D4-Lancaster Farming Saturday, September 19, 1987
The Sixth Annual 4-H Lives
tock Show and Sale for Sullivan
County was held on Thursday,
September 3 at the County Fair in
Forksville, Pa. David Hartman was
the Livestock Judge and Clyde
Beard from Cowanesque Valley
Livestock Market, Knoxville, Pa.
was auctioneer.
Show started at 4 P.M. with
Lambs and the winners are as fol
lows: Sheep Breeding - Ist Place -
Patty Molyncux, RD Dushore;
Light Weight Market Lamb - Ist
Place - Kay Benjamin, RD New
Albany; Medium Weight Market
Lamb - Ist Place - Billy Bahl, RD
New Albany; Heavy Weight
Market Lamb - Ist Place - Celia
Molyneux, RD Dushore; Champ
ion Market Lamb - Celia Moly
nuex’s 116# Cross Bred Lamb;
116# Crossbred Grand Champion Market Lamb
owned by Celia Molyneux, Dushore, with buyer Robert
Moore, Happy Thoughts Farm, Forksville.
Sullivan County Livestock Show
Reserve Champion Lamb - Jared
Bogart, RD Forksville - 110#
Cross Bred; Master Filler, Lambs -
Billy Bahl; Master Showman,
Lambs - Chris Insinger.
4-H Market Hog show followed
at 5 P.M. with the following win
ners: Extra Light Weight Hog -
(under 180#) Ist Celia Molyneux,
RD Dushore; Light Weight Market
Hog (180#-200#) Ist - Toddy
Molyneux, RD Dushore; Medium
Weight Market Hog (201#-220#)
Ist - Scott Molyneux, RD
Dushore; Heavy Weight Market
Hog (221# & Over) Ist - Chris
Insinger, RD Dushore; Champion
Market Hog - Chris Insinger’s
255# Yoricshire; Reserve Champ
ion Hog - Scott Molyenux’s 209#
Cross bred Master Fitter, Swine -
Chris Insinger; Master Showman,
Swine - Scott Molyneux.
The 4-H Beef show began about
6 P.M. with final results as fol
lows: Beef Breeding - Ist place
yearling Heifer - Patty Molyneux,
RD Dushore; Feeder Steer - Ist -
Scott Molyneux, RD Dushore;
Light Weight Market Steer
(900-1000#) - Scott Molyneux;
Medium Wght Market Steer
(1001#-1100#) - Nolan Chase, RD
Dushore: Heavy Wght Market
Steer (1101# & up) - Ist Melissa
Wilkins, RD Dushore; Champion
Market Steer - Melissa Wilkins’s
1200# Polled Hereford Reserve
Champion Steer - Kim King, RD
Forksville, 1175# Charolais Cross;
Master Fitter, Beef - Kim King;
Master Showman, Beef - Melissa
Wilkins.
Crystal Shaffer, 1987 Pa. Cattle
men’s Queen from State College
was present to hand out the awards
during the show and announced
the market animals auctioned at
the 4-H sale. Nine successful bid
ders purchased seven lambs, four
hogs and four steers for a total of
$5959.30.
Grand Champion Market Lamb,
which was also Ist place in the
heavy weight class at 116#, owned
by Celia Molyneux, Dushore, went
to Robert Moore, Happy Thoughts
Farm, Forksville, for $290.00.
Grand Champion Market Hog,
at 255# owned by Chris Insinger
RD Dushore sold for $l.lO a
pound to L & H Lumber, Forksvil
le. Chris’ pig was purchased this
spring at 40# for $ 1.00 a pound and
fed 600# of grain until fairtime
gaining 215# during the summer
and Chris was paid a nice reward
of $280.50 for his efforts.
Grand Champion Market Steer
at 1200# was owned by Melissa
Wilkins, Wil-Stock Farms,
Dushore and sold to Taylor Pack
ing Co., Inc., Wyalusing for $l.OO
a pound. Melissa’s steer was from
a 4 year-old registered Polled
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