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Lebanon County Ayrshire Is Farm Show Supreme
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Lebanon countians are
familiar with the owners of the
supreme champion dairy cow of
the 1994 state Farm Show, since
they’ve been showing Ayrshires at
the county fair for several years.
Shawn Hemley and his sister
Heather Shearer showed their
5-year-old Ayrshire Jessica, a
Canadian-bred animal which clas
sified Very Good under the Cana
dian system and was bred by Neil
Kittle, of Ontario, who showed the
animal during the breed show,
while Shawn showed her during
the juding for the supreme
champion.
Shawn and Heather had pur
chased Jessica two years ago from
Kittle and have been showing her.
Not currently on test with the
Dairy Herd Improvement Associa
tion, her 2-year-old record in
Canada was 14,000 pounds of
milk.
She freshened in September
with a heifer calf and has been
milking well.
“It’s a terrific feeling,” Shawn
said. “It shows that hard work and
effort pays off sometimes. Thanks
to a lot of people, I feel great.”
Shawn and his wife Karen, have
two daughters Merritt and Amber,
and live at the home farm south of
Fredericksburg, where they have
17 head of Ayrshire and a number
of Holsteins.
Accoring to Shawn, the family
farm began keeping Ayrshires
when Heather was starling in 4-H
and got one for a project animal.
He said she got the family
enthused about the breed and she
started showing and winning with
her brown and while cows and
showed a couple of junior division
champions over the years.
Heather married in May and
lives in Bradford County on a dairy
farm with her husband Steve,
where they have his Holsteins and
her Ayrshires, Shawn said.
After the judges announced the
Ayrshire supreme. Shawn said that
while the five other breed grand
champions, he really thought that
Bemeta Gable’s grand champion
Guernsey would have been
selected as supreme. He said he
didn’t actually expect it to be his
Ayrshire.
“But then I guess you are pickier
about your own animals and can
see more flaws than in someone
Shawn Hernley smiles broadly while holding the halter of the supreme champion
dairy cow of the state Farm Show. State Secretary of Agriculture Boyd Wolff holds the
banner and looks on. State Dairy Princess Jennifer Grimes helps with the
presentation.
ip of champions, excepting the sumpreme
champion, includes, from the left, the Jersey shown by
else’s animal,” he said. showed the junior champion.
Gable’s Guernsey was named j n f act> |h e Gables cleaned up
first runner-up supreme, however, with Aaron Gable showing the
even though, when the Farm Show reserve grand champion, and Ken
began naming supreme champ- dy Beth Gable showing the reserve
ions, they had decided against junior champion.
naming any runnerup to supreme.
The naming of the supreme
dairy cow highlighted the * six
breed show that saw 435 dairy
cattle in all shown.
In the Ayrshire division, John
Rodgers, of Belleville, showed the
junior champion and the reserve
senior and grand champion
animals.
Dale Maulfair, and family, who
owns a neighboring farm to the
Hcmleys, was named premier
breeder of the show and shared
premier exhibitor honors with
John Rodgers.
The reserve junior champion
was shown by Sharon Rader, of
Connoquenessing.
In the Brown Swiss breed, Jason
Kennedy, of Butler, showed both
the grand and reserve grand
champions and was named the pre
mier breeder and exhibitor.
The Kennedys champion was
Four Seasons Jade Erica.
Richard Love, of Scottdale
showed the junior champion
Brown Swiss, while Michael
Kunkle, of Jonestown, showed the
reserve junior champion.
Bemeta Gable, of New Enter
prise, not only showed the grand
champion Gumsey, but also
The premier breeder and exhibi
tor of the show was Robert Smith
from Annville.
In the Holstein show, Tom
McCauley, of Elizabethtown,
showed his family’s 4-year-old
New Direction to be return grand
champion of the breed. She was
last year’s Farm Show supreme
cow.
The reserve grand champion
was shown by Scott, Cindy and
Miranda Fisher, of Newville.
Elizabeth Walton, of Carlisle,
showed the junior champion Hols
tein, while David and Barbara
Miller, of Greensburg, showed the
reserve champion junior
champion.
The premier breeder and exhibi
tor was Gor-Wood-D Holsteins,
owned by the Gordon Wood fami
ly of Mansfield.
In the Jersey show, the grand
and senior champion was shown
by Madison Fisher, from Ncwvil-
Ic, while Scott Youse, and Russell
Subject, of Oley, showed the
reserve senior and grand champion
Jersey. The two Berks Countians
were also named the premier exhi
bitors of the show.
The junior champion Jersey was
shown by Harold and Shirley
Fisher, and Tom McCauley.
Harps ter, of Boalsburg, while the
reserve junior champion was
shown by J. Craig and Susan
Wicker, of Centre Hall.
