Farming, K saWrday,' 3us EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor QUARRYVILLE (Uncaster Co.) - The Lancaster County 4-H dairy fitting contest was held for the second year on the night pre ceding the annual 4-H dairy show. Event organizer Larry Kennel hopes the event will become a trad ition. Kennel said youths are not taught how to fit their animals, and that when they get older and are in stiffer competition, professional fitters take over the work. But if young people were given the opportunity to learn over the course of their involvement in 4-H, they could become as good in fit 4-H/FFA Swine, ARENDTSVILLE (Adams Co.) Adams County 4-H and FFA members arc busy getting ready for the 13th annual swine and sheep show and sale, sche duled Tuesday, July 30 at the South Mountain Fairgrounds. More than 80 hogs and 3S lambs will be shown in market classes with a champion and re serve selected for each species. In addition, the 4-H and FFA mem bers will compete in senior, inter mediate, and junior fitter/show man classes for each species. A top individual will be named in Dairy Fitting Contest Learning Experience ting their own show animals as the professionals. Thus the 4-H contest has become a reason to learn. And learning may be more important than winning, but winners were still selected. First a showmanship contest was held to narrow the field down to four contestants in each of the two divisions, senior and junior. These contestants then had one hour to clip and primp their heifers into fit presentations for Tom McCauley, local Holstein breeder and showman from Elizabethtown. In the junior division, Jeremy Meek, 14, was named the winner. Last year Jeremy came in third. He Sheep Show July 30 each fitter/showman class. The swine show starts at 8 a.m. on July 30 with the sheep show at 11 a.m. All hogs and lambs at the show will be sold Tuesday evening, July 30, at competitive bid auc tion. This is an ideal opportunity for anyone to purchase quality pork or lamb for the freezer. Inter ested buyers bid the price per pound they desire for an animal they select, and the animal will auctioned to the highest bidder. Leaders and members will try to arrange transportation to a local butcher. After the animal is sold. is the son of Ronald and Joyce Meek, Denver, and is in the eightth grade at Cocalico Middle School. Marsha Balmer, 17, daughter of Clete and Jean Balmer, Manheim, won the senior division. Marsha is a junior at Manheim Central High School. Both winners received a new cow clippers from Monsanto, who sponsored the event and was repre sented by Don Card. Other winners also had choices of prizes in order of their placing. In the junior division, second, Lindsey Howard, and third, Timothy Donough, both of Willow Street the buyer may give specific in structions to the butcher for pro cessing and preparation. The sheep sale begins at 7 p.m. and swine sale begins at 7:45 p.m. Patrons unable to attend die sale may give a bid to a high school vo-ag instructor or Terri Packard at the Adams County Extension Office, (717) 334-6271 or 624-4525. Senior division, 2nd, Zackary T* l ® Lancaster 4-H daily show Meek, Denver, 3id, Joe Best, Holt- was held the next day, and the Lan wood; and 4th, Elizabeth Smith, County Holstein open show Denver. was held Thursday. >0 pi Card, Monsanto representative; Jeremy Meek, Junior divi sion winner; and Marsha Balmer, senior division winner. (i O 3 OOP g DP] HEAVY DUTY ROUND BALE MOVERS FEATURING: Kvernetand forged steel spear electrically heat treated 3 POINT HITCH BALE MOVERS 3 PT 2502 DOUBLE SPEAR • Small diameter tpear for easy penetration __ The Same Unit Can Be Used With One Spear For Cen ter Of Bale Or Two Spears For Under Bale. , , COMBINATION BALE MOVER_ M • Heavy duty structure designed to fit any 3 pt. hitch or loader boom with one or two cylinders ■■ • Small diameter spear for easy penetration B The Same Unit Can Be Used With One Spear For COM 2502 Center Of Bale Or Two Spears For Under Bale. ,***'"**''* STANDARD DUTY BALE MOVERS 3 POINT HITCH BALE MOVERS \ 2 PT.-1000 1000 Lb. Capacity The Same Unit Can Be Used With One Spear For Center Of Bale Or Two Spears For Under Bale. LOADER BUCKET MO PLF-4000 FRONT END 3 Pt.-1252 Double Spear [TED BALE MOVERS SSL-2500 SINGLE SPEAR BALE MOVER • Mounts to loader bucket in minutes • Complete with chain and • binder Radio Dlapalehad Truck* • 1500 lb. capacity -I 4l 1250 Lb. Capacity A * • 1500 lb. capacity
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