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First place junior-aged winner in the 1996 Keystone Lead
Line competition is Emma Lynn Little, who shows her win
ning outfit, while holding the halter of her Jacob breed year
ling ewe.
The intermediate-age division champion
stone Lead Line competition is Jaime Fought, who shows
her outfit and yearling Dorset, Sunshine.
Some of the Junior-aged contestants in the Keystone Lead Line competition stand
before the table of Judges.
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Creative and sensible uses
of wool in apparels were displayed
Saturday during the 1996 Key
stone Lead Line Contest held at the
Pennsylvania State Farm Show
Complex in Harrisburg in conjunc
tion with the Keystone Internation
al Livestock Exposition (KILE).
There were 29 contestants
divided into three age classes com
peting for the titles in the youth
only competition. It is open to any
one between the ages of 9 and 21,
as of Oct. 1, the year of the show.
According to show rules, the
entrants are judged on the mode of
dress selected, which must be
appropriate, attractive, and lend
dignity to the show class, which is
part of the KILE sheep program.
While the youth don’t necessari
ly have to make their own wool
outfits, the rules state that they
must furnish their own outfit and it
must be at least 80-percent wool.
The competition provides a con
test with the goal of educating par
ticipants and observers about the
uses and methods of handling wool
for clothing.
Judges for the contest have three
areas of concern to score with a
possible perfect total of 100 points:
the appearance of contestant and
outfit 40 points; control and pre
sentation 25 points; and appear
ance of ewe. 35 points.
Each contestant has to present a
registered yearling ewe, trained
and properly prepared for the show
ring, as well as fulfilling health
requirements for show animals.
The specific age divisions are
made after the entries are all post
ed. The reason for that is to try to
ensure equal size age groups.
The show demonstrates the con
testants’ abilities to select a wool
dominated outfit that, as in other
wardrobe competitions, shows
balance in selection of texture, col
or, accessories, and Other related
factors, as well as the ability to
handle the ewe.
Many contestants add some
matching accessories to then
sheep, such a small scarves, or
similar dressings.
In the junior division, Emma
Lynn Little, of Jeff and Kim Little,
of Churchville, Md., took first
place, with an outfit of a calf
length plaid dress with a short
overvest with a lamb applique.
At halter she showed a yearling
ewe Jacob breed, an archaic, small
statured. Old World spotted wool
breed that her family raises.
Brandon Winebark, of Myer
stown, took a second place out of
the field of nine contestants, with a
brown, wool vest over a longs
leeve, white turtleneck shirt,
brown wool pants with a cuff, and
a woolen felt, brimmed hat. Aman
da Miller, of Mertztown took third.
In the intermediate-age divi- Musser, daughter of Donald and
sion, Jaime Fought, daughter of Musser, of New Middle-
John “Speedy” Fought, of Carlisle, town » Ohio, placed first with a
who showed her yearling Dorset, double-breasted jacket over a
Sunshine. turtle neck shirt, and wool skirt.
Taking second was Emily Rut- She showed a Suffolk ewe.
ledge, of Jairettsville, Md., while second place in the senior
Tiffany Harward. of Forest Hill, division was Shelly Patton, of
Md., placed third. Waynesburg, while Christy Lucas,
In the senior division, Andrea Englishtown, NJ., took third.
LIVESTOCK
Andrea Musser is the first place winner in the senior-age
division of the 1996 Keystone Lead Line competition and
she Is also the 1996 Pennsylvania Lamb and Wool Queen.
Lead Line Champion
Andrea Musser
Becomes Wool Queen
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Nineteen-year-old Andrea
Musser was named the 1997
Lamb and Wool Queen at the 40th
annual Keystone International
Livestock Exposition held at the
Farm Show Complex in Harris
burg, Oct. 2-7.
A freshman at Ohio State Uni
versity, Musser represented Beav
er, Butler and Lawrence counties
at the contest She is the daughter
of Donald and Mary Musser, New
Middletown, Ohio. She also won
first place in the senior division of
the Keystone lead line competi
tion a day earlier.
Her family has a flock of 35
registered Suffolk, which they
show at county fairs. She has
shown at the National Junior Suf
folk Show, the Ohio State Fair,
and the North American Interna
tional Livestock Expo. She has
shown at KILE for eight years.
A member of 4-H for 10 years,
Musser said that the sheep indus
try has had a major impact on her
life. She said she hopes to help in
crease the market for fresh Penn
sylvania lamb, through a grass
roots campaign of education.
Named alternate was Shelley
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Patton, Waynesburg, sponsored
by Greene County Sheep and
Wool Growers. Seventeen-year
old Patton is a senior at Waynes
burg Central High School, and
plans to major in international
communications. She has spent
nine years in 4-H, with projects in
market lambs, breeding sheep,
market hogs and market steers.
She also participated in the lead
line competition for 12 years. This
year she placed second in the
senior division. Her parents are
Rick and Janice Patton.
Jenna Svonavec, 17, also parti
cipated in the contest. She is the
daughter of Joseph and Rosemary
Svonavec, and is a senior at Rock
wood Area High School. She
plans to study to become a nurse
anesthetist. She showed the
Somerset County Champion
Home Grown Lamb in 1994 and
showed the lamb which won the
Rate of Gain contest at the Fair in
1995. She has attended regional
and state 4-H Fashion Revue with
outfits she constructed from wool.
Musser will represent the
state’s lamb and wool industry in
many promotional activities dur
ing the coming year.