Joyce Harpster, of Boalsburg,
was named the premier breeder.
In the Milking Shorthorn breed,
Christine Young, of New Enter
prise, showed the senior and grand
champion, the reserve senior and
grand champion, and was named
premier breeder and exhibitor of
the show.
The junior champion was shown
by James Young, of New Enter
prise, and the reserve junior
champion was shown by Jennifer
Miller, of New Enterprise.
DAIRY CATTLE • AYRSHIRE DIVISION
Junior Call: 1. John Raod Rodgers, Bel
leville; 2. Dalawara Valley Collage, Doylet
tdwn; 3. Grant E. Campbell, Lykena.
Youth Claoo Junior Calf: 1. Gram E.
Campbell, Lykont; 2. Daniel Rishal, New
Columbia; 3. Elizabeth SplcKler, Mount Joy.
Senior Call; 1. Daryl 0. Maulfair, Jones
town; 2. John Reed Rodgers. Belleville; 3.
Rebecca Elizabeth Nolan, Cochranville.
Youth Class, Senior Calf: t. Daryl D.
Maulfair, Jonestown; 2. Rebecca Elizabeth
Nolan, Cochranville; 3. Michael W. Brant,
Mount Union.
Fall Yearling: 1. Michael W. Brant, Mount
Union; 2. Daniel Rishel, New Columbia; 3.
Royston Q. Coale 111, Felton,
Youth Claas Fall Yearling: 1 . Michael W.
Brant, Mount Union; 2. John Rader, Conno
quenesslng; 3. Jed A. Vail, Myorstown.
Summer Yearling: 1. Sharon L. Rader,
Connoquenesting; 2. Brian Vincent Nolan,
Cochranville; 3. Amber Hamley, Lebanon.
Youth Oats Summer Yearling: 1. Sha
ron L. Rader, Connoquenaaslng; 2. Brian
Vincent Nolan, Cochranville; 3. Jason A.
Stambaugh, Spring Grove.
Spring Yearling: 1. John Rader, Conno
quenestlng; 2. Daryl D. Maulfair, Jonestown;
3. Daniel Rishel, New Columbia.
Youth Claaa Spring Yearling: 1. Daryl D.
Maulfair, Jonestown; 2. Daniel Rishel, New
Columbia.
Winter Yearling Halter; 1. Dale E. Maul
fair, Jonestown; 2. John Reed Rodgers, Bel
leville; 3. Jenn Rishel, New Columbia.
Youth Claaa Winter Yearling: 1. Jenn
Rishel, New Columbia.
Junior Champion: 1. John Reed Rod
gers, Belleville.
Youth Claas Junior Champion: 1. Sha
ron L. Rader, Connoquenessing.
Reserve Junior Champion: 1. Sharon L.
Rader, Connoquenessing.
Youth Claaa Raa. Jr. Champion; 1. Daryl
D. Maulfair, Jonestown.
Junior Baal Three Females: 1. John
Reed Rodgers, Belleville; 2. Harold C. Rader
Jr„ Connoquenessing; 3. Royston G. Coale
111, Felton.
3Or 4 Dry Cow; 1. John Reed Rodgers,
Belleville; 2. Merrlt, Amber, Heather Hemley,
Lebanon; 3. Jesse Stambaugh, Spring
Grove.
Youth Clot* Cow 3 Or 4 Dry: 1. Jotte
Stambaugh, Spring Grove.
BOr Ovor Dry Cow: 1. Grant E. Camp
bell, Lykent; 2. Jew# Stambaugh, Spring
Grove.
Youth Claaa Cow 8 Yr. 8 Over Dry; 1 .
Grant E. Campbell, Lykent; 2. Jesse Stam
baugh, Spring Grove.
2 And Under 3 Cow: 1. John Reed Rod
gers, Belleville; 2. Dale E. Maulfalr, Jones
town; 3. John Rader, Connoquenesslng.
Youth Claaa Cow 2 Years Old: 1. John
Rader, Comoquenesting; 2. Kevin Andrew
Nolan, Cochranville.
3 And Under 4 Cow: 1. Dale E. Maulfalr,
Jonestown; 2. John Reed Rodgers, Bellevil
le; 3. Harold C. Rader Jr., Connoquenesslng.
Youth Claaa Cow 3 Years Old: 1. Jill L.
Vail, Myerstowa
4 And Under 8 Cow: 1. Kevin Andrew
, James Kennedy, and
Nolan, Coehranville; 2. Data E. Maulfair,
Jonestown; 3. Dalawara Valley College,
Doyleetown.
Youth Claea Cow 4 Yaara Old: 1. Kevin
Andrew Nolan, Coehranville; 2. Jason A.
