A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 16, 1993
4-H Livestock Sale - Gerald Wertz sold grand champion
market hog to Mel Lehman of Danville Livestock.
Allan Wertz sold the reserve champion market hog to
Mel Lehman, representing Hatfield Quality Meats, Hatfield.
Laura Lovall sold the grand champion market lamb to
Ted Bunnell representing Rodger Bunnell Funeral Home,
Bloomsburg.
Bloomsburg Fair Winners Named
JUDY PATTON
Union Co. Correspondent
DAIRY SHOW
Once again the Tanis family of
Ideal Holsteins in Centre County
swept to the top in the Blooms
burg Fair dairy show competition.
At this year’s 139th fair, held
September 25-October 2, the
supreme dairy breed champion
and grand champion of the Hols
tein show was Jacky Validate Ritz
Cracker. This five-year-old Vali
date daughter, along with Ideals
Vintage Anya, the junior champ
ion female, and first place winners
in the intermediate heifer calf,
summer yearling heifer, junior
yearling heifer, intermediate year
ling heifer, junior get-of-sire,
junior three best females, junior
two-year-old, senior two-year-old,
best 3 females, dairy herd, and
dam & daughter classes, made
Ideal Holsteins the Premier Breed
er and Premier Exhibitor of the
Holstein show.
Judging the ISS animals shown
by 68 exhibitors in the Holstein
show was Gordon Wood of Gor-
Wood-D Acres in Mansfield. The
reserve grand champion was Cele
brity Mark Saphire, an aged cow
shown by Janice Jurbala of
Orangeville. Saphire also won the
best udder of show. For reserve
junior champion the judge chose
Ritters Logic Whistle, a senior
yearling heifer exhibited by
Duane Ritter of Muncy. County
Herd award went to Columbia-
Luzeme, followed by Lycoming,
Northumberland-Montour and
Schuylkill Counties.
First placings in each class
were: bull calf- Altar Sandsdale
Deano-TW, Harriet Sands,
Wybming; junior yearling and
reserve grand champion bull-
Sandsdale Counselor Vic, Harriet
Sands; senior yearling and
grand champion bull, Rittcr-
Ridge S Buck Chad-ET, Ritter-
Ridge Farms, Muncy; junior heif
er calf - Elites-JSJ Fallon-Red-
ET, Bryan Lee Hock, Millville;
intermediate heifer calf- Ideals
Star Maker Libby, Jennifer Kel
lerman. Centre Hall; senior heifer
calf - Wynding-Brook Vin Kitty,
Clifford LeVan, Milton; summer
yearling heifer - Ideals Counselor
Classy, Ideal Holsteins, Centre
Hall; junior yearling heifer - Ide
als Magic Caryn, Mark Hough,
Rebersburg; intermediate year
ling heifer - Ideals Vintage Anya,
Ideal Holsteins; senior yearling
heifer - Ritters Logic Whistle,
Duane Ritter, dry cow 3 & 4
years old - Sandsdale Altair R
Victoria, Harriet Sands; aged dry
cow - Rob-Run Ned Boy Wish,
Robert Bronson, Bloomsburg;
junior 2-year-old - Ideals Fanta
sia Paula, Ideal Holsteins; senior
2- - Ideals Sebastian
Jacky-TW, Ideal Holsteins;
junior 3-year-old • Robbins
Amador Christine, Janice Rob
bins, Bloomsburg; senior
3- - Hillside Carolyn
Starfouck, Hillside Farms, Shaver
town; 4-year-old - Shuman Walk
way Nicole, Sherry Shuman,
Bloomsburg: 5-year-old - Jacky
Validate Ritz Cracker, Ideal Hols
teins; aged cow - Celebrity Mark
Saphire, Janice Jurbala;
100,000-lb. cow • Wes Hillside
Astro Theresa. Hillside Farms;
best 3 females - Ideal Holsteins;
dairy herd - Ideal Holsteins; pro
duce of dam - Ritters Ridge Farm;
dam & daughter - Ideal
Holsteins.
In the other breed competitions,
the grand champions were: Jersey
• Top-O-Hill Admiral Tina (last
year’s Supreme Dairy Show
Champion), shown by Mildred
Seeds of Downingtown; Guern
sey - Coal Hill F Ruby, Coal Hill
Farm, Slippery Rock; Brown
Swiss • Talleys Jubilation Gloria,
Trudy Swendsen, Honesdale; and
Ayrshire - Ayr-Fenley Hi Test
Jolly, Ruth Milnes.
4-H LIVESTOCK SALE
The Bloomsburg Fair 4-H
Livestock Sale netted $20,570 in
proceeds for the 35 4-H’ers selling
(heir livestock projects.
Ideal Holafelnt, represented by Rachel Tanls and Kevin
Kellerman, were the premier breeder and premier exhibitor
of the Holstein show.
Reserve champion mi lamb told by
Rica to M.L. Bowersox, Winfield.
Sales of the champion animals
were: champion market steer sold
by Laura Lovell of Linden to
Hoss’s Steak House of Duncans
ville for $1450 reserve
champion market steer owned by
Kyle Hummel of Sunbury sold to
Furman Foods of Northumberland
for $1 ISO ($.98/lb.); the champion
market lamb was sold to Rodger
Bunnell Funeral Home of
Bloomsburg for $175 ($1.64/lb.)
(Turn to Pago A 29)
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