Carroll 4-H Livestock Sale Brings
JOANNE E. MORVAY
Maryland Correspondent
WESTMINSTER,
Md.—Carroll County’s recent
livestock sale grossed nearly
$111,500, but the average price
per animal was down from previ
ous years, organizers said.
The annual sale offered a few
goats and numerous sheep, swine
and cattle to businesses and indi
viduals in and around Carroll.
Becky Geiman, wife of sale
vice chairman David Geiman, said
the number of steers sold at the
auction declined this year.
Sheep and swine offered for
sale increased, but prices were
down across the board, Becky
Geiman said.
She said a sudden downpour in
the middle of the sale didn’t
appear to affect prices or sale
progress.
Many people left the fair
grounds in droves after the storm
about 9 p.m. on Aug. 4. But parti
cipants at the livestock sale—one
of the long-awaited highlights of
the annual fair —“just moved
inside, out of the rain ” Geiman
said.
The champion market goat,
owned by Jason Ridinger. brought
$l.lO per pound for a total of
$71.30. The goat was purchased
by Southern States’ Westminster
Cooperative.
Sheep sales totaled $21,631 for
61 animals —excluding the
champion and reserve champion.
An average of $2.73 per pound
was paid.
The sale was marked by price
variety with pronounced differ
ences even between the champion
and reserve champion animals.
The grand champion market
lamb, shown by Brett Fogle,
brought an incredible $11.30 per
pound.
Miller Asphalt Pro
ducts paid $3.50 per
pound for the reserve
champion—a pair of
market lambs exhibited
by John Norris.
Thirty-six steers
brought
$59,792 —excluding
the champion and
reserve. Cattle averaged
$1.23 per pound.
Swine brought
$28,714, excluding the
top two prize winners.
Fifty-three hogs aver
aged $1.95 per pound.
Monica Feeser of
Taneytown was the
proud owner of the
fair’s grand champion
steer and the grand
champion hog.
Her 1,135-pound
steer was purchased at
$3.25 per pound by
Giant Foods of Landov
er. Md.
Masonry Contractors
Inc. paid $5.50 per
pound for Monica’s 250
pound hog.
The reserve champ
ion hog was sold by
Katie Henley for $4.25
per pound to Straw
bridge Construction.
The reserve champ
ion steer, owned by
Kristen Lewis, went to
Frederick County
National Bank for $1.50
per pound.
Exhibiting and sell
ing the fair’s top steer
and hog at the same
time was not a first for
19-year-old Monica
Feeser.
But landing the honor once
more in this, her final year as a
4-H’er, was quite a thril, Monica
said.
She has exhibited the grand
champion steer five times at the
Carroll fair, most recently in 1992,
she said.
For the past three yean, one of
Monica’s hogs walked away with
the county fair’s grand champion
honon. Monica also brought the
champion hog to the fair on two
additional occasions.
When it comes to raising win
ning steers and swine, choosing
“the right animal” is the key,
Monica said.
“If you have good genetics and
the right environment, they're
going to grow and produce like
they need to,” she said.
Monica is well-versed in the
importance of genetics.
Her parents, Julie and Franklin
Feeser, own and operate Feeser
Genetics. The family currently has
200 sows. Their second business.
Carousel Angus, has about 60
head of Angus cattle—half of
which are Monica’s.
Monica has been raising her
own cattle since shortly after she
began showing beef. Her 1991
grand champion was the progeny
of one of her own bulls, she said.
She has alos been showing
sheep since her first year in 4-H.
One of her animals earned a grand
champion at state fair.
But the cattle are Monica’s
pride and joy “because that’s
something I began on my own,”
she said.
Monica starts working with her
cattle early in the spring. Once
school lets out, she rinses the ani
mals daily and spends even more
time getting them used to the
halter.
She said she’s always played
favorites, lavishing attention on
the one animal—usually a steer —
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This eyar, Monica missed most
of the spring cattle shows due to
school obligations. She’s just
starting her sophomore year as an
animal science major at Kansas
State University.
Monica said with all that
missed time, she expected her
steers to be "giddy" at the county
fair.
Fortunately, her concentrated
work with them these last few
months helped keep them firmly
in hand, she said.
“I expect the cattle to do well.”
Monica said. “But I’m still sur
prised if they do. And if they do, it
makes me really happy and
proud.”
Her success at national shows
has not quite caught up with her
success at the county level, so
when Monica does have a champ
ion steer in the county lineups,
“it’s really exciting.” she said.
She has learned to concentrate
so completely that the other com
petitors melt away and “it’s just
me and the judge in the ring,” she
said.
“If the bleachers fell down, I
wouldn’t even know it,” she said.
“And you’re sitting there the
whole time thinking, 'Oh God,
please choose me.’,” Monica said.
Monica Said she will miss
4-H—the challenge of showing,
the support of good friends.
But her involvement with the
organization will continue.
Her 8-year-old twin cousins,
Candace and Brandy, showed
lambs this year and may tackle
hogs next year.
An only child, Monica said “It’s
exciting to me to see that some
body else in my family is taking
an interest in 4-H’s livestock
program.”
She plans to continue working
with her cousins.
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organization until the group’s age
limit, 21.
Wayne County Holds
Livestock Sale
HONESDALE (Wayne Co.)
Outdoing itself this year in dollars,
numbers, and in community spirit,
the Wayne County Junior Live
stock Sale sold 311 4-H market
animals.
Local business people, parents,
and friends turned out in record
numbers to support its youth by
bidding on market hogs, lambs,
and steers recently at the Wayne
County Fairgrounds.
The first animal presented for
auction was the 228-pound grand
champion hog raised by Shanna
Johnson, an eighth grader belong
ing to the Up North Crew 4-H
Club. The hog was purchased by
Dr. Henry Nebzydoski, Pleasant
Mount veterinarian, for a record
$8.50/pound. Nebzydoski an
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grand champion hog.
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the American Angus Association.
In addition, she belongs to
Block and Bridle, the campus
livestock club at Kansas State, and
is an agriculture ambassador for
the school.
pig to be resold at the end of the
sale to benefit the Gately family, a
Wayne County 4-H family recent
ly plagued by health problems,
Arthur Gately, the father, is recov
ering from heart surgery, while
Linda Gately, the mother of
4-H’ers Arthur and Anthony, re
ceived a double lung transplant
during the week of the fair.
As the sale progressed, other
businesses and individuals return
ed a total of 12 pigs and eight
lambs for resale for the benefit pf
the Gately’s, the Cavage Kidney
Transplant Fund, and the Wayne
County 4-H program.
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