West Virginia Names Colored Breeds Champions BY DEBBIE STILES-RENZI Staff Correspondent JACKSON’S MILL, W.V. - Four breeds graced the show ring at Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Camp near Weston, for the opening classes of the 1986 West Virginia Dairy Cattle Show and Festival. Winning the nod late Tuesday morning August 12, in the Ayrshire breed for grand champion in the open division was Vinemont Jasper Jeanne, exhibited by Howard and Lori Tabb of Lyle Tabb and Sons, Leetown. The 4- year-old was one of six animals brought to the State Show by the Tabbs, who have the distinction of being the largest Ayrshire operations in the nation, milking approximately 260 head. Lyle Tabb and Sons also had the reserve champion Vinemont Royal Tina, and a 3 year old. Youth grand champions in the Ayrshire breed were both 4-H exhibits, the grand champion, Vinemont Mortakai Dawn’s Lady, shown by Dawn Banks, and the reserve champion, a senior yearling heifer Helen’s Super Ruby, owned and shown by Ellie Brown. With the exception of one, all champion honors in the Guernsey breed show went to animals belonging to the Nay family, an extended-family corporation that operates a purebred Guernsey operation on the Lewis/Harrison county line in northcentral West Virginia. Riverbend Choice Amy, shown by Heather Nay, was the choice for grand champion in the open, youth, senior open and senior youth classes, while two other Nay animals, Riverbend Royal Bess, and Riverbend Royal Lilly, took the reserve honors in overall Senior, youth senior, respectively. The lone hold-out against the onslaught of quality animals from Inter-State Local To Meet SOUTHAMPTON - The Prin cess Anne Local of Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative District 4 will hold its annual dinner meeting Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. at the English Family Restaurant, Westover, Md. Robert M. Dever, Inter-State assistant general manager, will be the guest speaker. Dever, along with District 4 Director Wm. Blan Harcum, will give an update on cooperative business and dairy issues. A business meeting will be conducted by Roger Hudson, CHEMGRO + UNION MILL Your Fall Fertilizer & Seeding Headquarters For • ALFALFA • WHEAT • BARLEY • RYE Quality Seed At Reasonable Prices Quality Fertilizers And Profitable Programs ALSO PROFESSIONAL CROP SPRAYING AVAILABLE Beat Us For Quality And Service? NO WAY! mi ■ - 2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS ■ CHEMGRO FERTILIZER CO. UNION MILL Box 218 Box 40 F R.D. 1 East Petersburg, PA Belleville, PA (717) 569-3296 (717) 935-2185 the Nay farm was an outstanding yearling, Isaac’s DaVis Daisy, shown by Isaac Post, who placed as junior youth reserve champion. Junior youth champion was Riverbend Matt Lindy, shown by Heather Nay. Twelve Guernseys competed during the West Virginia show, the highlight of the showing year for most 4-H’ers and FFA members with dairy projects, as well as open showmen. “We’ve shown here about 10 years,” says 15-year-old Remington W. Perkins, son of Harry Perkins, owner of Perk Farm near the State Fair headquarters of Lewisburg, West Virginia. Practice must make perfect, for the Perkins family cleaned up in the Jersey show with their nine animals. For Jersey open grand cham pion, youth grand, open senior and youth senior grand champion the rosettes during awards presen tation Thursday went to the exhibitor of Perk Annie Big Boy Danny, an older cow owned by Perk Farm, entered in the aged cow class. Open reserve champion overall went to Perk Rem Big Boy, (shown by Remington Perkins), a senior 2-year-old animal also selected as youth reserve, senior open and senior youth reserve champions. Other winners from Perk Farm were shown by “Rem’s brother and sister, Annie and Harry “Perk” Perkins. And, finally, while the numbers weren’t tremendous, the quality of the two milking shorthorns entered in this year’s color show was such that judge Lois Skeen of Maryland gave them top honors in the classes they entered. Barbara Jane and Cristy Jane, owned by Kenny Lee Cooper of Ohio county, were the grand and reserve champions, respectively, in their breed class. Princess Anne Local president, to elect officers, delegates and alternate delegates for the coming year. Nominations will be taken for district director, as current director Harcum’s three-year term expires. Inter-State Milk Producers’ Cooperative represents over 3,000 dairy farm families in Penn sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The cooperative marketed 2.54 billion pounds of milk in fiscal 1986. ||||^^ Claiming the Jersey titles was the Perk Farm of Greenbrier County. On the halter of the reserve champion is Remington Perkins, left. J| Dawn Banks, right, showed the grand champion Ayrshire while Ellie Brown placed with the reserve champion of the youth show at the West Virginia Dairy Cattle Show and Festival. 30 YEARS AGO 30 Years Ago The first Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition will be held in the State Farm Show building and arena here Nov. 12-16 of next year, State Secretary of Agriculture William L. Henning announced today. Plans are un derway to bring a well-known western rodeo for the event which is expected to attract up to 100,000 people, he said. Farmers even those who cannot take acres out of production will benefit through the Ad ministration’s Soil Bank program through increased prices for farm commodities, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson told THIS WEEK a news conference at Hershey Saturday evening. Diethylstilbestrol hormone pellets are producing large type turkeys into good broilers at the University of Wisconsin. 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