B 1 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 31, 1996
Desirae Hillegass holds her supreme champion Holstein at the dairy show of the
Somerset County Fair. With her from left are dairy maid Jill Fox, fair queen Natalie
Welch, and dairy maid Beth Seifert.
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champion at Somerset County Fair dairy show. Eric Murrey
had the reserve grand champion, a spring yearling.
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pion with owner Adam Coleman, left. In the 4-H and FFA
show at the Somerset County Fair dairy show.
Zachary Foreman and Dealrae Hlllegaaa hold their Hol
stein Junior champion and reserve Junior champion In the
4>H and FFA Somerset County Fair dairy show.
GAY BROWNLEE
Somerset Co. Correspondent
MEYERSDALE (Somerset
Co.) The FFA entry of Desirae
Hillegass of Berlin was named su
preme champion in the Somerset
County Fair Dairy Show, an open
show.
Hill-A-Way Aerostar Colleen, i’
senior 2-year-old out of Mada
waska Aerostar and Hill-A-Way
Laban Gillian-ET, brought home
the top Holstein honors for Hille
gass. She walked away with the
breed’s open show senior cham
pion honor and the 4-H and FFA
show’s senior and grand cham
pion ribbons.
When type judge Patty McMur
ray from Eighty-Four surveyed
the array of breed champions be
fore her, it didn’t take her long to
say, “You have to go with the cow
that milks for ‘supreme’.”
Philip Petenbrink from Garrett
was the owner of the Holstein re
serve grand champion, a senior
2-year-old out of Schultzs Brass
Bell and Ed-Lon Vintage Joy.
Prides Vera, a winter calf, was
the Guernsey grand champion for
owner Justin Kaufman of Fried
ens.
The Guernsey reserve grand
champion, owned by Eric Murray
of Salisbury, was a spring year
ling. The two were that breed’s
only entries.
Jodi Flick of Berlin was owner
of the Jersey breed grand cham
pion, a junior 3-year-old, bom
April 15, 1993.
Lance Bittner’s junior 3-year
old was named the Jersey breed
reserve grand champion. Bittner is
also from Berlin.
Robert Fritz of Garrett in the
open show was the owner of the
Brown Swiss breed’s top two
cows. His Swamp Creek Paula,
bom Dec. 2, 1988, McMurray
named the grand champion and
his junior 2-year-old Swamp
Creek Jennifer the reserve
grand champion.
In the 4-H and FFA show, how
ever, Lacey Coleman from Berlin
had the grand champion with a
spring calf, bom March 18.1996.
and Adam Coleman from Berlin
had the reserve grand champion
Brown Swiss with a fall calf bom
Sept 12, 1995.
One point McMurray empha
sized to the showmen was that
when showing an animal for an
other person, know the animal.
She cited an experience from a
show held elsewhere where the
kid leading an animal knew no
thing at all about it. Worse, the kid
wasn’t aware that it mattered.
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Holstein Honors
Desiree Hillegass and Beverly Philipp had the junior and
reserve junior champion Holstein animals In the open
show of the Somerset County Fair dairy show.
Open show Junior champion Brown Swiss Is held by
owner Robert Fritz while Lacey Coleman holds the Junior
reserve champion at the Somerset County Fair.
The grand champion Jersey at the Somerset County Fair
dairy show is owned by Jodi Flick, right. Lett Is Lance Bitt
ner with the reserve grand champion Jersey.
Brothers David, right and Lance, left, Bittner had the Jun
ior champion and reserve champion Jerseys at the Somer
set County Fair dairy show.