Milking Shorthorn Takes Supreme Champion
(Continued from Pago At)
“This is a massive individual,”
said Judge Parkard,“She is very
strong. She has a very desirable
ness in the correctness of her feet
and legs. And .1 find that com
mendable because she has been
carrying a lot of weight for many
miles. Her udder is dry, but even
dry it is of very high quality.”
Sam Yoder, of Pinesedge Farm
in Shoemakersville, accepted the
banner for his daughter, Nedra
Roller, who is the owner of
Pinesedge GK Kizzi, who was
unable to attend the show. Yoder
received the supreme dairy cow
banner at the Allentown Fair in
1975 for his Holstein entry. Yoder
has 100 head of Milking Shor
thorn, Holstein, Brown Swiss and
Jersey at his farm.
After leading the 4-Hers to win
ning all day Wednesday, Mildred
Seeds, 4-H leader for 25 years in
Chester County decided it was her
turn and led the winners in a diffe
rent way. These winners were hers.
Seeds, of Top O’The Hill Farm in
Downingtown in Chester County,
dominated the Jersey division ring.
When the dust finally settled Seeds
had captured all the championship
titles and 12 blue ribbons. Seeds
took first place in Best Udder, Best
Three Females, Senior Get of Sire,
Produce of Dam and Dam and
Daughter.
The Jersey grand champion was
the 3-year-old Top O’The Hill
Silver Beacon Tinsel, the daughter
of TOH Milestone Tempest. The
sire is Valley Stream Silver Bea
con. This 3-year-old took dairy
supreme champion of the colored
breeds two years in a row at the
Cecil County Fair in Maryland.
She took grand champion at the
Goshen Fair and at the Schuylkill
County Fair in July.
“She has a super udder. This is
just the type of udder we like to
see, but we don’t get to see very
often. She has a very wide udder
with the correct teat placement,”
said Judge Packard of Seeds grand
champion.
Her reserve grand champion,
the 2-year-old TOH Milestone
Tammy is the daughter of TOH
Special Tasty and was sired by
Advancer Sleeping Milestone. Her
intermediate calf, TOH Silver
Beacon Treasure took the junior
championship.
It was a family affair at the
135th Allentown Fair Dairy Shows
on Wednesday and Thursday. And
apparently some of the same fami
lies have been battling against each
other in the dairy show ring for so
Frank Miller took the Brown Swiss reserve grand Henry Miller (left) captured the top honors for his Holstein bull by winning
championship In Open Dairy Show at the Allentown the Allentown Fair 1987 Supreme Champion Dairy Bull banner. Henry's father,
Fair. Russell Miller holds massive yearling bull.
many years it has become a
tradition.
However, in 1987 one of these
traditions may come to an end as
the youngest of the Urmy children
starts college this fall and may not
show next year. Although the
Urmy tradition may end there are
many faces, many new names to
begin some new traditions at the
Allentown Fair.
Gayle Urmy, 18, daughter of
Ralph and Jean Urmy of RIM,
Coopersburg collected rosettes
and ribbons in both the Brown
Swiss and the Holstein divisions
for her tenth year. It was her fami-'
ly’s 22nd year of competition.
Gayle will be attending the Lehigh
County Community College in the
fall and there are no younger Urmy
children or grand children to take
her place. The Buzzing Acres
Farm has been winning grand
championships, according to
Ralph for the last ten years.
By the close of the open show
Gayle had gathered the grand and
reserve and junior championship
titles in the Brown Swiss class. She
also won the junior championship
in the Holstein class in both shows.
Urmy may have won the grand
championship in the Holstein class
if it had not been for another family
battle in the show ring. However,
this particular battle was between
members of the same family name.
The members of the Russell Miller
and Carl Miller families, both of
Tamaqua RD3, were competing
against each other and creating
their own collection of ribbons and
titles. The Millers took home blue
ribbons and rosettes from every
breed except the Milking Shor
thorn division.
Heidi Miller, daughter of Rus
sell and Christine, won the Hols
tein grand championship with her
2-year-old in both shows. Accord
ing to her brother Henry, who was
working on his own impressive
collection of awards, she had been
winning the grand championship
every where she went. Finess did
win the title at the Lehighton Fair,
Southeast District Show and at the
Schuylkill County Fair and plans
on compelling at the Bloomsburg
Fair next '
Henry Miller won the 1987
supreme champion dairy bull ban
ner with his Holstein bull. Out of
the three entries Judge Packard
selected this Holstein was chosen
for his strength and size.
Frank Miller, son of Carl and
Judy Miller, took many blue rib
bons in the Brown Swiss division
and took the reserve grand champ-
The Allentown Fair 1987 Supreme Champion Dairy Cow banner went to the
Milking Shorthorn exhibited by Sam and Phyllis Yoder (left), Warren Buckman
(center) and Open Dairy Show Judge Dick Packard (right).
Mildred Seeds (far right) 4-H leader from Downingtown swept the Jersey
class at the Allentown Fair dairy show. With her are (from left) Herman Wetzel,
Owen Bewley, and Richard Bewiey.
ion title in the open show.
Carl Miller, Frank’s brother,
swept the Guernsey class taking all
first spots in the open show and
championships except for two.
Miller took the grand champion
title in the open show as selected
by Judge Packard. Miller’s 5-year
old was selected as having a defi
nite advantage in her stature,
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balance of udder and in her style in
moving.
Hendricks, 15 -year-old son of
John and Elaine Hendricks of
Phoenixville, prevented Carl from
making a total sweep. Hendricks
took the junior championship in
both shows and the grand champ
ionship title in the 4-H show with
his junior yearling, Kimbervu farm
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Jay Crystal. He has won the junior
championship three times this
summer with this Kimbervu
yearling.
Karen Sanner finally achieved
her goal she had set for the sum
mer. Sanner, 14, daughter of Gary
and Theda Sanner of Downing
town, according to her 4-H leader,
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