion
Leonard Brown
Fitting
Junior Division
1 Tom Arrowsmith 2 Ellen Hen
Senior Division
1 Leonard Brown 2 Donna MacCauley
Champion Fitter
Leonard Brown
Reserve Champion
Donna MacCauley
Solanco
Fair
Twin Oak Georginia 1184, a High
Pockets daughter born March, 1984
out of one of the family's first-calf
heifers, and shown by Anna Mane.
Show results follow
I Fnt/Ftey 2 Sandy Oeatoil 3 BnmHnnish
1 ? Marjean Smith i Triceylandis
V Fnt; Frey 2 Bryan Whitman 3 Ranch
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FFA Champion
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FFA Reserve
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4 HSTEERS
Lightweight
I Sucpv I mton 2 let Oaip 3 (tms little
Middleweight
I Brad t mtofi 2 Heidi Frey 3 Frit? Frey
Heavyweight
1 Tracey L mdis 9 Ann i M imp Frey 3 Bryan
Whitman
4 H Champion
Tr icny I andi
4 H Reserve
Anni Mine F rev
Grand Champion Steer
Tra ey Landis
Reserve Grand Champion
Frit? Fiey
4 H HEIFERS
Summer Yearling
] Mi ll fi Frey
Junior Yearling
1 Fnt?Frey 9 Anna Mane Frey
Early Junior Yearling
1 ( mily Weaver 7 Fred Weaver
Champion Heifer
Frit? Frey
Reserve Champion
Anna Mane Frey
SHOWMANSHIP
Junior Division
1 Sandy Dearolt 2 Jimmy I indis 3 Roy
Aument
Senior Division
1 Anna Mane Frey 2 Jett Crai* 3 Marjean
Smith
FFA STEERS
Lightweight
Middleweight
Heavyweight
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 21,1985-A23
Donna MacCauley’s Suffolk (left) and Cheviot ewe lambs
took top honors in their respective breed shows Wednesday.
Deb Martin proved that 11 years of 4-H experience is hard
to beat by showing the top lightweight and heavyweight
market lambs.
reserve grand champion in competition that followed the FFA
and 4-H steer shows.
Roundup. Twin Oak Blackbird earned champion honors lor Fritz
and Twin Oak Georginia took reserve for Anna Marie.