-Uncasttr Farming, Saturday, January 18,1986
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BY SUZANNE KEENE
HARRISBURG Youthful smiles, while others left with only
sheep exhibitors from across the the determination to do better next
state got their moment in the small year,
arena Wednesday at Farm Show Cheviot
as they'paraded their top animals In the Cheviot division of the
around the ring for show judge junior breeding show, Donna
Richard Cobb of Urbanalll. MacCauley of Chester County
When the dust had settled and all swept all the top honors, taking
the champions had been named, both the grand and reserve
some exhibitors went home championships with her two ewe
Donna MacCauley, right, poses with her Cheviot champion,
while sister Nancy, holds Donna’s reserve champion.
Kim Hopple claimed both champions in the Corriedale
division. Here her sisters pose with Kim’s winners. Chris, at
right, displays the champion, while Sandy, left, has the
reserve.
Alicia Strausbaugh, left, showed the champion Dorset,
while the reserve went to Margaret Herr, right.
Two Lancaster County.showmen claimed the top honors in
the Hampshire show. Ellen Lewis, right, had the champion,
and Michelle Mylin, left, tpok reserve.
/outfiful exhibitors win in Junior Breeding Sheep Show
carrying blue ribbons and wearing
lambs.
Her only competitor, Andy
Mellott of Fulton County, took
home the first and second place
yearling ewes.
Donna, the 15-year-old daughter
of William and Joan MacCauley,
has six Cheviots and two Suffolks
at home. Both her Farm Show
champion ewe, Diana, and her
reserve champion are homebred.
Donna said Diana won at the
county fairs this summer and will
continue her show career as a
yearling.
Corriedale
Kimberly Hopple of Cumberland
County topped her sole competitor,
Ann Kline, in the Corriedale
division, to claim the champion
and reserve champion honors. The
16-year-old daughter of Terry and
Peggy Hopple, Kimberly has three
Corriedales at home.
She purchased her Farm Show
champ, a ewe lamb, at the Mid
west Stud Ram and Ewe Sale.
Since then, the lamb has topped the
sheep shows at the Shippensburg
and Carlisle Fairs.
Dorset
In the Dorset division, Alicia
Strausbaugh and her ewe lamb
topped Lancaster County’s
Margaret Herr to claim the
championship. Margaret took the
reserve championship with her
yearling ewe, Nix Besser 352.
The 13-year-old daughter of Greg
and Chris Strausbaugh, York
County, Alicia owns about 25
Dorsets. Her champion ewe was
purchased at the Ohio State Fair
last year and was named cham
pion at the Sussex County Fair and
placed first in her class at the York
Fair.
Winning at Farm Show is not
new to Alicia, who said she had
won champion ewe in the junior
show two years ago.
Hampshire
Ellen Lewis of Lancaster County
took home the champion Hamp
shire, a yearling ewe purchased
from Bedinger Hampshires in
Illinois. Reserve champion went to
a ewe lamb entered by Michelle
Mylin of Lancaster County.
The 16-year-old daughter of
George and Loraine Lewis, Ellen
said her champion placed second
at the Lancaster County Roundup
this summer. And, she added, the
lamb that was named Supreme
Champion at the Roundup was
Michelle’s ewe lamb.
“I thought it would be the other
way around," Ellen said, referring
to the switched placings at Farm
Show.
Ellen said her champion, who
she named Diana after Princess
Diana, will soon retire from the
show circuit to have lambs.
Merino
With only one competitor to
challenge her, Barbara Falvey of
Bedford County won both cham
pionships in the Merino division of
Wednesday’s show. The cham
pionship rosette went to her
yearling ewe, who earlier in the
show season had been named
grand champion at Bedford,
Huntingdon, Fulton and Clearfield
County fairs. Barbara purchased
her winner from Clousers in Ohio.
She said she was surprised at the
way the placings went because the
reserve champion, a ewe lamb,
had placed 10th in its class at
Louisville, while the champion had
not done as well.
The 16-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Falvey, Barbara
owns 30 Merinos and two Suffolks.
Rambouillet
The Rambouillet champions
belonged to Leslie Lazarus.
Topping entries by his nephew,
Ben, Leslie showed tus homebred
yearling ewe to the championship.
Earlier in the show season, the
ewe had claimed the top honor at
both the Allentown and Kutztown
Fairs.
The 20-year-old son of Calvin and
Barbara Falvey, right, claimed both championships in the
Merino division. Here, Melanie Bow, at left, shows Barbara’s
reserve champion.
Two lambs owned by Leslie Lazarus claimed the top spots
in the Rambouillet show. Here Leslie, right, shows the
champion, while his nephew, Ben, has the reserve.
Arlisa Snavely, left, showed her ewe lamb to the cham
pionship in the Shropshire division. Reserve honors went to
Diane Musser, right.
In Southdown competition, the champion went to Aaron
Humes, right, and the reserve to Melissa Trostle, left.
Lorene Lazarus, Leslie has been Shropshire
showing sheep since he was eight Both championships in the
years old. The family has 40 ewes Shropshire division went to Arlisa
on their Busy Acre Farm in Lehigh Snavely of Lancaster County.
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