A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 21, 1991 VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff READING (Berks Co.) Holsteins and Jerseys were (he dominant dairy breeds exhibited at the Reading Fair Wednesday. The Reading Fair is held at the rear of the Fairgrounds Mall shop ping plaza north of Reading city, along Rt. 222. A medium-sized fair, the agricultural shows are comprised mostly of entries from local animal enthusiasts. There were 49 exhibitors regis tered for the Holstein dairy show and IS registered for the Jersey breed show. No one showed Milk ing Shorthorns and a brother and sister duo showed Guernseys. Five exhibitors showed Ayrshires and five showed Brown Swiss. Except for several top placings, the owners of the winning animals were registered in both the open and youth shows. From the left, Ronda Pool holds the halter of her reserve grand champion Holstein, while Stacey Geist holds the hal ter of her grand champion. From the left, Randy Balthaser holds the halter and roset te for his reserve grand champion Brown Swiss, while brother Jason holds the halter of his grand champion. shown at the Reading Fair, perhaps any dairy show, in the dam and daughter competition of the Jersey breed. Owned by Mildred Seeds, the mother and daughter were not permit ted to compete because the calf had not been entered in any other competition. Well-known Jersey breeder and shower Mildred Seeds apparently likes to start working with her show cattle early. Reading Dairy bitors in most of the colored breeds, the Holstein and Jersey shows and several classes in the other breeds provided some level of competition for premium money and awards and gave show Judge Leroy Fiance, Wellsboro, a challenge in placing animals, he said. Fiance, a Holstein breeder with more than 30 home bred Excel lents to his credit, milks an average herdof 40cows and currently has a dozen Excellents in the herd. He judged both the Holsteins and col ored breeds. While -giving reasons, Fiance expressed his preference for a stur dy front end with good body depth, rib, leg support, a level and wide dairy tear, and overall type cor rectness, while some judges will overlook structural flaws in favor of strong udder aspects and teat placement. Fiance was also very Crank in his Show Highlights Local Herds tain cattle were over or under con ditioned, which ones were in need of hoof trimming, etc. His choice of grand champion Holstein was a 3-year-old daughter of Mel-Est Valiant Irose Melvin, owned by Stacy Geist, of Mert ztown, “Ro-Ru Melvin Noel,” bom Dec. 15, 1988. In the open division, the reserve grand champion to Geist’s “Noel” was David and Rhonda Pool’s dry 4-year-old “Ridgedale UHRA Beauty.” In the youth division, the reserve grand champion was Michael Davis’s 3-year-old “Caw Croft Stewart Star,” which was also second in that age class to "Noel.” The junior champion of the Holsteins was an intermediate heifer calf, “Cor-Phil Royal Macey,” owned by Jessica Luckenbill. The reserve junior open champ ion in open division was a junior yearling, “Fantasyland Star Ivory,” sired by Hanover Hill Star buck, and owned by David and Ronda Pool. A Blackstar daughter, Eric-Dew Blackstar Dana-ET, owned by Eri ca Davis was second in the junior yearling class to Pool’s “Ivory,” and reserve junior champion in the youth division. In the Ayrshire breed, an inter mediate heifer calf outshown older junior-aged heifers to win the title of junior champion. The calf was “S&M Ayr Reliables Rebecca.” owned by Jill Vail, of Myerstown. Jill’s brother Jed Vail showed the reserve junior champion, Kar lyn Tally Ho Avery, a junior yearling. Jed’s junior 2-year-old, “Karyln R. Command’s Keeley,” took the senior and grand champion title’s however. “Keeley” also had the best udder of the Ayrshire show, which Fiance said he admired, but questioned the depth of the floor in relation to the hock for the age of the cow. The udder, large and well connected seemed almost too large overall in proportion to the rest of the animal. The reserve senior and grand champion was 3-year-old “Spoiled Betsy Ross,” show by Chris Blatt, of Robesonia. She had the second best udder. In the Brown Swiss breed, 10 animals were shown with Jason and Randy Balthaser, of Bemville showing the grand and reserve grand champion animals, respec tively. Randy also showed the junior champion. Derrick Hix, of Mohrsville, showed the reserve junior champion. Amy and Daniel Hollenbach, of Bemville, showed eight Guern seys. Daniel’s senior 2-year-old, “Lebanon Valley Boris Tina,” was named senior and grand champion, while Amy’s junior 2-year-old, “Blue Mountain View King Mol ly,” was reserve senior and grand champion. Both of Amy’s junior calves, “Blue Ml View Carey,” and “Blue Ml Vew Mariah,” were junior and reserve junior champions, respectively. For the second year in a row, well-known Jersey breeder Mildred Seeds, from Downing town, and her pair of sister Jerseys took the Jersey titles at Reading. The pair of 3-year-old, full sister cows, continued their championship tour of local fair shows by taking the senior and reserve senior and grand and reserve grand titles at the Reading show. reserve grand champion Jersey, while Russell Subject helps out with Seeds’ grand champion. _ Vl a ijs reserve grand champion Ayrshire, while Jed Vail holds the halter of h’ \d ch r From the left, Amy Hollenbach holds the halter of the reserve grand champion Guernsey, while brother Daniel holds the halter of his grand champion. Seeds’ animals are not only well-known for winning, but also for their show-ring appearance she allows the horns on her cattle to grow and uniquely uses brass chain and lockettes to show off the esthetic color qualities of the Jersey breed. However, the win reversed the order in which the two Jersey cows were placed during the Allentown Fair last month. At this fair, “Top- O-Hill (TOH) Admiral Valentine” caught the judge’s eye for fust place honors, while placing sister ‘Tina,” in reserve status. The “bloom” condition of the udder during the show was cited by the judges at Allentown and Read ing as being the determining factor in placing the sister animals. They two were placed that was also in taking best and second best udder of the show. The pair of Jersey sisters are products of crosses between dam TOH Silver Beacon and sire Bri don Master Admiral-ET. In addi tion to these recent wins, they have also captured titles at Kimberton, Cecil County in Maryland, and at Schuylkill County. In the youth division of the show, Ben Hendricks, from Phoe nixville showed the senior and grand champion Jersey, while Susan Curtis showed the reserve grand in the youth. Curtis’s inter mediate calf was also the open and youth junior champion. Jessica Haag’s 3-year-old took reserve senior champion in the youth division. Seeds* senior heifer calf took home the open class reserve junior championship, while Jessica (Turn to Pago A 43)
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