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KAREN BUTLER
Maryland Correspondent
WEST FRIENDSHIP. Md.
A Black Lincoln yearling ram
belonging to William Gaidhouse
of Gardsmere Farms, Schomberg,
Ontario was chosen supreme
champion ram here at the 23rd
annual Maryland Sheep and Wool
Festival.
Judge Budd Martin, from Wil
lard, Ohio, said he liked the
270-pound ram because it com
bined excellent qualiy with excep
tional size, and called the entry a
“changer ram” for the industry. “A
lot of people have a ram that has
either the quality or the large size,
but if they have one, they don’t
have the other. This ram has
both,” Martin said.
Gardhouse also won the pre
mier exhibitor for the Lincoln and
Black Lincoln classes. In 1993 he
won supreme champion ram with
a white ram entry. He is the fourth
generation of his family to farm
the 100-acre Gardsmere Farms in
Ontario, which was established in
1902.
According to Wes Limesand,
shepard at North Dakota State
Elyssa Hevner, left, Maryland lamb and wool queen and
Sail Scott with the supreme champion ewe.
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University, who also judged the
sheep shows, the females were a
sounder group of sheep overall as
compared to the rams, with stron
ger tops, tighter shoulders, and
more correct feet.
“Explosion,” a 225-pound
natural colored medium ewe
entered by Challis Farms. Meta
mora, Michigan, won supreme
champion ewe honors. “A horse of
a ewe, very correct, she’s a tre
mendous fitted ewe but she’s as
good as she looks,” was how
Judge Limesand described the
winning yearling entry.
Challis Farms, represented by
Sari, Chris, Alyssa, and Andrew
Scott, has been coming to the
sheep and wool festival for eight
years. They had the champion ewe
with another yearling four or five
years ago.
Trophies for the champions
were tributes to Ernest E. and
Florence B. Hall, of Keymar, Md.
The Halls were on the committee
that started the festival 23 years
ago. They also had the first natural
colored sheep flock in Maryland,
according to their daughter Kend
ra Hall. The ram trophy was pre-
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sen ted in memory of Mr. Hall,
who passed away seven years ago,
and the ewe trophy was presented
in honor of Mrs. Hall.
Other sheep show results are as
follows:
SHEPARD’S AWARD: Richard and Mary
Ann Johnson.
BORDER LEICESTER: RAM: Brian AtMn
son; EWE; Bill and Linda Koappal; FLEECE:
Bill and Linda Koappal; EXHIBITOR: Brian
Atkinson.
COLUMBIA; RAM: Tom and Beth Hlnaar
EWE: Richard and Mary Ann Johnson;
FLEECE: Tom and Bath Hnas; EXHIBITOR:
Richard and Maty Ann Johnson.
CORRIEDALE: RAM: Gooffray Ruppart;
EWE; Ban and Maty Bow; FLEECE; Ban and
Mary Bow; EXHIBITOR: Ben and Maty Bow.
LINCOLN; RAM; Bill and Cindy Bankhaad;
EWE; Bill and Cindy Bankhaad; FLEECE:
Bill and Cindy Bankhaad; EXHIBITOR: Wil
liam Gardhousa.
RAMBOUILLET: RAM; Richard Powall;
EWE; Richard Powall; FLEECE; Tarry and
Viki Clark; EXHIBITOR; Richard Powall.
ROMNEY; RAM; BUI and Cindy Bankhaad;
EWE; Bill and Cindy Bankhaad; FLEECE;
Stavan and El Morsa; EXHIBITOR: Anchor
age Farm.
TARGHEE: RAM: Dick Remora; EWE: Dick
Remora; FLEECE: Dick Remora; EXHIBI
TOR; Linda and Tracy Clemente.
BLACK ROMNEY; RAM; Michatenko and
Madden; EWE: Nancy Thompson; FLEECE;
Steve and El Morse; EXHIBITOR'
Mtchalenko and Madden.
BLACK LINCOLN: RAM: William Gard
house; EWE: Martha Berger; FLEECE; Carol
and Joe Haddock; EXHIBITOR: William
Gardhouse.
WHITE WOOL FINE: RAM; Morehouse
Farm; EWE: Charles King, Jr.
vyHITE WOOL MEDIUM: RAM: Alexandra
Drenning; EWE; Alexandra Drenning.
WHITE WOOL LONG; RAM: Kim Caulfield;
EWE: George and Niata Fawkes.
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) As many as 2SO people
will converge on Penn State’s
University Park Campus in June
for an event sure to spawn interest
among those who produce, study,
or are otherwise involved with
mushrooms.
The Second International Con
ference on Mushroom Biology
and Mushroom Products will be
held June 9-12 at the Nittany Lion
Inn. The conference will feature
presentations by more than 60 of
the world’s top mushroom scient
ists from 21 countries, including
several from Penn State’s College
of Agricultural Sciences.
“Penn State is the leading
mushroom research institution in
the United States,” said confer
ence chair Daniel Royse, profes
sor of plant pathology. “We’ve
just marked 70 years of mushroom
research at Penn Slate, so it’s fit
ting that we host this prestigious
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Jenny Blser, Maryland lamb and wooi princess; Bobbl Grif
fin; and William Gardhouse.
WHITE WOOL (ALL CLASSES); EXHIBI
TOR; Chart#* King Family.
NAT. COLORED FINE; RAM; Charles
Brauer; EWE; Tarry and Viki Clark.
NAT. COLORED MEDIUM; RAM: Niki and
Penn State To Host
Mushroom Conference
event”
Pennsylvania leads the nation in
mushroom production, a ranking
largely due to Penn State research
and cooperative extension pro
grams. During the 1994-1995
growing season, 3SS million
pounds of Agaricus bisporus
mushrooms (the common button
variety) worth $274 million were
produced in the state, representing
45 percent of the U.S. harvest.
Royse said a wide range of
mushroom topics and varieties
will be discussed. “The confer
ence will cover genetics and
breeding, medicinal aspects of
mushrooms, cultivation tech
nology, mushroom nutrition and
physiology, pest management,
postharvest technology, and non
food products,” he said. “There
also will be a limited number of
commercial exhibitors.”
Among those scheduled to
speak is Pennsylvania Secretary of
Lancastar Farming, Saturday, May 18,1996-Dll
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Justin Walsh; EWE: Chris Scott.
NAT COLORED LONG: RAM: Free Loader
Flock. EWE: Free Loader Flock.
NAT. COLORED (ALL CLASSES). EXHIBI
TOR Glen Emenck.
Agriculture Charles Brosius, who
is also a mushroom producer. Bro
sius will address challenges and
opportunities facing the mush
room industry.
In addition to Royse, those from
Penn State expected to make pre
sentations are Ramaswamy Anan
theswaran, associate professor of
food science: Robert Beelman,
professor of food science; David
Beyer, instructor in plant patholo
gy; Shelby Fleischer, assistant
professor of entomology; Paul
Heinemann, associate professor of
agricultural engineering; C. Peter
Romaine, associate professor of
plant pathology; and Paul Wuest,
professor of plant pathology.
To learn more about the confer
ence, call the Office of Confer
ences and Short Courses at (814)
86S-8301.