Burdette
BY JOYCE BUPP
York County Correspondent
CARLISLE - Numbers were up
and the quality impressive at the
South-Central Championship
Holstein Show, held Monday at the
Carlisle Fairgrounds.
“It was one of the best district
shows I’ve ever seen,” commented
judge Dennis Patrick, Kempton,
who praised both the high quality
of the 150 head entered as well as
the show’s well-run organization.
Big winners of the day were the
Jim and Nina Burdette family,
Mercers burg, and Elizabethtown
youth exhibitor Tom McCauley.
Parading a string of 10 strong,
high-placing homebreds, the
Burdettes snagged the coveted
Best Bred and Owned trophy, and
garnered enough class points to
earn both the Premier Breeder and
Exhibitor banners.
Their Windy Knoll View Justa
Wonder got the nod as best bred
and owned, and reserve senior and
grand of the show, after heading up
a 3-year-old class showing quality
clear to the other end of the lineup.
Judge Patrick praised the MD-
Sunset-View RA Wonder daughter
for her spring of rib and openness,
and complimented her on “how she
tracks.”
Accepting their first-ever pair of
purple premier banners capped a
day of highlights for the Burdette
family, who also took firsts in the
summer yearling, junior yearling,
and the dam-daughter classes.
Sweetening the victory was the
fact that Monday was Nina Bur
dette’s birthday, Sunday was their
anniversary, and both flowers and
balloons for Nina from her
husband came by delivery to the
show barn to complement their
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herd display.
Originally starting in the dairy
business on their own at Mer
cersburg in 1974, with a herd of
primarily Ayrshires, the Burdettes
have been part of the local and
state showring scene for about
eight years. Their Windy Knoll
milking string of 62 head has a
herd average of 18,500 milk and 690
fat, with a classification BAA of
105.8.
Tom McCauley claimed the
grand champion honors in both the
open class and the youth division
shows, at the halter of his ribby,
deep-bodied, five-year Queen Star
Sexy. The Sexation daughter is
well-known on the Holstein tan
bark circuit and has earned the
Elizabethtown youth a roomful of
trophies, including several
championships.
He made a clean sweep of the
youth division championship, also
claiming the reserve champion
rosette with his 3-year-old, Met
calfs Valiant Beauty.
New Cumberland youth
showman C. E. Hubbard 111 took
both open and youth division junior
championship with his winning
senior yearling, C. Philipail
Warden Sterling. Since her debut
this year on the state show circuit,
the Hilltopper Elevation Warden
has snagged five junior cham
pionships and a reserve, including
topping the youth division heifer
classes of the state Spring Holstein
Show.
Taking the reserve junior
champion placing in the open class
was Lockway Rosette, the first
intermediate yearling by Willmont
Glenndell Plato-ET.'
She was bred and exhibited by C.
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powerful heifer trio that earned the
Mercersburg farm the best three
junior female award.
In the youth division, Cham
bersburg 4-H’er Beverly Myers
took the reserve junior cham
pionship with her homebred in
termediate heifer, Aldina Magic
Gigi, by Romandale Magic.
A homebred Valiant son walked
off with the top spot in the bull
classes. Le-Ida Valiant Mr. Nate
was bred and exhibited by Cindy
Showaker Fisher, Mt. Joy, and is
housed at her family’s Shoacres
Farm at Newville.
No stranger either to Holstein
tanbark circles, the senior
yearling bull was All-Pennsylvania
bull calf for 1985, and took the
reserve bull honors at the 1986
Spring state show. He’s from an
EX-92 Elevation dam, with over
.1,000 pounds fat, and his first
calves are due on the ground in
September.
In a powerful Best Three
Females class, Justa-Beauty
Holsteins, Creedin and Steve
Comman, claimed the first place,
over the trio from the Burdettes’
Windy Knoll string.
Brazilian visitors were among
the special guests ringside at the
Carlisle show. Gilberto and Maria
Helena Meirelles are part of a
heifer-purchasing team spending a
few weeks in Pennsylvania, and
working through the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association to put
together a shipment of top-quality
young stock.
Keeping last minute details
pulled together ringside were the
show chairmen, Mark and Gret
chen Naugle. Local dairy prin
cesses on hand to make awards
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The Carlisle show is one of the
five regional Holstein shows in the
state, culminating in the annual
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Monday was a “banner day" for Jim and Nina Burdette,
sons Justin, 7, and Kyle 4, and their homebred 3-year-old
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