Hushons Take Brown Swiss
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That cow was Bambi. She didn’t
have papers. However, with the
help of the Pa. Brown Swiss Asso
ciation, and Wayne Sliker, of
Ohio, they were able to track down
the pedigree and purchase the
proper registration in time for the
1992 Yoik County roundup. In
fact the registration papers came to
the extension agent the day of the
roundup.
Bambi went to states and was
fifth in her class in the state Brown
Swiss dairy show.
Another heifer came from a
Harford County, Maryland farm.
She was small for her age and
Joshua used her for showmanship
competitions. She was bred to
Emory and the calf was Brothers
Three Nutty Buddy.
Nutty Buddy went on to be the
first senior 2-year-old at the East
ern National Brown Swiss Show,
and also the second best bred and
owned. She was a 1994 reserve
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Patti said the calf was not exact
ly what Dan wanted, and she said
that she was almost afraid she
made a mistake, but Lake Lane
Pebbles turned out to mature well,
going to an Excellent 91, and as
Joshua’s animal, she was the
reserve grand champion this year
at the Eastern National Brown
Swiss show, and she was grand
champion in the junior show last
year at Louisville, and this year she
was the first Brown Swiss to
knowledge to be named supreme
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at Madison, and first in the junior
division for its class. It was first
winter calf at the Eastern National
during the Pa. All-American Dairy
Show.
Though expressly fond of a
somewhat physically less than per
fect specimen. Josh’s brother
Jacob also has a reserve Bell Rin
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white winter calf.
Youngest brother Joseph has a
calf out of Nutty Buddy, Brothers"
Three Nutrageous, which was
third in its class at the Junior show
of the Eastern National.
After such a start, the family is
definetly a Brown Swiss family.
Patti said she really enjoys the
temperament of the breed, and also
that of the people in the breed
organization.
However, she said
she is surprised there
isn’t more enthusiasm
for them. In the past
couple of years, Joshua
has been the only Brown
Swiss exhibitor from
Pennsylvania to com
pete in the spring
national show in New
York, and also the only
Pennsylvanian Brown
Swiss competitor to
travel to Kentucky.
But Joshua has been
facing competition, and
he has been doing
exceptionally well, as
noted by Sliker, and
others well known in the
Brown Swiss circles.
During the past year's
Maryland Brown Swiss
Futurity, his two 2-year
olds were two of the top
four animals.
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Holding his reserve grand champion banner of the 1996
Eastern National Brown Swiss Junior Show, Joshua
Hushon sits at his desk in his bedroom, where he has
national, state and local trophies, ribbons and plaques
earned during the past four years by showing just three of
his Brown Swiss. Other ribbons and trophies are kept
elsewhere.
In fact, Patti said that Brown
Swiss will apparently be the breed
of choice for the family. “This year
we switched emphasis on show
ing, from taking mostly Holsteins
and a few Brown Swiss, to mostly
Brown Swiss.”
Joshua said the rarity of the fam
ily’s winning streak is not lost on
him. According to Joshua, Dan
Gilbert from New Generation
Genetics in Brooklyn, Wis., said,
“I had accomplished a lot at 15 that
most breeders don’t accomplish in
a lifetime, he said it was the best
group of young animals at Harris
burg at the Eastern National.
Patti said the family is happy to
be working together and even hap
pier to have done well. “We’ve
been at it six years, and really been
fortunate.”
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ALEXANDRIA BAY, N.Y.—The 124th an
nual session of the New Yoik State Grange got
off to a rousing start with a banquet and program
in the Bonnie Castle Resort’s “Home of the
Stars.”
More than 400 people gathered in the hotel’s
banquet facility to enjoy dinner and remarks by
Farm Bureau President John Lincoln and Grand
Master Bruce Croucher. The event kicked off a
four-day Grange session that included contests,
speakers, entertainment, and consideration of
proposals for inclusion in next year’s legislative
agenda.
In his remarks, Lincoln, said the Grange and
the 26,000-member Farm Bureau need to work
together if agriculture is to experience growth
and profitability .
‘The challenge is to work together, getting the
message out on agriculture,” Lincoln said, add
ing that one challenge to agriculture, that of
creating a “friendly business climate,” has been
at least partially met with recent passage of legis
lation providing property tax relief for farmers.
Workman’s compensation rates have also been
lowered.
“It’s been a banner year for agriculture,” Lin
coln said, crediting Gov. George Pataki for hav
ing an understanding about agriculture that his
predecessor, Mario Cuomo, did not
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