A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13,1990
Six-Year-Old Holstein Is Supreme Dairy Champion At Farm Show
BY LISA RISSER &
JOYCE BUPP
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
After an absence of nearly a
decade from Farm Show competi
tion, the Gordon Wood family of
Mansfield returned with their
prize-winning showstring to cap
ture both top Holstein honors and
the coveted supreme champion
dairy banner.
Their powerful, deep-bodied
homebred aged cow, Gor-Wood-D
Persuading Favor, won judge Jim
Shaw’s nod for the Holstein senior
and grand champion titles. The
six-year-old Favor is sired by
Plushanski Persuader and scored
EX-90. With two production
records higher than 900 pounds of
fat, she is fresh since early Decem
ber and milking more than 120
pounds daily.
The bid for the supreme champ
ion title was close race between
Favor and the champion Ayrshire,
a two-year-old St. Cesaire Johnny
daughter.
“We felt that for her age, the
Holstein has shown wearability.
Her udder is still very correct,”
explained Douglas Evans, a
Georgetown, N.Y., veterinarian
and Ayrshire breeder, who judged
the supreme champion contest
with Jim Shaw of Mercer and Mer
ton Sowerby of Warrenton, Va.
“The Ayrshire is real young and
is a tremendous individual in her
own right, but she just doesn’t
have the same maturity. Give her a
couple years and a few calves (and
she would win),” Evans continued.
Reserve senior and grand
champion Holstein honors went to
Favor’s herdmate, C Boltonia
Warden Julie, an EX-92 five-year
old by Hilltoppcr EL Warden. She
was champion at last fall’s New
Holland Auction show and sale
and has tested at 90-plus pounds
daily since freshening more than
two months ago.
The Gor-Wood-D showstring
also earned the premier exhibitor
plaque for the Tioga County fami
ly. Gordon and Dorothy Wood
began showing at the Farm Show
in the early 19S0s and had claimed
one previous grand champion win
early in the ’7os. Their winning
Excellent cows are just two of the
total of 54 Excellent cows in their
herd, with 17 of those newly
scored Excellent in December
classification. In addition, the
remainder of the herd comprises
87 Very Goods, 26 Good Pluses,
The Holstein junior champion honors at the 1990 Farm Show went to John Foster
Jr.’s Globe Run Farm with Leroy and Ida Jane Fiance In the reserve spot. With the win
ning senior yearling are, from left, Judge Jim Shaw, Ron Heffner at the halter of the
reserve junior champion, John Foster Jr. with the champion, and Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess Anne Mitchell.
The supreme champion dairy cow for the 1990 Pennsyl- ter is owner Gordon Wood who got a helping hand from
vania Farm Show was Gor-Wood-D Persuading Favor, a Boyd Wolff, Secretary of Agriculture, and Anne Mitchell,
Plushanski Persuader daughter rated as EX-90. At her hal- Pennsylvania Dairy Princess.
and two Goods for a combined
BAA of 109.5.
Taking junior champion honors
was the sharp, straight senior year
ling bred and exhibited by the John
Foster Jr. family. That win by
Globe Run Enhancer Killy, a
Glcnaston Enhancer daughter, and
the high placings by the total eight
head in the Foster showstring com
bined to win the premier breeder
honors for the Petersburg, Hun
tingdon County family.
Leroy and Ida Jane Plance of
Wellsboro exhibited their senior
yearling to the reserve junior
champion title. L & J Marlin Max
ine, a homebred, is sired by Eleva
tion Marlin.
Topping the youth classes in the
Holstein division was Meranda
Dum of Landisburg. Her five
year-old, Dumbcllc Christopher
Angel by Browndale Christopher,
was named senior and grand
champion of youth division.
Youth show reserve senior and
grand champion honors went to
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All Jersey championship titles went to cattle exhibited by Patricia Jenkins of
Toughkenamon. From left are Tom Arrowsmith, Patricia Jenkins with the grand
champion Gusto Milestone Fatima of SSF, Beth Jenkins with reserve grand champion
CLV Faithful Golden Farina, Dan Severson with reserve |unlor champion CLV Schiltz
Sweet Sheena, and Owen Bewley with Junior champion Jays Leona of S V.
Gary Mase, left, and his family received the premier exhi
bitor and breeder awards In the Brown Swiss competition.
Family members are, from left, Gary, five-year-old Alicia,
three-year-old Anthony, Patricia, nine-year-old Garrett, and
Judy, Gary’s sister.