Bi64.«nca«ttr Farming, Saturday, Seplambar 17, 1994
Ephrata Fair’s Grand Slam
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
You can pitch baseballs at ceramic
plates and win a stuffed lion for
your sweetheart
You can spend a lot of money
doing that however.
But if you’re smart you can
compete in the Ephrata Fair Grand
Slam Award contest and win $250,
in addition to premium money for
individual exhibits, at this year’s
fair.
How do you do that? Simple,
according to Henry Keener, Clay,
co-chairman of the event
According to Keener, the grand
slam contest (which he proposed at
the meeting of the fair committee
last year) “would consist of the
accumulation of points that the
exhibitors are gaining in all of the
different phases.” As the plans
were finalized, both youth and
open show exhibitors in the grain
tent contests have a chance to com
pete in the Grand Slam. The con
test, according to the fair book
rules, is based on the total points
inspects a row of ears.
Henry Keener, .. of the Ephrata.
Award contest, examines some nuts in front of the various
awards he has collected In past state and county contests.
acquired for all items entered in all
26 classes in the grain tent
The categories are:
• Section 1 Grain and Seed
Crops. Class 1: com, yellow dent
(10 ears); Class 2; com, yellow
dent (30 ears). Small Grain. Class
3; oats; Class 4: wheat; Class 5:
winter barley: Class 6: rye; and
Class 7: soybeans.
• Section 2 Hay. Class 1:
alfalfa, first cutting, not over SO
percent of grasses; Class 2: alfalfa,
later cutting, not over SO percent of
grasses; Class 3: other legumes,
not over SO percent of grasses;
Class 4: grass, first cutting, not
over 10 percent legumes. Class S:
grass, second cutting, not over 10
percent legumes; Class 6; mixed
hay, any mixture not classified
above; and Class 7: summer annu
al grasses (sorghum, Sudan, etc.).
• Section 3 Silage. Class 1:
small grain haylage; Class 2: com
silage; Class 3: high moisture
shelled com; Class 4: high mois
tureeared com; Class S: grass hay
lage, more than SO percent grass;
and Class 6: legume haylage, more
Award Can Bring In Big $ For Exhibitors
than SO percent legume.
• Section s—Tobacco. Class 1:
cured, type 41 (5 stalks, one lath);
Class 2: green, type 41 (S stalks,
one lath); and Class 3: Maryland
•oy Horst, Bowmansvllle, auctioneer, Judged last year’s Ephrata Fair hay con
test. This year the contest will be Judged by Frederic H. Stlllwagen, Allentown, educa
tional consultant tor Cyanamid.
Ernie Orr, Ephrata High School ag science teacher, holding corn, demon;
what makes quality ears at last year’s Ephrata Fair corn contest display.
isel, Stevens, left, and Courtney Myers, Akron, Inspect the pumpkin con
test display at last year’s Ephrata Fair. This year, the Grand Slam Award contest will
award points to a exhibitor for each class. This is the first year for the Grand Slam
Award, which honors the first-place winner with $250.
type.
• Section 6 Adult Farmer
Pumpkin Exhibit. Class 1: best
shape; Class 2: largest size; and
Class 3: best decorated.
An exhibitor can place only one
exhibit in each class. Also, pre
miums are paid only to fifth place.
Grand slam points are awarded
(Turn to Pago BIS)