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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.
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Card, Monsanto representative; Jeremy Meek, Junior divi
sion winner; and Marsha Balmer, senior division winner.
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