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.
After more than 35 years of milking
Creedin Cornman has turned most of
over to son Steve, allowing him more
cows,
ibility
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“Dairyness, with strength in the
front,” tops the qualities Cornman
will be seeking from the circling
parades of Holstein entries. “And
high, wide, rear udders on cows,
thin thighs and clean legs.”
“A cow must be correct, not
necessarily big,” adds Cornman of
his judging philosophy, which has
roots deep in his childhood.
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-
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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
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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
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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
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