Aged Holstein Wins Supreme Title At Lebanon Area Fair
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
NORTH CORNWALL (Leba
non Co.) An aged registered
Holstein, Loving Meadows Karea
lot, owned and bred by Jesse Bom
gardner, of Ono, on Tuesday was
named the supreme champion
dairy animal of the Lebanon Area
Fair.
The Bomgardner cow was a vic
tor in the FFA division of the Hols
tein show, and the honor is another
in a growing list of show ring
achievements for the cow.
Last year, Jesse won with
Karealot at the Lebanon Area Fair,
capturing the 4-H grand champion
title. This year, because of his own
age, Bomgardner entered his Hols
teins in the FFA division of the
show.
More recently, the tall, lengthy,
almost 8-year-old cow won senior
and grand champion honors for
Jesse at the 41st Pennsylvania
Southeast District Junior Dairy
Show held at the Lebanon
fairgrounds.
At that show, one of two qual
ifying district junior dairy shows
offered in the area, there is no lon
ger a distinction made between
4-H and FFA. However, that dis
tinction is still being made at the
Lebanon Area Fair.
Bom Sept 2, 1988, Bomgard
ner’s Bridon Astro Jet-ET daught
er was selected from among the
grand champions of all five major
breeds exhibited by youth at the
Lebanon Area Fair.
Dale Olver, who is a dairy spe
cialist with Penn State University
College of Agricultural Sciences
and in charge of the youth exten
sion dairy activities for the state,
was judge of the Ayrshire, Guern
sey, and Jersey shows, as well as
final decider- for supreme
champion.
Christine Gitt Wood, of Penn-
Gate Holsteins in Littlestown,
judged the youth Holstein and
Brown Swiss shows. In explaining
his choice for supreme, Olver said
that he had discussed with Wood
her observances of the grand
champions she judged.
Of special consideration in mak
ing his selection, Olver said, was
the fact that the frame of Karealot
was so strong, and that she was in
good shape after going through
more calvings than two other con
tending cows.
As final contenders, Olver had
From the left, Lebanon County Dairy Princess Alisha Myers, Lil' Dairy Miss Melissa
Bashore, and Miss Lebanon Area Fair Amy Musselwhite, stand with Alicia Mass who
holds the halter of her bred and owned open division senior and grand champion
Brown Swiss, while her brother Anthony Mase holds the halter of his open division
reserve senior and grand champion, while Judge Christine. Gift Wood stands with
them.
picked out Alicia Mase’s Brown
Swiss, which was last year’s Leba
non Area Fair supreme champion,
and Daryl Maulfair’s junior
2-year-old Ayrshire, along with
Bomgardner’s Karealot
During the Ayrshire show,
when Olver made Maulfair’s Ayr
shire the grand champion of the
open and 4-H division shows, he
gave her high praise.
Maulfair’s Maulfair-Acres Fes
tival DJ. was his first bred and
owned animal. Olver said the first
calf cow was exceptional and that
there is little if anything he would
change about her. He said he
wouldn’t hesitate to take her to a
national show.
Mase’s Brown Swiss, Meadow
Hill Jade Alice-ET, is also a bred
and owned animal. Alice was also
grand champion of both the open
and 4-H divisions.
Olver said that all three could be
supreme, but that in cases such as
this, with a 2-year-old, a 4-year
old and a 7-year-old cow all being
of comparable high quality, that he
had to go with the cow that has had
the most calvings.
During the selection process,
the grand champions of both the
4-H and FFA divisions were
allowed to enter in the selection for
supreme champion. FFA entries
normally aren’t as numerous as
4-H entries, and in some breeds,
the FFA champions weren’t
brought back into the ring.
Olver congratulated the youth
on all the grand champions in the
ring, praising the quality of ani
mals presented and the depth of
each show.
The selection of supreme
champion was made Tuesday
evening, afro 1 the shows ended by
mid-afternoon.
At the Lebanon Area Fair, a
contest was started several years
ago that is designed to honor 4-H
youth with dairy animals not only
for show day excellence, but for
their continued, everyday commit
ment to keeping records and caring
for their animal.
The best bred and owned com
petition is a 50-point competition
that weighs 10 points on the qual
ity of the animal and the rest on the
showing abilities and detail and
depth of 4-H project book work of
the exhibitor youth.
Olver said dial Lebanon Coun
ty’s 4-H program is recognized
around the state as being one of the
From the left, Justin Troutman holds the halter of his open division Junior champion
Jersey, while Brenda Dice holds the halter of the reserve senior/grand champion, and
Bethany Heagy holds the halter of her grand champion and shows the trophy.
From the left, Miss Lebanon Area Fair Amy MusselwhKe stands with Karen Molt,
who holds the halter of her open division reserve senior and grand champion Guern
sey, while Andrew Ebersole holds the halter of his senior and grand champion.
best and this competition is an bonds for the top three place 45 points each to Amy Habecker,
example of that. winners. of Palmyra, and past winner
The competition is also sup- Daryl Maulfair won the compel- Amanda Martin, Lebanon,
ported by the Lebanon Agway ition, earning a total of 47 points,
which provides $lOO savings Second and third place was tie with
From the left, Andrew Ebersole holds the halter of his
reserve Junior champion Guernsey, while £rin Smith shows
the Junior champion.
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