A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 10,1987 BY JOYCE BUPP York Co. Correspondent CARLISLE - As the Holstein show gets underway Tuesday morning in the Farm Show’s main arena, Creedin Cornman will be there, as he’s been for more than 40 years, surrounded by the black and white cows he loves. But Comman’s Farm Show participation takes on a new twist this year. He’s the judge for the prestigious parade of registered Holsteins from across the Com monwealth. “It’s the thrill of my life to be invited to judge at the Farm Show,” grins this long-time breeder, who’s been on the tanbark trail since he was 9 years old. What Cornman will be looking for to top his class selections are the same charateristics that he has favored for years in breeding the family’s notable Justa Beauty Holsteins. 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He laughingly recalls how, as a small boy, he spent hours clipping pictures of cows from the Holstein World magazine, and lining them up on blocks as “show strings.” Cornman began judging as a Cumberland County 4-H dairy club and Mechamcsburg High School FFA member. Along with other 1947 state FFA • judging team members Berks Countian Ray Seidel and George Ott Jr., Nor thampton County, he made the 11- day trip to the national dairy show at Waterloo, lowa, where the trio placed third in national com- the Justa' Beauty the herd respons time for judging. >Wi _ Full Line Of Insulation, Roll or Board See Your Butler Agri-Builder For All Your Insulation Needs MJle petition. In the mid 19605, he was invited to study at the PDCA annual judging schools, and continued studies at national Holstein judging training sessions. His first appearance as ring official was in the late 19605, for Dauphin County’s annual Holstein show. Comman now judges up to six shows a year, and in 1985 officiated at the Eastern Pennsylvania Holstein Championship show at Kutztown. But, for many years prior, Creedin Cornman’s cheerful countenance could regularly be found at the front of a cow in the lineup of black and whites in numerous local, regional and state shows. “Show fever” is almost inbred in the family, although his father, Clarence Cornman Sr., preferred exhibiting his prized Berkshire hogs. That regularly posed a problem Farm Show week for the Comman family, since hogs and dairy cattle shows were both scheduled for Tuesdays. Clarence Cornman Sr., however, always encouraged his children to show. Creedin, for instance, began at age 9 at the halter of a little heifer taken to a local show solely for the use of the rookie. “I was clean down on the end of the line,” he chuckles, “but I thought I was in first place " Un daunted, Cornman had by then already caught the cattle show “bug,” shared by his late brother, Paul, and brother Clarence Jr., a Holstein classifier who generally arranges his schedule to lend a hand during show activities. It was project animals, given by his father for help on the family’s farm, and earned through FFA calf chains, that formed the foundation for the Justa Beauty * Limited Time Offer from Jan 11th to Jan 23rd Holstein Judge Finds New Ro AG-MASTER 2:12 [<]MYERS BUILDING SYSTEMS INC R D #1 Box 161 Clear Spnng MD 21722 PH 3CI 582 4200 TRI-COUNTY AGRI-SYSTEMS R D #1 Box 55 Swedesboro Nj 08085 PH 609 467 3174 herd when Creedin entered the dairy business on his own. His wife, Ellen, contributed her three Ayrshire 4-H project cows to the fledgling herd as well, when the couple married on Easter Sunday in 1951. Daughter of a local Guernsey breeder, Ellen had become friends with Comman when she agreed to help wash his 4- H baby beef one day at the Carlisle Fair. But soon after the couple began milking cows on his uncle’s farm nearby, the Ayrshires departed. Proceeds from their sale went to buy milkers for the remaining herd of Holsteins. They relocated to their present farm on Lindsey Road in 1952, moved by good friend and fellow Holstein breeder Meryl Sheaffer, “who still does all my trucking,” according to Cornman. Even as a beginning Holstein breeder, Cornman had clearcut intentions on the kind of cattle herd he wanted. “Dunloggin lines; that was the only breeding I ever believed in at first,” Cornman relates In 1958, he made a bold move to acquire breeding stock of the Dunloggin bloodlines. Paying a visit to Alpheus Ruth’s Vista Grande herd in Berks County, Cornman invested the then tidy sum of $225 for a three-month calf. Vista Grande Haven Gracious developed into an EX-90-2E who in her 15 years in the herd con tributed many daughters, in cluding one that would earn EX-92- 5E status. Even as a heifer, Gracious had so impressed Cornman that he returned to purchase her dam, Vista Grande Admiral Trixie and her sister, Vista Grande Haven Queen. The family proved to be all Cornman had believed. Trixie F 0.8. Annville, PA List Price C&M SALES INC RD II Bo* 76A Honesdale PA 18431 PH 717 253 1612 WNAZARETH BUILDING MATTSON ENTERPRISES SYSTEMS INC 1606 Mt H ° ll¥ Road 3367 Gun Club Rd 0u p r " N fi J ° B ° l6 Nazareth PA 18064 PH 609 386 1603 PM 215 837 7700 became VG-87-GMD and Queen was EX-92-4E when she died at age Most of the 44 head of registered Holsteins now tied in the tiestalls at Justa Beauty trace back to Trixie, many through her son used in the herd in past years. Cornman’s herd is not one boasting “hot” bull pedigrees, but rather focusing more on maternal strength. Although fat and protein get heavy emphasis in sire selection, close attention is also paid to conformation and type, resulting in a classification BAA of 105.9 on the herd’s August 1986 scoring. Typical of the “comers” in this herd is a favorite heifer, Justa Beauty Trixie Cassi, by Marshfield Elevation Tony. Growthy, dairy and showing lots of promise, she scored GP-83 her first round with the classifier. And, except for a few head purchased recently by daughter Sharon and her husband Guy, only about a half-dozen animals have ever been added to the Justa Beauty herd from out side. “Having the highest herd average has never been one of my goals,” Cornman reflects on his DHIA rolling figures of 17,000 milk and 570 fat. “High herd averages are expensive.” Instead, he prefers to stress longevity and durability in cows, adhering to the proven fat-boosting ration based on plenty of dry, baled hay, minimal corn silage and a gram mix ground at a nearby local feed mill. Except for the con centrate, feedstuffs are all home grown. High nitrates in the local water supplies, however, are of concern to Cornman, since they tend to depress tat levels. In response to slowly dropping herd test average no BUT < WEWAi BUS TALK THEN Yi WHER GOMPF CONSTRUCTION CO INC 1841 Jerry s Road Street MD21154 PH 301 692 5350 I , ,s \1 n \ ll' fr"
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