820-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 22, 1988 Horsewoman Wins Colt A few years ago Billie Jo Con rad of Georgetown, Del., was thrown from a pony and never wanted to ride horseback again. Now the 13-year-old 4-H’er is the 1988 winner of a quarter horse weanling from famous sausage maker Bob Evans. Every year the restauranteur invites one teenager from each of the 12 states where his products are sold to a Western-style round up on his 1,000-acre farm in Ohio. The teens are chosen on the basis of citizenship and involvement in 4-H. All return home with their own quarter horse weanling. This year’s roundup, complete with campfires and trail rides, was held September 9-11. Billie Jo has been in 4-H for five years and in the 4-H horse program for two. She belongs to the Just Kidding Around 4-H Club. She is also a member of the Delaware Appaloosa Youth Asso ciation (DAYA) and has won many ribbons in 4-H and DAYA horse shows. The horse she won is an eight month-old chestnut colt with a star, a stripe and a snip, and a white front foot He’s named Split Image Wimpy, and Billy Jo plans to train and ride him for pleasure Western style. Billie Jo, an eighth grader at Sussex Central Junior High School, has had a lot of experience working with horses. She helps her parents take care of their two ponies and four horses on the Con rads’ Georgetown farm. She has taken riding lessons for two years at Martin’s Horse Farm in Milton. Bob Evans winners are SURGE A prescription for better cow udder health! fSUPOEj D %e\a\\s'° r expected to keep their foals for at least two years, but Billie Jo would like “Wimpy” to be her very own horse permanently. Ask About An “ON-FARM” DEMON STRATION! The brother-sister team of Jus tin and Allyson Comes, children of Joe and Trudy Comes of Smethport, captured the champ ionship beef honors at the McKean Co. Fair, respectively B MILKING UNI SHARTLESVILLE FARM SERVICE Dale Wenger RD 1, Hamburg, Pa. Ph: (215) 488-1025 DON UPPERMAN SURGE 1126 N. Franklin St. Chambaraburg, Pa. Ph: (717) 264-6007 McKean County Fair taking the grand and reserve titles. Their animals also were rate-of gain co-champions with an aver age daily gain for the 274 day feeding period of 2.62 pounds per day. Justin’s 1,240-pound Simmental-cross grand champion sold to Gleason Distributing Com pany of Bradford for $1.55 per pound. Allyson’s 1,250-pound reserve champion, also a Simmental-cross, sold to Vale View Farms, Rixford, for $1.60 per pound. Ten steers sold averaged $1.5 with the champions and $.90 per pound excluding the champions. Two brothers divided the championship honors in the mark et swine competition. The son of Dan and Cheri Detrick of Kane, Robbie Detrick sold his 212-pound Yorkshire grand champion to First National Bank of Port Allegany for $2.30 per pound. His brother, Steve’s 209-pound Yorkshire also sold for $2.30 per pound to Pine Valley Nursery of Port Allegany. Nineteen hogs sold averaged $1.45 per pound with the champ ions and $1.35 per pound exclud ing the champions. Shannon Safford’s 141-pound Suffolk champion heavyweight went on to capture the grand champion lamb title. Buyer Penn Bank of Brafdford paid a hefty sum of $4 per pound. GetMOOOvln' w!tho Dairy Foods! • No Cross— Four individual chambers prevent bacterial organisms from spreading from quarter to quarter. • High Capacity —Vacuum stability (First with Surge) and Good Cow Milk ing are not sacrificed for isolated quar ter milking. LONGACRE ELECTRICAL SVC. INC. Bally, Pa. Ph: (215) 845-2261 BRANDTS FARM SUPPLY 601 E. High SI. Elizabethtown, Pa. Ph: (717) 367-1221 Rac Ann Kleisath of Smethpj sold lit r 126-jumnd rescrv champion Sufi' Ik lamb to Heai waters Farm Credit of (\, port for $2.20 per pound. Twenty-thr . • lambs sold fora average $l.BO per pound wi champions and $1.70 per pom excluding the champions. Total receipts of the sale wi $23,220.65. A total of 42 buyc purchased the 52 animals offen for sale. The 4-H’ers sponsored pig roast for the buyers in appret ation of their support. Other results of the hvestoc show featured Matt Van Gieseni Kane as sv, me rate-of-gai champion wills a 100-day averaj daily gam of 1.85 pounds per da Lamb ..ite-of-gam champion wi Chad Kleisath if Smethport with 100-day average daily gain of ,J pounds per day Fourteen-year-ol Pam Bosworth ot Eldred gamerc both master litter and masti showman honors in beef. Pam all was the master showman in sheq Master fitter for sheep wt 11-year-old Shannon Safford wi her grand champion lamb. Mash fitter in the swine show wi 16-year-old Dave Stanko of Kai in his first year of showing. To year-old Shawn Ackley of Kat took his first-place junior shot manship all the way to mast showman in '. vine. • Visabillty—Milk flow is eas ily recognized from each in dividual quarter. Durable, lightweight design for thou sands of cow milkings. • Easy Handling—The RX Unit is compara ble to any conven tional claw-type unit. PEN W. HOSTETTER RD 2, Annvilla, Pa. Ph: (717) 867-2896 JIM’S SURGE SALES & SERVICI 215 Oak Bottom Rd. Quarryvllla, Pa. Ph; (717) 786-1533
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