Bred Gilt Show
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home with reserve Duroc honors.
The Berks countian went to Ohio
for DBFS Jimmy, the boar that
sired his reserve champion.
Purchased from the Ohio Test
Station, Jimmy was among the pen
of hogs that posted the station’s top
feed efficiency of 2.17. Last year
Arnold, who owns‘Arnold Hog
Farms with his brother Leon
Arnold, took both champion and
reserve honors in the gilt show.
Hampshire
Carolyn Thomas of Stewart
stown, York County, chalked up
her first Farm Show championship
by topping the Hampshire show.
This year’s victory was par
ticularly sweet for Thomas, who
noted that the gilt she had chosen
to campaign in last year’s event
went lame before the show. The
animal redeemed herself, though,
by giving birth to the gilt that took
this year’s top honor. Thomas, who
runs the family hog business with
her husband Charles, needed only
three years of Farm Show com
petition to register her first vie-
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Todd Bennecoff, who took
reserve Berkshire honors, was
back in the winners circle with the
reserve champion Hampshire. His
winning gilt was homebred out of a
sow that he bought at Farm Show
three years ago.
Landrace
Barbara Mummert, owner of
Tunnel Hill Farm in Seven Valleys,
posted her fourth Farm Show
championship in five years of
competition by topping the Lan
drace show. Mummert’s gilt,
Classic Sandy, was sired by Cibbe,
the boar that sired her three other
Farm Show champions in 1963, ’B4
and ’B5. The York County
exhibitor, who owns 22 Landrace
sows, has been a Farm Show
regular since 1970.
Reserve Landrace honors went
to Fulton County exhibitor Donald
Lake of Big Cove Tannery. Lake,
who has shown gilts at Farm Show
for 10 years, has one other
champion title and one reserve to
his credit. His winning gilt was
sired by a boar he bought from the
Ohio Test Station.
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Westmoreland County 4-H’er
Joseph Gardner, Jr., got a
welcome phone call from his
father, Joseph, following the
Poland China show. The younger
Gardner, who was unable to attend
the gilt show because of a high
school wrestling match, logged his
first Farm Show victory when his
father drove his homebred March
gilt to champion honors. Gardner,
18, won with a gilt sired by a boar
he bought from Indiana breeders
Robert and Gary Wilson.
Reserve Poland China honors
went to Lehigh County when New
Tripoli breeder Harlui Wessner
won the second-place title with a
gilt that had also taken reserve at
KILE in October. The victory
marked the end of a long dry spell
for Wessner, who had topped the
show for three years in a row
beginning in 1977.
Spotted Swine
After winning the reserve
Landrace title, The Lake family
was back in the winners circle with
the champion Spot. This time it
was Brian Lake, the 15-year-old
son of Donald and Mama Lake,
who topped the show. This was the
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younger Lake’s first Farm Show
win after three years of gilt
competition. His gilt was sired by
TA Tudor, a boar purchased from
Ohio.
The reserve Spot title went to
Lehigh County’s Lazarus Brothers.
A competitive family of swine
producers, the brothers, including
Grant, Les, Gary, Wayne and
Lynn, were named premier
breeders in all four breeds of swine
shown at last year’s New York
State Fair.
Yorkshire
The other half of Arnold Hog
Farms, Leon Arnold, followed his
brother Larry’s Duroc win by
taking champion honors in the
Yorkshire show. The Lebanon
breeder, who’s been a gilt show
competitor since 1950, has often
topped the gilt sale, but noted that
this was Ms first championship
show title. “ I’m pretty happy
about about that,” he said.
Arnold singled out his top gilt
from 70 other potential Yorkshire
show candidates on the home
farm. “I had my eye on her a long
time,” he pointed out. “She has
two sisters, and one of them’s Just
as good as she is.”
Once again, the Lazarus family
wasn’t far behind, with Calvin
Lazarus and Sons going home with
the reserve Yorkshire title. Grant
Lazarus noted that the Lazarus
farm has taken the champion York
title three times and reserve twice.
The sire of this year’s reserve gilt
produced many on-foot and on-rail
champions for the family, Lazarus
said.
■rad GNt Show
Chrator White
Mar. Gilt
1 Janies T Parian t Sons. 2 Parian. 3 Scon
Lazarus
Fab CM
1 Lazarus, 2 Parien, 3 Lazarus
Jan. GW
1 Parian, 2 Parian, 3 Parian
Champion Chaster White
James Parian I Sons
■raanra Champion Chaster
Scott Lazarus
BarfcsMra
Mar. QW
LCD Wmabark I Sons. 2 Wmebark, 3 Todd
Bennecoff
Fob. GW
1 Dennis Grumbine. 2 Todd Bennecott, 3
Dennis Grumbme
Jan. GiK
1 Todd Bennacott. 2 Winebark I Sons. 3
Grumbme
Champion Barkahira GW
Dennis Grumbine t Sons
Reserve Champion teriiihire
Todd Bennecott
Duroc
Mar. Gilt
1 Clyde McConaugbey, 2 James T Parlett I
Sons. 3 Lawrence Arnold
Fab GW
1 Kenneth Fetterolf, 2 Lawrence Arnold 3
David Holloway
Jan Gilt
1 Clyde McConaugbey 2 Lawrence Arnold, 3
Bruce t Charles Smith
Champion Duroc GIR
Kenneth Fetterolf
Receive Champion Duroc
Lawrence Arnold
Hampshire
Jan Gilt
1 Todd Bennecott, 2 Todd Bennecotf, 3
Carolyn Thomas
Feb Gilt
1 Carolyn Thomas. 2 Todd Bennecott 3
Thomas Arnold
Mar Gilt
1 Todd Bennecott 2 Carl Rabenold 3 Todd
Bennecott
Champion Hampshire
Carolyn Thomas
Reserve Champion Hampshire
Todd Bennecott
Landrace
Jan Gilt
1 Barbara Mummert 2 Donald Lake 3
Thomas Arnold
Fab Gift
1 Thomas Arnold 2 Harlan Wessner 3 Kathy
Blatt
Mar Gilt
1 Barbara Mummert 2 Barbara Mummert 3
Thomas Arnold
Champion Landrace
Barbara A Mummert
Reserve Champion Landrace
Donald Lake
Poland China
Jan Gilt
1 Harlan Wessner 2 Harlan Wessner
Feb Gilt
1 Joseph K Gardner Jr 2 Joseph Gardner 3
Joseph Gardner
Mar Gilt
1 Joseph Gardner 2 Joseph Gardner 3
Stephen Wessner
Champion Poland China
Joseph K Gardner Jr
Reserve Champion Poland
Har'an Wessner
Spotted Swine
Jan Gilt
I Lazarus Brothers 2 James T Parlett & Sons
3 Bran L Lake
Feb Gilt
1 Brian Lake 2 James Parlett & Sons 3 Brian
Lake
Mar Gilt
1 Lazarus Brothers 2 James Parlett & Sons 3
Larry Robinson
Champion Spotted Swine
Brian Lake
Reserve Champion Spotted
Lazarus Brothers
Yorkshire
Jan Gilt
1 Wilson s Yorkshires 2 Leon Arnold 3
Wilson s Yorkshires
Feb Gilt
1 Bruce & Charles Smith 2 Leon Arnold 3
Bruce A Charles Smith
Mar. Gilt
1 Leon Arnold 2 Calvin Lazarus & Sons 3
Leon Arnold
Champion Yorkshire
Leon Arnold
Reserve Champion Yorkshire
Calvin Lazarus & Sons