Bloomsburg Fair Blossoms With
BY HELEN KELCHNER
Columbia Co. Correspondent
BLOOMSBURG - The
Bloomsburg Fair’s grand
champion steer set an all-time
record at this year’s sale, selling
for $5.05 per pound and topping the
previous record of $2.15 by nearly
three dollars.
Nine-year-old Heather Hummel
of Selinsgrove got a big boost to her
educational fund by netting nearly
$5,800 for her grand champion
purebred Angus. Larry Moore
from Baymor Pet Feed, Cressona,
purchased the steer in the spirited
bidding that edged our Hoss’ Steak
and Seafood House.
Heather is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Russel Hummel and a
member of the Snyder County 4-H
Club. Her parents are both leaders
in the group.
The buyer from Hoss’ settled for
reserve champion owned and bred
by Eddie Chapman of Benton.
Chapman’s steer netted over $3,600
by bringing a bid of $2.75 per
pound.
Eddie Chapman is a member of
the Columbia County 4-H Club. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chuck
Chapman who are active 4-H club
leaders. The Chapman family
raises Angus. They promote the
breed through research that
results in high quality beef.
Bob Houston, Columbia County
Extension agent said the record
high prices were almost over
whelming and demonstrated that
the business community was en
couraging the 4-H members to stay
in the beef business.
Area hospitals will benefit from
other steers purchased by local
businesses.
Market Lambs
Todd Laudenslager of Dalmatia,
RDI, saw his grand champion
market lamb bring a record $3.45
per pound, netting $427.80. John
Fritz of Sunset Ice Cream Corn
Pen-Col Farm captured several honors in open Holstein
show. From left are Dennis Wolff with top intermediate
yearling, Ben Wolff with junior champion and Corey Wolff with
grand champion
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Steve Hill holds Susan Moslock’s reserve champion
Guernsey and Brenda Moslock holds her junior champion.
Heather Hummel (at halter) showed Bloomsburg’s grand
champion steer, which sold to Larry Moore, (left) of Baymore
Pet Feed, for a record $5.05 a pound. Pa. Angus Queen
Crystal Zechman holds banner.
pany of Williamsport purchased
the lamb from the Nor
thumberland County 4-H’er.
Kurt Brown’s reserve champion
lamb brought $265.50 and was
purchased by Breech’s Ag
Products, Danville. Brown is from
Klingerstown.
Hog Show
Even though the hog bams were
full to capacity at the Bloomsburg
Fair, only two exhibitors entererd
the competition.
Swine exhibitors can reap some
benefits from sales of breeding
stock during fair week, a fact that
brings hogmen back year after
year. But, generally speaking, the
hog show has had its setbacks in
recent years. A pseudorabies
breakout kept swine away from the
fair several years. Also, many
hogmen find the cost of trucking to
the fair a burden.
Calvin Lazarus, White Hall
showed the grand champion sow
over all breeds at the open show
with Todd Bennecoff, Kutztown,
showing the grand champion boar
over all breeds.
Dairy Show
Two Millville-area youngsters
took top honors in both the open
Holstein dairy show and the 4-H
Holstein show at the Bloomsburg
Fair.
In the largest open dairy show of
the fair, Corey Wolff, 13, Millville,
showed the grand champion
female and his brother, Ben, 11,
showed the reserve champion
female.
Sons of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas
Wolff, the boys repeated their
grand and reserve champion
victories in the 4-H competition.
Both are members of the Columbia
County 4-H Dairy Club.
More than 50 youths from five
counties participated in the 4-H
show, which was judged by Neil
Bowen, a cattle producer from
Wellsboro.
Other dairy show winners in
cluded:
• Ayrshire: grand champion,
Brad Shultz, Danville; reserve
champion, Marilyn Kiess, Jersey
Shore.
• Brown Swiss: grand champion,
Frank T. Miller, Tamaqua;
reserve champion, Kyle W. Brown,
Klingerstown.
• Guernsey: grand champion,
Rhonda K. Peterman, Muncy;
reserve champion, Susan
Moslock, Danville.
• Jersey: grand champion,
Timothy Landis, Herndon; reserve
champion, Wanda Derr, Muncy.
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Rebecca Fairchilds of Berwick
won the junior showmanship
contest with Lucinda Ann
Schlichter, Benton, taking top
honors in the senior division
showing.
Russel Miller has been showing dairy cattle for nearly 30 years. Here he and his family
are pictured with some Bloomsburg winners. From left, Miller and sr. champion Swiss
bull, Christine and jr. champion Swiss heifer, Frank and grand champion Swiss, Heidi
and jr. champion Holstein in 4-H division, Judy and jr. champion Guernsey, Carl and
champion Guernsey bull.
Livestock Champions
John Fritz ‘(left) of Sunset Ice Cream bought Todd
Laudenslager’s grand champion lamb for $3.45 a pound.
Mildred Seeds showed Jersey champions at Bloomsburg
Fair. From left is Steve Van Kuren with reserve junior
champion, Marjorie Baker Singer with reserve grand and
Seeds with grand champion of open show.