D2-Lancaster Farming Saturday, October 11,1986 Beam Crossbred Barrow Is KILE Grand Champion BY JACK HUBLEY HARRISBURG - The ladder to success has plenty of hard-won rungs if you happen to be a com petitor in the Keystone In ternational’s on-foot barrow show. First your hog wins his weight class, then he competes for the breed championship, and third, he has to defeat all other breeds for petition, winning the open show with his crossbred pig, then going on to take the overall title. Keystone Shepherds 9 Symposium How can I increase my lambing percentage? When do I need a veterinarian? What kind of grasses and forages should I be producing? What are the best sheep fences and handling facilities for a working sheep operation? A team of experienced sheep husbandrymen from the nationally recognized Pipestone Sheep Project, Pipestone, Minnesota, will be answering these questions and more at the Keystone Shepherds’ Symposium on Dec. 19 and 20, at the Ramada Inn, Somerset. Mike Caskey, project coor dinator, will start off the Friday session on management, breeding and selection principles for in creasing pounds of lamb marketed per ewe. Should you feel a bit rusty in the area of lambing-and particularly how to proceed when confronted with a difficult parturition-plan to hear Dr. G.F. Kennedy discuss some basic techniques for assisting a lambing ewe. Livestock producers looking at sheep production as an alternative enterprise will be interested in information presented through computer programs designed to compare present production levels to projected production levels of lamb and wool. What factors can be revealed that make one sheep operation more successful than another? Answers to this important question will be addressed by two very successful sheep producers: the open show title finished yet, though. KILE also has a junior barrow show, and, in the final round, the junior and open show champions square off for the grand cham pionship of the overall show. Nelson Beam was one happy hog driver on Monday after running the competition gauntlet and Jonathan May of Timberville, Virginia, and lan Cunningham of Pipestone, Minnesota. Both producers own and manage large commercial sheep operations. Dr. Kennedy will also be discussing flock health, touching on control and treatment measures for some of the more prevalent health problems such as mastitis, abortions, foot rot and internal parasites. The featured speaker for Friday evening will be Ron Guenther, superintendent of Ohio State University’s sheep program. He will discuss where the industry should be headed in purebred sheep production. A symposium program and registration details are available from your county extension office. SID Announces Revisions The Sheep Industry Develop ment Program of the American Sheep Producers Council has recently revised the Marketing, Management and Nutrition chapters of the Sheepman’s Production Handbook. The revised chapters themselves are available for $4.50. They are automatically included when the handbook is ordered at a cost of $22.50. Also available is a com prehensive report on farm flock budgets typically used by producers, bankers and others when projecting profit op portunities for sheep operations. Cost of the report is 25 cents. For information on these publications write SID, 200 Clayton St., Denver, CO, 80206. Telephone: 303-399-8130, Sheiss Toi s Junior Barrow Show finding himself at the top of the ladder. “I was really surprised,” said the owner of the grand champion, a Hampshire-sired crossbred barrow that weighed in at 227 pounds. This was only the second year of KILE competition for Beam, who owns the Elverson based Cedar Meadows Swine in partnership with his father, Omar Beam. He’s not The show’s top barrow was sired by the boar that sired the reserve champion Farm Show barrow two years ago. “He’s done real well for us,” said Beam. For reserve grand champion honors, judge Wayne Yake of Purdue’s Indiana Swine Test Station, stayed with a theme and went with the crossbred barrow that topped the junior show on Sunday. The winning junior barrow was shown by Eric