Fl6-Lancaster Fanning, Friday, January 6, 1995
BETH MILLER
Cumberland Co.
Correspondent
MECHANICSBURG (Cum
berland Co.) William “BUI”
George Leib doesn’t even remem
ber his first trip to the Pennsylva
nia Farm Show.
But that is not surprising, since
he was only a few weeks old at the
time and his mother, Susie, had to
carry him around in her arms.
It wasn’t long beofer he was go
ing to the Farm Show on his own
two feet, however, and taking
home some major prizes in the
sheep competitions.
Leib, who lives with his mother
and his father, Robert, on a sheep
farm near Mechanicsburg, has
been competing at the Farm Show
since 1985, when he was only five
years old.
He is 13 years old now and has
seen his biggest successes at the
show come in the last five years.
At the top of his list of honors are
the supreme champion in the
wood breeds awards he has cap
tured.
Leib, who is a 4-H member and
an eighth grader at the Eagle View
Middle School in the Cumberland
Valley School District, has been
consistent in winning those presti
gious honors. He has taken them
home during four of the last five
Farm Shows.
197 FFA’ers
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presstime are;
Keystone East: Eastern Lebanon
County FFA: Brett M. Lentz. Oxford:
David Clark Delp Jr.
Keystone Northcentral: Clearfield:
Dan Gearhart, Jr. Columbia Montour
A.V.T.S.: Jessica Lee Guise. Danville;
Jason Kift and Barry Koser. Penns Valley:
Theodore Alan Clouser. Spud Growers:
Jeffrey Robert Brown.
Keystone Southcentral: Bellwood-
Antis; Thaddeus L. White. Conoco
cheague: Robert Helman. Gifford
Pinchot: Leroy Heiner and Duane Kerstet
ter. Shippensburg: Robert Patrick
Glennon.
Keystone Western: Albion: Corry G.
Howard, Christopher S. Kidder, and Aaron
James Lance. Linesville: Sean R. Zakos
telecky and Melissa A. Evans. Mohawk:
Ryan Werner and Jason Scott. Moniteau:
Diane Cockroft. Somerset: Travis Barron,
Debra Stahl, and Jeremy Barron.
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His talent in breeding sheep
shows in the supreme champion
awards because he has won each
of the awards with a different ani
mal that he has bred and raised
himself.
Even though he is only a teen
ager, Leib has a great deal of ex
perience with sheep and goats. He
now owns 36 RambouiUet ewes.
His flock of animals also includes
11 goats, 10 of which are Nubians
and one that is a La Mancha.
This year he plans to lake 10 to
12 sheep to the Farm Show to take
a shot at adding more awards to
his lengthy list, Leib said.
His activities beyond the Farm
Show and various other sheep
competitions include selling the
wool his animals produce to some
hand spinners. The wool that the
spinners don’t buy goes to the lo
cal wool pool, he said.
Leib’s success at the Farm
Show and his expertise with sheep
is to be expected, since agriculture
is in his family’s blood.
Like his son. Bob Leib also was
a Cumberland County 4-H mem
ber, although he spent his 12 years
in 4-H involved in the beef pro
gram. Bob Leib also showed at se
veral Farm Shows.
Susie Leib cut her teeth in agri
culture as a 4-H member in Mary
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