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
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Another crossbred entry, this one shown by Eric Sheiss,
won the junior barrow show and took reserve overall honors.
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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-
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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