Sheiss, 14, son of Daryl and Penny Sheiss of Chambersburg. Bred at the family’s farrow-to finish operation, the top junior barrow was a Hampshire- Yorkshire cross that weighed 221 pounds. Unlike Nelson Beam, Sheiss is no newcomer to the KILE winners circle, having won three junior barrow championships and three reserve overall titles. Right behind Sheiss in the junior barrow show was Monica Feeser, daughter of Frank and Julie Feeser of Taneytown Maryland. The 10-year-old 4-H’er had plenty of momentum going into the KILE show, after showing the champion barrow at the Eastern National Livestock Show in Maryland only last week. Feeser’s reserve champion junior barrow was a homebred York-Hamp cross bred at the family’s 200-sow seedstock operation. At reserve in the open barrow show was a barrow shown by Penn State University. Following are the placings in the junior and open shows. Junior Barrows Lightweight 200 215 lbs 1 Kristen Hazlelt 2 Gus Parlett 3 Scott Hazlett Mediumweight 216 230 lbs 1 Erie Sheiss 2 Monica Feeser 3 Don Sheiss Heavyweight 231 245 lbs 1 Matt Horchler 2 Dale Bowers 3 Jennifer Arnold Champion Junior Barrow Eric Shetss Reserve Champion Monica Feeser Duroc Barrows Lightweight 200 215 tbs 1 Penn State University 2 Parlett 3 Hess Durocs Mediumweight 216 230 lbs 1 Penn State 2 Hess Durocs 3 Lawrence Arnold Heavyweight 1 LaVern Weller 2 David Holloway 3 David Holloway Mediumweight 1 Bourbon Springs 2 James Parlett 3 Bourbon Springs 1 Penn State University 2 Penn State 3 Weller Brothers Hampshire Barrows Lightweight 1 Frank Feeser 21 Carl Rabenold 3 Marilyn Weller Mediumweight 1 Frank Feeser 2 Carl Rabenold 3 Frank Feeser Heavyweight 1 Carolyn Thomas 2 Frank Feeser 3 Frank Feeser 1 Hedgerow Farms Mediumweight 1 James Parlett 2 Rodger Bankert 1 Hedgerow Farms 2 Parkinson & Rodibaugh 3 James Parlett 1 James Parlett 2 Bourbon Springs Farm 3 Lazarus Bros Mediumweight 1 Bourbon Springs 2 James Parlett 3 Bourbon Springs 1 Kenh Bard Champion Spotted Barrow Bourbon Springs Farm Champion Ouroc Barrow LaVern Weller Reserve Champion David Holloway Spotted Barrows Lightweight Champion Hampshire Barrow Frank Feeser Reserve Champion Carl Rabenold Chester White Barrows Lightweight Heavyweight Champion Chester White Hedgerow Farms Reserve Champion Hedgerow Farms Spotted Barrows Lightweight Heavyweight T-fc V « * ' '*o, | Another crossbred entry, this one shown by Eric Sheiss, won the junior barrow show and took reserve overall honors. *■ Monica Feeser showed reserve champion barrow in junior show. Reserve Champion James Parlett Berkshire Barrows Mediumweight 1 Brian Eisenhour 2 Clayton Wmebark Heavyweight 1 Brian Eisenhour 2 Daryl Grumbme 3 Ken Wmebark Champion Berkshireßarrow ' Brian Eisenhour Reserve Champion Brian Eisenhour Yorkshire Barrows Lightweight 1 Penn State University 2 Franklin Feeser 3 Franklin Feeser Mediumweight I Penn State University 2 Penn State 3 Weller Brothers Heavyweight 1 Frank Feeser 2 Weller Bros 3 Calvin Lazarus & Sons Champion Yorkshire Barrow Penn State University Reserve Champion Penn Stale University Champion Open Barrow Nelson Beam Reserve Champion Open Barrow Penn State University Grand Champion Barrow Nelson Beam Reserve Grand Champion Enc Sheiss Fall Swine Sale Held BEAVERTOWN - Brooks End and Par Kay Farms held their annual fall sale on Sept. 26, selling 158 head for a total of $59,400. The sale’s 97 head of purebred boars and gilts averaged $484. The top selling animal was a Yorkshire boar purchased by Sam Lane of Dover, North Carolina for $l,OOO. The top selling York bred gilt went to Charles Wallace of Tyrone for $635. Samuel Raup of Wat- hi *X*r v * *■ A KILE fIS sontown spent $9OO for the top Landrace bred gilt. The sale’s top Landrace boar went for $950 to Harold Geng of Hicksville, Ohio. Sale averages were as follows: •Yorkshire bred gilts..s4l9 •Yorkshire boars $529 •Landrace bred gilts.. .$554 •Landrace boars $545 •Commercial open gilts.s2o4 Sale auctioneer Harry Bachman sold consignments into eight states. A winter sale is scheduled for January 16,1987. SJ Swine
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