Morrison Cove Dairy Show Attracts Top Quality Entries
BY BETSY STITT
Blair Comity Correspondent
MARTINSBURG - Despite hot,
humid temperatures, a record
number of dairy cattle were
exhibited at the Morrisons Cove
Dairy Show last week. Exhibitors
brought over 400 entries to
Memorial Park in Martinsburg to
compete for the top honors. Quality
was also high at the show, judges
said.
FFA members from four
counties started down the tanbark
trail Tuesday.
In the Holstein breed Ken
Diebold of Tyrone captured grand
champion honor* with a stylish,
black 3 year old. A Burket Falls
Grandee daughter, the champion
repeated last year’s performance,
much to her owner’s pleasure.
John Andrew Foster 111 of
Petersburg received reserve
champion honors with another 3
year old. She is a Leadfield
Columbus daughter. Foster also
had the first place junior herd and
Russell Wyles presents Mr. Ruth with a plaque for 31 years
of service to the Morrison Cove Dairy Show.
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Grand champions at the 4-H show were, from left, Michele Burket, Ayrshire; Jerome
Hardy, Jersey; Monica Goshorn, Milking Shorthorn; Beth Clark, Guernsey; John A.
Foster 111, Holstein; and Christie Booher, Swiss.
Grand champions in the district FFA show, include, from left, Jerome Hardy, Jersey;
John Grove, Jr. for Amy Brant, Milking Shorthorn; Amy Brant, Ayrshire; Angie Mc-
Donald, Guernsey; Jennine Chesney for her brother Rich, Swiss; and Ken Diebold,
Holstein.
was named champion fitter.
Paul Carr of Somerset exhibited
his junior yearling, a SWD Valiant
daughter, to the junior champion
spot. Carr was also named
champion showman.
Winning reserve junior cham
pion was Ross Hershberger of
Martinsburg with his senior calf.
Amy Brant of Mt Union
dominated the Ayrshire com
petition. She captured grand and
reserve grand and reserve junior
champion awards.
Amy’s 11-year-old cow, a
daughter of Elk-Ayr Faithful was
i named grand champion. Amy also
had the first place junior herd.
Linette Diehl of Bedford had the
junior champion with an in
termediate calf that is a daughter
of Highview Larry.
Amy Brant was the only
exhibitor in the Milking Shorthorn
competition and therefore, won all
the top honors. Judge Ray “Jake”
Emig of Shippensburg commended
her on the quality of her entries.
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Grand champions in the open colored breeds show include, from left, Marty Brum
baugh, Swiss; Beth Clark, Guernsey; Amy Brant, Milking Shorthorn and Ayrshire; and
Jerome Hardy, Jersey.
Richard Chesney of Martinsburg
went away«with most of the top
honors in the Brown Swiss com
petition. He had the grand
champion with a 3-year-old
daughter of of West Lawn Stretch
Improver. Rich also had the first
place junior herd.
Robert Fritz of Garrett had the
reserve honors in both the grand
and junior champion competitions.
John Grove, Jr. of Mt. Union had
junior champion.
Galen McDonald II of Imler had
junior champion Guernsey, while
his sister, Angelique, had grand
champion with her 5 year old.
Another sister, Melissa, captured
the reserve honors. A third sister,
Alicia, had the first-place junior
herd.
Another family, the Hardy’s of
Petersburg, dominated the Jersey
show. Jerome had grand champion
with his 3 year old and junior
champion with his yearling.
James Heeter from Shade Gap
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Heidi O'Neal, left, Bedford County Dairy Princess, and
Blair County alternate Jenny Bigelow, congratulates John
Burket, left, owner of grand champion, and John A. Foster 111,
reserve champion-.
won the reserve championships for
both the grand and junior com
petitions. He also had the first
place junior herd.
4-H Show
4-H members were up and at it
early Wednesday morning
readying their animals for the
competition later that day.
The effort paid off for Christie
Booher of Blairs Mills, who
dominated the Brown Swiss
competition. She placed first in all
the senior classes and received the
grand and reserve champion
honors. She also had reserve junior
champion.
Jeannine Chesney of Mar
tinsburg had junior champion with
her senior calf.
Beth Clark of Bedford took many
of the honors in the Guernsey
show. She had grand champion
with her 4 year old, reserve grand
with her 2 year old and reserve
junior champion with her summer
yearling.
Melissa Morrow had junior
champion with her junior yearling.
The Hardy family again
dominated the Jersey show in 4-H.
Janice had grand champion with
her senior yearling. Her brother
James had reserve grand
champion and sister Jill had
reserve junior champion.
Blair County 4-H members
reaped many of the top awards in
the Holstein show.
Stacy Forsht had junior
champion with her senior calf.
Sisters Rebecca and Miriam
Kelly of Sinking Valley won the
reserve honors in both the junior
and senior divisions.
Huntingdon countian John A.
Foster 111 won the grand champion
honor with his senior 2 year old.
Although competition in the
Milking Shorthorn show was
scarce, Monica Goshom exhibited
quality animals, show judge Ray
“Jake” Emig said. Monica cap
tured all of the championships.
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Michele Bucket of Martinsburg
and Rachel McCutcheon of Tyrone
were the sole Ayrshire exhibitors,
but they definitely had quality
animals. Michele had grand
champion and Rachel had reserve.
Blair County 4-H members also
came out on top of the showing and
fitting competition.
In the junior division Miriam
Kelly was named master fitter
while Kristin Metzker was named
master showman.
In the senior division, master
fitter went to Mike Bucket §nd
master showman to Stacy Forsht
Open Colored Breed Show
Competition in the open Jersey
show was pretty stiff with two
exhibitors coming out on top.
Ralaine Jerseys, owned by the Ray
Sollenberger family of Everett,
won the grand champion honors.
The Dennis Hardy family of Twix
Jerseys, located in Petersburg,
had junior champion.
In the Guernsey show, Misty
Meadows Farm of Bedford saw
most of the action in the show ring.
Either Beth Clark or her grand
father, Robert Smith, was at the
halter of the animals paraded
before judge Ginger Myers of
Adams County. Between the two
they won all the championships
and the group classes.
The Brown Swiss show was also
topped by two showmen.
J. Buck and Associates received
grand champion honors with their
stylish 3 year old.
Jeannine Chesney had junior
champion, while her brother Rich
won the group classes.
Although numbers were down in
the Ayrshire show, the quality
wasn’t. Amy Brant won the
championships and all the group
classes. Michelle Burket showed
the junior champion
Amy Brant also had grand
champion Milking Shorthorn.
Monica Goshorn, claimed junior
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