Hampshire Ewe Is Elizabethtown Fair Supreme Champion
BY SUZANNE KEENE
ELIZABETHTOWN - Michelle
Mylin’s Hampshire ewe caught the
eye of the judge more than once
during the Elizabethtown Fair
youth sheep show Wednesday.
Show judge Lee Wagner selected
Mylin’s entry champion Hamp
shire and at show’s end went back
to it for his supreme champion.
The supreme champion was
selected from seven breed
champions, and the market and
sale lamb champions.
The yearling Hampshire ewe’s
momemtum continued into
Thursday evening when she was
named supreme champion of the
fair. The Elizabethtown event is
unusual in that the fair assembles
its top dairy, beef, sheep and swine
champions and crowns a supreme
champion over all species.
“I really didn’t think she had a
chance,” said Michelle after
taking the show’s highest livestock
honor. “She didn’t have any
Mark Tracy, right, showed the reserve supreme champion
at the Elizabethtown Fair, Wednesday. Here, younger brother
Ryan gives him a hand with the trophy.
Heidi Fisher, left, had the champion Columbia and Darryl
Coble, right, had the champion Dorset.
Breed champions from left included Michelle Mylin,
Hampshire; Carey Donches, Suffolk; Mark Tracy, Southdown;
and John Doug Martin, Cheviot..
problems, but I didn’t think she
was big enough.”
The supreme champion is chosen
by four judges who compare each
animal to the ideal of its respective
species and select the animal that
comes closest to those standards.
Serving as judges for this year’s
contest were state FFA executive
secretary Bill Erikson, retired
Lancaster County agent Max
Smith, state representative Sam
Hayes and Galen Martin of Animal
Medic, Inc.
Michelle, the 17-year-old
daughter of Jay and Carol Mylin,
and her siblings Scott and Andrea,
raise a flock of 40 lambs at their
home in Manheim. The Mylins
brought 14 of their animals to
exhibit at the fair and went home
with numerous ribbons for their
efforts.
A member of the Lancaster 4-H
Woolies Club, Michelle said her
champion was bred by Mike An
drews of Maine.
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The reserve supreme champion
trophy went to contender Mark
Tracy and his homebred South
down ewe. The 10-year-old son of
Gerald and Helen Tracy, Masonic
Homes, Elizabethtown, Mark has a
flock of Suffolks, Southdowns and
market lambs.
In addition to his reserve
champion, Mark showed the
champion and reserve champion
Southdown ewes and the champion
sale market lamb. He also topped
the heavyweight class in both the
market and sale lamb com
petitions and had the champion
middleweight market lamb.
Seventeen-year-old Tricia
Musser edged out competitor Tim
Engle to claim the market lamb
championship. The daughter of
Harold and Judy Musser,
Greentree Road, Elizabethtown,
Tricia said her 10&-pound Hamp
shire wether was bred by Tim and
Sarah Fleener of Lancaster.
The reserve champion market
lamb went to Tim Engle. The
reserve champion sale lamb was
exhibited by Ellen Lewis.
In the Cheviot division, John
Doug Martin exhibited the only
entries. He purchased his cham
pion ewe from John Otto last fall.
Doug is the 12-year-old son of
John and Marilyn Martin of R 2
East Earl.
Competition was a bit stiffer in
the Dorset division with Darryl
Coble edging out Jenny Taylor for
the championship. Darryl is the 11-
year-old son of Dave and Sylvia
Coble of R 1 Hershey.
In the Shropshire division,
Connie Kline captured both the
champion and reserve champion
honors with two ewes she received
through the sheep chain. Conriie is
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Foreman Brothers Take Beef Show Honors
BY JACK HUBLEY
ELIZABETHTOWN - Tim and
Mark Foreman turned out to be
double trouble at the
Elizabethtown Fair’s beef show on
Wednesday evening, taking the
grand champion trophy with what
judge Ken Winebark termed “a
real stylish, nicely balanced calf,”
and winning reserve honors with
of all things-a purebred Sun
mental heifer.
The sons of James and Mane
Foreman, the brothers raise their
blue ribbon beef on their Hershey
area farm where the family
finishes steers and breeds a few
club calves each year.
Older brother Tim, 17, has taken
top honors at Elizabethtown on
numerous occasions during his 10-
year career as a member of the
Lower Dauphin 4-H Beef Club. This
year’s champion was a homebred
Chianina-Angus weighing 1,050
pounds. The champ was out of a
Winning is a family affair for the Foreman brothers. Tim (left) took grand champion
honors in the Elizabethtown Fair's beef show, while Mark came in at reserve with his
Simmental heifer.
Trida Musser claimed the champion market lamb trophy
with her Hampshire wether.
three-quarter Chianma bull and a
purebred Angus cow, both owned
by the Foremans.
A decade of practice and
guidance from his father has
helped Tim become a consistent
winner. When picking his show
prospects he looks for a clean
fronted calf with a square rump.
“We try to pay attention to
correctness in the legs, too,” he
adds.
Fielding the only entry in the
breeding beef show, Mark
Foreman had to look elsewhere for
competition. Winebark seemed to
have little trouble comparing
apples and oranges, and turned the
show into lady’s night by selecting
the show’s only female entry as his
reserve champion. “She came
closer to my picture of the ideal
Simmental heifer than the others
did to the ideal steer,” the Lebanon
County extension livestock agent
said in defense of his choice.
The 13-year-old Foreman bought
his reserve champion at last year’s
Pennsylvania Simmental
Association Sale. She is a March,
’B5 daughter of CSV Super Star.
Following are the results of the
evening’s beef and beef
showmanship events.
Beef Results
Division 1
Lightweight
1 Michelle Nissley 2 Chris Miller 3 Jason
Wolgemuth
Mediumweight
1 Tim Foreman 2 Debbie Wolgemuth 3 Derek
Nissley
Heavyweight
I Corey Dehmey 2 Joe Garber 3 Marsha
Oehmey
Division 2
(Steers to be sold)
1 Leon Heisey 2 Erie Lowe 3 Scott Clouser
Grand Champion
Tim Foreman
Reserve Champion
Mark Foreman
Showmanship
Age 15 &Up
1 Joe Garber 2 Doug Musser 3 Tim Foreman
14 & Under
I Debbie Wolgemuth 2 Michelle Nissley 3
Mark Foreman