B 20-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 1,1986
Roundup Champs Attribute Success To Parental Proddin
BY JOYCE BUPP
York County Correspondent
THOMASVILLE - In the
behind-the-scenes confusion of
moving gates, milling steers, and
the chant of auctioneer Harry
Bachman selling from the ring,
York’s top 4-H steer show
exhibitors giggled and confessed
their formula to winning.
“Our Dads made us get out and
walk them.”
Champion exhibitor Elizabeth
Bishard and reserve winner Gail
Rishel admitted to getting oc
casional parental prodding to
exercise their project steers as
they compared notes during the
One of the area's best known cake-buying syndicates, B & B
Enterprises, bid successfully on Lois Rankin's yellow and
chocolate flavored salute to 4-H roundup winners. With the
creator of the $4O fund-raising cake are syndicate partners
Roger Bankert, left, and Harry Bachman.
wind-up of the annual roundup and
sale, held Tuesday at the Weikert’s
Buying Station.
But the prodding paid off for 10-
year-old Elizabeth Bishard, who
took the top bid of $2 per pound
when she opened the sale with her
champion. The 1,170-pound
purebred Black Angus was pur
chased by the York area con
struction firm of Robert Kinsley,
Incorporated.
Appropriately named “Banner,”
the winning steer had been bred in
Kinsley’s South Branch Angus
herd and purchased a year ago by
Elizabeth for her project work. A
ration of oats, corn and hay, and
regular walks, “about three times
a night around the field,” earned
her the champion nod from Judge
Lester Burdette, a Penn State
livestock specialist.
Elizabeth is showing for just her
second year in 4-H. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bradford
Bishard, York RIO, and a fifth
grader at Seven Valleys
Elementary School. While
Elizabeth already has a homebred
calf started for 4-H project use, she
plans to bank part of her more than
$2,000 champion earnings, plus use
a portion to invest in another steer.
A family .bred and owned
purebred Angus, weighing in at
1,245 pounds, claimed the reserve
champion honors for Gail Rishel.
As the 13-year-old Seven Valleys
R 2 4-H member led her reserve
winner around the ring, bidding
went to $1.55 per pound, before
going under the gavel to the Spring
Grove National Bank.
Ms. Rishel is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Rishel, and a third
generation of winning Angus
exhibitors. She credited regular
walks of up to a mile and tying her
steer out at night to improve his
hair coat to help earn her the
highest placing thus far in her five
year 4-H career.
Cathy Shive’s champion light
weight entry sold to the People
Bank of Glen Rock, which paid
$1.30 per pound for the 1,145-
pounder. Champion heavyweight,
exhibited by John Eaton, Jr., went
to Mary Beaverson, Wrightsville,
for a 79 cents per pound bid.
The four reserve champion class
winners followed in the sale order,
with the lightweight bringing top
price. Gordon Shive Insurance
Agency purchased the 1,155-pound
entry exhibited by Suzanne
Bishard, paying an even dollar per
Disease
tolerance.
Elizabeth Bishard’s purebred Angus swept the York 4-H
Beef show Tuesday, then topped the sale which followed.
Winning bidder at $2 per pound for the 1,170-pound
“Banner" was Robert Kinsley, Inc. Representing the firm
were Chris Kinsley, left, and Dale Rains, manager of Kinsley's
South Branch Angus Farm, where the champion was bred.
P oun d- the champion winners. Auctioned
Byron Waggoner’s runnerup p r j or to the steer sale, the yellow
mediumweight earned the Dover and-chocolate layered cake sold
youngster a 70-cents bid, going to f or $4O to B and B Enterprises, a
Lancaster County meat retailer cake-buying syndicate of swine
Willie the Butcher. Carl Erb, breeder Roger Bankert and
Abbottstown, was winning bidder auctioneer Harry Bachman,
on Karena Rankin’s reserve light proceeds from the cake went to
heavyweight, which brought 73 help defray costs of the hospitality
cents per pound. The reserve hour, held for buyers prior to the
heavyweight, exhibited by Allen steer and lamb sales
Wemer, also sold to a 73 cent bid,
purchased by show and sale host
Robert Weikert.
The total 48 head in the annual
roundup sale averaged 82 cents per
pound with the champion price,
and 78 cents without the champion.
For the third consecutive year,
Lois Rankin of Abbottstown
donated a cake which she baked
and decorated to commemorate
High yielding
ability.
Rapid
diydown.