Stambaugh, Spring Grove.
8 And Over Cow: 1, Shawn & Heather
Hemley, Lebanon; 2. Amber & Carmelle
Hernley, Lebanon; 3. John Reed Rodgera,
Belleville.
YoulhClaeeCowßYearaOld: I.Sharon
L. Radar, Connoqueneaaing; 2. Seth Wolf
gang, Bechtel av ilia.
Champion Udder: 1. Shawn A Heather
Hemley, Lebanon.
Senior Champion; 1. Shawn & Heather
Hernley, Lebanon.
Youth Claaa Senior Champion; 1. Kevin
Andrew Nolan, Coehranville.
Reserve Senior Champion: 1, John
Reed Rodgera, Belleville.
Youth Class Res. Sr. Champion: 1. Sha
ron L. Rader, Connoqueneaaing.
Ayrshire Grand Champion: 1. Shawn &
Heather Hemley, Lebanon.
Youth Class Grand Champion: 1. Kevin
Andrew Nolan, Coehranville.
Reserve Grand Champion; 1. John Reed
Rodgera, Belleville.
Youth Claes Reserve Grand Champion:
1. Sharon L. Rader, Connoqueneaaing.
Premier Breeder: 1. Dale E. Maulfair,
Jonestown.
Premier Exhibitor: 1 . (Tie) D. Maulfair a
J. Rodgers, Lebanon.
Exhibitor Hard: 1. Dale E. Maulfair,
Jonestown; 2. Shawn t Heather Hemley,
Lebanon; 3. John Reed Rodgers, Belleville.
BROWN SWISS DIVISION
Junior Calf: 1. Thomas L. Zartman Jr,
Ephrata; 2. Kane Sterner, Bechtelsville; 3.
Aaron B. Comman, Carlisle.
Youth Class Junior Csll; 1. Thomas L.
Zartman Jr„ Ephrata; 2. Katie Sterner, Bech
telsville; 3. Aaron B. Cornman, Carlisle.
Senior Call: 1. Michael A. Kunkle, Jones
town; 2. Lauren D. Daubed, McElhattan; 3
Brandy D. Homing, Huntingdon.
Senior Calf; 1. Lauren D. Oaubert, McEl
hattan; 2. Brandy D. Homing, Huntingdon
Fall Yearling: 1. Michael A, Kunkle,
Jonestown; 2 Susan Love, Scottdale, 3
Brandy D. Homing, Huntingdon
Youth Class Fall Yearling; t Brandy D
Horning, Huntingdon; 2. Kelly Jo Myers,
Thomasvllle.
Summer Yearling: 1. Richard A. Love,
Scottdale; 2. Susan Love, Scottdale: 3
Michael A. Kunkle, Jonestown.
Spring Yearling; 1. Richard A. Love,
Scottdale; 2. Thomas L. Zartman Jr., Ephra
ta; 3. Jeremy L. Oaubert, McElhattan.
Youth Class Spring Yearling; 1. Richard
A. Love, Scottdale, 2. Thomas L. Zadman
Jr., Ephrata; 3. Jeremy L. Oaubert,
McElhattan.
Wintsr Yearling; 1 Dean S Brenda
Daubert, McElhattan; 2. Jonathan Sterner,
Bechtelsville.
Youth Claes Wlnlor Yoarllng; 1
Jonathan Sterner, Bechtelaville.
Junior Champion: 1. Richard A. Love,
Scottdale.
Youth Claaa Jr. Champion; 1. Richard A
Love, Scottdale.
Reearve Junior Champion: 1. Michael A
Kunkle, Jonestown.
Youth Claaa Raa. Jr. Champion; 1. Tho
mas L. Zartman Jr., Ephrata.
Junior Baat Three Females: 1. Richard
A Love. Scottdala; 2. Dean & Brenda
Oaubert, McElhattan.
3 Or 4 Dry Cow: 1. John L. Kennedy,
Butter.
S Or Over Dry Cow: 1. Alicia Ann Mase.
Lebanon; 2. Aaron B. Comrnan. Carlisle.
Youth Class Cow 8 Yr. A Over Dry: 1
Alicia Ann Mesa, Lebanon.
2 And Under 3 Cow: 1. Gary Lee Mase,
Lebanon; 2. Richard A. Love, Scottdale: 3
Alicia Ann Mase, Lebanon.
Youth Class Cow 2 Years Old: 1.
Richard A. Love, Scottdale; 2. Alicia Ann
Mase, Lebanon: 3. Jeremy L. Daubert,
McElhattan.
3 And Under 4 Cow: 1. Robert A Steve
Wagner A E. Gill, Ouarryvllle; 2. John J. A
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