A36-Lancttt*r Farming, Saturday, August 26, 1995
Community Shows Support At Mifflin Youth Fair
GAIL STROCK
Mifflin Co. Correspondent
BELLEVILLE (Mifflin Co.)—
A commendable show of com
munity support enabled the Mif
flin County Youth Park Board to
reduce its debt from an initial
$BO,OOO just a year and a half ago
to $9,000 just before this year’s
livestock sale.
Heavy snow in March 1994
crushed the “green building” roof,
a building that houses non
livestock exhibits.
Auctioneer Mark Click made
this announcement just minutes
before the recent FFA and 4-H
livestock sale.
Mifflin County Extension
Director Dave Filson stepped for
ward to accept a $3OO donation
from the Beef Club, raised during
a fundrasier to support the cause.
Later on that evening, Mark Bon
son cast the highest bid on a gallon
of milk from the grand champion
Holstein shown by Andy Reed.
The $lB5 bid will also be donated
to the Youth Park Board.
Hours later, when the gavel fell
for the final time, buyers pur
chased $66,194.62 worth of 4-H
and FFA market livestock, slight
ly lower than last year’s record
setting total of $67,772.94.
Beth Ann Cooper’s grand
champion meat rabbit sold for S6S
per pound to Sunny Brook Farm.
Joe Krentzman and Son paid $193
for Heidi Shaffer’s three and a half
pound reserve grand champion.
market goat for $165.60.
Jersey breed champions Include Crystal Staley’s grand champion, reserve grand
champion and reserve Junior champion animals held by Carl Staley, left, Crystal Sta
ley, third from left, and Clinton Staley, ripht. Melissa Gro, second from left, won Junior
champion with her winter calf.
Seven other market rabbits were
sold for a total rabbit sale price per
pound of $29.73.
Charlie Fisher’s grand champ
ion market goat entered the sale
ring next, bringing a total of $2.30
per pound for his 72-pound ani
mal. Eugene Click purchased that
animal. Dick Cramer Insurance
cast a bid of $2.20 per pound for
Salinda Speicher’s reserve grand
champion goat, a 60-pound
animal.
Timothy Blystone’s grand
champion lamb, purchased by
Eastern Industries, went for
$478.80 while Beth Pennepack
er’s reserve champion lamb sold
for $3.10 per pound to Watson’s
Landscaping. That animal
weighed 124 pounds.
Vaughn Kanagy’s 243-pound
grand champion market swine
brought a total of $777.60 from
Big Valley Feed and Grain. The
reserve champion swine, owned
by Timothy Blystone, was pur
chased by Hoss’s Steak and Sea
House for $642.60.
Hoss’s Steak and Sea House
cast another winning bid for Josh
Bowen’s grand champion market
steer, earning for him $3,978. This
steer was then donated to Hartman
Center in Milroy. Vaughn
Kanagy’s reserve champion steer
brought $2,261 from a final bid
cast by Juniata Concrete.
The Mifflin County Youth Fair
Dairy Show was held in the same
Brown Swiss champions at the Mifflin County Youth Fair include, from left, Clinton
Staley, grand champion; Chris Uhland, reserve grand champion; Clinton Staley’s
reserve Junior champion held by Carl Staley; and Jessica Fllson, Junior champion.
jnors ~jg ~. ,y_ »w reserve grat.
champion and youth Junior champion; Chase Peachey, open show Junior champion;
Mifflin County Dairy Princess Dianne Yoder; Perry Melnnert, open show reserve
grand champion; and Andrew Reed, youth and open grand champion and youth
reserve Junior champion.
ring the previous evening. By the
end of the evening, Andy Reed
had received rosettes for showing
the grand champion Holstein in
both the youth and open shows
and, earlier in the week, the grand
champion showman award.
Reed’s junior 2-year-old, Reed-
Gap S. Buck Enchantment,
received supreme champion of the
show and was awarded best udder.
Perry Meinnert’s junior 3-year
old, In-Tim-Idate Super Studette,
earned reserve grand champion
honors for him in the open show
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Cassandra Houssr of Milroy won Ayrshlrs grand champ*
lon honors with har spring calf.
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